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 | Antique Tibetan painted wood image of Green Tara Bodhisattva |
 | Fine quality Ohi Ware Macha bowl by Yoshio Iwamura |
 | Important Roman Marble relief w standing family, Late 2nd-3rd. cent. |
 | Japanese Lacquer Hand Towel Rack with Maki-e |
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 | A 17th Century e-Karatsu “Mukozuke” Serving Dish |
 | Antique Japanese Ukiyo-e Woodblock by Toyokuni |
$2,400.00
GBP £150.00
This twin-handled pottery jar was made over 4,000 years ago during the Machang Phase (c. 2300 - 2000 BC) of the Majiayao culture, also known as the Gansu-Yangshao culture, from present day Gansu or Qinghai province. It is relatively highly-fired and made from a buff-coloured pottery with a smooth burnished surface. It has a wide body and two loop handles joined at the waist and upper neck...
GBP £950.00
This large and imposing pottery jar, of "hu" form, was made during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 8). It is made from a fairly high-fired grey pottery. It has a particularly wide body with a relatively short neck that flares out into a wide mouth. There are three raised decorative bands surrounding its wide body. On opposite sides at the shoulder are moulded "taotie" mask handles...
$425.00
An alabaster cosmetic vessel of squat baluster form, a rather substantial and attractive specimen with ancient remnants of Kohl inside!
Size: 56 mm. tall and 53 mm. wide.
Condition: Nice VF, the lip with some small edge chip, othervise superb and attractive for it's type.
Provenance: Peter Treffz-Eichoefer Collection.
This fine, impressive and very rare pair of pottery vases was made during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 8) or possibly a little earlier. They are of a particularly pleasing and elegant form, the wide bodies rising up from the flat bases, then constricting into long slender necks and finally opening up into fairly wide mouths...
GBP £195.00
This pottery jar of "hu" form was made during the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 25 - 220) and comes from Shaanxi province in the northwest of China. It is made from a relatively highly-fired reddish pottery and has simple incised decorative bands surrounding the jar at its shoulder. The whole surface, including the base and inner mouth, is coated in a thin pale amber-coloured glaze that is very finely-crackled...
$550.00
The scarab is carved with a vase (?) flanked by a pair of hieroglyphs for the Cobra / Uraeus and further down the scarab beetle finely outlined in between hieroglyphs. The scarab is also finely carved on the back and with tiny details of body, head and legs. Note also the cylindrical finials for the horisontical drill.
Size: 22 mm. long and 16 mm...
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$295.00
The jar was used to hold cosmethics in the 3rd.-2nd. millenium BC. Nice marks of drill inside, recessed footring and a tiny rim also carved!
Size: 35 mm. wide.
Condition: Good Very fine, fine quality jar.
Ex. Cristian Spinu collection, Ex. Timeline originals (UK), comes with their COA! Ex Dr. Beekmans collection, Germany.
$130.00
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$1,250.00
A very attractive motar vessel with fine ancient patina and wear from use, but completely intact.
Size: 10,7 cm. long and 7 cm. wide.
Reff. Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels - Materials and Forms (1989), p. 144, #151.
Ex. Old German collection, aquired 1960s-1970s.
$650.00
Made of bronze bit with a mouthpiece composed of two canons connected in the center, each cast with a loop at both ends.
REFERENCES:
Similar snaffle bits from the collection of the Shaanxi History Museum are published in the exhibition catalog “Imperial China: The Art of the Horse in Chinese History” by Bill Cooke. Page.117. No. 92. (see the last picture in the listing)...
$1,250.00
