Jar decorated with wheels of law alternating with groups of florals on the body. A band of loops around the neck and petal panels near the base. Chenghua Height = 10 cm Very good condition, no chips, cracks, hairlines or restorations, imperfection firing on the glaze.

Good small blue and white bowl decorated with a man ridding buffalo in the scene, six characters mark in the double circle on the base. Wanli Period. Diamater = 9.5 cm; Height = 5 cm. Condition : professional restored on damage, hard to notiable.

Exquisite repairs in overlapping gold wave designs on colored lacquer drape upon the rim of this 17th century chawan tea bowl. The white clay is covered with millet colored glaze upon which have been scrawled simple designs like the character for person (hito). The bowl is 10.5 x 10 x 6 cm (4-1/4 x 4 x 2-1/2 inches) and is in excellent condition, in a modern kiri-wood collectors’ box.

A finely blue & white dish with Phoenix on the center, and decorated with Emblems and continuous floral spray on the interior and exterior. PERIOD : Late Ming (1573-1619 AD) MEASUREMENTS: 19.5 cm CONDITION: very good, a firing crack, no chips or hairlines and free from restorations. Good sound when tapping with finger tips.

Blue and white jar decorated with floral on the body surounded by a band on the neck and two border lines near base. Glazed base. Ming Dynasty Height = 5.5 cm Mint condition, no chips, cracks, hairlines and free from restoration.

A set of early wood panels, once doors on a votive shrine, painted with guardian shishi lions (Also called Fu-dogs) in polychrome colors, much worn with time. The doors are of clear grained hinoki (Japanese cypress) and have shrunk horizontally over the centuries, evidenced by the ari (wooden support) which is inset into them. On back one can see clearly the silhouette of the original metal-work...

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.

The character Take (bamboo) is struck with six brisk strokes of dark ink on this Chagake tea scroll signed Mitsuhiro (Karasuma Mitsuhiro, 1578-1638) and dated 1631. The calligraphy is exquisite. Mitsuhiro was born the son of Karasuma Mitsunobu (1543-1606) and, like his auspicious father, was a well known poet and songwriter accomplished in calligraphy...

A double sided leaf from the 'Nuremberg Chronicle' depicting a Lightning Strike Upon Istanbul (1490) and the Fall of a Meteorite in Alsace (1492). Hand-colored woodcut engraving. Published in 1493. Sheet size: 17 inches x 12 inches. Plate 257. The 'Nuremberg Chronicle' is the most famous of Incunabula (pre-1500 book) and was written by Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514), being published in a Latin version (Liber Chronicarum) in 1493 and then later in the same year in a German language edition...

Decorated with a qilin in the center and floral scroll in the exterior. W=19 cm. Early Ming 1368-1398. Condition : star hairline on the base and small chips on the foot rim, but free from restorations.

William III silver trefid table spoon, London, c.1700, by Francis Archbold. Length - 7.25 inches. Weight - 1.38 troy ounces. A typical trefid form table spoon with broad, shallow bowl and a double ribbed and beaded rat tail. The upturned handle's terminal is cut with two notches, a characteristic of the trefid form...

Large longquan celadon bowl with crackled green glaze to footrim, exposing grey body and trace of red orange oxidation, ring unglazed base. Dating from late the 15-16th Century from longquan Kiln, Width = 20 cm, Height = 9.5 cm. Condition : Excellent, no chip, crack or restoration

Dish decorated with a rock surrounded by four chrysanthemum in the center and a chrysanthemum scroll on the outside. Width = 30 cm Period : Hongzhi, 1488-1505 Condition : one hairline, no restoration.

Porcelain decorated with polychrome motif, unglazed base. PERIOD :late Ming (1566-1643 AD) MEASUREMENTS: 5.6 cm tall, 7 cm wide. CONDITION: excellent, no chips, cracks, hairlines and free from restorations.

A rare polychrome dish in red and turquoise, the center decorated with peony spray. The sides cavetto with block diapers, medallions and roundels still in original state enamels survived from Ming dynasty early 17th century. Zhangzhou ware or so called Swatow as popular name in South East Asia region. Condition : No chips, cracks, hairlines or restorations. Diameter: 32 cm

18th Century Chinese Export Gilt Enamel Mirror with Jade Handle with European Figures

The mirror is 10.5 inches overall length, 5.75 inches by 5.6 inches wide (the mirror portion), and the handle is 6 inches in length. It weighs 0.75 pound.

It is in good condition with no repairs, chips, nor cracks, except missing one gilded flower screw (as seen in the photo).

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Vietnamese 16th Century Green Glazed Bowl

This rare bowl was made during the 16th century. Apart from the unglazed stacking ring and base it is coated in an apple-green glaze, the depth of colour of which varies according to its thickness. There are small areas around the inner wall where the glaze has not covered but this appears to be unintentional.

Diameter 16 cm...

Foliated flattened rim dish decorated with Qilin on the center, glazed base. PERIOD : Early Ming (1400-1487 AD) MEASUREMENTS: 20 cm wide. CONDITION: very good, a fritting to the rim, no cracks, hairlines or restorations.

Finely porcelain decorated with human on the center, glazed base. PERIOD : Middle Ming 16th Century MEASUREMENTS: 9,5 cm wide. CONDITION: no chips, cracks, hairlines and free from restoration.

