All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1700 item #582151 (stock #JD-032)
A nice jade "bi" disk carved in the Han Dynasty style with dots and "c" scrolls. Color is a transparent light pale celadon. It shows up darker in the photos. Age:Late Ming. Size: Diameter.5.3cm. Condition. Some minor chips on the rim.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1700 item #421246 (stock #1945)
Blue & White large dish, with rounded sides and centre decoration with a pair of Dragons among clouds scroll and bordered by wave pattern. The sides decorated with four windows of flower head and birds. Typical of Wanli period Swatow Ming dynasty 17th century ware. Condition: restored to the rim. Diameter: 46.5 cm and High: 10.3 cm
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1700 item #1084239
Chicken Water Dropper, with everted liprim, decorated outside with chrysantemum scroll, flower on the shoulder and a band of small circles around the foot. Unglazed base. This is similar with the item on the Chinese Blue and White Ceramics by ST Yeo & Jean Martin, Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, 1978, page 134 plate 35. PERIOD : Middle Ming (1488-1566) MEASUREMENTS: 11 cm wide, 8.5 cm Height. CONDITION: Professional restoration.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1700 item #1062919
Charger covered with green celadon glaze and decorated with animal on the center and floral on the cavetto. PERIOD : late Ming (1566-1643 AD) MEASUREMENTS: 36.5 cm wide. CONDITION: excellent, no chips, cracks, hairlines and free from restorations.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1700 item #1277727 (stock #5630)
A very nice and unusual painted of blue & white dish which found in South-Sulawesi, decorated with a large flower blossom to base within double circle. Condition is good with two hairline cracks, only one with a chip to inner side of mouth rim, further in very good condition. Ming dynasty late 15th to early 16th century, Hongzhi period. Diameter : 31.6 cm.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1700 item #1374766 (stock #TCR6671)
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A bizarre pottery mass of two tea bowls and a stand fused together after collapsing in the kiln some four hundred years ago. It is 17 x 13 x 11 cm (6-1/2 x 5 x 4-1/2 inches). There is something to be said here about best laid plans. All the potters craft and experience and yet nature intervenes, creating this vitrified sculpture for later generations to contemplate.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1700 item #987348
Foliated rim dish decorated with a qillin to the center and band to flattened rim, and clssic scroll above ribbed exterior, glazed base.PERIOD : Early Ming (1400-1487 AD) MEASUREMENTS: 20 cm wide. CONDITION: 6 cm hairline to the rim, no chips, cracks and free from restoration. Good umderglaze blue color.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1700 item #610815 (stock #lot253)
Description: An exceptional Zitan wood incense utensil holder was carved in elegant wood trunk shape. Preserved in very good condition, the aged black purplish patina reflects the retrospective atmosphere. A Zitan incense holder in quite good size can be a curiosity treasured in your cabinet and a display item with sculptural profile as well. A custom-made silk box is included. Date: Early Qing Period(17th century) Height: 16.5cm
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1700 item #755209 (stock #lot438)
Description: A cute tiger figure was carved from one nephrite Houtien jade pebble. By accurate characteristics on the features as a Ming piece, the crouching jade tiger was preserved with obvious iron rust on the surface.Further more, portion of the jade tissue was revealed with pale-tinted incursions within the tissues...
All Items : Archives : Decorative Art : Pre 1700 item #1340236 (stock #773)
This rare engraving depicts the siege of Szczecin (Stettin), situated on the river Oder (north to the left), at that time part of Swedish Pomerania. A combined allied force of Poles, Austrains and Brandenburgians, under General Jean-Luis des Souches, invested the fortress on the 19th (29th) of September 1659...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1700 item #522292 (stock #JD-021)
Chinese grey/brown nephrite jade of dog with large head and long comma-shaped ears. The jade has color variations and inclusions natural to the stone. There is a hole for stringing over its two paws and under the neck area. Period: Late Ming (17th Century) Size: H = 1-1/4", Length = 2-3/4"
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1700 item #641109 (stock #2519)
A good blue & white dish, decorated with phoenix on the center surrounded by scroll, rim cavetto with emblems and fruits. Underside with floral sprays and a seal mark on the base. Late Ming dynasty 16th-17th century. Condition is perfect, excepted minor fritting to the rim sides, but no any cracks, no chips and no restoration. Diameter: 18.6 cm.
All Items : Archives : Pre 1700 item #637171 (stock #TR 033)
Rare huge polychrome Kangxi charger, decorate with red-yellow-aubergine flower motif, barbed medallion, red and yellow peonies with leaf scroll decorate the rim bordered with multicolor lines and diapers. Outer rim decorate with narrow scroll border, three flowers sprays in red and green, and lappet border sorrounding the base. This polychrome dish has a channel foot-rim. good condition with rim has small & large fritting (see picture) no crack, no repaire. Size: 13.5" (33.5 cm) diameter
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1700 item #647797 (stock #2546)
It is the one of the rare and outstanding Ming dynasty dish excavated on Halmahera island Indonesia, the interior of the dish with a turquoise glaze and exterior with a sapphire blue glaze. Presume as Ming dynasty 15th-16th century piece. Condition is good except minor flaked glaze to the rim, interior center adhered sands because buried for long times. Diameter: 14.5 cm and High: 2.5 cm.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1700 item #1436865 (stock #M0708)
Pair Chinese Ming Dynasty Painted Pottery Tile - Ox / Moon

This fine pair of pottery tiles was made during the Ming Dynasty (AD 1368 - 1644). They are made of a dense grey pottery and have been painted in black pigment. Each tile features, in high relief and in good detail, a recumbent long-horned ox, or cow, looking up at the moon...

All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1700 item #962029
Elegant shape of covered bowl with white glazed to the foot. Glaze base and red ring inside of the bowl. Ming Dynasty. Diameter = 15 cm ; Height = 14 cm Condition : perfect no chips, cracks, hairlines or restoration
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1700 item #932693
A blue & white Yuhuchun from shipwreck, decorated with floral around the body. Late Ming dynasty 17th century. Condition Excellent no chips, hairlines, cracks and or restoration. Height: 14 cm, Width = 11 cm
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Indian Subcontinent : Himalayas : Pre 1700 item #1284515 (stock #CHOP-015)
A rare and unusual bronze seal written in the ancient Tibetan language. Size: 2.9 x 2.6cm Condition: Nice patina. The finial has a piece missing.