$500.00
The cross depicts the Holy Trinity; God the Father with Christ, and the Holy Spirit.
The other side shows the orant figure of Christ with upraised hands and sunburst around his head. The three arms of the cross are adorned with busts of saints.
DIMENSIONS: 6.3 cm x 3.7 cm (2.5 inches x 1.5 inches)
CONDITION: In its original condition with a dark, glossy pa...
$2,500.00
CONDITION: In good condition showing age and usage, with dark brown and green patina.
HEIG...
$200.00
MEASUREMENTS: Height: 3 3/8 inches.
CONDITION: in overall good condition, showing use with good patina.
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$550.00
The hand-sculptured figurine portrays two Putti in a typical rococo style, adorned with wreaths of flowers. One of the Putti is seated on the back of a sheep, while the other is playing with the sheep, and a small lamb is shown nursing milk from its mother sheep. The figurines are placed on a base decorated with a rococo-style design and decorated with flowers.
The base has a hand-painted c...
$540.00
$450.00
It is a large, hand-crafted tinned copper piece with a flattened, bulbous shape and a long, hand-wrought baluster neck. The ewer has a hinged cover with an acorn finial, a swan-shaped spout, and an "S" scrolled handle with a dragon-head terminal. It is raised on a circular foot, and the flattened sides are adorned with oval medallions that have been hand-engraved and chased with sc...
$2,500.00
The exterior is finely hand painted in great detail of an allegorical "shikargarh/shikargarh" hunting scene in the countryside scenery with a series of scenes depicting lions, tigers, and leopards hunting various animals, in...
$2,000.00
$6,000.00
$1,200.00
The broad-shouldered globular body rises from a flat base to a short neck with a lipped rim, covered with a rich glaze of various shades of amber brown, stopping neatly 2 cm above the foot ring.
The sides are finely decorated with six medallions incised in low relief, containing lotus and chrysanthemum flowers with small birds and leaves between the medallions.
The jar is finely p...
$4,500.00
The compressed globular body with a waisted neck and everted rim flanked by a pair of beast masks, set with upright bail handles, supported on three tall tapering conical legs.
The rounded sides are adorned with two panels; one is engraved on a punched ground with a horned qilin, birds, and two Lohans within the floral patt...
$350.00
The jar is handcrafted, strongly potted with a cylindrical tapering form, high shoulder, short neck, and lightly ground down rim.
The body is potted with horizontal coiled ribbing and covered with glaze in various shades of grey celadon.
REFERENCES:
Similar jars are in The Smithsonian's National Museum
https://asia.si.edu/object/S2005.51/
and The Brit...
$350.00
Composed of several separate elements made of filigree silver and adorned with a small embossed rosette.
The ornament has a large convex form with a gilded flower-head rosette placed in the center with a central round, beveled black stone (probably Onyx), flanked by two crescent-shaped ornaments.
The reverse affixes with attachment mount on which small recta...
$700.00
The exterior is painted in underglaze cobalt blue with a central band of scrolling pattern divided by four archaic two headed kuilong heads and bordered by bands of stylized flames.
MEASUREMENTS:
Diameter of the rim: 20.5 cm (5.7 inches)
Height: 10 cm (4.33 inches).
CONDI...
$4,000.00
$100.00
MEASUREMENTS: Height: 12.7 (5 inches). Width: 12.7 cm (5 inches).
CONDITION: In very good condition, no repairs, chips, or cracks.
$400.00
The censer base is bearing a seal mark in very unusual apocryphal spindly style of” Shuowen Jiezi “Script within a rectangular cartouche.
MEASUREMENTS:
Width across handles: 15.5 cm (6.1 inches).
Height including handles: 10 cm (3.94 inches).
CONDITION:
In very good condi...
$370.00
The bronze depicts the philosopher Lao Tzu on his famous journey away from civilization to find simplicity; he sits on the animal's back with his robes flowing around him.
Lao Tzu or Laozi, or Lao-Tze, was an ancient Chinese philosopher and writer. He is the author of Tao Te Ching, the founder of Taoism, and a deity in religious Taoism. According to legend, Laozi left C...