Blue & White bowl with unusual mark on the base, decorated with medallion of flowers. Late Ming 16th century. Diameter: 11.5 cm and high: 6.1 cm. Condition is perfect except flake chip to foot rim.

An extremely rare blue & white bowl, decorated outside with reverse a white on blue of Three Friends of Winter among flower scroll and fungus/ruyi. Inside also with same reverse a white on blue flower scroll in the center and classic scroll around the rim. The base with "Da Ming Nien Zhao" seal mark. Ming dynasty 15th century. Condition is good, only two minor tiny chips to rim, no cracks and free from any restoration...

A Japanese Sumidagawa or Banko pottery figural tea pot with multiple faces or mask images. A charming piece with bamboo handle impressed mark on bottom. Measuring approx. 7 inches tall from bottom to top of handle in excellent condition.

Sumida pottery is a heavy, brightly glazed pottery and often has human and animal figures attached as reliefs. This pottery has its name from the Sumida river in an area near Tokyo. The origins of Sumida pottery are in the mist...

Japanese Banko pottery art tea pot with beautiful enameled designs of cranes. Featuring a complex form with figured bamboo handle and a internal tea strainer impressed mark on bottom. Measuring approx. 6.5 inches tall from bottom to top of handle this piece is in excellent condition.

Banko pottery wares have been produced since the nineteenth century both for the domestic market and for export. Banko ware comes usually as teapots and has charming designs of a peculiar style...

A Japanese Banko monkey form art pottery tea pot with a beautiful glazed design robe. An absolutely charming work of this unique Japanese art pottery factory. Measuring approx. 6 inches tall in excellent condition.

A blue & white bowl, decorated with a good painted and fine cobalt-blue tone of continuous flower scroll. Ming dynasty 15th century. Condition re-touched one chip to the rim and one hairline crack, further in good condition. Diameter: 14.6 cm.

A good example blue & white small dish, decorated in the center with a foliated dragon holds a flower in its mouth, surrounded by reversed a white on blue of flower scroll. Underside with continuous flowering scroll. Ming dynasty second half of 15th century, Chenghua period. Condition: with missing pieces and restored, before restoration picture visible on the last enlargement 11 and 12. Diameter: 16.3 cm

A blue & white bowl, decorated outside with continuously flower scroll and inside the center with "Fu" character within double circle. Early Ming 15th century. Condition: small restored to rim missing (result visible on the last enlargement), further in good condition.

A good blue & white dish, decorated in the center with featuring grasshopper and on the cavetto with continuously flower scroll. The base with five spurs mark. Arita ware 17th-18th century ware. Condition with one long hairline, otherwise is perfect with no chips and free from any restoration. Diameter: 20.5 cm.

It's a very fine and rare private kiln blue & white bowl, decorated outside with four Phoenix on flight among continuous flower scroll and border with classic scroll to the rim, inside with Vajra motif in the center within double circle and on the wall cavetto with continuously chrysanthemum flowers below diaper pattern around the inner rim, nice and slightly tall shape and well balance, Ming dynasty 15th century, Xuande period private kiln ware...

Description: A rare excavation piece of a jadeite snuff bottle was in beautiful greenish tint and with obvious incursions. Even with un-satisfactory cracks which was due to long time of burial, the snuff bottle was in stable condition and the hollowing craftsmanship was quite good. An adequate black steatite cap was newly paired but more work was needed to add the dipper on. Date: Qing Dynasty (18th century) Dimension: 4.9cm x 3.8cm 1.5cm

Measuring approximately 6.25 inches high and 7 inches wide, this extraordinarily rare, 1930-40's Japan, Black Butler Cracker Jar is complete with original bamboo and wicker bail handle!

Stamped "MADE IN JAPAN" on base, this piece is in near perfect condition with no repairs or cracks. Flaws are as follows: there are some very small paint flakes to the jar base primarily on the back of the black coat as seen in photos...

