A verified Delizza & Elster Juliana figural rhinestones pin in the shape of a butterfly. The pictures of is vintage 1-7/8" x 1-1/4" clear rhinestone brooch The picture turned out a little dull, but it has a more pleasant sparkle in real life. It is on the Juliana identification site as a confirmed / verified example of a Delizza and Elster brooch. It has a safety catch, and it is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, dents, bends, losses, damage or repairs...

A decorative 2-1/8" high English bone china cup and matching 5-3/4" saucer in the 6368A pattern, issued by Coalport. It is trimmed in gold, and it is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, crazing, losses, damage or repairs. All items are thoroughly and conservatively graded and all condition issues are noted; all items are vintage or antique and may have slight signs of gentle use. Surface shipping to the U.S. starts at $8.50 (other spots may vary) - insurance is included...

An ornately styled and decorated vintage c1910-20 12-3/8" x 8" dresser tray with a glass base and real hand-made lace. This tray has a custard yellow mother-of-pearl style finish with gilding and staining around the ornate border. The glass tray sandwiches fine hand sewn lace with subtle pink and blue pastel highlights. It is signed AUSCO and PATRICIA on the back, and it is in superb original condition with no chips, cracks, scrapes, stains, losses, damage or repairs...

A set of five Meiji period dishes hand painted by Suzuki Hyakunen in commemoration of the Gosho-Nai Dai-Hakurankai (Exposition in the Imperial Palace, Kyoto) stamped on the underside with the event name and each individually signed by the artist. The literati scenes include a scholar contemplating a waterfall, Mountain retreat lost in rugged hills, sails on the lake, traveler in the hills and horses on the lakeshore under weeping willows...

Rare child-sized mannequin from France; circa 1920's or earlier. Marked "26" on the front; hand-sewn linen covered body has some minor staining; overall a wonderful decorative piece. Approximately 44" tall on stand (can extend up). Body is 22" long, waist is 23-1/2" around, bust 26", hips 29". Very charming dress form!

Decorated with chrysantemum scroll on the body, early lappets near base and classic scroll on the neck. Yuan Dynasty Diameter = 10.5 cm, Height = 9.5 cm Condition : restored to the broken item.

A lovely bowl of Jizhou ware. PERIOD : Southern Song Dynasty (12-13th Century). MEASUREMENT : 10.8 cm wide, 6 cm height. CONDITION :a tiny frit to the rim, no chips, cracks, or hairlines and free from restorations.

Bowl covered with green celadon glaze , unglazed base. PERIOD : late Ming (1566-1643 AD) MEASUREMENTS: 16 cm wide. CONDITION: a yiny frit and chip ; free from restorations.

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: cracks and frittings; free from restorations.

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.

Decorated with a foo dog in the center and floral scroll on the exterior, glazed base. W=16 cm. Early Ming 1368-1398. Condition : Excellent, no chips, cracks, or hairlines and free from restorations.

Porcelain decorated with qilin on the center, continous floral scroll on the exterior, glazed base. PERIOD : Early Ming (1400-1487 AD) MEASUREMENTS: 27 cm wide. CONDITION: ezcellent, no chips, cracks, or hairlines and free from restoration.

Decorated with floral in the center. Glazed base. Measurement : W=12 cm. Early Ming 1368-1398. Condition : a short harline no other damages and free from restoration

Longquan bowl covered with golden glaze. Glazed Base. Southern Song 12th-13th century. Condition : frittings on the foot rim, no chips, hairlines or cracks and free from restoration. Diameter: 13.5cm

Longquan bowl covered with blue green glaze. Glazed Base. Southern Song 12th-13th century. Condition : no chips, hairlines or cracks and free from restoration. Diameter: 13.5cm

Longquan bowl covered with greyish green glaze. Glazed Base. Southern Song 12th-13th century. Condition : no chips, hairlines or cracks and free from restoration. Diameter: 13.5cm

Longquan bowl covered with greyish green glaze. Glazed Base. Southern Song 12th-13th century. Condition : frittings on the foot rim, no chips, hairlines or cracks and free from restoration. Diameter: 13cm

