The front of this Tibetan wooden snuff bottle is covered with silver repousse ornamentation. The back is surface is also silver.
The bottle is 5 inches x 4 inches x 2.5 inches.
A top quality and very old shamanic phurba, deep carving , black encrusted thick patina, small metal knifes , horn and board teeth on top
More information on request , great condition.
H 30 cm
Superb carving work figuring a Raktsatsa (devil) masks, few old wounds, hard wood, old reddish color, from the first half of the 20th
H 25 cm
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The rectangular copper plaque with nicely rendered and detailed repousse decoration and chased details of three Bodhisattvas atop a central zodiacal medallion flanked by Apsaras and supported by two lotus roundels - one with trigrams and the other a lotus blossom with rich, impressed sanskrit. Other decoration throughout including large stylized sanskrit, small sanskrit labeling figures and narrating devices and the whole, and various tantric symbols...
A large Korean Buncheong (Pun-Chong) pottery bottle from the Joseon period (16th-17th century) covered in a creamy white glaze decorated on the flat sides with exaggerated floral scrolls on a dark ground; carved ringlets filled with dark slip on the sides. Color built up over the centuries fills the crackled glaze. The foot ring is rough with sand and excess glaze, and occasional windows in the glaze about the foot reveal the dark clay beneath...
Skull mask , obvious signs of a good age at least early 20th, hard wood, H 21 cm Further information on request.
Tibetan wooden prayer beads with three glass coral colored beads as separators from Lhasa. There are 108 beads. The wooden beads are made from the wood of the Bodhi tree where Buddha received his enlightenment.
Size: Total Length 30cm. Condition: No repairs
A fine small figure , very hard black wood
H 31 cm , mounted on a metal base
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An Old group of Bodhi wooden prayer beds made from the wood of the Bodhi tree where Buddha received his enlightenment. These beads were purchased in Lhasa many years ago.
Condition: No repairs. Size: 42 cm.
A fine, early Joseon dynasty, deep Punchong bowl with gracefully everted rim and on tall ring foot. White slip inlaid decoration in the cavetto of chrysanthemum blossoms, surrounded by a lotus-petal band, surrounded in turn by rope-curtain decoration continuing to multiple rings inside the rim. The outside brush-wiped with white slip and an olive colored glaze over the slip and body - pooling in places. The unglazed foot fired to a grey-brown color...
When carefully examined, the shaped body of this antique ceremonial Tibetan snuff container appears to be animal horn. Decorated with silver and bronze fittings, coral, turquoise and agate beads, this snuff bottle or more accurately, snuff container would have been worn suspended from a chain as a costume ornament by a shaman. It was purchased in Kunming from a Tibetan woman who was there selling her family treasures...
Description: A beautiful Longquan bowl was kept in perfect condition. In fantastic celadon glaze, light whitish incursions was dispersed around the mouth rim and at the foot rim. When potted heavily of the body, carved motifs were in the the middle of the cavetto and around the outer surface. A good Ming ware with typical shape can be ideally used in a practical way. Date: Ming Dynasty(15th Century)
Width: 16cm Height: 7.0cm
Description:
A Qingbai cup stand was preserved in perfect condition.
In straw glaze, the ware was yielded with immense crackles verifying its age.
It is a nice item suitable for a lovely tea bowl.
Date: Southertn Song Dynasty, 12th Century.
Provenance: Fujiang Province, China.
largest Width: 10cm.
Description:
A set of five tea cup holders(Cha Tuo) were in beautiful lotus-leaf's shape. Well cast and nicely carved, the basins will suit every tea cups in serene tea ceremony.
Enduring old patina was preserved on the surface.
A manufacturer's signature Qian-Mao-Hao-Zao was inscribed at the bottom.
Date: Qing Dynasty, 19th century.
Material: Tin.
Width:11.7cm
Description: Walnut carving was a typical Chinese craftsmanship. From late Ming until now, this skill was treasured by Chinese people. It has been a miniature art for hundreds of years. In a clear cut way this hard kernel was carved
as a deity of longevity who was favored by Chinese people. Holding on the right hand with a staff and the left hand a Peach of Longevity, he was accompanied by a boy attendant and a crane...
Description:
A black-glazed covered box was molded with an interesting motif of butterfly on the surface.
The box was an excavated piece obtaining with obvious evidences of burial earth and whitish incursions in the glaze.
Some similar boxes were in the book of (The Collection of Chinese Box), a book of a famed connoisseur and antique dealer,Ma Wei-Du.
Date: Tang Dynasty, 618-907
Provenance: Henan province.
Width: 7.2cm...
Description:
A handled cup was in unique marbled glaze.
In shining brownish tint and darken strips, the cup was delicately mold in very thin wall and was intentionally to copy the metal wares of the periods. It was not uncommon for ceramic production of that periods.
Persian cultures had influenced the Tang's by the flourish trading traffics between the middle and near eastern nations...
Description: A white glazed incense burner from northern China of 14th to 15th Century
was in elegant shape. Kept in perfect condition except with some frets on the glaze, the surface of the tripod censer was separated with 4 parts. Light key-fret imprints were applied on the surface of the middle sector. Date: 14th-15th Century(late Yuan to early Ming) Width: 12cm Height: 8.4cm
Condition: Perfect except some frets on the surface.