Catalog: Antiques (16)

This is an exquisite bronze vase in a baluster form, inlaid with silver, copper, shakudo and gold accents, as in the elaborately detailed leaves of a fruit tree with gold fruit and partial branches that are in gold, some leaves are depicting where they have been eaten by insects, and near the bottom is a pair of quail and a bird perched on a branch, and one bird and an insect in flight...

This Antique Buffalo Hide Carriage Blanket is in excellent condition with just a small area indicating some minor loss; edges beyond the red zigzag border have shredding in a few areas. The label is in excellent condition and states the following: It was made by the WALLACE COMPANY in MONTANA and is INTERLINED WITH HEAVY RUBBER DRILL- Guaranteed Wind, Water and Moths...

SC43 SOLD This beautiful censor is superb in its craftsmanship, with an ovoid body that is decorated various scenes around the body, (that tell a story about the history of that time), that are inlaid with copper and silver, of a man seated in a throne near a man seated behind a desk and someone standing behind holding a banner, and on the reverse side is a man in a horse-drawn carriage with another man falling off a horse with his legs in the air, and a person holding a banner, above is a wide...

This magnificent woven cut silk and silver (metal) tapestry various floral arrangements in bronze containers, a Ding, Gui, Censor and a small Jue without flowers, with two books wrapped in ribbon, tea pot and cup, a bowl with grapes, and in the foreground various fruit, pomegranate, citron, ginseng, peach, pears, persimmon, and pumpkins all in beautiful soft colors of gray, light pale blue, and pale green with accent colors of a soft orange and brown accented with silver threads...

These two cups are not a matched pair and were made during the late 1800’s. The one cup has more gold in the decoration, seen when looking on the inside. The painted hunting scene has a hunter in a green jacket blowing a horn, white dog following a hunter in an orange jacket holding a rifle and a deer that is running, and a hunter riding a white horse. This cup has two areas near the top section with internal cracks. The other cup is with a silver color that is also seen on the inside...

This marvelous Japanese large ceramic palace floor vase was made for the World Expositions in the West 1855-1900 Paris, Vienna, and Chicago during the Victoria era. It is a tall vase with a long-flared neck and fluted rim and is finely painted with a floral and bird motif in various shaped panels with a stripped design. Age: Late Meiji Period (1868-1912) Condition: Excellent Size: 49 ¼” high (125. cm)

This fine small yellow enamel box is beautifully painted with a floral medallion on a white ground, interior with orange and blue floral sprays, base is signed with a crossed pair of blue crossed pointless arrows. Age: mid-late 1880’s. Condition: Signs of age Size: ¾” high x 2-1/2” x 1-3/4” (1.9 x 6.35 x 4.44)

The delicate form with a round body on a narrow pedestal base, and narrow neck with pitcher spout and curved scrolled handle. The body is depicting Dionysus the Olympian god of wine, pleasure, festivity, holding a cup of wine. He is accompanied by a troop of Satyrs and Maenads...

The Merritt is an original brass corkscrew dating from the early 1900’s and mounts to a bar top or table and is a non -clamp version and with a dark- wood handle. The bass is stamped “The Merritt”, M & C. Age: Early 1900's Condition is indicated with its age and is in good working order. The photos indicate the signs of age. Size: 17” length & 23-2/4” Expanded Plate 5” dia...

The rectangular carved wood with dragons and border with carved bamboo, legs with reticulated dragons and symbols, tabletop border with Shou symbols on each corner with dragons, side panels with carved dragon in high relief with an alternate border of bats and floral motif. The table folds up and the photos show it folded. Age: Late 19th - Early 20th Century Condition: some writing on the tabletop, and rest of table is in good condition...

This finely painted screen with a fall festive scene with men, women and children. A raised platform with red hanging lanterns with male and female figures. In the background are buildings and mountains. The background is 22 kt. gold squares. The black lacquer wood frame with sings of age. Condition: is excellent, on the backside the paper backing has a small tear toward the bottom...

This antique custom made two-person saddle is exquisite and the craftsmanship is finely executed, with the metal work and incising of the brass and silver, over a wood frame with iron supports. The front section is with silver open work over copper and brass, added after the silver, brass and silver are finely etched with a scrolled detail, and the finely crafted finial is dome-shaped with delicate spires that are alternating with a braided effect, and a brass bead at the top...

Capodimonte porcelain hinged box in high-relief with hand-painted frolicking cherubs and satyrs with a dark grey horse and on the lid are cherubs playing with a goat. Condition: the front panel has a firing flaw and is indented. On the base is a marked verso with a blue letter N over a crown. It was made in Naples Italy. Age: Late 19th Century Size: 4 ¾” ht. x 5 5/8” w. x 4” d. (12.06 x 14.6 x10.16 cm)

Finely decorated censor with a round full body and narrow neck, the lid with scrolled openings and temple lion shishi finial, on a tripod curved feet of heads of creatures with beards, body decorated with a undulating dragon with a raised white dotted glaze and religious personages with gold halos. An inscription on the base in gold lettering on a reddish-brown glaze. It has the Shimazu mon. Age: 1868-1912 Condition: good condition Size: 11” high 9” wide (28 x 22 cm)

This finely detailed Tibetan thank of a seated Buddha sitting on a lotus pedestal holding a blue bowl that is emblematic of healing powers, and he is surrounded by the various jatakas, displaying the tales of the various stages of the Buddha's life starting with his birth, with white elephants and stylized lions, It is superbly painted in great detail with minerals and pigments on cloth, and beautifully framed with silk mat and gilt frame...

This impressive finely painted ancestral painting is on paper and of a civil official and his wife, dressed in formal robes, seated on elaborate chairs that are draped with animal skin with whiskers. The gentleman is wearing a dark blue robe with a rank badge of a white bird designating his rank and facing the sun which an emblem for the emperor and he has long nails to show that he does not do any physical work...