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A rare and absolutely beautiful high end Yixing Teapot, China, should be pre 1980 and perhaps much older, since it comes from an old collection.

Made by a master potter with a fantastic moulded cobalt and torquise blue glaze. The pot is signed below with a makers mark, so far unresearched.

Size: 18 cm. from handle to tip of spout, ca. 9 cm. high.

Condition: Choice! Absolutely problemfree and perfect with a fine patina from old age and use.

Provenanc...

A pair of nice stamp personal stoneseals, carved with with Dog and Dragon on the top of the tall square bases, 20th. century AD.

Sizes: 72-75 mm. in height.

Condition: Choice.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections. Gustav Oberländer specialized in early stamp seals from the pre-historic and Dynastic civilizations in the Near E...

A huge old stamp seal in soapstone, carved with mythical beasts on the top of the square base, 20th. century AD.

A finely carved seal in green stone with the carving of two keys and scriptsigns on the side.

Size: 11,2 cm. tall and weighing c. 940 grams!

Condition: Choice.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections. Gusta...

A nicely patinated soapstone stamp seal, Chinese, 19th.-20th. century AD.

A nice seal from the Gustav Oberländer collection, aquired the late 1980s to the collection. In yellowish brown soapstone with carvings on all sides in archaic style. Some wear and marks of use.

Size: 40 mm. tall and 27 mm. wide.

Condition: Choice, nice old patina.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), comes with his Collection ID. Oberländer aquired his massive and i...

Antique bronze stamp seal, late Qing Dynasty 1644–1912.

Tall abstract form with simple script below.

Size: 53 mm. tall.

Condition: Good Very Fine, even smooth wear, lovely old patina.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections. G...

Attractive pendant of a duck in beautiful Nephrite Jade, Chinese, 19th/20th. cent.

Size: 55 mm. long.

Condition: Choice, microscopic chip.

Ex. Old Danish Private Collection.

Interesting lot consisting of antique of vintage bronze items, incl. a Thai Buddhist amulet with loop, two Laotian opium weights or animal figurines, and later three burmese bronze weights, 19th./20th. century.

Nice condition.

A fine jade pendant carved with lions in the archaistic style, Ming or later periods.

Finely worked piece with high relief details in the type of brownish celadon jade, popular during Ming period, but possible made as a later revival piece, we're not certain.

Size: 57 mm. long.

Condition: Extremely fine, patinated.

Provenance: Estate of the Danish Artist Rolf Gjedsted.

Very precise and decorative carving and painting of a deity seated on a tiger-cat, inside a high throne with dragon, all in black, red, gold and laquer, Qing dynasty, late 19th.-early 20th. century.

Size: c31-30,5 cm. tall and 19,5 cm. wide.

Condition: Near Extremely fine, some fine wear to laquer and gilt, very sound and heavy wood, chip to his beard on left side othervise completely intact!

Provenance: Ulf Gudmundsen collection, c. 1950s-2007.

Attractive bronze figure of Buddha seated on a double Lotus Throne and with a halo behind, Nepalese, c. late 19th.-20th. century.

Size: 25 cm. and quite substantial.

Condition: Good very fine, nice patina and intact copper seal in the base.

Ex. Danish private collection.

A fine lot of 5 metal items from the same collection:

a) Leather, silver, gilded brass, copper, corals. Wallet in form of vajra, 12 x 7,5cm. b) Silver, copper, with turquoise and corals. Gunpowder container in form of a horn, L ca 20cm. c) Silver gau container with a coral and four glass stones, H 11,5cm.. d) Bronze alloy, silvered tingsha cymballs with dragons, ca. 7,5 cm. in diameter. e) Brass vajra. 19th - early 20th century, L 12,8cm.

Traces of usage.

Attra...

A nice and interesting polished Nephrite amulet in the shape of a Cicada, Ming style.

The pendant carved in a rarely seen brown-black stone. This fine nephrite pendant comes from an old German Collection of handpicked Chinese jade carvings of insects from different periods, from the Neolithic to 20th. century. The cicada was carved in a Ming Dynasty Style, but possible from Qing Dynasty, we're not certain.

Size: 6,2 cm.

Condition: Choice and intact, fine wear....

An interesting and very finely made massive opium weight, Late Shan, 19th./20th. cent.

Peculia weight or figure in the general shape of a 'Kissing bird' of the Shan Burma, but with some added features in the form of fine engravings and a handle.

The figure comes from a very good old collection and is in our opinion genuine old and antique. It weighs around 700-750 grams and was likely made in the very end of the period with opium weights as a unofficial decorative piece. ...

A fine lot of 4 chinese antiques, mainly Qing Dynasty, late 19th.-early 20th. century.

The lot consists of a lovely early Chinese boxwood seal, carved with 'Shu zongfu', a matching pair of Lions with fine old patina and a silver pencil set.

Size: Lenght around 8 cm. for most items.

Condition: Choice.

Ex. Dutch collection.

A large and attractive gilt wooden buddha, Burmese, c. late 19th.- early 20th. century.

The Buddha standing on a small throne and a black painted plint. He is righly addorned in a fancy dress with multiple glass stones in red and green colours.

Size: c. 74 cm. tall, incl. plint.

Condition: Choice and intact with remaining gilt overall.

Provenance: Collection of Gunna Munkvad, Denmark, aquired from the 1960s-1980s.

A very elaborate and finely gilt large figure of mahasthamaprapta bodhisattva, Chinese, later Qing Dynasty, 1644-1912, this figure probably from the late 19th. cent.

Size: 34,5 cm. tall, incl. the flat mounted base.

Condition: Extremely fine for type and age. Finely patinated in a redish gold colour with some light wear but othervise completely intact, the blue pigment still present as well. Closed lid in the back. He carries a strange bracelet over the neck, described as o...

An interesting and decorative Tibetan mixed metals dish, probably for a temple decoration, 19th/20th. cent.

The dish elaborately decorated with multible gemstones incl. corals, torquise, glass stones and filigree. Mounted with 4 small buddha figures. Hanger at the back and old note from the collector: ''This Plate En kript(?) was purchased by a Tibetan refugee in India in 1960.''

Diameter: 26 cm.

Condition: Choice Very fine. A couple of stones missing and /or n...

A cute group of small bronze Erotic sculptures of mainly couples corpulating, India from the 19th. to mid 20th. cent.

Three figures are old and probably from the 19th. century. Great details and quality casting. Another is probably vitange in a brassy metal and primitive. Finally a green patinaed woman and a small guy with a large phallus (7).

Size: Largest figural group is 9,8 cm. long, the other group are 5-7 cm. long, the small guy is 5 cm. tall and the naked woman also...