A large authentic antique, 19th century, Qing Dynasty, Chinese Canton porcelain Turquoise - Yellow Ground Famille-Rose vase. A baluster body with a trumpet neck and a slightly scalloped rim, applied with moulded handles in the form of the temple foo dog...
H. 20 cm. First half of the 20th century.
Ex Paolo Morigi (1939-2017), Magliaso-Lugano, Switzerland,
Ex Nadya Levi (1929-2021), Antwerp, Belgium,
Ex Fily Keita, Los Angeles, USA.
A nice and scarce early iron key probably from a passage door, European, Renaissance, c. Late 14th.-Early 15th. century.
The key with an oval bow and a square stem. The wide bit with a flat design.
Size: 11,7 cm.
Condition: Nice Very fine, intact dark iron patina corrosion but sound metal beneath.
Ex. Important old Danish collection of keys.
With an unusual dark blue and turquoise glaze. The woman with an unusual hairdo. H. 34 cm (the man), 31 cm (the woman). Condition: no damage or repair. parts of the soil can easily be removed to obtain a more colorful glaze.
Japanese three string musical instrument Player, Meiji period, late 1800's, 2" high, 2 1/2" wide, ,1 1/2" deep, the ivory figure is finely done, add nice age patina on smooth rounded carving with humorous face and hairdo, small tip of the string instrument is broken off, age crack on the tip of the robe on the left back side about 1/2" long.
Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Vase w Rooster & Hen c19th
Description & Size: 15.24 x 6.35 cm (6" x 2.5") height & wide
Age: Meiji Period
Production: Handcrafted
This is a beautifully crafted Japanese cloisonné enamel vase w a rooster & hen c19th Century. The vase is decorated with fine silver wires with a rooster & hen surrounded by multiple colorful flowers with black enamel background. It's mounted with bright brass top rims & base...
17th Century Japanese Arita porcelain blue and white charger, with imagery of one bird flying overhead a second bird, peaches growing to the right and flowers blooming to the left. The inner rim has multiple panels with various flowers and scrolling vine dividers.
Circa: 1680 - 1720
Size: 13" diameter, 2" height
Famille Rose 'Hundred Boys' Covered Box
Date: 1890s, late 19th century | Guangxu Period, Qing Dynasty
Materials: Porcelain with overglaze famille rose enamels
Diameter: 27.5 cm
Height: 17.5 cm
Provenance: From a Paris, France metropolitan area estate
A large, heavy, and sturdily potted 19th c late Qing Guangxu period porcelain box and cover, of circular form and features a parade of auspicious motifs: the 'hundred boys', 'hundred butterflies', and deer and ...
Antique Chinese cabinet with a large open section, with carvings of swirling vines and flowers decorating the inner edges, two small carved creatures (possibly guardian lions/fu dogs) sitting front and center. Below are two drawers with metal handles, the drawer faces carved with flowers with outstretched leaves and stems, forming a semi-arch...
A Victorian Silver Plated Mounted Green Opaline Creamer. Height 5". Circa 1860. Plating is worn, but in very good condition.
Fantastic 18th Century Edo Period Saga Ningyo of a young boy
holding a bird. His head bobs while his tongue goes in and
out. Carved entirely of wood, his gorgeous robes are built up with pigments
in a technique called 'moriage'. He has an outer robe decorated with a foliate
scroll with other beautiful designs and geometric patterns raised in relief. This rarest of all Ningyo forms almost never comes up for sale and are
almost never seen except in museums or important private collections...
A very fine sometsuke dish of scalloped octalobed form painted with a mon form central motif of a symmetrically arranged pair of leaping carp. Framed by a continuous band of botan karakusa, Peonie lotus scroll, within which are reserves containing, dragons, Ryu, in clouds and a gilt rim, kin-beni. The reverse decorated with hagi-karakusa, vine pattern and a six character mark for the Chinese Emperor Jiajing. The quality of the painting is of the highest quality...
A pair of blue and white Hirado oil jars or bottles of squat shape, Meiji period, c 1900. Molded decoration of Paulownia leaves in reserves and an under-glaze blue diaper (grid) pattern. One with a cork stopper crowned by a small silver bird. Height: "2 ¼ /6 cm, diameter: "3 ¾ / 9 cm. Condition: small glaze crack near the mouth to one jar, otherwise fine.
A Pair of Bronze Figural Candelabras with Four Arms and five Lights. Height 16" x 14" wide. Each one weighs about 7 pounds. Features dancing couples on each of the main arms and a piper on the center arm. Late 19th century and probably French. Very Good condition.
Exceedingly rare late Meiji Period C.1900 gold and black lacquered wood buddha stand with lotus leaves and buddhist clouds in carved relief. Negoro lacquer rim in back half with some wear, but otherwise in perfect nick. 20" in diameter. Ask for shipping quote.
Tharu, Nepal Mask, collected by Eric Chazot, 11 inches, 28cm.
This is a very fine set of Japanese Imari Nesting Bowls. It is rare to get a set of this quality in this fine of condition. These bowls are old and they are antiques. The largest bowl measures 10 inches across and 4 1/4 tall. The condition is excellent on all three.
ALABASTER COSMETIC VASE WITH A BRONZE APPLICATOR
CANAANITE, Middle Bronze Age: 1850 – 1550 B.C...
A radiant casket made in the Koftgari technique, which is one of the most important types of South Asian metalware. Koftgari work features fine gold wire or gold leaf overlay hammered into patterns incised into the surface of an iron ground. The bottom decoration made in silver alloy foil, which unless cleaned has typically oxidised to black. Pakistan, Panjab, Sialkot or Gujrat, Kotli Loharan, ca. 1850 - 1870. Size : 16 x 11,7 cm. H : 6,8 cm...
