Huge old Japanese doll, Showa period depicts a Bijin Geisha courtesan in a pose, performing traditional hat dance with six hats. Beautifully hand-painted silk face, wearing large hat, her hair adorned in front and sides with hair pins and hair ornaments. She is elaborately dressed in a gold brocade, red silk kimono, woven with flowers and leaves with a contrasting gold brocade, dark brown silk dangling obi, patterned with various woven Japanese samurai family’s crests (Mons)...
Tribal Oceanic Papua-New Guinea Sepik River,Lime Container Spirit Playing Flute. DETAILS: A wooden finial elaborately carved in the form of an ancestor, with eyes inlaid with cowrie shells, painted in black, and highlighted with white polychrome, mounted on a hollowed-out bamboo staff with cane bands.
CONDITION: In good condition considering its age, showing the age and usage, with wear and age cracks (as is common in old wood)...
Tribal Oceanic, Papua-New Guinea, first half of the 20th century, a finely carved wood sculpture in the form of a standing ancestor figure, with eyes inlaid with cowrie shells, painted in dark grey pigment with white polychrome face, mounted on a modern black painted wooden stand.
CONDITION: In good condition considering its age, showing the age and usage, with wear.
MEASUREMENTS: Height including the stand: 23 cm (9.06 inches). Height of the wooden sculpture: 20 cm (7.87 inches)...
Canadian Aboriginal, old Argillite stone carving depicting swimming goose, sculptured from the silky-smooth natural solid Argillite stone by the Inuit artist of the Canadian Arctic. Signed by artist on the bottom with initials J -T- 72 (indicating that the sculpture was carved in the year 1972) and below N GNITUK.
Dimensions approximately:
Overall length: 26 cm (10.24 inches).
Height: 12.5 cm (4.92 inches).
Width: 7.7 cm. 3.03 inches).
Weight: 1.233 kg (2lb 11.49 oz)...
Canadian Northwest Coast Haida Indian hand dance drum by Clarence A. Wells ( -1950) depicts a pair of hawks in the graphic Haida style. Title "Fish Hawk". and signature present along edge. The red, black, and white coloring of the eagles makes a dramatic contrast with the natural background color of the drum surface.
Northwest Coast Native Haida artist Clarence A. Wells is a native Canadian artist from the Gitsen Clan of the Tsimshian First Nation...
張大千/倣莫高窟唐人壁畫天女散花圖 設色紙本立軸 1935年作
款識：乙亥二月擬唐人壁畫筆法 蜀人張爰。
鈐印：張爰私印、大千居士、大風堂。
A Flower-Spreading Fairy in Style of an Early Tang Dynasty Mogao Grotto Mural / Zhang Daqian (1899-1983) Condition: Hand-Painted, Good Condition
Provenance: Property of a New York collection Dimensions:
Size of Actual Painting:
50 1/2 X 25 1/2 inches 128.3 X 64.8 cm
Artist Name: Zhang Daqian (18...
Description 張大千 仕女賦閒圖 設色水墨紙本立軸
款識：蜀人張大千爰。
鈐印：張爰之印、大千居士。 此畫曾為徐伯郊先生的香港詩外簃收藏的張大千《大風堂》畫作珍品。 徐氏則是二十世紀下葉張大千畫作在海外的全權代理人和最權威鑑藏大家。他一度收藏了大風堂珍藏的眾多代表畫作，並於2003年由中國國家文物局文物出版社出版了他的《詩外簃張大千書畫集》。
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張大千 / 金裟水月觀音/善財童子造像 設色描金絹本立軸 1945年作 款識:乙酉夏日蜀郡清信弟子张大千敬造。鈐印：张爰之印、大千居士。
Zhang Daqian (1899-1983) 張大千/
A Magnificent Hanging Scroll of Guanyin (Goddess of Mercy) w. Boy of Shancai
Dated 1945 Color with Gold on Silk Inscribed and signed with two artist seals...
