Description: A Qingbai box with cover which decorated as a mandarin duck was painted with splashed russet glaze. In pale blue hue, beautiful crackles spread all over the surface.
Date: Southern Song (1127-1279)
Height: 5.5cm
Condition: Touch-ups had been done only on the glaze in two parts separately at the rims of basin and cover.
Description: A Rare Yaozhou Baby of 12th century was excavated with obvious evidence of adhesives. With sophisticated olive-green glaze, the lying Song baby survived over 800 years and still reflected the restraint glaze glamour the excavated piece always have. For anyone who are searching for Chinese early porcelain's figurines shall never spare a museum piece like this.
Date: Northern Song dynasty (12th century)
Length: 5.9cm
Condition: Perfect.
Provenance: Johnson Lemon
Description: This ancient jade plaque with incursions caused probably by metal chemicals was kept well under earth for almost 3000 years. From the drilling holes on two ends, we can be sure that this plaque was used to be fastened with cloth or with identical jade plaques to form a funeral jade cloths for deceased people.
Date: Western Zhou Dynasty (BC1121-BC771)
Length: 3.7cm Width: 2.0cm
Description: An old seal was made of nephrite white jade. Carved on the nob with motif of a crouching Chi-long, this jade was deliberately dyed black in part with traditional skills(Lao-ti-yuo) which was commonly used in Chinese old jades. With greasy slippery feel, this old jade was most likely being fastened under Chinese scholar's clothing and caressed within palms instead of being considered as a seal material...
Description: This greenish jade plaque was supposedly used as a mounting piece on a clothing or a leather outfit. On the reverse side inlay drill was obvious.
With the type of the crouching horse and the material of the greenish jade used to make the plaque, it was dated as a relic of Yuan dynasty (13th century)
Length: 6.7cm
Date: Yuan Dynasty (13th century)
Description: A traditional Chinese religious sculpture was in a image of Louhan and was preserved with original paints and gold leaf. Date: 14th-15th Century.
Material: Wood.
Height: 44cm Width: 26cm Depth: 19cm
Condition: Overall in good condition except some wear at the lower part of the torso. Stand, part of left palm and religious weapon holding in the right hand were lost .
Description: A beautiful scene describes a pair of fowls playing in a garden amid flowers and weeds. With flouring brush strokes, this blue and white porcelain plate reveals the true spirits of traditional Chinese paintings.
Date: Early Qing Dynasty (18th Century)
Material: Porcelain
Width: 10.4cm
Condition: perfect except one minute chip on the rim.
Description: An unique tea caddy like this piece was made with an extraordinary wood trunk which is in a scholar rock's shape and was framed with pewter. It is a display piece as well as a tea holder.
Date: Qing Dynasty (19th Century) Height: 14cm
Condition: good with original lid when some glue work had been done to the pewter cap for restoration.
Description: An adorned wood female lion was carved in Ming dynasty. Stepping on a cup who lies upward, this lion grinned fiercely. She should had been paired with a male lion who stepping on a scroll ball and all were placed before a shrine as guarding beasts. It is an exact
example of Ming lion and of an 400 years old wood piece for dating.
Material: Camphor Wood.
Date: Ming Dynasty (15th Century)
Condition: Good with left paint and obvious crackles due to age.
Height: 13cm
Description: A fantastic boxwood carving of a court lady was carved by famous contemporary artist Won Du-Fun in 1990s. As a registered national honoured artist, Won made numerous works of art which had been collected by the national galleries and museums. A certificate is accompanied with the fine piece. A custom-made silk box is included. Condition: The stem of the flower was once broken and had been re-stuck back. Height: 32cm. .
Description: A gilt-bronze Buddha figure was casted in 10th-12th century at northern China. Small but delicately carved with good quality bronze , this item has dark shining patina which yields the enduring age. The typical facial expression of Liao Dynasty further makes us to believe the date is for sure. The last picture shown is a grand piece from Shang-hai Museum of China.
Condition: Between the robe's pleats, traces of gilt gold is still revealing.
Height: 8cm
Description: A beautiful De-Hua porcelain figure was made in early Qing dynasty.
By the symptoms and styles the Guanyin was molded and carved, it was supposedly came from Tang-kiln which was named after palace porcelain official Tang-Yin, he was authorized to build the kiln by emperor Yonzhen.
Date: 17th-18th Century.
Height: 14.2cm
Condition: perfect condition except one minor defect on the tip of the left hand's pointer finger.
Note: A series number was written by an old collector on the ...
