A finely potted deep dish, or shallow bowl, well painted in underglaze blue depicting three sinuous Chilong dragons amongst clouds and Lingzhi fungus. This item was made in the early 18th Century during the reign of the Yongzheng emperor (1723-1735). Condition - very good - there is one small shallow under rim chip (please view enlargements 3 & 5), no further damages and no restoration...
Rasa Lila/Juganault of women. Palm leaf manuscript.Orissa.
Late 19th / Early 20th cent.
375 x 225 mm. Framed.
Aweidah Gallery is pleased to offer this EXTREMELY RARE- ancient LARGE biblical black pottery oil lamp with four nozzles. A large filling-hole, whose rim is formed as a ledge with a ridge. The handle is a wide strip with two lengthwise grooves forming three raised mouldings, the nozzles are elongated with an almost straight end and finely scraped sides. Impressed circles and rows of other impressions ornament the nozzles...
Diameter approximately 24 cm (body to body). In good condition.
Length approximately 14cm (across the handles). In good condition.
Diameter approximately 15cm. In good condition.
A very unusual old Chinese seed with silver enamel bracelet insert with small coral beads in between. In excellent condition. D:6.2cm (L:21.5cm) $325
Five dynasties Yue "Mise" bowl decorated with twin butterfly incised on the center. 15,5cm diameter. Bowl has been broken on restorations.
The body potted in an extremely rare bee - hive form, the spout modelled as an abstract variation of a human face or mask or so.
Korean Choson period 19th. century.
Diameter : 8,2 cm. H : 7,4 cm.
Condition : Perfect. From an old German family collection.
Please compare the piece wit the water dropper offered at Christies New York ( 16. Sept. 2003 ) ( Please have a look at the last enlargement )
Please see an absolute identical vase in the Art Gallery NSW dated to the Song Dynasty ( 960 - 1279 ) : ( http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/work/EC73.1962/ ). A 13/14th century vase with a very interesting glaze...
An extremely rare perfectly potted teabowl ( Temmoku ) with a most decorative partridge-feather mottle decoration. The partridge-feather mottles nearly look like oil-spots.
Cizhou-type ware, Henan, Northern Song 10th - early 12th century.
Diameter : 12,3 cm. H : 5,7 cm.
Condition : Perfect
Antique Chinese beautiful small altar table, made all of hard wood, nicely carved with elegant design and cusp edge, very smooth surface, finished in a medium brown color, gorgeous grain, circa 18th/19th century.
Size: 32" high (32 1/2" high to flanged edges) x 37 1/2" wide x 12" deep
Song/yuan dynasty longquan celadon dish decorated with fine molded twin fish. covered with nice green celadon glaze. Dish in good conditions, no chip,no crack, and free from any restorations. except one centimeter kiln fault at the rim (please see on the picture). 22,5cm diameter.
Northern Song celadon bowl decorated with incised flowers motive. 19cm diameter, 8cm high. Good conditions.
A Tang Changsha bowl from batu hitam shipwreck belitung. Bowl is in good condition with minor degradation glaze at back side rim,very small chipped at the rim, no crack, no restoration. Size: 15 cm diameter.
From our Chinese Blue and White Collection, a very fine Yongzheng (1723 -1735) Mark and Period Dragon Dish of shallow saucer form, depicting an animated dragon clutching a flaming pearl in its right claw while its winding body wraps around the dish and extends onto the reverse, all set against a backdrop of cloud motifs. The entire composition is extremely well-executed in a rich deep blue. The Yongzheng six character mark is contained within double circles and is of the period...