Longquan bowl covered with greyish green glaze. Glazed Base. Southern Song 12th-13th century. Condition : no chips, hairlines or cracks and free from restoration Good sound when tapping by finger tip. Diameter: 12cm

Longquan bowl covered with greyish green glaze. Glazed Base. Southern Song 12th-13th century. Condition : frittings on the foot rim, no chips, hairlines or cracks and free from restoration Good sound when tapping by finger tip. Diameter: 12cm

Longquan bowl covered with greyish green glaze. Glazed Base. Southern Song 12th-13th century. Condition : no chips, hairlines or cracks and free from restoration Good sound when tapping by finger tip. Diameter: 12cm

Longquan bowl covered with greyish green glaze. Glazed Base. Southern Song 12th-13th century. Condition : frittings on the foot rim, no chips or cracks and free from restoration Diameter: 12cm

Longquan small bowl covered with greyish green glaze. Glazed Base. Southern Song 12th-13th century. Condition : no chips or cracks and free from restoration Diameter: 8.5cm

Longquan small bowl covered with greyish green glaze. Glazed Base. Southern Song 12th-13th century. Condition : no chips or cracks and free from restoration Diameter: 8.5cm

Longquan small bowl covered with greyish green glaze. Glazed Base. Southern Song 12th-13th century. Condition : no chips or cracks and free from restoration Diameter: 8.5cm

Longquan small bowl covered with greyish green glaze. Glazed Base. Southern Song 12th-13th century. Condition : no chips or cracks and free from restoration Diameter: 8.5cm

Circa 1940's vintage ship wheel clock from France. Walnut surround, 16" diameter.

Wonderful framed print from France of the liner LAFAYETTE, Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, 1930 - 1938. Dimensions 20-3/4" x 28"

A original pastel of a Mexican woman by Rodolfo Nieto on heavy paper measuring approx. 12 x 16 inches signed and dated lower right 1965.

Biography

Rodolfo Nieto (b. Oaxaca, July 13, 1936 - d. Mexico City, June 24, 1985) was a Mexican painter of the Oaxacan School (apprenticed under Diego Rivera, later served Rivera as an assistant. Nieto attended the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda", Mexico City, where he studied with Carlos Orozco Romero...

A fine original watercolor painting of Pebble Beach Golf course 7th hole Carmel California by James March Phillips a renowned California watercolorist. Measuring approx. 12 x 20 inches in excellent condition beautifully framed.

biography

James March Phillips was born in Fresno California in 1913. His art career began in the 1940's while attending Jean Turner Art Academy in San Francisco where is studied under such prominent artists as Louis J. Rogers, Alfred Owles, and J. Paget Fredricks...

"Summer at the 18th Pebble Beach "

A fine original watercolor painting of Pebble Beach Golf course Carmel California by James March Phillips a renowned California watercolorist. Measuring approx. 12 x 20 inches in excellent condition beautifully framed.

biography

James March Phillips was born in Fresno California in 1913. His art career began in the 1940's while attending Jean Turner Art Academy in San Francisco where is studied under such prominent artists as Louis J...

An unusual and interesting straw glazed porcelaneous incense burner. The three footed bombe censer with barbed, loop handles on opposite sides along the waist flaring to a broad rim. The interior reveals the pot was built from coiling and smoothed without before glazed and fired. Good condition for its type and likely age. Minor old chips to the extremities of the loop handles and one small chip to the outside of the rim...

Description:

A sitting bronze figure was nicely cast.
Being depicted as a scholar with flouring robe and a official hat, the figure was in casual mood by resting his arm to the stool beside him.
It was perfectly preserved with nice darken patina.

Date: Qing Dynasty,

Height: 17cm.

A CUSTOM-MADE SILK BOX IS INCLUDED.

Persian, Zandieh Dagger and scabbard. The Zand dynasty (formally known as the Zandieh dynasty) ruled southern and central Iran (1750–1794) in the 18th century. The hilt and scabbard decorated with animal and floral pattern, each side of hilt and scabbard bears car-touche of Zandieh prince and princess, lavishly decorated with gold inlaid. Size: Overall length is 16 inches. Condition Report: Good condition with wear to the gold inlaid.

