If there is an Amazon in your life, this is the perfect bracelet for her this upcoming holiday season! Unabashedly monumental, this is one of the most astounding early Mexican Deco pieces I have seen and it takes more than my 5' 4" to wear it! Incredible at 3 3/8" tall, this is an arm band more than a bracelet and a piece of wearable art at that...

Description:

A bronze water basin was inscribed with poems and carved with beautiful scenery on the surface.
The inscriber was Pu Ton, A sibling of the last emperor of Qing Dynasty Pu Yi.
Pu Ton was also a famous scholar of late Qing to early Republic periods.
This bronze piece was cast in thin wall but was kept in very good condition with darken patina on the surface.

Date: 1924, by the Chinese lunar date JiaZi inscribed before the poem...

New England early American Sheraton era four-drawer bureau, probably New Hampshire origin. Circa 1800. Original oval brass pulls. Birch with cherry drawer fronts cross-banded in mahogany and with line inlay. Cookie corner top above delicately turned and reeded legs with high feet and a shaped apron. Condition: Refinished, and with a small patch to the left rear corner of top. Dimensions: 42 1/8 inches width x 19 1/2 inches depth x 44 inches ht.

Description:

A wood Bodhisattva was nicely carved and was well preserved in very good condition.
In metal-sheen-like patina, the wooden deity was depicted in serene mood by well carved features.
A portion of the base was missing, an old defect.

Date: Early Ming periods, 14th/15th century.

Height: 23.5cm.

A SILK BOX IS INCLUDED.

Koryo dynasty olive toned celadon bowl with a large, impressed peony decoration inside the bowl and incised fine line around the inside of the foliate rim. The body thinly potted but strong as in the manner of Chinese Yingqing wares of the same period. Perhaps slightly more stout than Yingqing wares, it emits a similar resonance when lightly tapped. 12th Century...

A romantic Margot de Taxco floral brooch with long, lean repousse leaves accented by beading and two beautiful amethyst cabochons. The patina on this piece is gorgeous and its medium size makes it very versatile - it can be equally easily worn everyday or just accent a night out. The brooch measures 2 7/8" tall by 1 1/2" wide (at its widest) and weighs 19.0 grams. It is fully signed with Margot's name, des. no 5319 and Eagle 16 assay mark...

Indian painting of Durga. Jaipur c.1890. Painted en grisaille. 305 x 305 mm. Unframed

A fine, early Joseon dynasty, deep Punchong bowl with gracefully everted rim and on tall ring foot. White slip inlaid decoration in the cavetto of chrysanthemum blossoms, surrounded by a lotus-petal band, surrounded in turn by rope-curtain decoration continuing to multiple rings inside the rim. The outside brush-wiped with white slip and an olive colored glaze over the slip and body - pooling in places. The unglazed foot fired to a grey-brown color...

A rare Gustave Sherman winking cat figural brooch pin from the 1950s. This pin has two blue aurora borealis stones; this signed 1-1/2" x 7/8" comical feline pin features a safety catch and it is signed Sherman in script on the back. This item is in very good vintage condition with no chips, cracks, dents, bends, corrosion, losses, damage or repairs other than a tiny bit of foil loss to the extreme tip of the large aurora stone...

A fine gem of a meiping form vase by Ito Tozan. Decoration of paulownia mon in white moriage, red and gold enamel amongst presumably young, leafy paulownia growth in moriage gosu blue. The decoration with tasteful balance - some places sparse and other places active - winding from the foot to the rim. The almost imperceptibly finely crackled Satsuma glaze smooth to the touch and with a pleasant, warm appearance. A pleasing hoist relative to the vase's mass...

A rare vintage Victoria double brooch or sweater guard, this set is superbly crafted and has imposing presence. The actual pins themselves are generous in size and carefully cut out of thick silver sheet with deeply chased details and bead accents. Each is centered by a proud repousse semi-sphere and they are connected with two lengths of the best-looking sterling chain I have seen on Mexican jewelry of this type...

Chinese transitional bronze incense burner of compressed, bombe, circular form flanked with two lion-head handles resting on the girth below the waisted rim. Raised on short, splayed, ring foot surrounding a sunken-relief apocryphal six character Xuande mark. Condition is fair...

A Vietnamese blue and white porcelain jarlet. Painterly chrysanthemum blooms and leafage decoration freely rendered and with some oxidized, heaped cobalt. Fair to good condition: There are three points where old, hard wax has been applied presumably to smooth kiln faults and possible a small rim chip if not just another kiln fault (we don't like to restore items or interfere with old conservation.) Lists slightly. See third enlargement for illustration relevant to condition report...

Puig Doria modernist sterling silver and brass hinged bracelet

Spain

1970

Interior circumference 6 3/4"

Very good vintage condition

A spectacular sterling silver bracelet based on Jensen's famous "Dove" design this piece was made by Norseland in the 1940s-50s period...

Birds chatter, perhaps excited by the promise of Spring from the plum blossoms peeking out of a bamboo grove, winters snow melts and trickles through the stones in the stream belwo. A two panel screen, ink and light color on gold by Mizuta Chikuho (1883-1958). An excellent example of this artists Nanga style, the subject and rich wet lines of the bamboo crisp and direct, fading to washes of gray in the shadows. The screen measures 68 x 68 inches (172 x 173 cm) and is in fine condition.
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Indian Tree of Life Diagram. Late 19th century. Framed. 620 x 460 mm

A large square pottery tile decorated in the "cuerda seca" technique. Yellow, manganese, green and turquoise on a bicolor ground of cobalt blue and white, depicting a lotus and saz leaves. Condition: few small glaze flakes, frittings. Dimension: 25.4 cm x 26.3 cm x 2.8 cm. Without wooden stand.