A lovely water dropper of Tang covered with celadon glaze, umglazed base. PERIOD : Tang Dynasty (618-906 AD). MEASUREMENT : 10 cm wide, 9.5 cm height. CONDITION : missing one lug, minor chips on the rim, no cracks or hairlines and free from restorations

Extremely rare. Thinly potted six lobed body, covered with a thin glaze of ivory tone. Northern Song Dynasty, 10th - early 11th century. Diameter : 13,9 cm. Condition: Perfect.

Late 19th - early 20th century
Late Qing Dynasty to Republic period
Porcelain with overglaze wucai enamels
H: 23.2 cm / 9.13 in
Chip to the lotus flower bud of one figure, otherwise very good.
From a southern California estate


A charming set of Hehe Erxian figures, in a mirrored true-matching pair...

Anasazi / LITTLE COLORADO WHITEWARE, WALNUT BLACK-ON-WHITE room size Olla, this type is attributed to the LITTLE COLORADO WHITEWARE / Anasazi Culture and is dated to A.D.1100-1250. Most Tusayan Whiteware types have vegetable paint, Vegetable paint often looks soft or watery so the edges are not as sharp as mineral paint, and are supposed to have light paste. Most Little Colorado Whiteware types have vegetable paint...

The gray-blue celadon displays finely crackled glazing with areas slightly darkened by time. A faint pattern made of white inlay can be seen along the upper rim, complimented in several areas by antique kintsugi repairs. The maki-e gold repair at the base—with its design of half waves and half flowering vines—though quite old, seem not quite so old as the repairs along the rim...

Dr Fu Qing Zhu "published" his book on Women's Health Issues in 1816. Originally hand copied until the 1860's, publications after that were made using hand carved woodblocks. This particular copy appears to be from 1885. It has all 4 volumes and the original cloth binding cover. There are hand written prescriptions on the front of 2 volumes...

19th century
Guangxu Period, Qing Dynasty
Porcelain with underglaze cobalt blue & overglaze enamels
D: 11 cm, 8.7 cm
From a Lewisville, Texas estate

A thinly potted and carefully decorated doucai covered tea bowl, with four-character Wanli kaishu marks to covered and bottom, and featuring various antiques and treasures. For a late Qing piece, this teabowl is of high quality.

Condition report: Perfect antique condition without major observable flaws...

A collection of 14 piercing tip arrows, forged iron, mounted on steel plates and armature wire. Ya used in war by the samurai had a variety of tips called yajiri or yanone; these arrowheads were forged using the same steel (tamahagane) and methods as traditional Japanese swords.

Edo p. (1603-1868)

Dimensions: 8" x 3" x 9 1/2" Height

A rare relief molded lacquered alms tripod stand with three mythical nagas. Nagas represent the dragon in Burma Age: Late 19th century. Size: W. 23cm. H. 12.5cm. Condition: No repairs.

Campanian kylix with four palmettes linked by incised arcs to form a ‘palmette cross’. Thin-walled cup with shallow bowl and gently rounded floor.
Finely impressed palmettes. The linking arcs impressed with a twisted wire.
Former collector’s numeration (95) inside the carefully modeled ring foot. Dark points around the foot indicate that the cup was hold with four fingers when dipped into the black glaze.
Campanian, early 3rd century BC
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Antique Chinese snuff bottle made of peking glass (Tao Liao Ping), with an orange background and white and bright green glass overlay, hand carved into the shape of flowers on a vine. The artist would have started with a single-colored glass,dipped the bottle into the white and green glass to create layers, and then carved away the excess. 19th century Size: 2 3/8" tall, 1" wide

Antique Japanese cotton futon cover, dyed indigo (now faded due to antiquity), and then dyed used a paste resist technique with pastel blues and pinks to create a large Sakura emblem at the very top of the textile, flowering roses, and two rivaling komainu or Japanese lion dogs. Minor damage due to age. Meiji period (1868-1912) Size: (futon only) 62" height, 49" width (entire board) 84" height, 72" width

Antique Charles X Style Cut Crystal Box, oval with alternating rounded and facet cut decoration, and mounted with ormolu bands and escutcheon. Circa 1900, Probably French.

6.25" x 4.75" x 5" tall

Superb Chinese Yixing Teapot MENGCHEN Signed

Description & Size: 7.62 x 12.7 x 8.25 cm (3" x 5" x 3.25")

Weight: 165 gram (5.82 oz)

Age: 19th Century

Production: Handcrafted

This is a superb Chinese yixing teapot with 3 peg legs stand on red clay. There are some tea stains exterior & interior of the teapot. The teapot is in excellent condition with no damages, cracks, etc... It's signed MENGCHEN on the base.

CLAY FIGURE OF A STANDING ASTARTE “FERTILITY GODDESS”
Mesopotamia, Old Babylonian; 1800 BC

Dimensions:
Height: 12.5 cm
Width: 3.5 cm
Height on stand: 14.5 cm

Ishtar (Akkadian), Astarte (Phoenician), or Inanna (Sumerian) was the most important female deity in Mesopotamia through the second millennium BC. She was identified with the planet Venus, and the sunrise. She was the goddess of both sexual love and warfare...

Meiji (1868-1912) Japanese Studio Ware by Ito Tozan I (初代伊東陶山) Vase with Dragons & Clouds Marked 陶山

It is 11.65 inches (29.6 cm) tall by 6.5 inches (16.5 cm) wide. It is 3.9 Lb.

It has rubbing of gold and paint, skip and excess glazes, firing cracks, and surface wears and scratches (as seen in the photos).

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A masterpiece of Akahada Pottery ware in the shape of a wooden bucket with elaborate scrolling feet from the kiln of Okuda Mokuhaku. It is 18 x 18 x 19 cm (7 x 7 x 7-1/2 inches) and is in excellent condition, enclosed in a modern wooden collector’s box.
Okuda Mokuhaku (1800-1871) was born the son of a merchant in Sakai Machi Yamato Koriyama in Nara Prefecture that served the local lords with hair ornaments, make-up supplies and other fashionable items...

Late 18th to early 19th century Chinese jadeite carved plaque plaque for sawing onto clothes with carved and pierced decoration of leaves. Nice natural untreated jadeite with shades of green, in excellent condition. Height 1.44 inches, weight 8.9 grams.