A finely decorated Vietnamese blue and white porcelain bowl. Thinly potted and with a crackled glaze over blue and white aquatic decoration suggesting waves on the bowl's exterior, a conch shell inside the cavetto and surrounded by a variety of blossoming flowers among grasses. Good condition with expected wear including a couple minor chips inside the foot rim and light abrasion inside the bowl. Diameter at widest point 6 1/8 inches (15.56cm). Height about 3 1/16 inches (7.78cm)

A celadon, crackle glaze inverted rim bowl. The unglazed rim suggesting this had a cover as some examples of this form (sometimes referred to as an alms bowl) did. The shoulder, below the inverted rim, with two double fine line bands flanking relief flower head bosses...

A lovely washer bowl with lotus petal motif on the exterior. PERIOD : Song Dynasty (12-13th Century). MEASUREMENT : 11.5 cm wide, 6 cm height. CONDITION : excellent, no chips, cracks, hairlines and free from restorations

Longquan bowl decorated with incised lotus petals rising from foot to the exterior. Southern Song Dynasty 12th-13th century. Condition : perfect, no chips, cracks, hairlines and free from restorations. Diameter: 12 cm

Exquisite azur-malachite and sterling silver necklace and earrings designed and signed (c.1940's) by Taxco, Mexico artist William Spratling(1900-67). The pendant measures 2 3/4" across and can be removed from the signed 21"L Spratling chain and worn as a brooch. The sterling and azur-malachite earrings measure 1 1/4"L. All pieces fully hallmarked for the artist and all pieces are in beautiful condition. This design was featured in the museum exhibit WILLIAM SPRATLING AND THE MEXICAN SILVER RENAI...

A gift for yourself or the rider in your family! An Hermes riding helmet in excellent condition with its original box. European style, made in Paris, size 59 (USA 7 3/8). Circa 1980

Dating from around the 1940's this is a great little Goyard Hat/Linen box! Showing minimal amount of wear for it's age. The case has a lift out tray and the original inner straps. The leather handle may have been replaced, but is in good useable condition. The back trim has two (2) minor areas of loss as shown in the photos. Sorry, there is no key. Dimensions of the case are 19 3/4 (50 cm) Long by 17 1/2 (44 cm) Deep by 14 (35 cm) Tall.

A fine original oil painting on board 18 x 26 inches signed lower left J.W. Curtis and dated 1893. A scene of the Australian blue mountains and the famous three sisters mountain. excellent condition. A fine example of this important Australian artists work. Known for his paintings in black and white which he exhibited at the Victorian Academy of Arts, in the 1880s.

Biography

James Waltham Curtis (1839-1901) was an eminent Australian colonial artist whose work lives on as a tribute to Au...

Longquan bowl decorated with incised lotus petals rising from foot to the exterior and flower motif in the center. Covered with greyish green glaze. Southern Song 12th-13th century. Condition : a hairline and free from restoration. Diameter: 13.5cm

Longquan bowl decorated with incised lotus petals rising from foot to the exterior and flower motif in the center. Covered with greyish green glaze. Southern Song 12th-13th century. Condition : a fritting on the rim, no chips, cracks or hairlines and free from restoration. Diameter: 13.5cm

Longquan bowl decorated with incised lotus petals rising from foot to the exterior and flower motif in the center. Covered with greyish green glaze. Southern Song 12th-13th century. Condition : frittings on the footrim, no chips, cracks or hairlines and free from restoration. Good sound when tapping by finger tips. Diameter: 13.5cm

Longquan bowl decorated with incised lotus petals rising from foot to the exterior and flower motif in the center. Covered with greyish green glaze. Southern Song 12th-13th century. Condition : no chips, cracsks or hairlines and free from restoration Diameter: 14.5cm

A very rare crystal tiger from Burma/Thailand. Crystal was thought to have magical powers and the tiger represents strength. It is unknown how they drilled the holes to make it wearable.As you can see they were drilled at both ends, probably before the crystal was carved. Age: over two thousand years old. Size: L. 3cm. W. 1.5cm Condition: Perfect.

