Description: A beautiful inkcake rest was intriguingly made of pudding stone. With agate-like stone quality, this precious scholar item was preserved very well with only some old crack lines and some minor old frets. The stand was an old Suan-Ji wood piece from 19th century.
Date: Qing Dynasty (18th Century)
Material: Pudding stone.
Length: 6.1cm(with stand) Height: 2.4cm(with stand)
Description: A small inkstone was carved in different cliff style. On the pool side, the cloud pattern was carved fluently. A small scholar item especially an inkstone was hard to find. It could be a practical utensil and also a small art piece which could be viewed from different angles around your palms. Date: 19th Century. Length:7.8cm Width:6cm Height: 4.5cm
Condition: Kept with original Hon-Mu stand when lost of upper cover. A crack line was seen due to age.
Description: A prestigious water colour painting on paper of Mandarin duck was by a very famous deceased Taiwanese painter Lin Yu-San. A beautiful museum piece of art which attributed to the collection of a Taiwan collector for more than 20 years was worthy of serious collection and investment as well.
Date: 1955 Dimension: 91x113cm
Painter: Lin Yu-San (AD1907-2004)
Provenance: Lin Sui-Su
Description: A cute stone tiger of Song Dynasty was carved with a red sandstone which was revealed under the old black paint from the frets on the tip of her nose.
The black paint was applied all over the surface except the bottom of the stand.
The evenly spread crackle paint was meaningful to this lovely stone cat for her 800 years of enduring age.
Date: Song Dynasty (12th Century)
Material: Red sandstone.
Length: 21cm Height: 14.5cm Width: 8.5cm
Description: An old wood water basin was carved as a boy climbing at a wall.
Preserved with original condition, the paint of this cute rural scholar object was peeled off due to enduring ages. A boy climbing against a wall of a water basin was a popular motif often seen in different materials of Ming period. From the carving of the boy, the facial and the figure characteristics, this water basin was a piece with Ming style but was conservatively dated a Qing piece due to no further evidences...
Waves thrash about in a playful frenzy below the calm watchful eye of a full moon partly blanketed by dark clouds in this extraordinary painting signed Kagyo dating from the later 19th century. It is bordered in ivory colored brocade embellished with clouds extended in golden brown silk and features ivory rollers. The scroll is 21-1/2 by 79 inches 855 x 200 cm) and, aside from minor bands of yellowing of the silk expected of age, is in fine condition...
Description: A beautiful Qing-Bai bowl from 12th Century was in an elegant shape. White glazed and with light celadon tinge, this vessel
yielded the extraordinary mood the Song ceramics especially exemplified. Six-foliate
rim was shaped by a dexterous modelling skill. The foot rim was shaped in a clear straight way...
This is a finely potted and enamelled “Over-The-Wall” famille rose Ogee Bowl. It shows three stem of bamboo tree drawn from the exterior of the bowl and then continues into the interior of the bowl with persimmons hanging on to the bamboo plant with the twig crossing over the rim into the interior of the bowl. A little distance away, there is a small butterfly flying towards the persimmons on the outside of the bowl...
Description: An old Shi-Wan scholar figure
in a position of sitting on a rock casually
was a rare piece from mid-Qing period.
Crackled and with minor glaze degradation, this figure was molded vividly when holding a dusk in one hand. A small piece with calm expression and without exaggerate posture , the Confucian scholar still issued the strong Chinese composition nevertheless. Shi-Wan art was one of the greatest craftsmanships in Chinese rural arts...
This is a pair of famille rose in pastel colour and floral design tea-cup. The inside of each tea-cup has a slightly flared top and has a barbed shape rim surrounded by an intricately designed inter-connecting miniature iron red colour ruyi head...
Description: An exquisite Peiking Glass Snuff bottle was made to imitate a fine quality of rock crystal. By excellent skill, the well made small bottle was molded with motifs with a Chinese legend-Xu Wu The Shepherd. Or in another metaphor- Xan Young Kai Tai - lucks always come in triple or more, this snuff bottle was done with near-real imitation of a crystal piece in transparent quality and in weight, all these were highly recommended skills in traditional glass making industry...
An amazing bit of weaving has been performed on this modern bamboo basket made in the shape of a gardener’s vegetable collecting basket. The long body has tall sides, open at one end, and is signed underneath Tosho. It has been formed of two shades of thinly cut bamboo, susutake and aged yellow take. Susutake is taken from the roofs of traditional houses, highly prized as it takes many years to color, being stained slowely by smoke and soot from the hearth fire...
This is a finely potted Song dynasty (960 – 1276AD) Yaozhou Persimmon hexafoil glazed cup. It has a gently rounded sides rising from a straight foot to an everted hexafoil rim, covered overall in a lustrous with a scattered iridescent persimmon glaze. The lustrous persimmon glaze, with its thick glaze flow stopping just short of the foot to reveal a white clay body. Overall, it is a very beautiful piece.
There are no damage or any restoration to the cup...
Description: A charming stone tablet of triad Buddhas was from Burma. Kept in good condition, this sandstone piece was carved in a beautiful style.
Date: 17th Century.
Provenance: Burma.
Height: 13cm
Description: A magnificent stone head of Louhan( or Lokapala ) was from 13th century. Unearthed from a relics of a temple near Shichuan, this head piece was preserved very well with original red mineral pigment and gold leaf. In an awesome facial expression, the Budhist saint was rendered finely in the features and showing a strong form that was unusually seen in the Chinese traditional sculptures. A custom made black marble stand was included...
This is a rare and beautifully decorated Qing dynasty blue and white pilgrim flask. The design and painting of the pilgrim flask follows that of the Yuan dynasty style. It has a pair of three claws dragons flying between the sky and sea chasing after the “Pearl of Fire”. Above the ruyi head, a pair of phoenix is flying in a garden flowing with and surrounded by meandering foliate, branching leaf and flowers...
A beautifully decorated Qing dynasty famille rose plate with 5 different brightly coloured butterflies alternating with bamboo leave, melon plant, chrysanthemum flower, morning glory flower and cherry flower. The base of the plate bears the six-character reign mark of Guangxu (1875-1908) and of the late Qing Dynasty period.
There is a minor firing fault at the top right hand corner where the reign mark is. The colour of the left wing of the blue butterfly is not fully glazed (picture ...
Description: A white glazed covered box was made in plain and simple form. Condition is very good except one minor manufacturing chip at the inner rim of the cover.
Date: Early 20th Century
Width: 6.1cm Height: 2.0cm
Provenance: Jingdezheng