Catalog: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese (40)

A Chinese, Neolithic, black ware vessel; probably from the Longshan culture. The vessel is high-fired, relatively light-weigh, and quite thinly potted. The Longshan culture formed along the upper and lower reaches of the Yellow River valley, from about 3000 to 1900 BC. Height 20 cm This is an excavated piece...

A beautiful blue and white Transitional period bowl (about 1640), with an apocryphal Chenghua mark to the base. The cobalt blue color is very deep and attractive, painted with fishermen in a river scene. It is 22cm in diameter. Condition is good; there is a tight hairline to the rim. To keep our costs to a minimum, and pass the savings to our customers, we are only permitted to post a single photo of the item on Trocadero. Additional photos are available on request, or on our website.

A Chinese, bulb-mouthed, brown glazed vase from the Tang dynasty. The coarse stoneware body of this small vase was initially covered by a white slip, which terminated some way above its flat foot. The white slip was then covered by an attractive brown-teadust coloured glaze. Vases of this type have been attributed to the Xing kiln, Hebei, during the early Tang dynasty; see photo. A rare item. Dimensions; 9 cm tall. Condition; some small chips and abrasions to the foot...

A Chinese, underglazed blue and white, lidded container with a scrolling floral decoration; C18th. Dimensions; approximately 6cm diameter. Condition; good, with some age-related wear and abrasions to the rim. Provenance; purchased from Peter Crabbe Antiques, 2005. To keep our costs to a minimum, and pass the savings to our customers, we are only permitted to post a single photo of the item on Trocadero. Additional photos are available on request, or on our website.

A Chinese, dark brown glazed, two handled jar from the Sui-Tang dynasty. The ovoid shaped jar is supported by a short, flat foot, and covered by a brown glaze which appears black where it is applied more thickly...

A rare, Chinese, lacquer box from the Western Han dynasty. The box is overall lacquered in brown with painted bands of decoration to the body, and concentric circles enclosing a central cloud scroll motif to the lid. Dimensions; approximately 9cm diameter. Condition; the box is notably warped, though the lid is removeable. There is a noticeable crack to the lid...

A large Chinese, Cizhou-type, jar; Song dynasty. An unusual wide mouthed jar with a sharply everted mouth rim and covered overall in an attractive teadust-brown glaze, except for the foot and mouth rims. From a Northern Chinese kiln. Dimensions; 21.5 cm tall. Condition; in good condition with age appropriate wear, and some nibbles to the mouth rim...

A Chinese, amber glazed, Hu jar which follows the archaic bronze form; Han dynasty. The low-fired lead glaze was further embelished with a green swirling decoration to the shoulder of the jar. This was likely achieved by using a copper pigment. Dimensions; 23.5 cm tall Condition; this is an excavated item, with areas of glade degradation and wear in part...

This small jar was made during the 13th - 14th century, during the latter part of the Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1279), or the following Yuan Dynasty (AD 1279 - 1368). Itis often referred to as a "rice measure", and takes its form from basket ware of the period. It has nail-head decoration around the shoulder and is coated, inside and out, in a variagated brown glaze...

A Chinese, Jizhou kiln, bowl with an abstract ash-splashed decoration to the interior. Southern Song; C12-13th. The variagated, brown glaze stops above the well-cutt foot, exposing the pale-buff coloured paste. Diameter, 11 cm. Provenance: from the deceased estate of a North Yorkshire collector; acquired in China in the first half of the C20th. Condition: There is an old area of repair to the inner rim; approx 2 cm long...

A Chinese, white ware, ewer of an elegant double-gourd form and incised line delineations; from the Northern Song dynasty...

A finely potted, 'tortoiseshell', Jizhou bowl; Southern Song dynasty. Of conical form, covered inside and out with a dark brown glaze, which terminates just above the shallow and well-cut foot, and splashed with light brown suffusions to the exterior. Diameter, 12.5 cm Condition; Good...

A Chinese, Sancai glazed, bowl from the late Tang dynasty. The bowl well potted, with rounded sides rising from a short foot to an everted rim...

A Northern Chinese, Cizhou-type, black glazed jar; C12-13th, Northern Song-Jin dynasty...

A Chinese, Henan, Cizhou-type black glazed bowl; C13-14th. The deep, rounded sides rising to a slightly everted rim, the interior covered in a black glaze decorated with two rows of closely spaced vertical russet stripes, while the slightly mottled black glaze on the exterior falls in an irregular line above the foot to expose the fine buff ware. Dimensions; approximately 15 cm diameter. Condition; good condition, with some age related wear...

A Chinese, Longquan kiln, celadon jar with incised geometrical decoration; Ming dynasty, C16th. Although rare in this small size, this jar has not been reduced, as there are traces of glaze on the mouth rim. Originally, it would have had a cover. Height; approximately 12 cm Condition; with some age-related wear...

A sancai-glazed,foliate-rimmed, pottery dish from the Liao dynasty, of elongated barbed quatrefoil shape, the everted rim molded with a foliate scroll border glazed in amber, the interior impressed with three lotus blossoms in amber glaze, against a green ground molded with wave patterns, the unglazed base partially glazed in green and revealing a layer of white slip. Based on a silver or gold prototype, the artisans who created these forms in pottery prove innovative in their use of mol...

A Chinese, Zhangzhou kiln, dish with leaping-carp decoration in over-glazed polychrome, red, turquoise and green, enamels...