All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1258556 (stock #TC221)
Fine Japanese Arita Bottle Vase decorated with 'banded hedge' scattered among flowering plum and bamboo. C1700/20 Height 9.0" (22.3cm). Condition; excellent with glaze frit to foot.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1800 item #1437082 (stock #0487)

Perfectly shaped Ko-Seto Chawan dating back to the mid Edo Period (1603-1868). The expertly thrown body is covered with the typical white, feldspatic Shino type glaze...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1338742 (stock #EW 2968)
A very unusual export dish decorated with an aubergine enamelled dragon set against a black ground and green clouds in a circle with a central Chrysanthemum motif. The border painted in a three colour Imari palette of Peonies and Irises. The reverse is undecorated. The dish is in excellent condition with no cracks, chips or restoration...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Metalwork : Pre 1800 item #687911 (stock #0133)
1600s / 1700s

Round, footed bowl-form base and tapering stepped lid are heavily cast in bronze and then finished by lathe-turning to enhance the concentric stepped pattern on the lid and the incised rings encircling the base. The bronze retains its natural patina from age and use. There are areas of reddish-brown and small patches or verdigris on the exterior. The interior of the lid shows overall verdigris with numerous patches of brown encrustation...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1355879 (stock #EW 3013)
An interesting dish of moulded Kraak form decorated with a partially obscured Chinese four toed Dragon painted in underglaze cobalt blue with gilt outlined enamelled auspicious clouds framed by a band of stylised Chrysanthemum demi-florets to the rim. The reverse of the dish is decorated in underglaze blue with stylised Chinese style auspicious clouds and a six character mark for the Emperor Yongzheng...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1800 item #1374681 (stock #0418)

Large and only slightly distorted full cylinder shaped Tsutsu (hight is bigger than diameter) tea bowl with a rounded brim, made of reddish, unrefined Mino clay with clearly visible finger marks on the wall.

The expertly thrown body was trimmed with a potter's knife around the regular food ring. In the style of Seto-Kuro bowls this bowl was covered with a black glaze.

On three sides a round space was spared from black glaze...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Metalwork : Pre 1800 item #1333528
This turquoise based enameled color scheme accents the gold and silver elements of this finely crafted and detailed scholar's brush used to hold calligraphy tools away from the table or paper. It depicts crane and deer on a rock ledge among fungus. We believe this rest to be made of silver with gold enameling...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Enamel : Pre 1800 item #920331 (stock #377)
A rare and unusual 18th Century Gu form copper vase decorated with flower scrolls in bright famille rose enamels against a blue ground. The central copper section is engraved with three archaic style Taotie masks. This item was made in China during the reign of the Qianlong emperor (1736-1795). Condition - excellent - there are some stress marks to the white enamel inside the rim but, unusually no damages and losses and no restoration...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1402361 (stock #EW3124)
An Arita porcelain small bowl with barbed lotus style lobed rim, a namasu, typically used in Japanese cuisine to serve various pickles. Potted in mid 17C transitional Chinese style without a foot-rim as such, but an unglazed ring, kodai. The interior of the bowl painted in ko-sometsuke style. One half painted with Su Shi’s “First Ode to the Red Cliffe”, divided into twelve columns reading from right to left...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Indian Subcontinent : India : Pre 1800 item #1243568 (stock #1-0846)
Statue of God Khandoba (an avatar of God Shiva), riding his horse, with his spouse Parvati on his left side, holding his sword with his right hand. Strongly eroded bronze. India, 18th century or earlier. Height: 6 1/2" (16,5 cm). Good condition.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Sculpture : Pre 1800 item #1321898 (stock #1-0934)
Small statue of Buddha Sakyamuni, sitting cross-legged on an elevated throne, his hands in "bhumisparsa mudra", backed by a seven-headed stylized Naga sacred snake. Bronze with traces of the original gilding. Partially encrusted patina of green and reddish color. Burma, 18th century or earlier. Height: 10,5 cm. Good condition.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1800 item #1218247 (stock #0047)

As being passionate connaisseurs of Japanese Tea Bowls we always do our best to impress our visitors with tea bowls, which are for sure singular artworks.

Here we show and exhibit a treasure of Japanese tea ceremony culture...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Korean : Ceramics : Pre 1800 item #182474 (stock #146)
Rare korean Choson period blue and white dish. ( 18th - 19th cetury ) Very nice condition - if you look very close, you see 1 very short fiering crack and 1 very small chip, which also seems to date to the time of production. Diameter : 20,2 cm.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Korean : Ceramics : Pre 1800 item #1185078 (stock #205)
A Very Fine/Rare/Large Underglaze Iron-Brown Decorated Jar-17/18th century. Korea, Joseon period, 17th - 18th Century, A quite large abacus shaped jar rising from the ring foot to the extended sides and ending above the slanted shoulder in a short, decorated with abstract floral spray in underglaze iron-brown on opposite sides of the vessel, the body covered with a greyish white glaze overall, burnt slightly brown and orange in the firing. It is in very fine condition without any repair ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Sculpture : Pre 1800 item #1217819 (stock #0044)

Early Edo period, 17th century.

Enjoy this small local wooden folk Buddhist statue called 'Minshu-Butsu' (or 'Minkan-Butsu'), dated back to the indicated age but could also be earlier.

It is unique and soften modeled with calm smiling in 'Gassho' pose, coated with mature paint and an impressing merciful aura.

The statue shows the wear of time and draws its beauty from it...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1800 item #1414036
Rare antique Chinese porcelain Robin's Egg Stem Cup with gilt edge to rim. Old restorations to hairline crack on rim.

Kangshi period (1661-1722)
Size: 4" High x 5" Diameter
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1312142 (stock #2894)
A fine moulded porcelain dish of “Ko Sometsuke” kaiseki type decorated in underglaze blue largely in kakiwake, reverse painted style, with a floral arabesque to the rim. The cavetto plainly painted in blue wash and the well of the dish painted with auspicious pendant Buddhist jewels, yoraku, with three reserves each containing a figure of a Namban in a spotted tunic and hose with a ruff to his neck, and a matching frills to his waist and the hem of his tunic...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1330806 (stock #6701)
A Fine Quality Chinese Imari Jar. Decorated with a continuous Lotus scroll. C1720/30. Height: excluding wood cover, 6 7/8" (17.6 cm). Condition: excellent, no frits, chips, cracks or restoration. Wood cover not included.