A rare example ewer with lobed body in a pear-shaped form, covered overall with pale brown glazed.Northern song.original conditions when the piece found from the river at sumatra. Size: 16 cm height (possibly 21 cm if complete)

Antique Chinese porcelain water coupe of a flattened globular form with a short neck, in tea dust green glaze, the foot slightly recessed with Qianlong mark.

Republic Period

Dimensions: 4 3/4" x 3 1/2" H

Song dynasty lonquan celadon washer bowl 12,7cm diameter, covered with nice bluish green glaze.Good condition only very small chipped at the rim and kild fault at the center.

Dish decorated with Tibetan Sanskrit at the center inside six petalled flower.glazed base.Hongzhi period.dish in very good conditions.25,5cm diameter.

Exceptional Taisho Period C.1920 bronze tea ceremony ikebana flower arrangement boat. hanging on tripod hand forged bronze link chain, the boat would welcome visitors to the tea ceremony hut. Perfect condition. W: 12" x W:5". ask for shipping quote.

Late Meiji to early Taisho (1890s to 1920) lacquered wood netsuke representing a Gigaku theater mask of Baramon - a brahmin of the priestly Indian caste. Rather rare mask, superb quality wonderfully expressive face, lighter wood (probably ichii - Japanese yew wood), excellent use of silvery lacquer. Height 2 1/8 inches.

Very Rare/Fine Korean Copper/Brass Inlaid Circular Iron Box: Korea, Joseon dynasty, 18th/early 19th century. Unusually this Iron box decorated with copper and yellow brass on the cover in circular shape with a swirl pattern, C-shape brass handle and ball shape lock, yellow brass ball pull down for lock and pull up for unlock, set on three small brass ball feet in the base...

This piece has beautiful color development of glaze and repaired with minute silverwork on the ridge of mouth. YouTube movie/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4kEByQCGcY Certification: written by Noriki Shimazu the famous researcher with Asian antiques in Japan. Size: 9.0cm(D)/ 4.2cm(H)

Pair of silver vase cloisonné of enamels. Gold lacquer cartouches inlaid with mother-of-pearl shibayama, buffalo horn, stained bone. Signature of the artist in a gold cartouche. Japanese work from the end of the 19th century. Good condition. No restoration, some missing inlays (see pictures) the silver parts are in good condition, not dented or scratched...

Late 19th century netsuke of a peasant seated on a bundle of firewood smoking a pipe and helping to light the pipe of the other man with a rain hat. Old loss to the smoking parts of both pipes, Very good carving, great faces, multiple inlays to their clothes. Signed CHIKUZAN on inlaid lacquer plaque on the bottom - there is an artist who signed with these characters listed in NETSUKE by Neil Davey (p. 453, number 147), but I am not sure it is the one who carved this netsuke...

Antique Japanese red lacquer trunk. Hardware is made of copper and ornately incised. Papered on the inside.

Meiji Period (1868-1912)

Dimensions: 14" high x 24" wide x 16 1/4" deep.

Antique Chinese porcelain brush washer in the form of an opening lotus blossom. On one side is a pair of bats and on the other lingzhi mushrooms. Delicately carved and glazed white with brown, orange and gold over painting. Very subtle purple and green high lights on the tips of the lotus petals. Sits on a hardwood stand intricately carved with more bats and lingzhi. Daoguang Period (1821-1850)

Dimensions: Total size: 4 1/4" high x 4 1/4" wide x 3 3/4" wide...

Good shards sample of Yuan dynasty qingbai large dragon yuhuchun vase, shards is decorated with craving dragon motif and covered with good qingbai white glaze. these shards is very good for studying and comparison for any one who interested in studying early Chinese porcelain, excavated from trowulan east java. The vase would be around 30 cm height if in complete condition.

Fine Chinese Tang Dynasty Painted Pottery Horse (AD 618 - 906)

This very attractive pottery model of a horse was made during the Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 906). It is made from a buff-coloured pottery that has been "cold painted" in a creamy-white pigment. This horse is well-modelled and stands upright and alert with its head turned a little to its left.

Height 22 cm (8.5 inches)...

Attic red-figure cup with a nude athlete standing between a stele and an altar.
The right arm is outstretched towards the altar in front of him, with the left hand he holds a strigil close to his body.
The young man wears a purple fillet with a vertical spike at the front. The eye is depicted in profile. The hair over the forehead with a row of dangling dots...

A Chinese scholar's book box with zitan wood on the top and bottom, and tieli wood as the walls of the box. Qing Dynasty. Condition: age cracks; most of the hardware is missing; repair at the bottom of one end. Please refer to enlargements for condition details. Dimensions: 14-1/4"L X 7-1/2"W X 6"H.

Beautiful black birds perched over a chrysanthemum bush. There is an inscription in the upper left corner and a cartouche. Sumi and light colors on silk. Mid Ching dynasty (1644-1911), circa 1800. It measures 12" wide 32" long, overall 16" wide by 55.5" long.

Late 12th Century or Early 13th Century Dali Kingdom 大理國 Gilt Bronze Shakyamuni Buddha

It is 3.4 inches (8.7 cm) tall by 2.5 inches (6.3 cm) wide. It is 153.3 gram.

It has rubbing gilding, pitting hole, oxidation, peeling of lacquer, dents at the bottom, and surface wears and scratches (as seen in the photos).

The Dali Kingdom, also known as the Dali State 大理國 was a dynastic state situated in modern Yunnan province, China from 937 until 1253...