A fine antique Japanese Ivory Netsuke of a Buddha and a Shishi or Foo lion by his side. Meiji era circa 1890 in very nice condition some wear and a very nice patina. Measuring 4 centimeters or 1 3/4 inches tall. A very fine example.

A carved wooden figure, coloured with red ochre, of a long-nosed male mythological spirit figure. This item was made circa 1940-1970 and originates from the Lower Sepik River area in Papua New Guinea. Condition - very good - there is a split at the back along the line of the spine 9see enlargement no. 8) but no damages or losses. 20cm (8inches) high.

Description: A circular storage or seal paste box was made of precious Zitan wood. By a whole block of wood, the box was well shaped and hollowed. In a sturdy condition, the cover can be turned to match the basin tightly. Enduring old patina was yielded on the surface. Date: Qing Dynasty(late 19th century) Width: 9.3cm Height: 7cm.

A later Meiji period two panel screen, Pigment on silk, signed Hosen (Usui Hosen) dating 1900-1910. Shunkei lacquer frame with cloth backing. Quintessential for the era, the scene is brushed in an abbreviated style, allowing the viewer to participate by completing the details. Muted colors and the lack of hard lines lend the screen an ethereal quality, as if recalled from a distant memory...

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A brown-glazed Yuhuchun vase was in elegant form.
Well mold and being carved on the surface with affluent floral motifs, the vase was preserved in a perfect condition when enduring old crackles were spread immensely under the glaze.
Slight incursions were caused to the glaze and revealed by whitish tint.

Date: Yuan Dynasty,13th/14th century.

Provenance: Yaozhou kiln.

Height: 23.3cm.

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Blue and White Bowl with flower scroll in the exterior and mark in the center. W = D = Ming Dynasty Condition : Restoration to the minor fritting on the rim, no cracks, no hairlines.

Rare and fine Blue and White Kendi mounting with silver and phoenix decoration. H=22 cm D=17 cm Kangxi Periode Condition : mounting with silver, no chips, cracks or hairlines.

Kangxi blue and white Saucer D=10.5 cm, condition small glaze frit on the back. Late Qing BW Cup, D=8.5 cm H=4 cm, perfect condition. Late Qing BW jar D=4 cm H=5 cm, perfect condition.

These jars have measure heght from 5 cm to 6.5 cm. Condition : Six lobed jar has some frits on the botttom and body. The others are perfect condition.

Celadon covered box decorated with twin phoenix, ungalzed base with mark. D= 9.5 cm H=4 cm. Song Dynasty. Condition : firing crack.

Description: A Jun tripod censer was applied with beautiful bluish glaze. Well mold with three regularly separated feet, the censer was in a decent look when some incursions were happened between the glaze and the body clay at the bottom. The darken body clay revealed at the bottom was a strong characteristic for the Jun wares from Yuan periods. Enduring old reflection was obvious in the cavetto of the censer...

Description: A blue-glazed tea bowl from Jun kiln was well mold in a decent look. Being applied with light bluish glaze all over the surface only stop nearing to the foot ring, the bowl was decorated characteristically by some splashes of purple glaze in the cavetto and on the outer surface. Subtly rendered under firing in the kiln, the charming glaze effects were harmonized to the blue glaze by the crackled and fish-scales like condition...

Description: An elegant round basin was subtly made to imitate the famous Song’s Ge ware. By a decent profile of a round mouth rim and the steep but slightly curved wall, the scholar water basin was applied with light yellowish glaze on the surface. In the glaze which was reflected with retrospective reflection, charming crackles were yielded immensely all over the surface. It was the unique esthetics for treasuring the rare Ge ware of 11th-12th century...

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An olive-shape Jizhou vase was applied with beautiful tortoiseshell glaze all over the surface.
By characteristic flat bottom, the buff-tinted body clay was revealed in the soft-feel quality.
They were the characteristics for Jizhou wares.
Upon the glaze being well preserved in a very good condition, the immensely spread crackles were yielded with pinpoint holes which caused from incursions.
It is rare to find a Jizhou bottle in such good condition...

Qianlong celadon vase with three lugs. Measure H=22 cm Qianlong Period Condition hairline encircling the neck.

Description: A beautiful Qingbai incense burner was mold in a stylized shape.
By an everted foot and with hollowed –out cloud patterns being decorated, the box was intriguingly covered by a reticulated cover.
It was obviously an porcelain copy from a metal prototype-which was commonly seen from the heritage of Tang dynasty when the Persia culture were affluent.
It was in perfect condition only with some incursions along the rims.
And the excavation earth was preserved for verif...

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...

Exceptional rendering of the character Moon by one of Zens most important 20th century leaders Yamada Mumon. The ink on paper image is framed in patterned copper silk and features black lacquer wooden rollers. Some faint staining, the scroll measures 17-1/2 x 59 inches (44 x 150 cm) and is in excellent condition, enclosed in a kiri-wood box...

