RARE CHINESE YIXING PEAR SHAPED TEAPOT MENGCHEN & SIGNED

Description & Size: 6.35 x 11.17 x 6.98 cm (2.5" x 4.4" x 2.75") Height & Length & Width

Weight: 96 gram (3.38 oz)

Age: 18th - 19th Century

Production: Handcrafted

This is a rare Chinese yixing pear shaped teapot MENGCHEN signed. The pot is handcrafted in a pear shaped with a single hole spout & has a nice old dark red pottery clay patina...

Kozuka of good quality.Shibuichi inlaid with silver, gold shakudo and sentoku. Cockfighting and a Chinese person. curiously no signature. About 100x15mm Good condition. 19th century or earlier.

Terai, Nepal Monkey Mask, 14 inches, 35.5 cm.

Antique Japanese pair of boxwood okimono Nio. The Nio are guardians to Buddhist temples, and enforcers of physical confrontation to fight back against evil. Nio are typically placed on either side of a temple door. One statue, named Misshaku Kongo or Agyo, has an open mouth to represent the first sound in the Sanskrit language "a", symbolizing birth and overt violence...

A fine larger black stone stamp seal of the gable form, popular in Northern Mesopotamia and Anatolia in the Ubaid period.

The seal shows a horned animal in a strongly archaic style.

Size: 29 mm. wide and 28 mm. tall...

19th century boxwood netsuke of seated Gama sennin (Chinese sage) with his usual companion - three-legged magic frog - climbing onto his head. Beautiful carving with wonderful expressive face and beautiful flow of the robe with nice cloud patterns, differently sized himotoshi, very well carved leaf cape and skirt. Wonderful wear, excellent patina. Height 1 5/8 inches.

Black lacquer box finely incised with motifs of birds, dormice, vines and flowers, the golden designs stand out pleasantly against the black background with discretion. This Chinese lacquer technique called Ch'iang Chin is very old, it consists of making slight incisions on the dry lacquer then filling them with gold powder mixed with fresh lacquer for good, lasting adhesion...

A Very Fine Reach Green Celadon Bowl: Korea, Koryo Dynasty, 12th Century: The wide bowl set on a short ring foot and incised a single ring on the interior, applied evenly with a beautiful green celadon glaze overall, ring foot unglazed with spur marks. This bowl is in fine condition without any repairs but a sesame seed-size chip to the rim.. It measures 17.5 cm x 6.5 cm (7 7/8” x 2 5/8”)

Light green, figured silk ground, embroidered with butterflies among peonies in "sanlan". Paper Label. Condition fine. Dimension: c. 123 cm long x 8cm wide (without seams).

Antique Japanese woven ikebana basket (flower arranging basket) with an hourglass figure, double jointed side handles, hardwood vase inside body. Size: 11" height, 12" width

Small Chinese cabinet with open shelf for display, cabinet doors open to compartment with one interior shelf, made of hardwood. Made in China for export to Japan. c. 1900. Size: 30" high x 24" wide x 16 3/4" deep.

Japanese Candle Stand, shokudai, made of lacquered wood. H.43cm(17") x Base Diameter 10cm(4"). Mid-late 19th century.Will include 2 "warosoku" (Japanese tapered candles with hole in base.)

A skeleton sits among the dried grasses, alone and forgotten, perhaps reflecting on his life in this earie painting by Buddhist priest Higuchi Ryuon dated Meiji 6 (1873). Ink on paper, it is 41.5 x 179.5 cm (16-1/4 x 70-1/2 inches) and is in fine condition; completely remounted in a border of two subtle shades of black with colorful piping and features black lacquered rollers with mother of pearl flakes. It comes in a kiri-wood box...

A nice collection of 6 interesting ancient bronze objects, Roman or Celtic.

Lot consists of:

A very attractive advanced style small bronze javelin, Greek or Persian?, a large Roman bronze hook, 2 Roman belt buckles and a Roman enamel bronze brooch and small silver attachment.

Sizes up to c. 7 cm.

Ex. German Private collection

Beautifully carved houngmu wood stand. It measures 7" by 1.5" with a 4.5" opening. Late 19th, early 20th century.

Antique silver and enamel finger nail guard, worn by wealthy ladies to protect their long finger nails and show that they did not need to work with their hands, made all of pierced repouse silver and enamel and decorated with flowers and a raised frog, edge has light blue enamel over a running key fret motif, 19th century. Size: 4" long

A Bronze Censer Stand from Shipwreck with Xuande seal mark (possible and of the period)because found at same ship with 15th century Chinese porcelain. 19cm diameter. 4,7cm high.about 1700 gram weight.

A Rare blue and white double gourd ewer, decorated with Chrysanthemum scrolls and flaming pearl to the spout, classic scroll to the handle. Tiny chip to the tip of spout and short firing crack to he handle, otherwise is perfect condition. Yuan Dynasty 13th-14th Century Jindezhen Ware. Height: 19 cm.