Description: A beautiful molded and sculpted porcelain brush holder in a shape of thorns was kept intact from 17th century of Qing Dynasty.
Condition: Perfect with natural firing crackles.
Provenance: Jingdezhen.
Height:13.5cm Width: 8cm(top)
Description: This bronze Luohan figure was casted in artistic way. Contemplative and
sophisticated expression was shown to yield
the religious effects.
Date: Qing Dynasty (AD18th century)
Material: Bronze
Description: In simple and plain shape, this celadon jar was kept with original lid.
Fine glaze are all over the surface, it is an ideal holder for aged Oolong tea.
Date : Ming Dynasty(AD15th-16th Century)
Width:12.3cm Height:13.2cm
Description: A rare sandstone sculpture of Luohan of The Five Dynasty was reserved perfectly before excavation. Some original paint left on the surface can be seen obviously...
Description: An 18th century incense utensil holder was made by an original piece of Zi-Tan wood ...
Description: A short greenish white jade brush pen was kept well with original brush hair and original cap. It was supposedly used as a pocket utensil which was fastened with a cord when
traveling.
Date: Qing Dynasty (19th century)
Length: 11.8cm Width: 1.2cm
Red Cinnabar Lacquer Carved Tray Plate, 19th Century
The plate is 5 inches by 7 inches wide.
It is in good condition with no repairs, chips, or cracks.
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Description:This superb glazed bowl was made in the Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 906). The bowl has been glazed in a yellowish glaze with the freely-drawn design in green and brown glazes.
Diameter 15 cm.
Condition: There is a tiny chip to the rim and the four areas of brown flaking glaze to the sides have been touched up .An unique example very rarely offered for sale.
Similar example was seen at the book of
"The Chinese Potters' Exploration of Iron Oxide Glazes".
Description: A beautiful Jun shard with splashed purple glaze was delicately framed by mortised and tenoned Zitan wood in a shape of a lotus leaf. Designed with silver wire for the veins of the leaf, this snuff dish was added more on the elegancy.Date: Qing dynasty (AD18th-19th century)
Material: Zitan wood and Jun shard.
Length: 7.5cm Height: 1.4cm (stand not included)
Gilded Lacquered Wood Carved Quan Yin, 19th Century
She is 8.5 inches (21.5cm) tall by 6 inches (15.2cm) wide.
She is in good condition with no repairs, or chips, except she is missing two fingers and accessories at the back of her headdress, cracks and peeling at the back of her head and base (as seen in the photos).
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Description: " In the relics of Shang-Ging Hui-Ning-Fu of Jin Dynasty, the big amounts of findings were bronze mirrors, then were these small bronze figurines.......". It was the first paragraph of an article which was put on Zhongguo Wenwu Bao (31 may 1998)-an official publication of China...
Description: The interior of this rare ware was painted with a white slip and then dipped in a dark black-brownish glaze to form a six-petal design with a central six-pointed star. A marvelous piece always fetched high price in international auctions.
Date: Tang Dynasty(AD9-10th century).
Diameter: 14.5cm Height: 4.0cm
Condition: Glaze is beautiful except two small before- excavation chips on the back surface.
Description: A pair of bronze plaques were chased with decoration of deity (or scholar)
, cranes, turtles, birds and garden rocks which were all typical images in Chinese Taoist culture. An excavation item which dated as Tang dynasty is shown for reference.
Date: AD10th-12th Century
Material: Gilt-Bronze
Description: It is a small but rare piece made from 1000 years ago. Carved in a delicate way, two of the wild geese twisted their necks intimately. This pendant was expressed in a typical nomadic atmosphere
of ancient northern China.
Date: Liao Dynasty (AD916-1234)
Material: Steatite
Width: 2.1cm Depth: 1.0cm Height: 1.7cm
Description: This amber pendant was excavated at the site of the past Liao empire (AD916-1234) in northern China. With the esthetics of exotic atmosphere, the pendant was in a shape of two wild geese twisting their necks. Two holes were drilled in the middle for fastening. Enduring at least
1000 years under the earth, this amber pendant survived almost intactly only with a minor chip on one of the wild geese's head...
Description: This small and rare jade pendant is in a shape of two wild geese who twisting their necks in an intimate way.It was typically a common subject in the nomadic tribe's folk art of northern China. With ingenuity of the nomadic style and the related references-see last three pictures, this rare piece was testified for it's authentication.