Antique Central Asian Islamic solid silver large necklace torque, late 19th century, Afghanistan Kochi-Kuchi tribe.
It is skillfully handcrafted of several sturdy solid silver elements, soldered together and engraved on the surface. The center is decorated with three glass beads in domed settings; another embossed bead is below...
Knitted bag made of asa (hemp or ramie) and kakishibu (persimon tannin) is coated with. It has mending parts, however, in good condition. It was used by a mountain worker. The first half of the 20th century. W:39cm, L:36cm
A handmade circa 1950 polychrome Turkish Kutahya ceramic figurine depicting Nasreddin Hodja riding his donkey backward...
Old Chinese Famille Rose Biscuit Figure Head Attributed to Zeng Longsheng 傳曾龍昇
It is 4.7 inches (12 cm) tall by 4 inches (10.1 cm) wide. It is 0.8 Lb.
It has firing bursts, skip glazes, and surface wears and scratches (as see in the photos).
A similar biscuit figure's head was sold at Bonhams New York lot 8055 on September 12, 2016.
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Vintage Chinese Gilt Silver Filigree Jadeite & Tourmaline Bracelet Marked "Silver"
The bracelet is 3.5 inches (9 cm) in length by 1.18 inches (3 cm) wide. The inner circumference is 2.3 inches (6 cm). The jadeite are 21.22 mm by 10.5 mm wide. The tourmaline range from 18.43 mm to 20.43 mm in length by 10.32 mm by 12.96 mm wide. It weighs 38 gram...
Antique early 20th-century Indian padlock entirely made of brass and adorned with the Hindu god Hanuman on the front plate.
Please note that this lock is entirely made of brass, including body and shackle. The later Indian brass padlocks have an iron shackle instead of a flat brass shackle like this padlock.
MEASUREMENTS: Height: 10.3 cm (4.06 inches).
This is a finely hand-painted Indo-Persian Central Asian miniature painting depicting a sitting, turbaned young man holding a drinking cup. The painting is a gold and gouache masterpiece on paper, signed "Ashina" in Arabic script. The inner border is decorated with a gold lattice motif, while the outer borders feature foliate motifs. The name "Ashina" comes from one of the old Turkish tribes of central Asia and means "blue" or "gök" in Turkic. It is also possible that the name derives from a Tu...
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張大千 畫眉圖 1940年作
款識：學畫宫眉細細長。芙蓉出水鬥新妆。只有一笑能傾國，不信相看有断腸。雙黄鹄，两鴛鴦。迢迢雲水恨難忘。早知今日長相憶，不及從初莫作雙。六一居士鷓鴣天 庚辰秋八月寫於青城山中 張大千爰。
鈐印：張爰私印、大千居士。
鑑藏印：吴興徐伯郊審定。
徐伯郊是二十世紀下葉張大千畫作在海外的全權代理人和最權威鑑藏大家。...
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張大千 青城山居圖（為李秋君50壽辰1948年作於上海）
設色紙本立軸
款識：戊子八月二十四日寫頌秋君三妹親家五十生日張爰再拜。
鈐印：張爰之印、大千、遊戲神通。
此畫以傳統石青為主要顏料，繪製出張大千對故鄉山水夢縈魂牵的思念之情。畫面中危聳入雲的的青城山色不獨巍峨輝宏，且如夢如幻，清雅絕倫。深山處緑樹掩映中显現出青城道觀的金頂飛檐...
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張大千 春睡圖 1949年作 設色水墨紙本立軸
款識 1：羅衣初試尚惺忪，紅豆江南酒面濃。别有深情怨周眆不教春色秘屏風。己丑十一月朔寫於鏡海戲題 大千居士張爰。
款識 2：此唐周長史仲朗畫法，其衣飾為日人所宗。我國自元明以來倶尚纖巧，遂無有繼其法者。予此幅参以燉煌六朝初唐唐装畫法。不為拈出，令觀者疑為日本畫，為可嘆也。爰再識。
鈐印：張爰...