This is a nice small sancai glazed tazza cup from the Tang dynasty ((618 – 906 A.D.). The tazza is decorated with small round spots of flower like pattern with three cream spots and a brown dash in the centre. The background is glazed in green colour. The glaze on the outside of the tazza flows just below the cup, exposing the buff colour of the stem and the spread out foot.

There is no repair or restoration, crack, chip or glaze fritting. Some abrasions can be expected...

Measuring 5.25 inches high x 6.50 inches wide, this near mint, three piece, Black Mammy and Chef Oil and Vinegar Cruet was produced in 1940s Japan.

The bodies are one single piece with one hand each on Mammy and the Chef that serve as stoppers for the two pouring spouts. The piece is marked with a "V" for Vinegar and an "O" for Oil on each arm...

This is an antique fukusa (Japanese gift cover) that the design came from the old folk tale called Urashima Taro. It is the story of a man who rescued a turtle from a group of cruel children. The turtle, who happened to be a princess of a dragon palace in disguise, returns later to thank him. The turtle invited him to tour the undersea world to her palace. He spends many days wined (with sake, I suppose) and dined, forgetting the time...

A wonderful, rare, soft cover book by Ida Chubb, copyrighted 1929 by Whitman Publishers and measuring 9.5 x 12.5 inches...

This charming old traditional style tea container is made from bamboo. It has a fitted lid that is held in place by a thin strip of wood which passes through the handle and fits in a slot in the lid. With the handle extended upward the piece measure 6" tall. The lid has some tooth marks left by a venturesome but unsuccessful mouse.

Never opened and retaining all of its original powdered scouring cleanser, this near mint canister of Gold Dust cleanser remains a classic and must-have addition to any Black Memorabilia collection!

Measuring 4.75 inches high x approximately 3.25 inches in diameter, the container has slight scuffing to its paper cover and light rust to the base --which in the photo appears more significant than it actually is--- however, there is no problem with structural integrity to the base!

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Measuring 8.25 inches wide x 4.5 inches deep x 1.75 inches high, this very early and rarely found, circa 1910, Dutch Cigar tin features a photo lithograph of two Negertjes-- which in Dutch means young black boys-- very cheerily smoking fat Dutch cigars!

In fine condition considering its 90+ years of age with superficial scratches and light superficial rusting as seen in photos...

An utterly fabulous, all-original, 1930s, "pure licorice", English Toffee tin with a phenomenal caricature of a black man eating a large piece of yummy toffee! This piece is enhanced with a striking visual graphic making this the centerpiece of one's Black Memorabilia collection!!

Measures 9.75 inches high x 6.25 inches wide x 4.25 inches deep...

A rare specimen of Ming dynasty private kiln ware, foliated rim and decorated at the interior with reverse chrysanthemum white on red enamel, the underside with brown glazed, "Da Ming Nien Zhao" four characters mark in underglaze blue within double circle. Ming dynasty 16th century. Condition small restored to re-stuck, no missing pieces. Diameter: 13 cm.

A good blue & white dish, with slightly thinly potted and foliated lip rim, decorated at the exterior center with four lion foo dogs playing ball within double circle, on the wall cavetto with pomegranate design, underside with two blooms of fungus/ruyi scroll and three flowers scroll among clouds motif. Four characters mark "Da Ming Nien Zhao", Ming dynasty Zhengde period (1506-1521)...

An extremely rare b/w dish with thinly potted, decorated at the exterior with a pair of "Kuei" Dragons, the interior with a Phoenix on flight in the center within double circle and the wall cavetto with rock mountains among chrysanthemum and lotus blooms and with key-fret border around the everted rim sides, brown glaze finished. Ming dynasty first half of 15th century, presume as Xuande-Zhendong ware. Condition is perfect. Diameter: 32.5 cm.

A rare and fine b/w bowl, decorated outside with to the body with vividly pencil style painted of three pair Mandarin Duck swimming among Lotus Pond, the rim border with five Dragons chasing flaming pearls. Inside the center decorated with one mandarin duck swimming in lotus pond and the other one is on the flight within double circle, inner rim border with Tibetan characters. It's typical bowl form of Ching dynasty imperial style, but with Qianlong seal mark and of the period is quite rare to f...