Date: Liao Dynasty (AD916-1234)
Material: Nephrite
Width: 2.3cm Height: 1.4cm Depth: 1.0cm
Condition: Good
Description: An elegant Chinese scholar box was made of a whole block of Suan-Zhi wood, simple and plain but with beautiful aged patina.
Date: Late 18th century
Condition is Good but with some cracks inside the bottom due to age.
Description: It is a small but very rare museum piece of Tang Dynasty. Exquisitely sculpted in beautiful and strenuous way, the Lokapala still shows his strength after over 1000 years with shining gold glamour.
Material: Gilt-bronze Date: Tang Dynasty (AD 8th-10th century) Height: 7.5cm Width: 3.6cm
Condition: Good
Description: A bamboo carved pendant in a shape of an inkstone with grove decoration is a small piece with ingenuity.
Material: Bamboo
Date: Late Qing period
Length: 5cm Width: 3.5cm Depth: 1.5cm
Condition: Perfect
Description: Fish is a lucky symbol in Chinese culture. This jade fish was uniquely
sculpted adding with wings which was solely seen from the excavations of northern nomadic tribes .The custom was unknown. The incursions was so clear as being judged an excavated old piece. The original drilling hole testify that it was for decoration use.
Material: Nephrite
Date: Liao Dynasty(AD12th-13th Century.)
Length: 4.5cm Height:2.5cm Depth:0.5cm
Condition: Perfect
Description: Although jade is found in various areas in the world, Chinese people valued it even more than gold and silver for thousands of years. This Scholar's object was made of grey nephrite in elegant shape and proportion.
The inscription of poems corresponding with
the scenery made it much more a piece of art.
Date: Qing Dynasty
Length: 10.0cm Width: 10.0cm Height: 4.0cm
Condition: Perfect
(A bronze spoon is included)
Pair Blue & White Moon Vase with Street Scene, 19th Century
The pair is 8 inches (20.5 cm) tall, and 5.45 inches (13.5 cm) wide.
They are in good condition with no repairs, chips, or cracks, except manufacture defect of minor skip glaze and firing cracks at the beasts and body (as seen in the photos).
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Chinese fan painting on paper by Zhu Meicun (born 1911) depicting a solitary figure at the lower right seated among rockery and pines. The left side of the fan bears the artist's signature and red seal. The painting is dated above the signature in Chinese cycle years summer of "ping xu" (1946). The fan painting has been silk mounted. The painting itself measures about 9 1/4"V x 20"H (mounting size: 16 3/8"V x 22 7/8"H)...
19th century (Qing Dynasty) Chinese Manchu style robe embroidered in gold couched threads highlighted in copper and blue-grey metallic threads with 8 visible 5-clawed dragons, plus one hidden dragon on the inside flap, depicted in full-face and profile poses against a blue ground. Each dragon is chasing a flaming pearl (symbolizing the Buddhist notion of enlightenment) and is surrounded by clouds and various auspicious symbols...
18th Century Chinese Bamboo Carved Brush Holder Lady & Stag
The brush holder is 5.25 inches tall by 2.75 inches in diameter.
It is in good condition with no repairs or cracks, except small chip at the foot (as seen in the photos).
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Extraordinary 19th century (Qing Dynasty) Chinese Manchu style silk robe embroidered in polychrome and gilt metallic threads with 8 visible 5-clawed dragons, plus one hidden dragon on the inside flap, depicted in full-face and profile poses against a blue ground. Each dragon is chasing a flaming pearl (symbolizing the Buddhist notion of enlightenment) and is surrounded by clouds and various auspicious symbols...
19th Century Chinese Bamboo Carved 8 Immortal Man Carry Fan
The man is 12 inches tall by 4 inches in diameter.
He is in good condition with no repairs, except minor chips and cracks (as seen in the photos).
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19th Century Chinese Bamboo Carved 8 Immortal Boy with Flute
The boy is 12.5 inches tall by 3.25 inches wide.
He is in good condition with no chips, cracks, or repairs, except missing tassel (as seen in the photos).
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Large Chinese Apple Green Jade Water Buffalo Carry Linchi
The buffalo is 3.75 inches tall, and 5.5 inches in length. It weighs 2.6 pounds.
It is in good condition with no repairs, chips, or cracks.
It pass the hard knife scratching test and guarantee to be jade.
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Large Old (1940's) Chinese Wood Carved Quan Yin
The quan yin is 17 inches tall without base, and 6.5 inches wide.
It is in good condition with no repairs, except a chip at the edge of her robe and cracks (as seen in the photos).
