An elegant Chinese Ming Dynasty Longquan celadon long neck vase. Ht. 20cm. Condition: no chip, no restore, in good condition as shown. Shipping from Taipei, Taiwan via EMS at actual cost. Item selling at various platforms, please inquire before ordering. Duration of shipment may take up to a month due to the pandemic.
This is dangawari katazome & tsutsugaki cotton katsugi kimono of the Edo era(1770-1799). The 18th century. The form size of the collar of this katsugi kimono has a characteristic of the 18th century. This katsugi kimono is rare, and I recommend it to collection of you. It is indigo dyeing and green of very beautiful nature. It is a plum and a family crest of a hemp leaf and the motif of the flowering fern...
Very red cast bronze censer,rich copper alloy. Partially gilded with mercury.The body is very thick,the object is heavy.The carving of the details is deep and it seems that the decor is entirely sculpted without prior molding which is quite unusual. Honestly I hesitate as to the construction technique.At first I thought it was a repoussé work but the metal is much too thick and the examination of the interior leads us to think that it was rather casted and ciseled...
In the world of Japanese ceramics, Tamamizu-ware has an almost mythical standing. A branch of the main Raku line, at one time the two kilns held equal prominence, both being endorsed by the major tea schools of Kyoto and both being favored by the Imperial household. The first in the line was an illegitimate son of Kichizaemon Ichinyu (Yahē) who studied under his father and then left to open his own kiln in the village of Tamamizu (known today as Ide-cho)...
Ming Dynasty Celadon charger with floral/leaf and apparent bird (Bird of Paradise) pattern in center. Overall in good condition. Per images, note crackled surface, several small pockmark chips and what appears to be a hairline in the glaze. Slight warpage. Diameter: 9 and half + inches.
A very well potted Ge ware ( Geyao ) 17teenth century dish.
Gray stoneware covered with a very nice yellowish crackled glaze.
The base of the dish covered with a brown slip.
Diameter : 13,8 cm.
Condition : there is a chip to the rim of the dish.
Another wonderful example of the beauty of Shino-yaki from the early Edo Period: Little deformed cylinder (hazutsu) shaped, in the style of shino ware - the bowl shows finger marks from throwing; foot ring and bottom have been cut with a potters knife. Typical for a Nezumi-Shino shino bowl, the light, unrefined Mino clay has been covered with an iron bearing engobe - with the exception of the bottom area...
A Fine Group of 8 Early Punchong Ware Small Dishes
Korea, early Joseon period, 15th -16th century
They small sized group of Punchong dishes decorated with white slip brush,
white slip inlaid and white slip dumped with insiced decorations are rare with 8 dishes,
some dishes with clear glzes and others with clear celadon glaze.
They are all in fine condition except 1 dishe with a chip.
It measures 10cm – 14cm small to large, (4” x 5.5”).
Koryo Dynasty, 1100s
Painted in underglaze iron with a stylized design, possibly of a duck. Covered entirely with a grayish-green celadon glaze, barely wiped from the footring. Minor sand adhesion to the foot. No chips or cracks.
Diameter: 2 1/8 in.; Height: 1 ¼ in.
A lovely porcelain covered box of the Ming Dynasty, Jiajing Period ( 1567 - 1572 ) with a blue and white floral decoration with Lion.
Porcelain body, very nice Cobalt blue, covered with an excellent glossy glaze.
Diameter : 6,9 cm. H : 5,5 cm.
Condition : Perfect original condition. There are 2 firing cracks which can be seen on the last enlargement, but there is no later damage to the piece.
A large Ming dynasty Wanli period 16th century blue and white jar, this ovoid jar has short neck and unglazed base, jar decorated with under glaze blue of large lotus bloom scroll and classic scroll border at the neck and lappets at the foot.
Jar is in good condition with minor damage and hairline at the mouth rim restored.
Size: 38 cm height.
Reference: similar jar is in Topcapi Saray Museum, and another one in British Museum, also in Ming Ceramics in British Museum book by J...
A Very Rare/Fine Crackled White Glazed Tea Bowl-15th C.:
Korea, Early Joseon dynasty, 15th century
The finely potted deep steep sided tea bowl set on a high ring foot, and very slightly everted lip
with a hand rolled potting ring, covered with a thin trackled semi translucent blue tinged white
glaze with a light redish color, the ring foot and bottom unglazed, unglazed partial bottom
of the surfaces...
We proudly like to offer a 400 year old perfect Korean Gohon Ido shape chawan.
The fine, little iron bearing clay has been mixed with sand (suna gohon) and thrown into an ido shape widening towards the rim.
The light body is covered with a clear, little greyish ash glaze, reacting with the iron oxide in the body to develop the pink spots typical for that kind of Gohon bowls...
Antique Korean pair of small Koryŏ porcelain cups. Elegant form with small feet and sharply flared sides. Fine celadon glaze in pale blue with high transparency. The interiors are a paler translucent glaze. Each cup has a simple blue underglaze dot in the underside of the foot.
Goryeo (Koryŏ) Dynasty (918 (935)-1392)
Dimensions: 2 3/4" high x 1 5/8" wide diameter each
At various times over the long history of tea practice in Japan, Korean-ware has come into high fashion and ships full of the finest ceramics from the neighboring country were brought to its shores. Such pieces have long been favored by learned cha-jin (tea people); and, older pieces such as this are quite prized today as relatively few from this era have survived in such good condition...
Our Kutsu / gutsu gata ( shoe shaped ) tea bowl is made of iron bearing Karatsu clay.
Its fastly but expertly thrown body is glazed inside and outside, with the exception of the bottom including the roughly cut foot ring with an ash glaze which has some Feldspat mixed in glaze...
Historical Masterpiece - Early Edo (17c) Ko-Seto Chawan made by Kato Kagemasa (?-1659) with the old cloth and the wooden box of the period.
Kagemasa Kato was the 16th head of the Seto kiln family, counting from the 1st Kagemasa Kato (1168 - 1249), the legendary founder of Seto ware.
The bowl is covered with old Seto glaze creating a deep Sabi scenery. Thrown on a potter's wheel, the body was intentionally distorted and slightly stretched...
Here is a real beauty. Perfect in form, shape and design: Ao-Oribe (Green Oribe) Chawan from the early stage of Edo period. Little distorted half cylinder shaped (kutsugata) tea bowl with slightly flaring mouth made of light, unrefined Mino clay.
The expertly thrown body was trimmed with a potters knife and covered with the typical green copper oxide glaze inside and outside...
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