Description: A Jun lotus-bud bowl was in a lovely size.
By a fine condition, the bowl was applied with dark mustard-blue glaze which was hard being yielded precisely in my pictures.
It was an excavation piece that can be clearly verified by those characteristics, like the minute whitish dots happened to the glaze bubbles, the fine crackles, the incursive whitish band around the rim where the glaze meeting with the body clay and the old-feel brownish body clay at the bottom where the mold...

Blue and white cover box, export porcelain. Date : Kangxi (1644-1722) period. Size Diameter 10 cm. Height 5 cm Condition : Perfect, no chips, cracks, hairlines or retorations

Decorated with flower spray on the body and brown lip on the rim. Kangxi 1662-1722 Height= 5 cm. Perfect condition : no chips, craks, hairlines and free from restorations.

A ribbed box decorated with a flower on the lid. Myng Dynasty 16th Century Diameter = 9 cm Condition : a very tiny frittings on the lid, no chips, cracks, hairlines and free from restorations.

 

Decorated with flower sprays on the body. Unglaze concave base. Transitional 1644-1661 Height=11 cm. Condition : restoration to frittings on the rim, no chips, cracks, and hairlines.

Decorated with moulded flower spray on the body and two lugs on the shoulder. Unglaze base. Yuan dynasty 1279-1368 Longquan kilns, Zhejiang. Height = 5 cm. Condition : one in perfect condition, other with two small fritings on the base.

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A Cizhou brown-glazed tea bowl was decorated in the cavetto with striking russet markings which in vibrant radiating form.
By a fine profile, the bowl was mold in a feature of yan-kou wan bearing with an indented lip.
Standing firmly by a well shaped foot, the bowl was preserved in a perfect condition when some padding tar was left at the foot ring.
Some incursions were happened to the glaze rim too.
Foggy old condition was reflected in the glaze when the body c...

Celadon charger small dish with incised flower on the center, and key fret scroll. W = 14.5 cm. Qianlong 1736-1795. Condition : Excellent with a very tiny frit on the rim.

Fine yuan longquan celadon jar decorated with impressive two dragon. Yuan Dynasty D=9 cm H= 7cm Excellent condition, a tiny frit on the base and crazying glaze.

Blue and white dish decorated with the symbols making up three concentric circles on the cavetto, Sanskrit characters and mark on the back. Qing Dynasty (19th Century) Fujian ware. D= 19 cm Condition : one hairline, no restoration. Shipping cost USD 35by EMS.

Dish with petal molding on cavetto. Abstract floral motif in the center. Thin reddish iron wash on the base. Width= 13.5 cm. Late 14th-early 15th centuries. Condition : Excellent : no hairline, chip or restoration. Shipping Cost : $ 25

Three covered box : polychrome, blue and white and white glaze. D=5 cm Qing Dynasty Condition : Polychrome covered box is perfect B&W covered box has 1 cm glaze hairline and fritting White glaze covered box has frtting on the cover rim

Qing celadon bowl with excellent glaze and mark on the base. Qing Dynasty D= 13.5 cm H = 6 cm Perfect condition, no chips, cracks, hairlines and free from restoration. Shipping cost USD 35

Blue and White covered box decorated with playing boys, ridding qillin. Qing Dynasty D= 9 cm Perfect condition, no chips, hairlines and free from restorations.

Blanc de chine covered box decorated with beautifull flying crane and clouds. D=9.5 cm H= 5 cm Ming Dynasty Condition : chips on the inner rim and hairline. Shipping cost : USD 25

Famille verte dish decorated with a three. Period : late qing D = 23 cm Condition : PERFECT Shipping Cost : USD 50

Blue & White dish, decorated at interior with two Cabbage. Dating as early qing (1664-1795). Found in Kotabaru, South Kalimantan Indonesia. Condition is perfect, no chips, hairlines, cracks or restorations. Porcelain ware. Diameter: 23 cm

A blue & white foliated dish with Qilin on the center, exterior decorated with continuous floral spray. Condition is good, with a star cracks, one tiny chip on the rim but free from any restoration as well. Dating Ming dynasty late 15th century, Thiansun to early Chenghua period. Diameter: 20.8 cm Shipping Cost : USD 35

Description: A Zitan wood carving of a sitting figure was well rendered.
Depicted as a long robed scholar official wearing a an official hat and leaned against a stool, the figure was vividly carved in the features and on the costumes.
In perfect condition, the wood piece was reflected on the surface with enduring old patina.
Date: Qing Dynasty, late 19th century.
Height: 9.5cm. Width: 7.0cm.
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Description: A bronze Karmapa Lama figure was finely cast.
Being preserved rarely with original gilding, this strikingly depicted statue was in sitting posture on a square pedestal.
Fine carving craftsmanship was well rendered in depicting the deity's facial expression in a natural way.
The bottom cover was a later restoration which was not unusual for Tibet bronze pieces.
Date: 16th Century.
Height: 11.9cm, Width: 8.5cm Depth: 6.4cm.
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Blue and White dish, decorated with a pair of Phoenix on flight among flower scroll, all painted under rich and strong cobalt-blue tone, fine glazed also. Character Mark to the base within double circle. Early Ching Kangxi period. Condition : a chip to rim, rim fritting, further in good condition. Diameter: 15 cm and High: 4.5 cm. Shipping cost : USD 30

A quintessential Taisho style painting of a boy in a mystical forest of flowers, pigment on silk by Hoson Reisui (b. 1897). The ethereal image seems not so much to be drawn on the silk, but to eminate from it. The boy too seems as if a sprite living in some fantastical reality. There is a minor water streak opposing on the bottom outside of both panels (near the signature) and some loss to the white gofun petals. Each panel is 34 x 59 inches (86.5 x 149.5 cm) and is in overall fine condition...

