A Junyao cup was in Beautiful oval shape and was applied on the surface with a stroke of purple splash.
Similar piece is found in the book Alchemy in Blue,Ancient Jun-Ware from the Yip Collection. Published by University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong.(相關物件請參考香港中文大學出版‘紫艷擬青’)

Date: Song/Jing periods, 11th/12th centuries.

Width:8.7cm,
Height:4.7cm

A custom-made cotton box is included.

A Chinese powder blue baluster vase with a flared mouth over a short neck. The sides with a design of a incised four claw dragon chasing a flaming pearl. The tapering sides flared at the foot. The stepped base is plain. Vases of this period with this type of design are rare.

Size: Approximately 21-1/2 cm high by 12 cm diameter

Condition: The base has a crack and there is a possibility that the top may have been ground down...

A very unusual pale yellow-green (kiji) porcelain vase in the shape of a Chinese Gu by Seiji Celadon master Suwa Sozan enclosed in the original signed wooden box. Fretwork and a roiling dragon body have been softly engraved into the sides; the slightest variation in tone the only hint to the subtle design-work. The vase is 11-1/2 inches (29 cm) tall, 6 inches (15 cm) diameter and in fine condition...

Vertical oban depicting a fox attacking a man and child by Utagawa Yoshiiku (1833-1904). A three-eyed ghost gazes menacingly at the scene from the upper right corner. The banner at the top, which is being held by a flying angel, reads "#445 from the Tokyo Daily News." The date of "8th month of Meiji 6" (1873) appears in the right portion of the calligraphic description of the scene taking place. Newspapers, which were introduced into Japan in 1870, became very popular in the Meiji Period...

Rare Chinese Tang Dynasty Stoneware Jar with Cover

This "heavily-potted" stoneware jar, complete with its original cover, was made during the Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 906). Like most Tang jars, its form is particularly pleasing. The finely-crackled transparent pale olive-green glaze is quite "streaky" and coats around the upper three-quarters of the outer surface, as well as the cover. The lower body remains unglazed showing the white stoneware body...

Edo Period Japanese woodblock print triptych by Kunisada (also known as Toyokuni III) illustrating a scene from the 1951 kabuki production "Genji Moyo Furisode Hinagata" (Dress Patterns in Genji Style). The scene is set in a meadow and features in the left panel the actor Ichikawa Danjuro VIII in the role of the handsome protagonist Lord Ashikaga Jiro (Mitsuuji) engaged in a sword fight...

Description:

An ancient paper weight and also a lucky charm for the nomadic people was from the fossil of an antelope's patella.
By a long history, GaHaLa, the patella of animals like rams, tigers or antelopes were revered as tokens of good luck.
Different materials like jade, ivory, turquoise all have been carved into the shape of this animal's bone and were used as lucky charms for wearing.

The unique item here, it was a real bone fossil from an antelope's patella...

A fine celadon dish, covered overall with blue green glaze to the base, very rare colour for celadon and absolutely suitable for collector pieces. Song dynasty 12th-13th century Longquan ware. Short firing crack about 0.5cm it only appears in outside and viewable on enlargement 7, otherwise is perfect, no other crack, no chips and no restored. Diameter: 12.7 cm and High: 4.6cm.

A good blue & white bowl, well balance potted and decorated with double blossoms of chrysanthemum scroll. Ming dynasty 15th century interregnum period Jingtai-Thianshun ware. Condition is perfect except a bit flaw or a kiln chip to the rim, otherwise is excellent. Diameter: 14.2cm and High: 6.5cm

This is a very rare and highly desirable Changsha kiln 9th century Tang Dynasty bird water dropper. Usually these are characterized by such components such as under-glazed yelow-brownish and green motifs with molded design in relief, appliqué designs or impressed designs in relief and also incised or carved designs. The unique feature of the water dropper is the olive/brown glaze that is more like yue ware, but the paste and glaze is actually one of the rarest Changsha kiln products that exist...

Width: 22.5cm, Height: 20cm, Depth: 16cm.

Chinese Ming Dynasty Longquan Celadon Tripod Censer

This attractive and quite rare three-footed censer was made during the 14th / 15th century most likely at the Longquan kilns, Zhejiang province. The wide body stands on three short integral feet. Incised bands encircle the mouth and base. It is coated in a finely-crackled celadon glaze of good colour save for areas on the inner surface and base where the unglazed pale brown porcelaneous body is revealed.

Diameter 12 cm...

CEMETERY DRAWING

Old paper scroll of hand-drawn cemetery layout of a Buddhist temple called Kokyu-ji in Indian ink, with detailed information including the dead person's name and date, and the location of Jizo, tree, and path, ordered by a village officer named Kakigi Sanjuro in May 8th, Tempo 11 (1840) during the Edo period. All extended: approx. 130 x 51.5 cm (51.18 x 20.27in). Some stains and rips due to aging as is...

A black terracotta Buddha amulet in the sitting position in-cased in a stainless steel case from Thailand. Age; Pre 1900 or earlier. Size: H. 3cm. Condition: No repairs.

Description:
A Jianyang hares-fur bowl was in decent conical shape and was in good size.
It obtained all the characteristics for verification.

Date: Southern Song Dynasty, 1127-1279,

Width: 15.6cm.

A CUSTOM-MADE COTTON BOX IS INCLUDED.

Wild chrysanthemum rise along a brief poem on the cream-colored sides of these Tokkuri by Seifu Yohei enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Seizan Sakabin. They are 15 cm (just under six inches) tall and in excellent condition. There is a pre-firing imperfection in the rim of one of the Tokkuri.
Seifu Yohei I (1803-1861) founded the Seifu dynasty in Kyoto. He was born in powerful Kaga-kuni, modern day Kanazawa prefecture...

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. Momoyama to early Edo period, they are 37.5 x 47 cm (15 x 18-1/2 inches) each and would be fabulo...

Fine Chinese Han Dynasty Green & Yellow Glazed Small Pottery Jar

This attractive pottery jar was made during the Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220). It is in the form known as a hu and is fairly "heavily-potted". It is made from quite high-fired reddish pottery. The entire outer surface, including the flat base, has been coated in a streaky green glaze. This is a well-known type although most examples are coated only with a green glaze whereas the inside mouth of this example has been coated in a...