Dated to the Yuan dynasty, it is of thick celadon glaze of dark greenish yellow body, which has beautiful crazing line. The body is of pale gray materials with the base shown burnt to a dark reddish brown colour. The small longquan vase could have been use for either storing medicine or just as a small vase. A similar piece is also on exhibit in the Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Click the link to view it. http://www.asia.si.edu/collections/singleObject.cfm?Obje...

A finely painted and rare "Wucai" vase in Meiping form, decorated with rock and grape fruits, tendril to whole body, brown glaze to the rim, six character mark in the neck with "Da Ming Wan Li Nien Zhe", but dating 17th-18th century, base unglazed. Condition is excellent, no any chips, no cracks and free from restoration. High: 18 cm.

A finely blue & white bowl, decorated inside and outside with a good painted of continuously flowers scroll. Presume as Ming dynasty late 15th century Jindezhen private kiln ware with very finer quality one. Condition is excellent, with no any chip and no crack, except a bit firing glaze flaw to the base. Diameter: 15.5 cm.

A good blue & white garlic head vase, decorated on the body with four windows featuring of flower scroll, the head with a white on blue "ruyi" scroll and below with dots motif, neck area with two chrysanthemum sprays, double circle on the base. Ching dynasty Kangxi period (1662-1722). Condition is very good except re-touched minor tiny chips to rim, otherwise is perfect. The condition picture before re-touched by request. High: 18.2 cm.

Description: An ancient inkstone called Qing-Shi (green stone)inkstone was from northern China of Song Dynasty. In plain square form(Chao-Sou style), the ink pool was in a shape of Ru-Yi. With original light gray tint, the patina was dotted with black ink left by users. The middle of the surface was concave by long time of using. As to the quality, the inkstone is quite hefty as it was call Qing-Shi(green stone). But from the old abrasions on the surface, there is another point of view- it was p...

A fabulous, big and bold sterling bracelet by Danish firm A. Michelsen. The texture resembles a tree bark and there is a slight gold wash over the sterling. This is a heavy piece weighing 126 grams. It measures 7" around in the inside and is 1 3/8" wide. It has a unique pin closure with a safety clasp. Fine original condition. Signed as shown. This bracelet is magnificent.

This is a terrific sterling and amethyst pin by Taxco designer Enrique Ledesma. Fusing silver with stone is what he is best known for and this pin is a stellar example of this specialty. It measures 2 1/4" by 1 1/8" and is in fine original condition. The stone is free of chips or cracks. Signed as shown. A very special piece.

A Meissen or Dresden Style Porcelain Table Mirror, with A Cherub and Florals. Possibly by Sitzendorf. Circa 1870. Dimensions 9.75" high x 7" wide. Excellent Condition.

Description: In plain and simple form and with unusual length, this paper weight was made of precious Suan-zi wood. Had been used in scholar's practice of calligraphy and Chinese paintings, the paper weight was preserved in very good condition only with some old abrasions and an old chip on the underside at one of the ends. Date: Qing Dynasty (19th Century)Length: 37cm Width: 2.7cm

Description: A granite stone candlestick stand was carved as a female lion and cub playing with a embroidered ball. Holding in the mouth with the thread, the mother lion was teasing the cub who was chasing the ball clumsily. With old darkened patina, there was a hole on the back of the mother lion. The hole was intended as a fasten place for wooden candlestick. Date: Qing Dynasty Length: 14cm Height: 13cm Depth: 7.5cm Condition: A minor old chip on the tip of the mother lion's nose.

