Catalog: Antiques: Regional Art (152)

A small tang dynasty funerary amble glazed ewer.

Dimension:
Height: 12cm / 4.7 inches
Length: 11.8cm / 4.5 inches

Condition Report:
In good condition other than minor abrasion due to the age of the ewer.

Description: A small and elegant ewer dated to the Song dynasty. It is finely potted and the glazing is right to the bottom of the ewer. It has a recessed footrim.

Dimension. The dimension of the ewer, the height is 15.1cm and the width is 14.5cm.

Condition: The condition is generaly good. There is no repair, restoration, crack or chip. Minor glaze crazing. Item sold as is.

The glass snuff bottle shows the four sea-dragons swimming in the sea. This probably represent the four seas.Each of the dragon have four claws which represents royalty but not imperial. The colour of the snuff bottle is of dark orange colour. The base has a honorific Qianlong mark to the base. Cir. late 19th century, likely to be dated to the Guangxu (1875-1908) period.

Generally in good condition...

A very nice moulded Wanli period (A.D.1573-1619) blue and white kraak porcelain dish. It stands on a very short footrim with a recess base and then everted upward into a U-shaped moulded dish. In the centre of the dish, it depicts a pair of deer under a tree with flowering foilage and rocks. On the cavetto, it is painted with a two tiered brush stroke. Such almost identical dish is illustrated in Maura Rinaldi, Kraak Porcelain, London, 1989...

A very beautiful and finely potted ewer of gourd shaped from the Song dynsty.

Very good condition. No restoration, chip, crack or hairline. Because of one of the small stone pit standing on the base, it does not stand totaly flat. However this does not affect the beauty and aesthetic shaped of the gourd shaped ewer. Nice gloss and colour.

The dimesnsion of the gourd shaped ewer: the height is 13cm and the width is 12 cm. The base width is about 6cm.

This is a very beautiful cylindrical body brush pot painted with varied scenery in famille rose palette with a continuous scene of lakeside landscape of distance pavilion, walled monastery and tea house scattered amidst tress and layered mountains in various shade of blue and green and red with texture stroke and with high peaks in the distance.

There are people walking about and in the tea house set in a tranquil and peaceful lake side and mountain village atmosphere...

This is Song dynasty Henan russet splash bowl. On the inside of the bowl there are two rows of iron brown streak flowing down along the cavetto and another row lower down. On the outside of the bowl, it is glazed with a black coloured glossy glazed covering all the way down just before the footrim.

Condition: No rdamage, repair, crack, chip or restoration...

This is a late Qing period crystal snuff bottle. On the shoulder of the snuff bottle it is curved with the design of Ruyi and the body that of the petals of the lotus and at the base it is surrounded all round with the lappets of the lotus. A very nice and elegant as well as well curved crystal snuff bottle. Cir. late Qing 19th/20th century.

In good condition...

This is a two colour wufu and coin motif peking glass snuff bottle. The colour of the bat is in light brown colour and the coin is green colour. Wufu means the five fortune. The chinese coin in general means "Tong Bao" or treasure. On both side of the coin, it is inscribed with the character "Tian Xia Tai Ping" which means peace to the world. Cir. late 19th century.

Generally in good condition...

This is a finely potted butterfly bowl dated to the Qing dynasty - Tongzhi period.It thas a yellow background surrounded with butterflies with brown, pastel blue and yellow colour.

Condition:
It is in good condition with no repair restoration, chip or glaze crazing. Only manufacturing imperfection and rubbing on the rim which can be seen in the photos.

Dimension
The diameter of the bowl is 9.5cm and the height is 4.6cm

This is a Northern Song dynsty qingpai hexafoil bowl from the well known hetian yao or hetian kiln. It has a very artistically free hand incised flower on the cavetto and center of the bowl. It has a beautiful sky blue colour.

Generally it is in very good condition. The glaze condition is good with some minor manufacturing faults and glaze crazing as shown in the pictures. There is only a small nick which has a restoration on it, as shown in picture 3...

This is a late southern Song dynasty black glazed ewer. It stand on a short recessed base exposing the buff colour earthen clay material. It has two moulded leaf motif ear to the left and right shoulder of the ewer. The real item looks nicer than the photographs

Generally in good condition. No repir, chip or restoration. As can be seen in photographs 4 and 5, there are glaze crazing and some minute pin holes...

This elegant looking yingqing incense burner, from the late Song dynasty, is round in shape at the top like a ball with a double fluted flange as the supporting base. The cover is a semi-circle with intricately designed holes for the incense smoke to pass through.

There are some small manufacturing defects as seen in photograph 5...

This is a large size Liao dynasty (907–1125 A.D.)moulded polychrome earthenware dish with leaded glaze. It rests on a short foot rim, a slightly flat everted base before rising upwards. It has a simple floral motive. On the underside, the glaze is in dark brown in colour, all the way down just before the short foot rim exposing the earthenware.

There is no crack, chip, repair or any restoration. Minor glaze fritting (picture 4) at roughly about 10 and 1 o'olock. Three very small sp...

A small song dynasty dish engraved with the lotus design in white.


Dimension:
Diameter: 14cm / 5.5 inches
Height: 2cm / 0.6 inches


Condition Report:
Other than a small chip at 3 o'clock and some minor abrasion, it does not affect the appeal and aesthetic of the dish. Such dish are quite scare to come by.

Another niece piece of Ming dynasty funerary sancai glazed foreign groom and horse. The groom is foreign looking with a white slash on the waist and downward. The cap looks like from the western part of the county, probably from the one of the tribes. The groom wears a brown coloured clothe with a long sleevless outer coat in green with white collar and button. The horse is cream white in colour with green glazed harness and green saddle cloth on the horse back. The saddle is glazed in brown co...

This is a Tang dynasty funerary sancai or tri-colour tea cup set. It has a tray with seven cups on it. All the items stand on a flat base. The tri-colour is green, beige and amber, both in long streak partially outside and inside of the tray and tea cup.

There is no repair or restoration, some abrasion and bubble burst. Some expected degradation, chips & minor losses as a consequence of long period of burial and subsequent cleaning. Overall, all the items are in good condition.

This is a nice piece and of museum quality Tang dynasty ((618 – 906 A.D.) copper green glaze ewer. The shape of the ewer looks stout and strong. It has a long body with a small handle, two lugs and a short stout spout. The neck is straight and slightly high with a short and thicken everted rim.

The design on the body is a simple linear abstraction. It is incised with fine roulette design under the ice craze transparent glaze and the spout with ribbed details. The glazing covers two ...