Antique solitary Awara-yaki chawan by great artist Kuze Tensei 久世天声 (1878 - 1933) around 1915 (Meiji Period).
He studied art under Yamada Kei while working as a teacher at Ishikawa Technical Senior High School. In 1914, he moved to Awara Onsen in Fukui Prefecture (a classic hot spring town) where he set up a studio and kiln and created Awara-yaki using clay from the area to produce Kyo-ware style ceramics, which often won prizes in exhibitions...
Antique Tibetan mandala. Hand painted on cloth and mounted on thick wood, reverse shows 2 pieces of
decorated paper. Edges with strips of metal attached, hanging ring at top. Undated, estimated to be early 20th century or earlier. Can be viewed in central London and shipped worldwide with insurance. Further details and images can be supplied. 35x35x2cm.
A Sumatran carved burl wood container. The lid is kept securely shut by strung cord with turquoise beads. 19th century
Dimensions: 6 1/2" x 1 1/2" x 5 1/4"
Fine early example of a Jomon Period Dogu Clay Figure, the earliest known Japanese
figures. The Dogu acted as effigies of people. They manifested some kind of
sympathetic magic. For example, it may have been believed that illnesses
could be transferred into the Dogu, and then destroyed, clearing the
illness, or any other misfortune. Because of the ritual destruction of Dogu,
they are quite rare. This primitive abstract fertility figure has a
futuristic look...
POTTERY JAR
Biblical, Iron Age II, 800 - 586 BC
“Time of the Kings of ancient Israel”
First temple period
Beautifully made in a globular body with a cylindrical neck and two handles
Measurements:
Height: 14 cm
Width: 14 cm
Height on stand: 18.5 cm
Condition: Intact, not repaired and not restored.
Found in Hebron south of Jerusalem, Holy Land
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Ancient Indian Jain religious shrine, the central Jina surrounded by multiple celestial nymphs with two elephants at the top on either side of the canopy. This brass with inlaid silver sculpture has ancient Devanagari script over the entire back. The Jinas eyes and central chest are silver inlaid. Rubbed and some losses.
Dated 1661 (17th Century)
Dimensions: 5.5"X 3.75" X 2.25"
A Chinese blue and white porcelain dish decorated with flowers. Hongzhi to Zhengde period (mid 15th to early 16th century). Condition: chips and glaze-chips at two locations of the rim as shown on photos; two 1 mm and one 2 mm glaze flakes on other location of the rim. No other flaws other than these. Diameter: 11"; height: 2-1/4".
A fine Scandinavian ceramic urn or storage jar, Ironage, 1st. millenium BC.
A nice and massive undecorated jar in black clay with out-swayed rim.
Size: 23 cm. wide and 17,5 cm. tall.
Condition: Exceptional for the often restored types, intact with a few minor chips.
Ex. Danish Private Collection
10th C. persian (Iran) duel handled red pitcher with flared rim and tapered foot. Condition is quite good with small losses to the rim. Custome secure mounted on a custom base for ease and safe display.
According to several tablets written in Babylon and Ashore calligraphy from 1700 and 5650 BC, we have some instructions about making color and enamel of clay...
A good example of an “Ai Kutani” style dish decorated with a continuous scrolling vine of Peony flowers with Peony leaves and Buds set against a “frog spawn” type ground, which is typical of the period; see Volume II of the Shibata Collection no 347 for an identical border arabesque there dated circa 1670-80...
An antique Japanese Chobako (merchant storage box) made of Kusunoki (Camphor) and Kirinoki (Paulownia) woods. All original hand forged iron hardware including the Hikute handles. Beautifully constructed using straight dovetail Japanese joinery and hardened wooden nails. The hinged front door opens to five interior doors where merchant papers, records and small valuables were kept.
Age: Late Edo Period (1800-1850)Dimensions: 13 1/2" Wide by 15" High by 19 3/4" Deep
Magnificent Nezumi-Shino Chawan with a true wabi sabi aesthetic form and a thick feldsparic glaze on a classic background of Nezumi-Shino — an art form dating back to the Momoyama period of Japan that was revived in the mid-1900s by legendary potter Arakawa Toyozo and others...
A fine small Chinese silver-inlaid bronze censer for the scholar's table modelled as an archaic ding. Early Qing dynasty, 17th/early 18th century. Height 11.5 cms. 471g.
Private collection, USA.
Meiji period, 1868-1912
Shallow bowl-shaped dish is raised on a tall foot and is decorated in underglaze blue with a branch of cherry blossoms encircling the interior. The painting is well-executed and the image is possibly based on a textile design. The underside is painted with three chrysanthemum sprays and the foot is decorated with the characteristic comb tooth pattern. Dish is glazed overall in a clear glaze leaving only the footring unglazed exposing the fine porcelain paste...
An interesting Chinese kesi fabric depicting a scene within a courtyard with children doing acrobatic tricks. Images of women and children are often seen in Chinese art invoking a sense of prosperity for a family. Age: Republic Period. Size: height 38.5" width 10.5"
Superbly large blue and white Meiping with neatly painted, decorated with 5 level impressively drawing from the upper side of classic scroll, continuously lotus, the legend story of Shui Hu Coan with a monk with his spear weapon, two has brought swords and one has bound under the tree among the ornament of floral sprays and then below with classic scrolls and lotus panels on the local Chinese cobalt blue. Very attractive late Yuan dynasty 14th century Meiping...
A small and absolutely lovely Kangxi period ( 1662 - 1722 ) aster dish.
Superb porcelain body, superb Cobalt blue, this rare dish is an absolute jewel.
Diameter : 10,8 cm.
Condition : Perfect with no crack or chip ( nice sound when tapped ). Extremely minute glaze fritting to the rim which in nearly invisible to the naked eye.
Two pieces of urumi-zome cloth which are made of hand-spun cotton and vegetable indigo dye. Urumi-zome is katazome (stencil-resist-dye) imitating shibori-zome (tie-dye) and it requires more process than common katazome to make blurring like shibori. Both have rips but other part of the cloth is not weak. The right one has a patch in the back. The second half of the 19th century. Right one:75cm x 126cm, Left one:65cm x 126cm