Description: An interesting stamp store's seal was kept in perfect condition. With inscription of Chan Ann Zhai Inn Pu Chang-Chan Ann Zhai Stamp's Store Seal, this wood stamp which stood for the store that had produced numerous stamps for it's clients now was the only one left. Good patina and full of stories were what this old stamp attracted me. Date: Early 20th Century. Height:6.0cm

This is a tall and handsome black glazed Yuan dynasty (1277-1367) stoneware yuhuchun ping. The yuhuchun ping stand on a short splay foot rim rising up to a pear shaped body narrowing upwards to a long slender and elegantly waisted neck towards a everted trumpet like mouth. On the pear shaped body of the Yuhuchun Ping, it is painted with 2 set of symmetrical dark rust-brown floral sprays. The floral sprays is painted in a very beautiful, strong and forceful stroke of dark iron rust-brown paint. ...

A huge and stunning sterling and turquoise dome ring by Carmelo Patania who founded The Thunderbird Shop in Santa Fe with Frank Patania Sr. in 1937 and then opened The Kachina Shop in 1957. Each turquoise is bezel set with silver beadwork in between. The ring measures 1 1/2" by 1 1/2" so a VERY big look. It is a size 7 1/2 and weighs 19 grams. Beautiful original condition, fabulous turquoise. Signed CP Sterling as shown. STUNNING!

A magnificent sterling and azur-malachite bracelet by Enrique Ledesma featured on page 183 of the book MEXICAN SILVER by Morrill and Berk. They date is c. 1955. It measures 6 1/4" around in the inside and is 7/8" wide. The weight is 70 grams. It is in beautiful original condition complete with safety chain. Signed as shown. An heirloom quality Taxco bracelet.

This is a FINELY CARVED IVORY NECKLACE ..... Japanese Carving depicting SEE HEAR & SPEAK NO EVIL. Graining in the IVORY BEADS is OBVIOUS. Length overall is 29" or 14 3/4" that fits easily over the head. Beads are 10+ mm; will be posting more specifics shortly incl OJIME ~like mm of the Monkeys themselves. Circa 1975 - 2000

This all leather handbag with it's hidden Jewel box is in like new condition. The Jewel box release is at the bottom interior of the bag. When released the two compartment jewel box with pillows slides out easily for access, the box snaps back into place and out of sight when you're done. Bag measures approximately 29 CM. Since 1898, Lederer of Paris has been making distinctive handbags catering to the rich and famous.

Hermes Kelly Bag, 35 Cm, Black Box Calf Leather. Lock, 2 keys and sleeper bag. This handbag is in EXCELLENT used condition. Unsure of vintage, possibly 1970's - 80's, has an N date code on the strap. Marked HERMES/PARIS on fittings and stamped on the leather in gold letters.

A very rare and good pair of Kwan glaze enamel vases with lid. Ching dynasty 18th century Chienlung ware. Condition report available as request. Each High: 34.5 cm.

A finely Wucai jar, decorated with flower scroll in green,yellow, red enamelled and underglazed blue. Early Ching dynasty Kangxi period. Condition is excellent, enamel is very good also, no chips and no cracks, unfortunately the lid is missing. High: 14 cm.

Cenedese Aquarium Paperweight, circa 1950’s, Single Goldfish, orange body with latimo zanfirico cane fins, latimo eyes with black glass pupils. Green and latimo pond weed. There are three flattened “thumbprints’ spaced equally around the circumference; these appear to be from the manufacturing process. There is a small, less than 1/10th inch rough spot in the center of one of the thumbprints. There is also a completely encased inclusion at the top of that same thumbprint, very difficult to...

Orrefors Fish Graal vase, circa 1951. 6 large Fish, 4 smaller fish in background and pond weed. Rarer, near spherical form. Signed ORREFORS/ Graal No. 225 D/ Edw Hald. Piece measures 4 ¼ inches tall and is 13 ½ inches in circumference. Highly reflective and gives illusion of many more fish swimming in pond. Condition is excellent, with no chips, cracks or scratches.

A rare black glaze jar with original lid, decorated with five panels of triple line ribs around the body. Song dynasty Henan ware. Condition is perfect, with no any chips and no cracks, free from any restoration. only a bit firing flaw to base. High: 13 cm.

A fine Antique Japanese bronze censer Meiji period artist or makers signed. A incredibly finely detailed casting with dragons and shishi dogs and traditional Japanese design elements. Measuring approx. 21 inches tall in good condition some repairs or re-soldering to the handles and base supports causing some discolorations to the patina. All in all this is a remarkable piece at a very reasonable price.

