All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #1380556 (stock ##1844)
A small jarlet with brown glazed and teardrops of deep brown glazed. Tang Dynasty Changsha ware. Condition with firing chip to rim and chip to the base, slight degraded glaze to lower part, otherwise is good condition. Height:
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1920 item #1380443 (stock #TCR5095)
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White wisteria (fuji in Japanese) drape from the gilded rim of this Kutani vase signed from the pre-eminent Kaburaki (Kaburagi) studio dating from the opening of the 20th century. The imagery is exquisitely performed with over-glaze enamels on a pastel gray ground. The vase is large at 13 inches (33.5 cm) tall, 8-1/2 inches (22 cm) diameter and is in excellent condition, with some wear to the gold rim.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1920 item #1380405 (stock #WN131)
A pale celadon jade pendant, carved and pierced with a parrot perched on a flowering prunus branch, besides a rock. With matching wooden base. Condition: fine. Dimension: pendant: c. 6.1 cm high x 3.9 cm wide x 0.35 cm thick, height with stand c. 10.5 cm.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1700 item #1380307 (stock ##1842)
A Ming blue and white bowl, decorated with Tibetan characters to interior and exterior. Ming 16th-17th century. Good condition excepted small repaired to rim, no crack. Diameter: 14,6 cm and Height: 6,9 cm.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #1380216 (stock ##1839)
A Celadon Lotus alms bowl with pale brown green glaze. Southern Song Dynasty. Condition is good, excepted invisible repaired small area to rim, otherwise no any crack, found at South Sulawesi Selayar Island. Diameter: 12 cm.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1940 item #1380068 (stock #TCR6753)
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A complex landscape wraps around and climbs up this exquisite porcelain vase by Daimaru Hokuho dating from the early to mid 20th century. It is 13 inches (33 cm) tall and in excellent condition. There is no box.
Hokuho would have been rated in the top 10 porcelain artist of Kyoto, along with Suwa Sozan, Ito Suiko, Ito Tozan, Miyanaga Tozan, Takahashi Dohachi, Seifu Yohei, Kiyomizu Rokubei, Miura Chikusen and Kiyomizu Zoroku, all artists active from the Meiji through the early Showa eras...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #1380062 (stock ##1825)
A nice Jizhou bowl with well balance potted, standing in small high foot and decorated with continuously flower scrolls to exterior and below with diaper pattern. The interior centre with bamboo and diaper pattern surrounded to rim. Late Yuan Dynasty to early Ming period 14th century in very good condition, no any chip, no crack and free from any restoration. Diameter: 15,5cm and Height: 7,5 cm.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Indian Subcontinent : Himalayas : Pre 1950 item #1379750 (stock #HP/MA769)
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This mask was made using a milk pot fragment, the noose has been added. A superb old black soot patina both inside and out side indicate a long use at least from early mid 20th. H 23 wide 16 cm More information on request
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Indian Subcontinent : Himalayas : Pre 1920 item #1379720 (stock #HP/Ph769)
Very old black encrusted patina , the top shows 3 carved anthropomorphic faces. H 24 cm , great age at least from the 19th More information on request
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Indian Subcontinent : Himalayas : Pre 1920 item #1379719 (stock #HP/PH768)
An antique shamanic phurbu , showing all the animist motives on the triangular blades, snakes interlaces, sun , moon holly vase and Makara mouth, the middle part is a dorge deeply carved , the top is square and shows 4 ancestor faces acting as protectors of the shaman and as guardian of the four directions. Total H 24 cm super glossy and deep black patine, important age at least from 19th. presented on a iron stand
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1900 item #1379487
Pair of tall Chinese famille verte enamel tapered square form porcelain vases molded with relief decoration of the eighteen immortals among clouds set against a pierced ground. A rust-red 5-clawed dragon wraps around the neck of each. Circa 1900 to early 20th century. An apocryphal impressed zhuanshu 6-character Qing dynasty Kangxi square form reign mark is on the base. Custom wood stands. 16 1/2” high (18 1/4” high on stand). Heavily potted and in very good overall condition...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Pre 1920 item #1379350 (stock #WN124)
A lovely wood carving of a dancing Hindu goddess, the face and the sarung meticulously painted. Provenance: from the same estate like the Peranakan sarung. Condition: some cracks, paint with few losses and wear. Dimension: c. 30 cm high.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre AD 1000 item #1379313 (stock #JD-023)
A very rare Chinese jade of a stylized bird. The jade is translucent of a green and brown mottled coloration. Carved with a minimum of design giving an it a minimalistic, abstract look. It has large convex circles for eyes. The back has two interconnecting holes for passing a string through. The back has a naturally occurring hairline fissure of a dark reddish brown coloration. Has some calcification from long burial. Size: H = 1-3/8", W = 1-3/4"
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1960 item #1379254 (stock #ALR6748)
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Autumn colors by Goto Shiro in thick pigment on silk in a superb patterned-silk frame with solid ivory rollers. It comes in the original signed wooden box with a Futo-maki rolling bar titled Yudonoyama Banshu (Late Autumn at Mt. Yudono). This is representational of Nihonga in the 1950s, a time when artists were seeking a new direction, breaking with the past and expanding the limits of the medium...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1900 item #1379218 (stock #TCR6746)
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Ame-yu graces the rough textured clay of this large Mingei platter from Aizu in the Northern reaches of Japan on the border between Fukushima and Yamagata. Often mistakenly identified as Tamba due to the similarity in the coloring of this particular glaze, the underlying granular white clay gives it away. About the rim is a ring of fire-colored tendrils trapped in a groove, an interesting added feature. It is 31.5 cm (12-1/2 inches) diameter and dates from the later 19th century...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1900 item #1378949
Massive late Qing dynasty Chinese ancestor portrait executed in ink and color on paper depicting a civil official seated on a draped armchair over a floral rug decorated with Buddhist swastikas and dressed in formal attire. A Mandarin rank badge showing the official’s rank in the civil bureaucracy is on the center front of his cobalt-blue fur surcoat. The bird appears to be a silver pheasant, indicating an official of the 5th rank...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1950 item #1378824 (stock #3305)
A Chinese statue of a maiden holding a lotus flower and a fan, carved from celadon jade, fixed on a matching wooden base. Condition: fine, only lotus flower with few tiny rim frits. Dimension with wood stand: c. 22.3 cm high.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1920 item #1377718 (stock #TCR6733)
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A trumpeting form decorated with bamboo adorned with a single cicada by Matsumoto Sahei (Sabin) enclosed in a wooden box annotated by the current head of the family Matsumoto Sakio. It is 31 cm (12 inches ) tall and in excellent condition.
Matsumoto Sahei (1851-1918) was born into the family of Matsuya Kikusaburo, a first generation Kutani porcelain artist...