Thin porcelain of washer bowl covered with blue green celadon glaze to the foot, glazed base. PERIOD : Song Dynasty (960–1279 AD) MEASUREMENTS: 13.5 cm wide. CONDITION: two chips, no cracks or hairlines and free from restorations

Charm bracelets were always popular but even more so in the 1950s-60s, when they became all the rage with big film divas wearing and advertising them. Understandably, the Mexican talleres happily joined in the fun and created some spectacular examples. This is the second piece in this specific design that I have had over the years and I believe it is superb! Distinctly three-dimensional with its double row of domed silver links that catches the eye right away, and heavy enough to make itsel...

Porcelain covered with crackle celadon glaze to the foot, unglazed base. PERIOD : Song Dynasty (960–1279 AD) MEASUREMENTS: 10 cm height. CONDITION: frittings on the foot rim, no chips, cracks, hairlines and free from restorations

Large Korean pure silver tea pot with cloisonne. Decorated with flowers in opaque and translucent enamel. Base marked in Korean and "AG 99". Condition: fine. Dimension: 22.5 cm long, 13 cm high, weight: 640 g.

Chinese Qing dynasty Yongzheng period (1723-1735) export porcelain hemispherical form punch bowl decorated with famille rose overglaze enamels and gilt highlights set against a white porcelain ground. A floral spray is in the center and a band of flowers, bamboo, and geometric forms decorates the interior rim. The exterior holds two opposing cartouches featuring a lady and her attendant picking flowers in a garden setting and two opposing leaf form floral reserves surrounded by scattered flow...

Porcelain covered celadon glaze to the foot and decorated with lotus petal on the exterior, glazed base. PERIOD : Song Dynasty (960–1279 AD) MEASUREMENTS: 8.3 cm wide. CONDITION: very good, a chip to the foot rim, no cracks, hairlines or restorations

Porcelain decorated with deers on the body, glazed base. PERIOD : late Ming (1566-1643 AD) MEASUREMENTS: 8 cm wide and 8 cm tall. CONDITION: no chips, cracks, hairlines and free from restorations.

A Longquan celadon dish, decorated in the center with an impressively of twin fish dish and covered overall with beautiful bluish green glaze. PERIOD : Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368 AD) MEASUREMENTS:12 cm wide. CONDITION: restoration to the chips on the rim , fine hairline.

Covered box decorated with white slip of floral, glazed base. PERIOD : Late Ming(17th Century) MEASUREMENTS: 10 cm wide. CONDITION: small chips and firing crack.

Beautiful longquan celadon bowl with good green glaze to footrim , red burnt on the base. Dating from late the 15-16th Century from longquan Kiln, Width = 14 cm, Condition : Excellent, no chips, cracks, hairlines or restoration. Good sound when tapping by finger tips.

Decorated outside with carved motifs, plantain leaves pattern round the neck. Unglaze base. Size : Height = 10 cm Period : Yuan Dynasty 1279 - 1368 Condition : spout is replaced by metal, frit on the foot rim, no other damages.

Using a combination of azurite and malachite the Los Castillo taller created a fantastic line of jewelry based on the almost lost ancient Aztec art of stone inlay. The charm bracelet here is a fantastic example of the technique and one of the most interesting "Mozaico Azteca" pieces by the Castillos I have encountered. The Greek key links are connected with flexible, sturdy hinges and the stone mosaic is done in warm, earthy colors with accents of deep blue and greens. The figural charm that com...

Description:

A water dropper was in intriguing twin toad's shape.
In characteristic mustard tint, the vessel was merged by two halves made from clay molds.
Finger prints were left on the clay body by the potter when in the squeezing and applying method of the pieces.
There were obvious incursions happened to the thinner portion of the glaze.
The toads were in uniquely fiercing look which was a iconological characteristic of the dated periods.
One minute glaze fleck w...

One of the oldest Italian families of jewelers, the Peruzzi Bros have been active since the 1860s and today their shop is located in the famous Ponte Vecchio area in Florence. Their creations in silver based on Renaissance Revival designs are highly prized for their ornate and at the same time crisp castings, their figural interest and the unsurpassed Old World craftsmanship they display. Offered here is a gorgeous hinged bangle bracelet with large green turquoise cabochons set in a sterling...