Small dish in Chinese porcelain, green enamel decoration of lotus flowers, tendrils and bats, details in black. Two Chinese characters "Shou" are enameled in red and gold. All this symbolizes longevity (shou), happiness (bat) and Buddha (lotus). However the Lotus flower is not exclusively the symbol of Buddhism, it can also be interpreted here as the marital agreement because there are 2 flowers or serenity or self-fulfillment. Everyone will interpret according to their desires...
Chinese porcelain hat stand vase with a hand painted scene of a boy playfully dangling a toy spider in front of his pet cat. Mother and brother are standing nearby watching. Dates early 20th C. Measures 11.5" high x 5" diameter.
A large round or oval black stone stamp seal of the gable form, popular in Northern Mesopotamia and Anatolia in the Ubaid period, 4th. mill. BC.
The seal engraved with a 4-legged animal and with a bird above.
Size: 31 mm. x 29 mm and 8 mm...
Interesting and scarce stamp seal in red jaspis, Urartu Kingdom, c. 8th. cent. BC.
The seal carved with an animal.
Size: 13 x 14 mm. and 10 mm...
A triangular stamp seal with handle, Western Mesopotamia, c. 3rd. millenium BC.
Large for type and with the base engraved with a reclining animal with a branch of tree below and a bull upside down. Carved in a lovely green stone.
Size: 27 x 26 mm. 15 mm. tall.
Condition: Very fine, intact and very attractive, with fine uncleaned earthern deposits.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 1993...
Interesting massive seal with a provenance going back to the French Dealer j. Vinchon 1973. Greenstone seal with stylized engravings in the base and worn through handle from extensive use. Very early dating to the 5th. mill. BC or even earlier!
Size: 31 mm. x 21 mm, and 22 mm. tall.
Ex. J. Vinchone Paris, 1973 and ex...
A lovely intact late neolithic period stamp seal, found in Amung-Ebene / Antioch, and dating around the 4th. mill. BC.
Hemispheric stamp seal with a fine high-relief carving of a sun-symbol in the base - attractive!
Size: 22 mm. in diameter and 11 mm...
Interesting cylinder seal in white stone with fine drill-carving of figures and an alter, Neo-Assyrian provinces, early 1st. mill. BC.
Size: 26-27 mm. tall.
Nicely engraved but with some uncleaned earthern deposits that disturb the imprint a bit, so wit would improve when cleaned.
Ex. Danish Private Collection, this seal aquired in the early 1990s.
Interesting and well-patinated white stone cylinder seal, Greater Babylonia, 2nd. millenium BC.
The seal carved with a symbol of animals with intertwinned necks and lines of pseudo cuneiform script.
Size: c. 24 mm.
Condition: Very fine and intact.
Ex. Danish Private Collection, this seal aquired in the early 1990s.
A large and wonderful glazed ceramic roof ornament from Vietnam, adorned a temple or Imperial residence, bright color with frieze of koi fish and seaweed, lovely blue waves.
Measures 19 3/4" high 12" wide and 5" deep.
Substantial and heavy, with pleasing color glazes, the scene depicts koi fish next to an underwater plant and brown water creatures (frogs?) above...
A Chinese erotic painting from an album. Showing a couple in a room amidst scholar objects. Finely painted in ink, gouache and gold on paper, with light blue silk border. Dimension: c. 25.8 x 24 cm. Condition: traces of age and former mounting, slightly stained.
Late 19th C Chinese red with gold gilt carving of a baby elephant resting on plinth. This hand-carved elephant and platform are solid wood and do not detach. A charming addition to your home, young or baby elephants symbolize hope, abundance and prosperity as well as wealth, good luck and playfulness. It is best if they are placed in a position facing North. In very good antique condition with normal wear and surface cracks expected with wood carvings of this age...
This is very fine detail Japamese Hirado figure stand stand 6 I’m height 6 in diameter is in very good condition
It has original fire line to the point of finger (please look at my photo)
He is holding sake bottle looks to me original from Meiji Era
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This is antique Japanese Nashiji lacquer box with Tokugawa
family mark stand 3 3/4 in height x 4 7/8 in diameter from late Edo era
It has nice gold work only some small gold missing part (please look at my photo)otherwise good condition considering by the age
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Found in the Philippines.
Featuring a small jarlet with two lug handles and is covered overall in an opaque qingbai-type of glaze with iron-spots. Its base is fully unglazed.
Measurements: height (8.5cm), width (6.5cm).
Condition: there are restorations done on one side of the mouth and one loop handle.
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Reportedly found in Western Mesopotamia, the motif of this fine large stamp seal, is known also in Eastern Anatolia and dates to the late 5th.-4th. millenium BC (Ubaid period).
The seal is expertly engraved with the image of a scary spiked demonic creature on 4 legs. In the field before him, there's a bird.
Size: 36 mm. wide and 28 mm. tall, height is 7-8 mm.
Highly interesting and impressive seal which is probably depicting a mythical demon.
Condit...
A fine cylinder seal carved in an attractive beige-orange stone, Mesopotamia under the Achaemenid Empire, c. 7th.-5th. century BC.
Nice low relief depiction of the Great King wrestling with stags.
Size: c. 28-29 mm. tall.
Condition: Near VF, intact with some dirt deposits
Ex. Danish Private Collection, this seal aquired in the early 1990s.
Lacquered wood netsuke depicting the Kyōgen theater mask of a monkey (saru), very recurring in traditional Japanese theater. The mask is characterized by the typical physiognomy of the monkey, with large fixed eyes and an open mouth, of a lacquered red colour.
The netsuke is signed Deme Saman 出目左滿.
Origin: Japan
Period: Edo 19th century
Dimensions: 4 x 2.9 x 2.2cm.
State of conservation: Very good