Burmese bronze ladle.
Age: Burma, circa 14th - 15th Century
Measurement: Length 17.7 C.M. / Width 5.7 C.M. (size excluding stand)
Condition: Nice condition overall. Please refer to the enlargement photos for more details.
Shipment: Worldwide shipping from Bangkok, Thailand at actual cost. Please e-mail us for the shipping fee.
Menuki is a kind of metal fitting of the Japanese sword, which was initially put into the hole of the handle.
The meaning of menuki varies depending on the design, but they often symbolize strength, power, and courage. Some menuki also have more specific meanings, such as those that depict animals like tigers or dragons...
A choice and large tanged bronze lance, Ancient Near East, mid 2nd. millenium BC. Turkmenistan / Uzbekistan bronze age.
A very impressive and decorative bronze lance with a long, bent tang, massive socket and a broad, leaf-shaped blade with highly profiled midrib.
A beautiful lance that would have been highly efficient on combat.
Size: c. 42 cm. long. - 16 inches.
Condition: Choice. Beautiful green bronze patina...
Antique, Islamic Multan Sindh,19th century India, a baluster-shaped pottery vase with a trumpet neck. Hand-painted in cobalt blue, turquoise, and green with floral vines and acanthus motifs on a white background under a rich, thick, clear glaze.
CONDITION: The vase is in good condition, considering its age of more than 100 years, with no cracks, restorations, or repairs. There is a small imperfection at the rim of the base that looks like the chip...
A Fukagawa porcelain 7 1/4 inch diameter serving bowl. Iris decoration from Chuji Fukagawa's own 19th century design book. Blue underglaze and red, yellow and gold overglaze enamel decoration. Mt. Fuji mark inside the foot ring. This bowl, together with two other sizes of bowls we are offering separately in the same pattern, formed the traditional Japanese graduated bowl set. Late Meiji or early Taisho. Good condition...
A beautiful Chinese Ming dynasty Jian type tea bowl with nice glaze effects. Dia. 9.5cm. Condition: no chip, no restore, in good condition as shown. Shipping from Taipei, Taiwan via EMS at actual cost. Item selling at various platforms, please ask before ordering.
A rare ancient agate bead made for wearing as a pendent or necklace. These beads date back to over 2,000 years. They have some kind of tiger influence in their shape and stripes..
Size:1.9 cm X 1.9 cm. Condition: No repairs.
Antique Japanese coat made of hand-woven cotton indigo fabric. Hand-dyed with paste resist patterns of Japanese characters and a fan design on the back. Originally used and worn by a ship worker. Original condition. Meiji Period (1868 - 1912)
Size: 48" L x 32" H
Washer bowl covered with shufu white glaze and decorated with incised flower ; unglazed concave base. PERIOD : Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368 AD) MEASUREMENTS: 12.5 cm wide, 5 cm tall. CONDITION: small chip on the rim, no cracks or hairlines and free from restoration.
Japanese Pine wood Arm rest, Meiji Period 1880, 24" wide, 17" high, 8" wide, can be used for the writing table, or hanging shelf, thick solid Pine wood, the condition is good.
Good dark soy brown glazed ovoid jar Tang Dynasty from a northern kiln, nice size- H: 12.5cm/5in and D: 16.5cm6.5in. Some kiln flaws i.e., bubble pops and minor chip on side- please examine enlargements.
A large Japanese porcelain plate with blue and white decoration showing a bird sitting in a peach tree. The chargers' decoration has been done in a manner that should appeal to Chinese style and taste. In Chinese mythology the peach is symbolic of long life and immortality, and the hoho bird also carries the wish for long life. The charger measures about 2 1/2" high x 14" in diameter, and it dates to the Edo Period, early 19th Century. The condition is excellent/perfect...
A rare and beautiful Japanese KOZUKA KNIFE HANDLE of a by-knife that is part of a sword mounting. It is kept in a slot on the reverse side of a Kattana Scabbard, often with a matching Kogai. It depicts the Gatekeepers arm-wrestling, EDO PERIOD (1603-1868). Shakudo alloy with GOLD decorated appliqué of the Guardian Kings AGYO and UNGYO.
Size: 9.5 cm x 1.4 cm.
A pair of choice condition blue & white porcelain small vases, made during the Wanli Reign of the Ming Dynasty, 1573 - 1620.
Finely decorated in a thick white glaze and decorated in underglaze blue...
A lovely slender type of Danish Neolthic battle axe, c. 2800-2400 BC.
A cute well-proportioned battle axe with sharp lines and smoothly polished edges!
Size: 11,3 cm.
Ex. Old German Private Collection.
An ancient-medieval bronze bowl of the high tin content 'white bronze' type with engravings of the Gaznavids, dating to c. 10th-11th. century AD.
A massive bowl, likely a food bowl for really large parties. The interior of the bowl is almost completely covered with fine azurite patina and when cleaned would reveal the fine design of incised circles-dots (bulls-eye) and perhaps hexacons as well; the exterior is cleaned and plain.
Size: 24 cm. wide and 8 cm...
A shipwreck Sung Longquan celadon jarlet, with lotus petal at lower portion.
Jar in good condition no damage, no crack, no chip, no restoration, some crazing/ crackled on glaze surface. Matish glaze caused by sea water corossion ...please ask for more photos
Ancient Near East, Luristan, ca. 1200 to 800 BC. A large elaborate bronze cloak pin, cast via the lost wax (cire perdue) process with large Zoomorphic beast terminal.
Used to fasten clothes, in this case due to the unusually heavy fabric and decoration, likely leather for presentation use - perhaps for a very thick cape or leather armor.
Size: 22 cm. with the terminal being 3,3 cm...