This is a wonderful indigo dye cotton boro Noragi used in Aomori Prefecture during the Meiji period. (1868-1911) This item has been reinforced with Sashiko stitches many times over the years. Sasiko yarns change with the times. Boro Art's design was created over time with cotton cloth that was spliced many times. You can also enjoy the back side. Enjoy wearing it. Size:Length:85cm (33.4inch) Cuff to cuff, across the back: 142cm(55.9inch)

A beautiful 19th C Chinese sterling silver rattan bangle. Inner Diameter: 2-1/2". In excellent condition with beautiful patina.

A very nice Islamic Sgraffito pottery bowl, Bamiyan, c. 12th cent AD. Nice earthenware bowl with incised decorations in the interior. Beige/white underglaze with green and brown decorative colors in splashy designs.

Of rounded form with flaring sides and upright rim.

Size: 13,5 x 7,3 cm.

Condition: Superb for type and age. Intact w. a few smaller, old chips to exterior...

Edwardian Classical sterling silver picture frame. Made by Gorham in Providence in 1909. Rectangular window with concave border and molded rim. With glass, silk lining, and velvet back and hinged easel support for landscape (horizontal) display. Perfect for a special wide-angled shot with room for everyone. Fully marked including maker’s stamp, no. B3936, and date symbol. Very good condition.

Dimensions: Frame: H 8 1/2 x W 11 3/4 in. Window: H 6 3/4 x W 9 7/8 in. #BZ575

A collection of arrowheads, pierced with the single cherry flower of the Sada-uji and the double cherry flower of the Matamasa family crests. The central arrow with the Sanskrit character for protection by the deity Hachiman, signed Minamoto no Mitsumasa, Nobokuni of Chikuzei. Both clans Sada-uji and Matamasa were in support of the Tokugawa clan...

Well balance thinly potted quality Celadon dish, decorated with petals design to exterior. Southern Song Dynasty Longquan ware in perfect condition. No any chip, no any crack and free from any restoration. Diameter: 14,8 cm.

A Chinese Qingbai Glazed Melon Shaped Ewer with Lion Cover. Circa, 10th-12th Century, Northern Song Dynasty. Found in the Philippines. Featuring a six-lobed melon formed body, tapering to its shoulders onto a straight cylindrical neck with a slender curved spout set opposite a looped strap handle...

A paktong opium lamp with enamelled panels. Age: 19th century H. 11,5 cm (incl. the glass)

A German 1820's cabinet cup and saucer with burnished and matte gilt decoration of Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s new theater building in Berlin, inaugurated in 1821 and nowadays concert hall. Inscribed “Das neue Schauspielhaus in Berlin”. Height "4½/ 11 cm. Condition: rubbing to the gilt on the saucer and inside the cup (cf. pics.).

Oribe is a visual style named after the late-16th-century tea master Furuta Oribe (1544-1615). Kuro Oribe pieces are the most common with their jet-black glazes and feldspar ornamentation tending towards the minimalistic, abstract; and, some would say, Zen-like aesthetic. While the piece shown here is not entirely typical of Oribe pieces, the black glaze, contrast window, and unmistakable kutsugata shape all point to this genre of Minō pottery...

This old Chinese Ethnic Minority inro is carved from animal horn and has 2 compartments. Each side is carved with a floral motif that is bordered with a key design. These symbols are especially meaningful to the Miao ethnic culture. The inro was worn suspended from the belt by a braided cord. It is a attractive ethnographic relic for the tribal arts collector. Condition is very good and the piece measures approximately 3.5" X 2

Late Meiji period (1890s to 1912) Japanese wooden kushi (hair comb) with colored and gold lacquer decoration of a bird in flight against a crescent moon among stylized clouds. Beautifully made out of dense wood allowing for fine teeth, very good lacquering, wonderful work in Japanese taste, wear and loss as can be seen on photos. Length 4.05 inches.

A Very Rare/Fine Moulded Floral Design/Conical-Shape Celadon Tea Bowl-12th C.: Korea Koryo dynasty, 12th century, with a fitted wood box. This type of a conical shapped celadon tea bowl is very rare especially with a perfect condition, a very well potted conical bowl moulded with floral scroll design on the interior, pale crackled celadon glaze applied over all evenly including base with three spur marks. It’s in very mint condition without any minor damages at all. It measures 15.3cm...

Chinese/Tibetan antique rectangular pillar rug with blue five-clawed dragon. The elongated middle section of the dragon exits the plane of the rug on either side. The dragon has five claws and is woven in shade of blue on a yellow ground with wisps of clouds and auspicious symbols. Details like it's teeth are woven in white and it's nose, tongue and flames are a coral color...

A rare and beautifully built silver inlaid zitan wood tray with silver frame/base. The inlaid picture depicting four geese playing at a reed marsh. Late Qing Dynasty. Condition: Age cracks on wood; missing inlays. Please see photos for detail, additional photos will be provided upon request. Dimensions: 14-1/8"L X 10-1/4"W X 1-1/4"H.

Antique pair of silver and enamel finger nail guards, worn by wealthy ladies to protect their long finger nails and show that they did not need to work with their hands, made all of pierced repouse silver and decorated with motifs of birds, flowers and fruit, 19th century. Size: 3 1/4" long

A very finely carved Japanese Netsuke Erotica Netsuke figure of a couple Quillen

POTTERY PYXIS WITH THREE HANDLES AND A LID
Biblical, Iron Age, 1000 - 586 B.C.
Time of the Kings of ancient Israel

RARE- pottery pyxis with three handles and a lid.
Would have been used to hold perfumed oils and ointments...