White glaze Yuhuchun vase,YuanDynasty.Crackle Glazed with smooth qingbay color.Size :28,5cm high.conditions with some damage on the mouth rim.Free from any restorations.
This is a very fine 18th/19th Century period, well-hallowed, Dendritic Chalcedony Snuff Bottle of flattened, rectangular, with rounded shoulders tapering towards base, with a cylindrical short neck, a wide mouth, and an oval foot rim surrounding a shallowly recessed flat foot. The translucent stone has an abstract mottled pattern of brown ground and white macaroni bursts and strands that go in different directions and that are different on all sides of the bottle...
Lovely Gilt bronze incensor with raised chrysanthemum flowers and tripod feet in the form of chrysanthemum leaves. Reticulated cover for smoke. On the bottom is the incised signature of Kо̄sai Sano 佐野宏采, a favorite artisan of Emperor Hirohito's.
Age: Early 20th century
Size: 6"H x 4" Diameter
Height: 8 cm (3.2 in)
Length: 9.6 cm (3.8 in)
Depth: 4.6 cm (1.8 in)
Chinese bronze water dropper of a mythical turtle or minogame; the creature is topped with a mountain and peach blossom; finely cast piece; excellent patina; good condition
Rare Chinese Neolithic Pottery Tripod with Oxford TL Test
This fine and interesting pottery vessel was made over 3,000 years ago during the Chinese Neolithic or early Bronze Age. The form is of a cooking vessel and the three wide udder-shaped legs allow it to be stood in a fire with as much heat as possible being transmitted to its contents. It is not always easy to determine exactly which culture such vessels come from as similar vessels were made by various Chinese cultures...
Rare Nakamura Donen (1876-1937) Mishima Ware Chawan Bowl with Gold Repair Kintsugi.
Nakamura Donen was a famous potter during Meiji-Taisho periods who worked in different styles such as Raku and Mishima.
He has a lot of Korean influence in his works as he studied the pottery in Korea.
Size
Width 11.5cm
Height 8.6cm
Condition
Overall good, the bowl the some repair with gold. Please see the images for details.
Supplied with old wooden box.
A rare Chinese Export Octagonal Armorial Bowl likely by Samson, with a bamboo and floral border in pinks, purple, and gilt. With the coat of arms of the Earl of Lauderdale “Consilion Et Animis” measuring 9.5” late 18th century
Large Indian carved sculpture of Rama, colours and gold paint on wood, undated, estimated to be early 20th century separate bow and arrow, approx 95x50 cm, missing a finger from each hand. Can be viewed in central London, buyer arranges transport.
A six sided Japanese porcelain Imari dish with a blue and green dragon design on the front, and a blue and white bat design on the back. The plate measures about 10 1/2" in diameter x 2" high, and dates to the early 19th Century. There is a makers' mark on the foot. The condition is excellent with surface and foot rim wear commensurate with age. The asking price includes shipping within the USA
Large Guan Jar, decorated with a pair of the Dragons below continuously chrysanthemums. Condition is perfect with no any chip, no any crack and free from any restoration. Found at Kalimantan area more than 20 years ago. Yuan Dynasty 13th-14th century Cizhou ware. Height: 27,5 cm.
A small lotus form moulded porcelain saucer dish painted centrally with a man on horseback bordered with eight radiating lotus leaves and flowers and above each is a stylized crane with opened wings.
A larger dish bordered with similar crane motifs on a diaper ground see item 2234 (page 1032) "Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum" Istanbul VOL 3 by Regina Krahl with John Ayers (1986)
This item was made in China, for export, in the Late 17th / early 18th Century...
A lovely specimen of the sought after renaissance pewter jugs, this one manifactured in 1653 on the basis of the pewter touch marks of the inside lid.
A very early renaissance type European pewter jug in excellent condition with clear marks and engravings...
Antique Japanese Satsuma pottery group of three fu-dogs wrestling. Each of the three seems to be attacking another in this playful scene. A medium sized fu-dog lays with it's back on the ground, fending off the largest of the group who, in turn, has a smaller fu-dog biting his ear. The overall modeling gives off a feeling of whimsical turmoil and one can almost hear the playful snarls as they bite at each other's ears and toes...
An interesting mid sixteenth century Jiajing period small dish decorated with a Deer Monkey, Bird and Bees in a landscape with a Peach tree. The pattern can be read in several ways, as a reference to the tale of the Monkey King and the Peaches of Immortality and as a rebus design “julu feng hou”, meaning “May you receive high rank and emolument” deriving from the combination of Deer, (lu), Bird (ju), Bees (feng) the curious blobs above the head of the Monkey (hou), or as simply a co...
Stoneware bowl with black and brown Cizhou glaze. China, Henan, Yüan Dynasty (1279-1368)
Diameter 20 cm , H. 7 cm. Condition: excellent.
I have more Cizhou pieces in stock, please email me if you're interested.
A wonderful and strong American freehand watercolor on paper folk art theorem. Strawberries, apples, cherries, and pears, with their foliage, are depicted in bold colors with a whimsical style. They rest in a large bowl with a light brown tint (not stained).
In contrast to the creasing, heavy foxing and flaws that many examples of this type art have, the overall condition is excellent, with no tears and only a spot or two or discoloration. The sight size is 12 inches by 8 3/8 inches, while the...
Japanese hand-carved bamboo figure of a seated frog. Wonderfully lifelike details with darkened eyes, hands and feet tucked underneath his belly, which has natural bamboo form.
Size:5.5" L x 3.5" W x 3.25" H