Blue and white porcelain docorated by flower on the basket and table, unglazed base. PERIOD : Kangxi (1662-1722 AD) MEASUREMENTS: 5.5 cm height. CONDITION: two tiny frits to the rim, no cracks or hairlines and free from restorations
Description: A northern stoneware was intriguingly applied with russet oil-spots glaze. In a lovely size, the bowl was molded regularly in well proportion. While with a charming glaze effects on the inner and outer surface, the bowl’s foot ring was unglazed and was revealed with the meticulously applied protection coating on the body clay. The sandy-feel protection slip cracked in some way and reveal the white clay underneath. Date: Jin to Yuan period(13th-14th century)
Width: 8.2cm.
Dehua cup with unglazed firing ring on the center.
Widht = 7.5 - 6.5 cm
Height = 3.5 - 3 cm
Qing Dynasty
Condition : 2 cups in excellent condition, smallest cup has 2 tiny chips.
A Mandalay Buddhist votive domed covered alms bowl with glass inlays. Age: Early 20th century. Size: H. 48cm. W. 20cm. Condition: No repairs.
Blue and white porcelain docorated by floral spray to the body, unglazed base. PERIOD : Kangxi (1662-1722 AD) MEASUREMENTS: 13 cm wide. CONDITION: a tiny fritting to the rim, no cracks or hairlines and free from restorations
Description: A celadon tripod censer was from Longquan kiln of Yuan Dynasty.
Applied with light-green glaze, the censer was mold on the outer surface with Eight Trigarms for decoration.
Supported by three slightly everted feet and with the circular foot ring at the bottom, the censer was in elegant flatten form...
Isezaki Mitsuru (1934-2011) Elegant Bizen Pottery Vase
Isezaki Mitsuru was born in 1934 in the well-known family of Bizen potters. His younger brother Isezaki Jun (b.1936) is the Living National Treasure since 2004.
Mr...
Porcelain decorated with floral spray in the center. Iron brown wash covers base with petal lappets with hanging floral scroll on the exterior. Diameter = 17 cm. Periode : 15th- 16th Century Condition : two hairlines to the rim and small chips to the foot ring and free from restoration.
Kokeshi, wooden folk toy of NE Japan. Height: 7.25". This is an example of "Kijiyama-kei" tradition of Akita Prefecture. The artisan is Onodera Masatoku who was born on June 13th, 1958 (Showa 23). For a brief story on "dentou" (traditional) kokeshi, please see our weblog, which is accessible through our Trocadero homepage.
Wood and iron. Democratic Republic of Congo, pre WW2. Excellent wear and patina. H. 30 cm. Comes with a custom made stand.
Burmese manuscript containing rules for the correct performance of the monastic ritual, written in Pali language. Containing 16 palm leaves and two wooden cover boards, decorated in red lacquer and gilding. The folios are inscribed (fourteen on both sides) on a plain gilt ground with ink or lacquer in five lines, having small buildings to show punctuation. The boards and the backside of two leaves are decorated with floral roundels and lotus leaves...
Japanese bronze mirror. 19th century.
7.8 x 0.3cm. 70g.
A superb 19th century hanging moon Vase of caramel bronze gilded inside entrrely with gold and enclosed in a custom kiri-wood period box titled Kara-kin Gekkei Hanaire (gilded Chinese-Bronze Vase). In this case the word Chinese does not indicate it being manufactured in China, but using a mixture of bronze based on Chinese origins. It is quite large at 14 inches (36 cm) diameter and comes with the original chain and insert for hanging and display of flowers...
BLACK HANJI PANELS
Two pieces set of contemporary panel abstractions made of compressed 'Hanji' (Traditional Korean handmade papers) dyed by charcoal
coming from the studio (Jang Yong-hoon) operated by an artisan of South Korean Intangible Cultural Property. Solid make...
An unusual 17th to early 18th century Screen featuring a koto harp and candle stand behind a screen under blossoming prunus, a spry group of pine in front and rushing water beyond. Incredible veining in the gold. Like much of Japanese art, the viewer is asked to interpret the scene as they see fit. Perhaps the remnants of a night of poetry and music under the plum blossoms. Perhaps the lonely Michizane playing to the moon, alone in exile with thoughts longing for Kyoto...
Chinese Song Dynasty Incised Qingbai / Celadon Porcelain Bowl
This bowl was made in the 12th Century during the Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1279), a product of one of the kilns in Fujian province, probably the Tongan or Anqi kilns. It is fairly "heavily-potted" and coated in a yellowish-green qingbai type of glaze, save for the foot that remains unglazed showing the pale porcelaneous body...
A rare Song dynasty longquan celadon censer with fish handle, rounded side with deep center and unglazed foot ring, censer is covered with crackle green celadon glaze, two handle attribute to fish motif on the side.
Condition : Restored to the missing part.
Measure : Size: 7 cm height.
A museum quality koro covered in soft pink glaze decorated with chickens in raised relief surmounted with a woven silver lid by Kiyomizu Rokubei enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is 4-1/2 inches (11 cm) diameter and in excellent condition. For a piece decorated in the same style see the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
Kiyomizu Rokubei V (1875-1959) began by studying painting from the age of 12 under the 19th century master Kono Bairei...