A Blue Glaze Stemcup,late ming or erly Qing period.it's just has two tiny chips at the rim. no hairlines or restorations. size : 7,8 cm height.6,8 cm wide

Japanese early 20th century bronze vase by master bronze artist MURATA CHOSEN. The vase has a beautiful lighter bronze inlay design on the front and back of the vase. Stamp of artist on bottom. Vase comes with TOMOBAKO, original wooden artist signed storage box. The vase is 14 1/2" tall and 12" in diameter.

Using these Chinese lotus-shaped lacquer tea saucers simplified passing and serving hot tea. Traditional Chinese symbols are delicately painted with copper color over a black lacquer background. There is a double happiness symbol at each end along with clouds, water waves and lucky bat symbol in the center. The back side is traditional Chinese red.

Five late ming cover box brown & green glaze, with relief on the center of the cover.late ming period. good conditions. size:3,5cm height, 5cm wide.

A very important find and a great day for the serious Satsuma collector who acquires this exceedingly rare pair of plates of breathtaking beauty, detail and color by the renowned Satsuma Master, Ryozan, depicting the two Goddesses of the Seven Lucky Gods, Benzai-ten and Kichijo-ten (Kichijo-ten sometimes replaces Fukurokuju in portrayals of the Seven Lucky Gods)...

19th century Japanese single-section lacquered wood merchant tansu with black iron hardware and locks with floriate buttons, bronze hirute handles, and featuring fourteen drawers of assorted sizes. Each side has one iron side lift carrying handle. 36" wide x 30 3/4" high x 16" deep. Very good overall condition with the original lacquer finish and intact hardware...

Antique Japanese Futon Tansu Section with vertical slats on panel doors. Meiji Period, circa 1860s. Excellent condition. Size: 73" Long 31.5" Deep 39" High.

This is a beautifully detailed Japanese lacquer screen with exceptional quality Maki-e work used to highlight the details. The front depicts a landscape shore scene, complete with a crab stretching upward, a monkey after the fruit in the tree, and the makers signature. The rear has 3 cranes in flight.

Excellent condition, no loses. 7 inches high and 9.5 wide including the stand.

This box would have been used to display sacred Buddhist Sutra or text book. The importance of the contents is indicated by the viewing windows on front, back, top and sides of the box. The exterior of the box is covered with black lacquer and over-painted with gold. It is painted red on the inside.

There is some minimal paint loss, which is to be expected in a piece of this age. 24 inches(60 cm) long 5 inches (12 cm) high

Chinese painted pottery warrior wearing tunic and hat with red, black and white pigments remaining.

Age: China, Tang Dynasty, A.D. 618 - 907
Measurement: Height 21.8 - 22 C.M. / Width 6.9 - 7.1 C.M.
Condition: Well-preserved old burial condition overall with some amount of soil adherings (some abrasions and wearings on the pieces due to the long burial time underground).Please refer to the enlargement photos for more details...

Beautifully carved and gilt pair of QING Dynasty woodcarvings depicting Birds and Flowers from China, 19th Century, very minor wear due to age. Fine details, Size: H. 11.5" x W. 48" x D. 3.5" (29 cm. x 122 cm. x 9 cm.). Suitable as headboards! Price $ 2600 for the pair.

A spectacular Sawankalok brown glaze jarlet dating to the 14th century. It is extremely rare to find these type jarlets in the condition here shown, no chips, hairlines, or other damage. 7.62 cm. or 3 inches high.

“Kinokuni Hill and Distant View of Akasaka Tameike” from the series “One Hundred Views of Famous Places of Edo” by Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858) dated 9/1857. The print depicts the forward guards of a daimyo procession with the houses of Akasaka district in the background. The print measures 13 5/8”V x 9 3/8”H (image: 13 ¼”V x 8 5/8”H). Signed within a red cartouche at the left. The title and subtitle cartouches are at the upper right...

