$100.00
MEASUREMENTS: Height: 12.7 (5 inches). Width: 12.7 cm (5 inches).
CONDITION: In very good condition, no repairs, chips, or cracks.
$900.00
Each is decorated with a finely painted underglaze in a vibrant tone of cobalt blue, with a five-clawed scaly dragon amidst flames and the clouds.
The lower parts near the base are painted with foaming waves and rocks. One of the vases has an Qiulong horned dragon painted above foaming waves...
$1,700.00
$700.00
$6,000.00
The vase is decorated to the body with finely hand-painted four large lobed panels with a band of Ruyi heads, all reserved against a trefoil ground of iron red.
Each panel encloses figures in landscape scenes...
$1,700.00
$4,000.00
$1,200.00
$550.00
MEASUREMENTS:
Dimensions of the ebony frame: 11.8 cm x 9.3 cm (4.65 inches x 3.66 inches)...
$200.00
CONDITION: good condition no chips or cracks, nice age patina...
$1,200.00
DETAILS: The hilt with pommel finely carved of deer antler, with scrolls motifs the and the leech grotesque faces. The leech (lemetek) is associated with blood sucking and so was considered a proper motif for a weapon and set with white and black and pink hair tufts, the grip bound with braided rattan straps...
$480.00
The hilt is composed of two buffalo horn grip scales, mounted with an embossed and finely pierced cup pommel. The rosewood scabbard is adorned with silver fittings intricately crafted in repousse low relief...
$300.00
A very fine 19th - 20th century Chinese inside–painted glass snuff bottle of unusual beveled shape, finely painted with a continuous scene, depicting figures and houses.
CONDITION: A nick on the rim of the neck, absence of spoon.
DIMENSIONS: Height including stopper: 8.2 cm (3 1/4 in).
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$280.00
$650.00
Made of bronze bit with a mouthpiece composed of two canons connected in the center, each cast with a loop at both ends.
REFERENCES:
Similar snaffle bits from the collection of the Shaanxi History Museum are published in the exhibition catalog “Imperial China: The Art of the Horse in Chinese History” by Bill Cooke. Page.117. No. 92. (see the last picture in the listing).
$2,000.00
$900.00
The body composed of several elements of hand-hammered brass adorned with embossed drop-shaped panels and finely hand chased split-leaf arabesques.
Similar ewers are in many world-famous museum collections, including Henri Moser coll...
$1,500.00
DETAILS: The hilt with pommel finely carved of deer antler, with “aso” motifs and set with, black and brown hair tufts, the grip bound with braided rattan straps.
A hand forged, heavy, and very sharp straight steel blade, widens towards the finely shaped and pierced "Li-po-tong" tip, with flat ground on one side, display a forging pattern, similar to the pamor found on Indonesian kris,...