A large, Museum Quality pottery figure of a male attendant carrying a flask or a vase under his arm. The figure dates to Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644 AD.
The figure is placed on throne made of Lotus flowers on the top of hexagonal plint, both in fine Sancai colours - a two-colour green and yellow glazed robe.
He wears a high hat. Finely painted facial details...
A fantastic late 19th C. Eastlake walnut slant front desk with glass doors for the book case and solid doors for lower storage. It has interior drawers and cubby spaces. Additional features include red felt on the desk; detailed, applied foliate moldings, arched glass, serpentine bonnet, and a rare brass candlestick holder. It is in over all very good to excellent condition...
These exceptional vases decorated in the Chinese style were produced by the firm inherited by Charles Mason who secured rights to the famous Mason's Patented Ironstone in 1813. The pottery made porcelain as well, but I believe that these vases are of ironstone...
This rope bedframe has warmth which only time and wear can give. It has head and foot boards with some extra touches such as spool posts and turned legs. It retains its bed rails making modernization a plausible option. This bedframe is a very nice example with extra details which the average bedframe of its era did not have.
I conservatively date this bedframe to mid 19th century but it could be somewhat earlier, but if pushed I place date to c. 1840...
Rare maedate (frontal element of the Japanese helmet) representing a Ho-oh (phoenix). The bird is in cut, embossed and chiseled copper. Red oxide patina, gilding and silvering. Metal maedates are very rare and almost always made of iron. The most common, without much interest, are made of wood. This one is an exceptional model in terms of material, quality, interesting subject matter and the shape elegantly occupies the allocated space...
A very beautiful and rare Bronze Chinese Chongzhen Miniature Incense Bowl measuring 3” x 2.5”
A rare and beautiful Hongzhi Style Imperial Yellow Dragon Bowl measuring 6” x 3” depicting a stylized dragon motif in a Lotus shape
A magnificent Imperial Green Color bowl. Chinese Qianlong Style Measuring 6” width and 5.25” tall
An unusual dish of mokkogata “melon” form decorated with a central motif of Tojin, Chinese or possibly Korean or Manchu figures in a Temple landscape with Hexagonal panels depicting Chinese boys playing, “karako kigi-zu” set against a ground of tama, pearls, and fronds. The boys are equipped with various items including fans and drumsticks to beat the partially obscured drum or gong...
French walnut oil jug from France. A large brown-glazed terracotta storage vessel with pouring spout. It is a rare piece and unusual to find one without handles. Chips to spout. Expected for age. Measures 10" diameter, 14" high
A large Chinese Porcelain censor with blue monochrome exterior and white interior. There are three rounded bumps at the base that represent the three feet of a censor. The bowl measures about 5 1/2" high x 9 3/4" in diameter and dates to the Ching Dynasty. The condition is very good with some interior kiln flaw and glaze crawl. The asking price includes shipping within the USA.
A Chinese porcelain incense burner with blue monochrome exterior and white interior. There are three rounded bumps at the base that represent the three feet of a tripod censor. The bowl measures about 4" high x 8" in diameter and dates to the 19th Century. The condition is excellent, with minor kiln flaws. The asking price includes shipping within the USA.
A Porcelain flambe Ox Blood water pot that was used by a Chinese Scholar during the late Ching Dynasty. This pot has streaks of black in the glaze and a crackle glaze in the interior and bottom. During the late 19th Century, glazes of this color could not be controlled in the kiln, and many pieces had to be broken from the kiln...
An attractive ancient silver seal ring, Parthian Kingdom, c. 200 BC-200 AD.
The ring finely made in high grade silver and engraved with a bird on the oval bezel.
Ringsize: 48-49 (EU - France, Germany), equals to US size 4.5-5.
Ex. Gert Clef collection, aquired in the 1990s.
Circa 1900, Chinese footed foot tub made with elmwood planks bound by iron bands. Measures 10" high, 13" long, 7.5" wide
Scarce and attractive ancient glass vase with funnel mouth, Roman 1st.-3rd. century AD.
The flask in blue-green glass with nice silverish patination.
Height: Near 10 cm.
Condition: Superb. Strong with good walls.
Provenance: Old Private Collection and aquired before 1990 in the German antiques market.
A pair of very nice ancient fragmentary pottery heads from late La Tolita culture / early Guangala in present day Ecuador, c. 200 BC-500 AD!
Both likely male dignitaries, one of them with with large earspools. The head to the left is chewing coca leaves!
Comes with a costum wooden stands.
Sizable heads, measure up to 12 cm inc. the stand, 6-7,3 cm. for the heads alone.
Ex. German Private Collection from the 1980s.
A nice pottery head fragment of a dignitary from Guangala culture in present day Ecuador, c. early 1st. mill. AD.
He comes with a costum wooden stand.
Size: c. 11,5 cm. on the stand, c. 6,5 cm. for the head alone.
Ex. German Private Collection from the 1980s.