Japanese Edo period woodblock print by Toyokuni III (also known as Kunisada) depicting the actor Iwai Hanshirô VII in the role of Koman from the series "Actors at the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido." This image is Station 48: "Seki" published by Sumiyoshiya Masagoro in 1852/3. Very good color and impression quality, with fine delineation of the hair not apparent in the images...

Antique, iconographically important Yao Ceremonial Daoist God Scroll-Painting, 19th Century, Southern China. Good condition, some signs of age/climatic conditions. Size: H. 47" x W. 19"

Two unique blue and jarlets being offered as group. 1. a small Binh Taun shipwreck jarlet. 2. a Jiajing jarlet 1796-1820. The condition is excellent with the exception of the shipwreck jarlet that shows wear from burial at sea, otherwise the group is perfect without any further flaws, no chips, hairlines, or other damage.

This old wooden dragon was hand carved with an expressive face and large black eyes. He balances nicely with his tail on a short pedestal. Gripping his prized pineapple in his paws, he licks it with his tongue, clearly relishing the sweet taste. The pineapple has a short hollow plug on top to provide for an incense stick.

The name Zhang Feng Chao is carved on the underside of the pedestal. This old dragon is a wonderful example of an old Chinese folk art artifact...

Creamy glazed Samkanpaeng dish with plain design. Northern Thai Ceramic, Sankampaeng, kilns were found in Chiangmai province.

Age: Thailand, Sukhothai Period, Sankampaeng kiln, 14th-16th Century
Size: Diameter 26 C.M. / Thickness 5.5 C.M.
Condition: Nice condition overall. Please refer to the enlargement photos for more details.
Shipment: Worldwide shipping from Bangkok, Thailand at actual cost. Please e-mail us for the shipping fee.

This old Mongolian artifact was made from leather hides sewn together with leather cord and then formed into a servicable shape approximating an irregular bottle. Handling and pouring was aided by the wooden handles.

A folk art object approx 150 years old and used for many years as a sake container saki. It is approx 19 inches high and 16 inches at the widest point about 10 inches deep.

This is a nice small qingpai jarlet from the Song Dynasty. The qingpai colour is of sky blue hue. It stands on a flat base with a ribbed body with a shoulder towards the mouth rim. On the shoulder it has a ring of lotus leave life lappet.

The qingpai jarlet is in good condition. No chip, repair, restoration or glaze fritting, only some bubble burst as shown in the pictures.

The measurement of the qingpai jarlet: The height is 4.2cm and the and the width is 5.3cm.

This is a qingpai ewer or jug from the Song Dynasty. The qingapi ewer is of sea greenish hue. It stands on a recess 2 tier base with a curving body of a baluster or bulbous shape extending towards a flatten shoulder and then a mildy everted neck and mouth. The body is also lightly incised with some form of design. This is a shipwreck item.

The qingpai ewer is in good condition. There is no repair or restoration...

A well carved, painted, terracotta pipe made by skilled potters of either the Bamessing or the Babungo on the Cameroon Grasfields. Originally, only Kings, chiefs and court officials would have smoked prestige pipes of this kind but the potters were quick to create these pipes for sale to Europeans even before the colonial period. This pipe portrays a dignatory with his elaborate hat (possibly beaded). There are pipe heads of this type on display in the Liverpool World Museum...

An "egg and spinach" biscuit-glazed porcelain incense/taper stick holder modelled in the form of a Buddhist guardian lion. These items were made both for the domestic market and for export to Europe circa 1690-1710 during the reign of the Kangxi Emperor. Condition - The upper jaw has been repaired and there has been a very old loss ( possibly during the making) to the top of the incense holder...

These 3 bobbins aka thread holders would have been used in China when hand sewing was the major activity of the women of the house. Each bobbin was individually carved and each has a small ball which moves freely within the carved slot. Either individually or as a group, they are nice ethnographic artifacts of the Chinese culture during the Qing dynasty.

