Catalog: Antiques: Regional Art (152)

This is rare bean shaped black glazed cizhou pillow from the Song - Jin Dynasty. It is rare because only a handful of black glazed cizhou pillow are known to be in existence. The outline on the pillow shows clearly how the pillow is being constructed. The bean shaped pillow has a flat base rising straight up to another layer of uneven flatten top piece...

Description:
A creamwhite white glazed stoneware yuhuchunping dated to the Yuan Dyansty. It stands on a short recess foot rim with a pear shape body everting upward with a narrow neck and towards an everting mouth rim.

Dimension:
The height of the yuhuchunping is 20.5cm and the width at the widest point is 15cm.

Condition
It is in good condition without crack, chip ,restoration or any repairs.

This is a tall and handsome classical pouch ewer from the Liao dynasty(907-1125). It is of museum quality standing on a splay foot rim with recessed base rising upwards to a slander bulging side body with a long vertical spout with straight mouth rim and a rounded pinched handle. The whole pouch ewer is coated with dark amber glaze on a white colour slip stopping short of the splay foot rim showing the reddish colour stoneware. The stoneware pouch ewer simulates a leather form of the pouch...

This is museum quality, small Liao dynasty (907-1125) sancai green glazed moulded moon flask ewer. It stands on a flat foot rising to a rounded side body with a spout mouth and a handle. The top opening of the ewer is moulded into the shape of five leaves in five divided panels (picture 6)...

This is a cizhou style wine jar in a baluster shape from the Yuan dynasty (1277-1367 A.D). It stands on a shallow short recessed foot-rim like a stand and then everted outward like a short “C” shaped pedestal and the everted outward and upwards to a baluster shaped body with a flat shoulder and then straight upwards towards a very short neck mouth rim. The jar is divided into four horizontal bands with design in between them...

Decsription:

Condition:
Generall in very good condition without and chip, crak, resoration or repair. Only manufacturing fault.

Dimension
The height of the longquan ribbed tea pot 15.2cm and the width is 16.5cm

This is a very well known and dated Kangxi period (1662-1722) medium size famille janue or susancai bowl. Such bowl is commonly know as a "brinjal" bowl. It stands on a footrim with a recess base. On the base, it is painted with a Chinese character or word "Fu", meaning prosperity in a double circle. The body of the bowl everted upward from the base in a "u" shape form, slightly straight up and then mildly with an everted mouth rim...

A Tang dynasty funerary sancai ewer


Dimension:
Height - 17cm
Length - 15cm


Condition Report:
In good condition with no chips, broken part or repair.

This is a 17th century, coloured stone Buddha statue. It is curved out of a single piece of solid rock. The clothing on the body is maroon in colour and the boarder around the sleeve and neck is in black colour. The Buddha face, hand and feet are covered with traces of gold leaf gilding. The head is originally painted in blue colour but later painted with black paint. The head also has circle design on it all around...

This is a Western Jin Dynasty yueh yao of dark olive green glazed "chicken head" or also commonly known as "cock head" ewer. Slightly of gobular body with two lug handles and a spout in the form of chicken's head with a neck. It has a looped slender handle and a averted mouth rim. The dark olive glazed stopped before the foot-rim exposing the red stoneware earth. The flatten base is slightly shrinking inward.

Generally in good condition. No repair, chip or restoration...

This is a large Song dynasty cizhou glazed rectangular shaped pillow. The top of the pillow is incised with a single stalk of lotus flower in a pond within a carttouche inside a double line rectangular frame.

Some minor chips as shown in the picrures, especially number 4, along the edges. There are also some soil calcification especially can be seen on the top left hand of the pillow, abrasion and wear...

This is a lime glazed bowl with a lime green ruyi at the upper band of the bowl and the lotus lappet at the bottom of the bowl just before the foot rim. In between the lime green ruyi band and lotus lappet are a mirror image bat or wufu surrounding the character shou or longevity. Between the two wings of the bats, on the left and right, they appear to be holding a lotus flower. Alternating between the pair of wufu is a swastika...

This is a large green glazed Ming dynasty funerary figure modelled as a palaquin bearer or attendant...

Description: This is a Liao dynasty waterpot in the form of a lotus bud. It is gobular in shaped with a narrow mouth rim and a bulbous body.

Dimension: the dimension of the water bud waterpot height is 10.9cm and the width is 12.1cm.

Condition: Generaly in good condition with execption of minor abrasion and imperfection. No repair, restoration, chip or crack.

This is a large green glazed Ming dynasty funerary figure modelled as a palaquin bearer or attendant. It stand on a step and waisted hexagonal plinth with six feet. The right hand and left hand of the palaquin bearer or attendant is seem to be holding onto a pole towards his chest with the long sleeve covering the arm, exposing only the hand. The slash at the waist is unglazed, exposing a slightly redish clay.

There are some abrasion and minor chip which can be expected from funerary ...

Description:
This is a Liao dynasty (907A.D - 1125 A.D) green glazed moulded pumpkin shaped covered box. The top and bottom of the covered box is moulded in sysmetrical lotus design. A very beautiful piece.

Condition:
Generally in good condition. Minor abrasion. There is no chip, crack, glaze crazing, repair or any restoration.

Dimension:
The height is 7.1cm and the width is 11.2cm

This is an elegant pair of tall chine de blance vase. It stands on a shallow foot rim everting upward slightly like a "v" shape with a mild short shoulder and then a slightly long inverted "C" shaped and an everted flat mouth rim. On the side of the shoulder, there is a pair of moulded lion-mask to the left and right. On the base it has the mark of the honoric mark of "Da Ming Xuande Nian Zhou". Cir. 18th/19th century.

There is only and age old chip of about 1.6 cm to the base of one ...

This is a Northern Song dynasty small russet black glazed henan splash bowl. It stand on a short recessed footrim and then the body everted upwards into a U-shaped with the mouth rim slightly everted inwards. The body of the small bowl is sturdily potted with a few splashed in the centre of the bowl and strips on the cavetto. On the outside body of the bowl, it has strips running from the top to bottom. The glaze on the body just flow down about three quarters of the body exposing the buf...