All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre AD 1000 item #1471249 (stock #MB985)
Chinese Han Dynasty Painted Pottery Musician (Drummer)

This fine pottery figure of a kneeling musician in the act of playing a hand-held drum was made during the Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220). It is quite "heavily-potted" and made from a fairly high-fired pottery that has been cold-painted in a thick white pigment on top of which are traces of orange and black pigments used for highlighting the details of the clothing and facial features.

Height 17.5 cm. Condition really is very good...

All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1920 item #146665 (stock #959/111)
A finely painted and gilt pair of Japanese lacquer ware dishes, on black ground and decorated in iro-e-togidashi, togidashi maki-e and kirigane maki-e of shikishi moyou ; the three asymetrically-positioned panels depict a landscape with bridge, buildings in the field and birds. Age: late Meiji(1868-1912). Size : 7 1/2in. (18.8cm) diameter. Condition: excellent. no chips, no restoration.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1837 VR item #551986 (stock #lot217)
Description: An exquisite white jade piece was shaped as a hanging piece and a display item as well. Carved with figurines of an old man carrying a boy on his back which was a Chinese metaphor of longevity and fertility of boys. It was very cute on the topic and the carvings was very delicate for revealing the details. Date: Qing Dynasty (18th Century) Height: 5.1cm
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1940 item #1396002 (stock #F020)
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The soft blur of blossoming plum, as if viewed in a dream, by Murashiam Yuichi. The evocative form, rising up in an arc to dominate the paper, seems powerful in comparison to the delicate petals clinging to new branches rising from the gnarled limbs. Ink on paper in green silk border, the scroll is 216 × 45cm (85 x 18 inches) and in overall excellent condition...
All Items : Archives : Collectibles : Dolls and Figures : Pre 1900 item #1321994 (stock #394)
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RESERVED.....thank you so much !!

From a rich house in Paris comes this nice Lady , it was found in a cabinet on the attic and was there more as 100 years.

Unfortunately the doll is not in perfect condition but she is pretty , needs nice clothing and your LOVE and she would be a little beauty again.

The 15" ( 38 cm ) doll was made for the French market , circa 1875 .......

All Items : Archives : Furnishings : Furniture : French : Pre 1940 item #365512 (stock #WA017)
Refurbished French Leather Club Chairs - Giant Chocolate Squareback Pair
With distinctive contemporary styling from the late 1930’s, this refurbished pair of Deco French Club chairs are striking with black piping & a rich dark chocolate color.
Dimensions: 38” wide, 36” deep, 31” high
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre AD 1000 item #749776 (stock #lot425)
Description: An ancient green jade bracelet was excavated in very good condition. By a yellowish green tint, the bracelet was arch-shaped on the outer surface when the inner rim was flat. Manoeuvred obviously by artificial procedure, the bracelet was not in a strictly shaped round circle on the outer rim but left with unevenly shaped angles on the surface. In provincial jade quality, the jade stone was yet in greasy and warm feel when light incursions were kept within the patina...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1920 item #1451461 (stock #L061)
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A voluminous ink landscape built around two scholars viewing the cascade dropping into the canyon on this huge scroll by Tanaka Hakuin enclosed in the original signed wooden box dated Meiji 45 (1912). Performed with rich black ink against the sheer white paper, the mountainous crags and leafy forms built up in layers of gray and black. The scene is mounted in patterned silk with white piping in the Mincho style popular among literati painters in the era, and features huge bone rollers...
All Items : Archives : Estate Jewelry : Strands : Jewels : Pre 1930 item #572770 (stock #T 1511)
SOLD. Very Vintage Antique 34", more than twice the length seen elsewhere, antique Stunning Shining Super Rich Red Necklace of 65 faceted graduated beads with a whopping 30mm (1 1/4") as the middle graduating to end in faceted 10mm barrel clasp beads all in red cognac hues! Original threading! Blinding, blazing light traveling through and light as a feather as it should be. Super fine! SOLD - no price, no info.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1910 item #1141751 (stock #513)
A beautiful antique carved Tibetan Ivory Vaishravana Buddha with exquisite intricate carved detail measuring 5 Inches OR 12 CM tall. AND 3.5 inches 9 CM. wide
All Items : Archives : Collectibles : Memorabilia : Pre 1930 item #1224716 (stock #BA888)
Offered is an incredibly RARE game, circa 1900-1920s, Spear Works, Germany, dexterity game very obtusely entitled "THE WHITE EYED COON".