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Qing Dynasty Chinese Manchu style summer silk gauze robe decorated in copper colored metallic threads with a brocade pattern featuring 8 visible 5-clawed dragons, plus one hidden dragon on the inside flap, depicted in full-face and profile poses against a blue ground. Each dragon is chasing a flaming pearl (symbolizing the Buddhist notion of enlightenment) and is surrounded by clouds and various auspicious symbols. The dragon's eyes are accented in black and white. An embroidered panel surrou...
An absolutely stunning large Chinese carving of a Buddhist Rakan (Arhat or Arahat), the emaciated figure wrapped in billowing robes with a hand scroll clutched in his bony right fist. The detail in the hairs around his face is incredible. The holy figure is chiseled from Ryuganki (dragons eye wood) and comes enclosed in a box dated 1922, likely the year it came to Japan, and is signed by the then owner. The Rakan is one who has broken the chain of re-birth and overcome the three poisons of de...
19th Century Chinese Bronze Peach Shape Incense Burner with 3 Monkey
The censer is 4 inches tall, and 4.5 inches wide.
It is in good condition with no repairs, chips, dents, or cracks.
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Old (1930's) Chinese Export Gilt Porcelain Happy Seated Buddha
It is 5.75 inches tall, and 4 inches wide.
It is in good condition with no chips, nor cracks, except repaired at his foot (replaced toes and gold), and glued back at the edge of his robe (as seen in the photos).
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This is a classic 19th century Chinese rose medallion vase, of baluster form with gilt fu-dog ring handles and painted with brightly colored alternating reserves of figures and flowers; condition: damage to one ring handle; measurement: 14 _ in.
18th Century Sino-Tibetan Gilt Bronze 11 Heads 8 Arms Buddha
It is 6.25 inches tall, and 4 inches wide.
It is in good condition with no repairs, chips, nor cracks, except the bottom enclosure has has a small gap (as seen in the photos).
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Late 19th Century Chinese Robbin's Egg Glaze Brush Washer
The brush washer is 1.5 inches tall, and 4.25 inches in diameter.
It is in good condition with no repairs, chips, nor cracks.
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Large 16th Century Chinese Ming Dynasty Bronze Buddha
The buddha is 16.5 inches tall, and 13 inches wide.
It is in good condition with no repairs, chips, nor cracks.
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18th Century Chinese Tibetan Gilt Copper Repousse Dancing Buddha
It is 13.5 inches tall, and 4.25 inches wide.
It is in good condition with no repairs, chips, nor cracks, except rubbing of gold, small dents at the hair, back of head, arms, and small holes (probably for accessories), and missing accessories at the arms - all as seen in the photos.
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Large 19th Century Chinese Export Rose Medallion, Blue and Gold Fitzhugh Bottle Vase
The vase is 14 inches tall, and 8.5 inches wide.
It is in good condition with no cracks, except a repair at the rim. It was a small chip that has been repaired. There is a slight color variation at that area but not noticeable. Please see the photo. There is also chip at the inside foot rim, and minor rubbing of gold (as seen in the photos).
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19th Century Chinese Pair of Gilt Bronze Cloisonne Kilin
The pair is 6.75 inches tall, and 9.5 inches in length (measure without stand).
They are in good condition with no repairs, chips, nor cracks.
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19th Century Chinese Blanc De Chine Dehwa Quan Yin Signed
The quan yin is 6 inches tall, and 3.5 inches wide (all measure without stand).
It is in good condition with no repairs, chips, nor cracks.
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17th Century Chinese Silk Painting Man with Bag and Chirography
The painting is 12 inches by 17.25 inches wide.
It is in good condition with no repairs, except stain (as seen in the photos).
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This is a Meissen Armorial Plate, marked with crossed swords for ca. 1763-1774; an armorial shield with a stag motif surrounded by scattered small floral sprigs and bouquets and a gilt rim; no chips, cracks or losses; 9 _" diam.
This is a small Chinese Blanc de Chine libation cup, incised character mark at base, carved and molded with flowering prunus and animals; 2 _" high, 4" wide.
This is a Chinese Blanc de Chine libation cup, on a stand of molded branches, the exterior carved and molded with flowering prunus branches; 3 " high, 5" wide.
This is a Chinese blue and white stem cup, Yongzheng mark, decorated with borders of animals and foliage; mint condition; 4" diam.
This is a Chinese export blue and white miniature bottle vase, Kandxi period, unmarked, decorated with floral cartouches and bands of leaves; hairline crack at rim; 5" high.