A bronze bell dated Kanbun 10 (1670) which would have been suspended in front of a Shinto shrine worship hall, and struck with a knotted rope to awaken the gods to listen to one’s prayers. Inscribed in the surface around dials of lotus flowers is: An auspicious day in the 7th month of Kanbun 10, followed by the names Honda Yasutoki Ko and Hiramoto Sukeyuki opposite a dedication to the god of water the Hachidairyu-jin followed by a place name near Awazu in modern day Shiga prefecture...

Jar, with rounded covered with white glaze, unglazed base. PERIOD : late Ming (1566-1643) MEASUREMENTS: 22 cm wide, 27 cm Height. CONDITION: no chips, cracks, hairlines and free from restorations.

Kraak porcelain export dish from the Wanli period (1573-1619). Diameter 14,8 cm. , H. 4,5 cm. Condition: very minor flea bites to the rim, a 6 mm rough spot in the glaze on the rim, probably a firing flaw. No cracks or repairs. Some oven sand attached to the foot rim.

Porcelain decorated with floral spray on the center, a floral scroll on the outside, glazed base. PERIOD : Middle Ming 16th Century MEASUREMENTS: 15 cm wide, 6.5 cm tall. CONDITION: 3 short hairlines to the rim; no cracks, no chips and free from restoration

Flatted and foliated rim dish decorated with qillin and clouds on the center. Ming Dynasty Widht = 18 cm Condition : star hairline, no chips and free from restoration.

Engravings of annual jousting contest on river Seine in Paris by Jacques Callot in 1630. On the left, the Nesles tower. On the right, the Louvre and the tour du Bois. Etching Dimensions: unframed: 6 1/2 x 13 3/8" (16.51 x 33.97 cm.)

A Ming dynasty Jiajing period blue and white bowl, rounded side with mantao shape and glazed base, bowl decorated with under glaze blue of human and scenery motif at exterior, inner center with human motif, the motif possibly from Three Kingdoms epic story. the human with fan in the back possibly Zhuge Liang an counselor from Shu state, base with square mark.
Bowl is is in very good condition no chip no crack no restoration>,br> Size: 12.5 cm diameter.

Ewer, with everted rim, handle and spout, decorated with floral spray, plantation leaves round the neck. Base glazed, footing unglazed and light reddish brown. PERIOD : Early Ming (1400-1487 AD) MEASUREMENTS: 16 cm wide. CONDITION: No chips, cracks, hairlines and free from restorations.

William III/ Queen Anne Britannia silver dognose spoon, London, marked only with maker's mark of Francis Archbold. Circa 1700. Rare early spoon showing the transition of styles from the trefid to dognose. The dognose form is so called because of the shape of the end of the handle, also sometimes referred to as 'wavy end.' This example retains the broad, shallow bowl and ribbed rat tail of the earlier trefid form but without the characteristic notches in the terminal of the trefid...

Remnants of yellow glaze covers this Heishi (Heiji) bottle form from the Owari-Seto area engraved clearly about the neck with three lines. A quintessential Kamakura pot. There is much degradation to the glaze typical of Seto which has withstood a millennium of earthquake, fire, war and abuse. That anything survives so long in Japan is miraculous. It is 9-1/2 inches (24 cm) tall, 6-1/2 inches (16.5 cm) diameter and comes wrapped in old cloth in an old wooden box.

A blue and white yuhuchun vase decorated with stylized peony scroll on the body and stiff plantain leaves around the neck. Jiajing 1522-1566. Height = 21 cm. Condition : Excellent, no chip, crack, hairline or restoration.

A very rare Ming hair ornament made of four jade goldfish and a cicada held together by gold wiring made up of a butterfly and floral design. It originally had turquoise colored king fish feathers inlaid in the design.It also has the original metal wiring holding it together. Size: H. 5.5cm. W. 5cm. Jades average 2 cm. Condition: Normal ageing on the metal parts.

Dish with flattened rim decorated in the center with floral motif, peony scroll on cavetto and classic scroll around rim. Iron brown wash coves base with petal lappets with hanging scroll on the exterior. Diameter = 26.5 cm 15 th- 16 th Century Condition : very good, with small chips on the foot rim , no cracks, no hairlines and free from restoration.

Description:

An ivory plaque was kept in perfect condition.
Being preserved in enduring old condition-the darken patina and the naturally yielded crackles all over the surface, the plaque was used to be a pendant.
By rare and good quality, it was kept in plain form which was responding to a Chinese proverb-- Niang Tsa Bu Zhuo, A High-Ranking Material Is So Precious That Should Be Saved from Carving...

Chinese late Ming dynasty porcelain guan form jar with wide shoulders tapering to a flat, unglazed base decorated in underglaze blue with lotus flowers and scrolling foliage on a white ground. A short, cylindrical neck ends with an applied light brown wash at the rim. The interior is fully glazed. A luting line is faintly visible at the waist and can be seen and felt on the inside. Measures 5 7/8” high by about 5 ½” diameter. 17th century...

A large Ming Dynasty Celadon charger with a lovely green color. This plate is large & heavy & nicely balanced and in overall good condition without cracks or chips. Diameter is 13+ inches. High resolution images may be emailed to you on request.

Decorated with a qilin in the center and floral scroll in the exterior. W=19 cm. Early Ming 1368-1398. Condition :Fault firing, no chips, cracks or hairlines and free from restorations.