Beautiful antique Japanese knarled root made of cherry wood. Used in the tea ceremony for bamboo basket or vase ikebana display. Late Meiji Period c.1895 with rich patina and fabulous asymetrical flow. Excellent condition with very tiny minor original wood splits on surface but these nicely add rather than detract. c.1895. (20" x 18" x 15") (50cm x 46cm x 38cm). EMS Shipping/Insurance to USA or Western Europe $200.

A blue and White baluster shaped vase is from the early 19th Century,decorated two ladys and child play on the garden. Vase in good conditions, it's just the cover has retoration.30 cm hight, 1,5 cm body diameter.

Lac Burgaute Lacquer Pearl Snuff Bottle with Chrysanthemum, Meiji Period (1868-1912)

It is 2.5 inches (6.5 cm) tall by 2 inches (5 cm) wide.

It is in good condition with no repairs, chips, or cracks, except missing inlaid.

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A rare polychrome dish in red, turquoise and black, the center decorated with flower blossoms and alternating with turquoise and black bird. The sides cavetto with block diapers, medallions and roundels still in original state enamels survived from Ming dynasty early 17th century. Zhangzhou ware or so called Swatow as popular name in South East Asia region. Condition with minor several chips and hairlines. Diameter: 37 cm.

A late 19th century brightly painted model of an immortal sitting side-saddle over a green maned beast. The figure is mounted on a wooden stand. The piece is fifteen inches in height.

Condition: Old repair to hand as illustrated in the last photograph. No other issues.

Rare Chinese pottery covered jar, incised with flowers and grass design on the jar and lotus leaves on the lid.

Age: China, Five Dynasties, A.D. 907 - 960
Measurement: Height 36.5 C.M...

6.75" in diameter, this footed Kakiemon porcelain bowl is molded in the form of a twenty-four petal chrysanthemum, and is is decorated with bijins and delicate sprays of flowers over blue underglaze. Ex-Christie's

Condition: Excellent, with no chips, hairlines or repairs.

Wonderful antique Japanese tea ceremony tray to serve sweets. Meiji Period c.1890 made of persimmons wood with rich patina and undulating edges. Inscripted on the tray in flowing japanese characters are the kanji reading 'sei ogi-zo' meaning realized sage and the maker's signature which we can't read. Excellent condition. c.1890. (15" x 7") (38cm x 18cm). EMS Shipping/Insurance to USA or Western Europe $35.

Khmer bronze tray in circular form with nice bronze patina overall.

Age: Cambodia, Angkor Vat period, circa 12th Century
Measurement: Diameter 31.2 C.M. / Thickness 6 C.M. (size excluding stand)
Condition: Nice condition and bronze patina overall. Please refer to the enlargement photos for more details.
Shipment: Worldwide shipping from Bangkok, Thailand at actual cost. Please e-mail us for the shipping fee.

Lovely antique Japanese 4-panel gold leaf screen painting with scene of 3 geese in grasses by water's edge. Beautifully hand painted with fine detail in mineral colors on ground gold leaf paneling. Overall very good condition.

Late Taisho - Early Showa age C. 20th Century

Size: 43" high x 88" long

Qing Dynasty opium den lamp made with burner bowl. This style lamp was used to illuminate Chinese opium dens and was often their only source of lighting. These lamps were also used to heat the opium tar housed at the end of a long opium pipes. The burner bowl is stoneware with the inside glazed to hold the oil and wick (wick is new). The base for the burner is made of split bamboo. Opium lamps made of wood are extremely hard to find. In very good original condition, it measures 12” high ...

Very large Chinese folk art bamboo basket with a removable inner shelf. The "double happiness" symbols on the side indicate it might have been intended as a wedding basket. Dates circa 1900. 28"H x 19" diameter (23" across the handle). Very good overall condition with some loosening of the bamboo at the bottom.