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A Very Fine Koryo Bronze Covered Bowl with a beautiful Patina Korea, Koryo dynasty (11th -14th century) Thinly cast, of slightly compressed globular form, mounted on a smoothed flat foot, the cover of waisted domed shape, the smooth patina of blackish olive with some encrustation. It’a in unusually fine condition without any damages at all. It measures16.3cm x 12cm d. (6.5” x 4.75”).

A Very Rare/Fine Japanese Woodblock Print by Tadashi Nakayama (1927 -): Japan, dated 1961, with original frame. Ptinted with metallic embellishments, of red and silver squares with black top (?), signed in pencil T. Nakayama, edition numbered 16/50, on the bottom margin, with a professional/original frame. This is a very unusual print by this artist. It’s in very good condition with color and impression, without any noticeable defects but not examined its back. Measurements; 33” x 2...

A Very Fine, clear and warm White Porcelain Bottle: Korea, Choson period, 18th Century, This is a very finely potted and glazed pear shaped body rising a full rounded sides tapering toward the bong and tall neck, and a straight angle cut mouth rim with incised two lines accented near the rim. It is covered overall with high quality of pure white glaze. It has a short hair line crack and related two chips repaired with gold the mouth rim, otherwise it is in fine condition. Measures 11 1...

A Very Fine and Rare Earthen Ware Musical Instrument: Korea, Three Kingdom (Old Silla) period, 4th-5th century This is one of the rarest earthenware musical instruments from old Silla period, which is formed in a round, spherical shape. It has been incised with three bands encircling the circumference of the shape. At the cross points of these bands, there are holes so the sound of the small earthen beads, place in it's hollow interior, can be heard. Some of those 6 holes have some darkene...

A Rare and Fine Early Kimhae Type Pottery Jar with Stand: Korea, Kaya (Old Silla) Period, 3rd-4th Century, This present jar is a rare early Old Silla period, Kimhae type jar with slightly flaring raised rim and looped handles. It is well potted globular form with blackish grey whole body incised with comb patterns divided by horizontal bands. It is in fine condition without any damage. It measures 11 3/4” x 12 “d, *** Reference; Korean Art, from The Brooklyn Museum Collection, by C...

A Pair of Very Fine Korean Antique Leather Shoes: The oiled and spiked leather shoes protected from rain and slippery in rainy days. They’re in very fine condition without any damages at all. Measurements: 24cm x 8.5cm

A Fine Koren Carved Wood Folk Wedding Duck: Korea, 19th Century Carved with a lozenge-form body with a flat, oval base and a fitted with a detachable neck and head which fit into a round hole in the body, painted in black pigment with two eyes, its beak has two holes for fiting laces, it has old rich dark patina on the surface. This wedding duck is superb piece of Korean folk sculpture, warm and compelling in this derectness and naivete. It’s in good condition. It measures 31cm x 20cm (1...

A Korean Find/Old Paulownia Wood Scholar’s Desk : Korean, Joseon period , 19th century The paulownia wood writing (reading) desk raised on four bracket feet, the rectangular desk with flat top and two rectangular draws on the bottom and a big open space for a inkstone, papers and etc.below the flat top, the draws mounted with ring pulls, this table covered overall with aged natural patina. It’s in fine condition without any typical damages, Measurements; 72.5cm . x 33.5.cm x 33c...

A Korean Rare/Fine Scholar’s Wood Bookshelf Chest: Korean, Joseon period, 19th century The paulownia wood surfaces ot the rectangular chest covered by old aged natural patina, mounted with metal fittings, the two central and rectangular hinged doors, and mounted with metal hinges and lock attacked to the lockplate the two doors opening to the double inner horizontal compartments set. It’s in fine condition with aged natural patina. Measurements; 86cm x 42.5cm x 70cm h.

Korean Very Fine Small Wood Coin Chest: Korea, Joseon Period, 19th Century, with an original lock (Key missing) This small wood coin chest is a very heavy hard wood used, and unusually the chest was not used hinges for its joints at all, was just used wood cut lock-in joints, and this chest has also beautiful wood grains and old natural patina all over the surfaces. It is rectangular form, fitted with thin iron mounts and circular lockplate with hasp, and with an original lock(key missing...

A Very Fine Koryo Sea-Green Celadon Shallow Dish;12th C.: Korea, Koryo dynasty, 12th Century. This well balanced shallow dish applied with a beautiful sea-green crackled and transparent celadon glaze overall, set on a raised ring foot, its foot rim unglazed and its base sea-green celadon glazed. It’s in very good condition with a few short hairline cracks on the rim. Measurements: 14.8cm x 3.6cm.

A Very Fine/Rare/Large Carved Black Inkstone: Korea, 19th Century An oval shaped light black color and heavy weight inkstone carved in remarkable craftsmanship with two large and old pine tree with 4 cranes, and highlighted by two olive green “eye” inclusions, it has inscriptions on the bottom. It’s in very fine condition without any noticeable damages. Measurements; 10 ¼” x 8 ½” x 1 ¼” (26cm x 21.5cm x 3.2cm)

A Very Fine Chinese Grey Mottled White Jade Ruyi Sceptre: China, 19th 18th –early 19th century This grey white nephrite jade Ruyi Sceptre finely carved and well polished, it skillfully worked in high relief with a pierced and carved in the form of an old and curved plum stem with its flowers and Lingzhi fungus, a monkey playing on the plum branches, russet dark grey tinges on some areas. It is in very fine condition without any damages, and measures 14cm x 4.7cm w.

A Fine Mother of Peal/Tortoise Shell Inlaid Lacquer Low Table: Korea, Choson period, late 19th Century, This rectangular low table is lacquered with dark brown over all, and top decorated with a confronted large four-clawed dragon and a long-tailed phoenix inlaid in tortoise shell, twisted wire and mother of pearl, and amid clouds enclosed in a floral scroll-form border. It is in very fine condition except a corner having lightly crashed (see photo). Measures 13 ½” h.x 39/ ¼” L...

A Fine White/Apple Green Jadeite Carved Cluster of Grapes: China, early 1900s. This is a quite large and very finely deep carved jadeite cluster of grape with two children under grape leaves. Depicting a deeply undercut grapes, old grapevines, leaves and two boys under a cluster of grapes carved in bright white-apple green matris mottled with emerald green, lavender and resset of Jadeite, it’s in very fine condition without any chips or cracks at all, with silver inlaid wood carved stand. ...

A Rare Japanese Album Leaf Prints by Toyokuni Kunisa Japan, 19th Century 14 full set of Japanese album leaf prints (10 triptych and 4 double leaf prints).A part of one triptych prit might be missed. It is in fine condition without any typical damages, and its measurements are 14" x 9 7/8" for each page.

An Extremely Rare Korean Koryo Total Iron-Brown Coated Bottle Vase-13th C.: Korea, Koryo dynasty, 13th Century The well potted globular stoneware body set on a raised foot, with a narrow short neck and everted rim, entirely applied with an iron-brown (öª‰) on the surfaces, some arears have little thicker iron-brown glaze(öª‰). It has been reattached with an original apart from 1" broken under the mouth rim professionally, and has some small repairs on the mouth rim. otherwi...

A Beatiful Natural Green Ash glazed Cup-Shape Bottle: Korea, Koryo Period, 10th -11th Century The slightly tapering globular stoneware bottle with short neck and cup-shaped mouth enhanced with a thick and running olive green ash glaze pooling toward the base. Its half bottom of the body and base unglazed. It’s in very fine condition without any damages at all. Measurements: 10” .6 ¼” (25.5cm x 15.8cm)