A blue & white Kraak style long neck bottle vase painted with six panels, each filled with emblems, mandarin duck, grasshopper and bird. Late Ming 17th century Wanli ware. Condition with one large chip to foot rim, further in perfect condition, note: restoration would be service for free as request after purchased. High: 28.8 cm.

A Historical view early Staffordshire blue and white transfer ware pottery pitcher circa 1825. A fine rich blue color with scenic view of a old church with figures and cows by a river. In excellent condition no chips or cracks. Measuring approx. 5 inches tall by 6 inches at its widest point. A a nice addition to any Staffordshire collection.

Fine Santa Clara pueblo pottery example by Gwen Tafoya. Completely hand made and fired in the traditional manner featuring a water serpent design. Measuring approx. 3 tall and 5 inches in diameter. A fine signed example of Native American pottery by one of the great pottery artists.

Fine Santa Clara pueblo pottery example by Joe Chevarria. Completely hand made and fired in the traditional manner featuring a water serpent design. Measuring approx. 4.5 tall and 7.5 inches in diameter. A fine signed example of native American pottery by one of the great pottery artists.

Chinese carved spinach jade censer with intricate details of dragons and mythical beasts plus traditional Chinese decorative elements. A fine example with a deep green color in excellent condition measuring approx. 9 inches tall. A fine example would be a nice addition to any collection.

A fine western bronze of two cow girls by Edward Fraughton born 1939 a Utah artist is a highly regarded sculptor of western bronzes. This example of two charming western girls is finely detailed and in excellent condition. Measuring approx. 12.5 inches tall signed and numbered 8 of 30 and dated 1971. A bronze by Fraughton sold at for 10,350 at Altermann Galleries on 10/23/04. A fine example would be a nice addition to any collection of western or Utah art.

A very rare and unusual blue & white large dish in shallow dish form, decorated at the interior center with a winged flying fish on the waves within double circle, the cavetto wall with floral scroll and rim border with Tibetan characters. Exterior with four large bloom of continuously lotus flower which presume similar to the Ming Hongwu-Yongle design, base unglazed and firing to pale orange. Dating an early Ming pieces circa 1368-1435. Condition is perfect with no any chips, no cracks and free...

A fine antique domed top mahogany stationary box with banded inlay and a ornate brass handle. In good antique condition with a beautiful rich patina some minor restorations to the banding. Measuring approx. 9.5 x 6.5 x 5.5 inches. A fine decorative antique accent piece.

A fine antique mahogany Georgian knife box now fitted for stationary. An exquisite example with a rich patina inlaid with herring bone banding and star designs. This knife box is in very good antique condition some minor restorations. Measuring approx. 15 x 9 1/4 x 9 inches overall. A fine decorative piece would make a nice addition to any collection.

A beautiful Tang dynasty (618-906 A.D) sancai-glazed vase rising from a short and flat based foot spreading upwards a baluster shaped body with a broad shoulder towards a short waisted neck with an everted rim. The baluster shaped sancai vase is decorated with diamond shaped like geometric design of brown glazed background with interlocking diamond shaped panels each with centers of green, white and cobalt blue colour. The glaze fall short of the foot revealing the buff colour body.

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Two Rosewood boxes with flying bats, a symbol of good luck, surrounded by keyfrets and stylized clouds. Age: 19th century. Size: lg.12cm. sm. 10.5cm. Condition: No repairs.

An extremely rare blue & white bowl, decorated outside and inside with cabbages design. Late Ming Jiajing period and seal mark on the base. Condition is perfect except tiny chip to the inner foot rim and a bit firing flaw or kiln adhesive adhere inside the center. Diameter: 14.5 cm.

A "Saddle-gourd" flask shaped after a leather prototype with a vertical spout and saddle handle. Age:11th century. Size: 23.4cm.high. Condition: No repairs . Normal kiln marks. One of a pair.