The game features a VERY brightly colored lithograph target in near mint, virtually unused condition, depicting "THE WHITE EYED COON" dressed as a clown with a nose mimicking that of a RHINOCEROS HORN! The rhinoceros horn nose serves as one of the game hooks.

The target is affixed to the box base interior and additionally retains its two original metal...

All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1940 item #484547 (stock #107)
Romona Valencia

A beautiful oil of an early California landscape of wild flowers lupine and poppies. Oil painting on canvas board signed lower right measuring approx. 12 x 16 inches. Framed in a contemporary gallery frame overall 20x24 inches...

All Items : Archives : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Modernism : Pre 1960 item #270101 (stock #T 690)
Sold, no price, no info. Stamped Signed Initials "SCC" and Sterling, this Modernist or simply Bench Made Studio Ring with a 22 X 28 mm Bezel Set Agate or Jasper Dome Gem that sits ~ 1/4" high in the bezel in Delish Swirls of Golden Amber Brown, Foggy Gray and touch of Paprika hues. For the Power Forefinger presently adjusted to 6.75, but could easily adjust up or down. In Very Nice pre-owned Unpolished condition and weighs .5 Ounce or 16 Grams. Sold, no price, no info.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1940 item #1064842 (stock #TCR2914)
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Bright colors decorate this life-like set of Porcelain Okimono in the style of Chinese fruit by Suwa Sozan (no box). This set dates to 1931 and is published in the book Suwa Sozan Sakuhin Shu (1971), p. 85. A bursting pomegranate, Persimmon, Bunch of Grapes and Buddhas Hand, with a fifth piece, a fig, missing from the set. Please note there are a few chips in the edges of the leaves of the fruit (circled in the photos). Each piece is roughly life-size the Buddhas hand is 15 cm (6 inches) long...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1900 item #776277 (stock #124)
Width from 6.2 to 6.5 Excellent condition, no chip, hairline, crack or restoration.
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1930 item #1228313 (stock #40F47 346)
David Gauld (Scottish, 1865-1936) - Painting of Four Calves Resting. Oil on canvas. Canvas size: 24 inches x 36 inches. Signed in lower right, D. Gauld. Late 19th or early 20th century. In this adorable work, the Scottish painter David Gauld has portrayed four young calves resting in the shade by a watering tub in a Scottish pasture. David Gauld was a native of Glasgow and is well known for his studies of cattle...
All Items : Archives : Pre 1950 item #1053696
Rare handmade sterling silver and onyx necklace designed and signed (c.1940's) by Taxco, Mexico artist Hubert Harmon. Necklace measures 15 1/2 inches long and 2/3 inch wide at the toes. Comprised of six silver feet each measuring 1 1/4"L along with 6 bezel set onyx stones all on a sterling silver chain. Hook and eye clasp. Hallmarked HUBERT HARMON STERLING MADE IN MEXICO along with Harmons' trademark angel feet and wings...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1492 item #1256695
The center of the slightly domed cover carved with floral, the details finely incised, covered inside and out with a greenish-olive glaze that continues onto the countersunk base which shows traces of linear spur marks EARLY NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 10TH CENTURY 5¼ in. (13.4 cm.) diam No chips, cracks, or hairlines and free from restorations. This beautiful box with its delicately colored glaze is typical of the fine Yue wares made at the Zhejiang kilns in the 10th century. Such wares were...