Description: A green-glazed Longquan Meiping was mold in a decent size of 31.5cm in height.
Being decorated on the surface with flowing motifs of floral, this Meiping bottle was shaped with broad shoulder, narrowed neck and small mouth rim.
The bottle vase was stand firmly with the well shaped foot ring which was revealed with firing red tint in the unglazed body clay...

Bronze tripod censer with six character mark on the base (Da Ming Xuande Nian Zhi). Diameter : 16 cm Condition : no damage or restoration Ming Dynasty

A finely blue & white dish with abstract phoenix on the center, underside decorated with Emblems and continuous floral spray. Condition is excellent, three tiny frits on the rim, no any chips and cracks, well balance potted with good bright blue tone and free from any restoration as well. Dating Ming dynasty late 15th century, Wanli period. Diameter: 19 cm

Description: What an artistry it is indeed for this 800-years-old Minyao bottle vase which full of strong Zen spirits.
With four leaf-like handles, the vase was mold in oval shape and was applied with buff-tinted glaze on the surface.
Being decorated with circular lines around the body which like the halos around the stars, it was in simple form and owned with serene atmosphere.
Had been produced in one of the Cizhou kilns of northern China in 12th-13th centuries, the bottle was done...

Fine & Rare Chinese Neolithic Pottery Jar

This fine pottery jar was made some 4,000 years ago. Although it was excavated from Gansu province, we are not certain from which Neolithic culture it derives although it is probably a product of the Qijia Culture (c. 2050 - 1700 BC).� It is well-made and quite highly-fired, having a distinct ring when tapped. The lower body has been decorated with an impressed, almost spiral pattern...

Description: A blue-glazed Jun bowl was decorated on the surface with charming purple splash.
In a foggy look, the bowl was endured through long time of burial and was survived in a very good condition.
By a steep wall rising from a small circular foot ring, the bowl was mold in an elegant oval shape.
Incursions was observed on the surface amid with crackles.
Date: Jin/Yuan periods, 12th/13th century.
Width: 17cm, Height: 8cm.
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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

The turret of a lonely outpost rises from the mountain peak formed by this small Japanese scholar rock set into a hand carved wooden base and enclosed in a wooden box titled Ko jinkaku (Small Armored Tower). The stone is 7 inches (18 cm) tall, 5 x 3 inches (13 x 8 cm). It likely was put together in the early 20th century.

Description: A rectangular brush-licker was made from a multi-colored pudding stone.
Preserving with fine greasy patina on the surface, the brush-licker was kept in a very good condition except some old abrasions and some original stone defects.
Brush-licker was used for adjusting brush wet when scholars were practicing calligraphy or Chinese brush painting.
In usually-seen flat and simple form, the artistry will always come out of the original beauty of the material itself.
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A Ming dynasty Dehua white glaze cup, rounded side with straight foot ring, cup covered with milky white glaze. It decorated with a flower blue underglazed on the center. Cup is in good condition no chip, no crack, no restoration, there is a airline. Size: 6.5 cm diameter.

Qingbai jar, unglazed concave base. H= 4 cm, D= 7 cm H = 4.7 cm Good condition, a small chip on the rim and a ahirline.

Song white glaze jar, glazed base. H= 6.5 cm, D= 8 cm Condition : a tiny chip on the rim, no lid.

Changsa small saucer, unglazed base.D= 6.5 cm Perfect condition, no chips, hairlines, cracks or restoration

Sancai small duck figurine from Tang Period. H= 3.5 cm cm W= 6 cm Good condition and free from restoration.

Song white glaze small dish, unglazed base. D= 9.5 cm Perfect condition, no chips, hairlines, craks and free from restoration.

Annamese globular Jar with brown glaze, unglazed base. Very thin and light potted. D= 11 cm, H= 7 cm Period : 14 th - 15 th Century Perfect condition, no chips, hairlines, cracks and free from restoration

Yixing figurine decorated with three boys and enamel. H= 12 cm W=11 cm L= 17 cm Perfect condition, no chips, hairlines, craks and free from restoration

Yixing figurine decorated with gods, dragon, phoenix and coins. W = 7 cm L= 13.5 cm H= 12 cm Perfect condition, no chips, hairlines, cracks and free from restoration.

Description: A black-glazed Jianyang tea bowl was in a rarely-seen unique and great look.
In characteristic size and shape, the bowl was authenticated as a sought-after piece as follow:

1, The steep wall, indented lip and well shaped foot ring which revealed with the black-tinted body clay(old –feel) were all combined as typical characteristics for Jianyang bowls glazed in black slip

2,The black glaze applied on the surface was reflected with a foggy look and were ami...