All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1800 item #1037942 (stock #545)
A European shape porcelain spoon tray finely decorated with Famille Rose enamels. This item was made in China for export during the reign of the Qianlong emperor (1736-1795). Condition - very good - no damages and no restoration...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #1037995 (stock #lot795)
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An original Yinqing set of cup and cupstand was in decent look.
They were produced from the famous Hutien kiln of Song Dynasty(960-1279) by top quality craftsmanship.
By hard, thin and eggshell-like wall, the cup was stand by flat bottom which was unglazed and was revealed with chalk-like body clay when characteristic firing tint was yielded within...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #1038660 (stock #lot797)
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A white-glazed plate was stand in high stem foot.
Separated in four sections in the cavetto, the plate was mold by lobed rim which was then by accurate look of imitating the silver counterpart of the same date.
In grayish white tint, the glaze was yielded with subtle incursions which was caused from age.
Motifs of tailing fish and sea waves were decorated in the center of the shallow bowl. They were the other characteristics of the ware from the dated periods...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1910 item #1038988 (stock #lot798)
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A boxwood brushrest was intriguingly made to imitate a piece of bamboo stalk.
In fine brownish patina, the boxwood piece was kept in perfect condition.
It was a joyful piece can be also easily played around the fingers.

Date: Qing Dynasty, late 19th century.

Length: 22.7cm.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1910 item #1039392 (stock #lot799)
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Nuan-Shou, Hand Exercisers were used for palm massage by practicing in one hand. Rolling it to make Qi running through the nerve endings.
The pairs were made from tiger bones.
Enduring old patina was yielded when bone tissues were obviously observed.

It is really fun when practicing them in your hand and hearing the tingling sound.

Date: Qing Dynasty, late 19th century.

Measurements: 4.6cm x 4.2cm x 2.7cm, each.
Weight: 42gram, each. .
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1700 item #1039515 (stock #lot800)
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A gilt silver plaque was well decorated with motifs of QiLinSongZi, a most popular Chinese metaphor of the fairy animal Qilin sending child to the vowing family.
By characteristic Chinese scenes of pagoda, plum trees, Qilin and the figure riding through the water waves, the picturesque scene was well carved and chiseled by excellent craftsmanship.
It was a piece most likely a buckle on the cloth belt. There're old drilling holes on four corners for sewing thread...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1910 item #1039756 (stock #lot801)
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An ivory pendent was carved in double gourd form.
Nicely patinated and in good quality, the ivory pendent was adapted with another ivory bead on top for a nice decoration.

Date: Qing Dynasty, late 19th century.

Measurements: 6.2cm x 3.6cm x 1.5cm.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #1040781 (stock #lot802)
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A Cizhou tea bowl was in good elm bowl's shape.
Well glaze on the surface with russet slip and therefore the intriguing firing effect, the bowl was well shaped on the foot ring with steep wall.
Buff-tinted of the clay, and all other obvious characteristic like the retrospective sheen of the glaze proved the bowl an ancient one.

Date: Jin Dynasty, 12th/13th century.

Width on the mouth rim: 6cm, Height: 5.3cm.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #1041095 (stock #lot803)
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A Ding-Typed porcelain censer was applied with darken brownish nearing black glaze.
Well crackled, the glaze was reflected retrospective sheen for verifying the enduring age.
By shallow profile and stand with three nicely mold feet, the censer was added with two arched loops on the mouth rim.
The paste revealed inside the censer and under the bottom was in light-buff tint and was in soft –feel quality.
A dimpled glaze condition was on the side...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #1042499 (stock #lot805)
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A Jianyang tea bowl was applied with rarely-seen white slip.
Nicknamed as "Butter Bowl" by local collecters by it's yellowish white tint, the bowl was revealed with black-tinted body clay at the bottom.
It was preserved very well when all the necessary characteristics were owned for authentication.
Not easily seen in the documentation, but some are in the Museum of Fujian Province...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #1043423 (stock #lot806)
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A small Junyao cup was well glazed on the surface.
The thick glaze was rolling down on the outer surface and stopped in half way to reveal the rough-feel body clay.
Obvious circular molding scars were left on the body clay when the foot ring was well shaped and stand in somewhat everted angle.
Crackles and incursions to the glaze were observed for easy verification.
One small splash of purplish tint was yielded in the cavetto...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1900 item #1043909 (stock #lot807)
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A natural stone was intriguingly in basin look.
Well designed and firmly sitting on a natural rootwood, it became a perfect water basin for scholar use.
Greasy old feel was yielded on the surface of the stone when the rootwood was in old look too.

Date: Qing dynasty, 19th century.

Width on the bottom, 12.5cm. Height: 8.4cm.

A METAL DIPPER IS INCLUDED.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #1045519 (stock #lot812)
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A Junyao dish was in charming bluish tint when strokes of purple splashes were on the side for decoration.
By nice curving of the surface, and the well defined foot ring, the dish was supposed being used as a brush-licker for adjusting the moisture of the brush hair.
Enduring through the long age, the foggy incursion in beige tint was yielded on the rim and along the rising portion by obvious characteristics.

Date: N. Song Dynasty,960-1127...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #1046446 (stock #lot814)
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A black-glazed Cizhou tea bowl was in decent conical shape.
It was decorated inside the bowl with striking radiating partridge-feather mottles and was stand by a well-shaped foot ring which revealed with off-white body clay.
On portions of the glaze, there
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1900 item #1046933 (stock #lot816)
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A Zitan brush-licker was in vibrant form.
By traditional designs on the patterns of the sea waves, this wood scholar dish was surrounded on the rim with scrolling water.
Purplish oxidation was happened to the surface when grayish deposition was found within the crevices.

Date: Qing Dynasty, 19th Century.

Length: 11.3cm.
Width: 8.5cm.
Height: 3.5cm.

A CUSTOM-MADE SILK BOX IS INCLUDED.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1700 item #1047416 (stock #lot817)
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A rock crystal carving was well depicted as a Guanyin holding a baby.
By characteristically dated features on the faces of the deity and the baby, the figures were well carved on the robes with affluent lines.
The benign facial expression of the Guanyin and the smiling face of the baby were well rendered by excellent traditional craftsmanship.
The rock crystal here was not in pure transparent look...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1910 item #1049954 (stock #lot821)
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A glass brushrest was in beautiful mountain view.
Well mold and was preserved in perfect condition, it was a nice scholar item for resting a brush pen.

Date: Qing Dynasty, late 19th or to early 20th century.

Length: 15cm. Height: 7.4cm.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1910 item #1050155 (stock #lot822)
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A wood brush pen was carved as a stalk of a tree branch.
Nicely rendered carvings were preserved in very good condition when darken patina was yielded on the surface.
By a good size, a brush pen can be the indispensible addition to the collection of Chinese scholar items as it was always being a hard to find item.
And when it was made by nice hardwood material.

Material: Suanzi or DaYei Zitan wood.

Date: Qing Dynasty, lat...