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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1492 item #1393873 (stock #CH5.103)
Maklaiheung Gallery
SOLD at $2,800
These roughly potted Jizhou tea bowls embody the Song aesthetic and have always been highly sought after. The body is of conical form and burnt ochre at the foot. The lovely calligraphic design has a lovely freedom to it. It is splashed on in a very painterly way, representing prunus blossom with a sketchily painted moon in the sky above. These Jizhou tea bowls, along with Jian Kiln tea bowls, were of the prized tea ceremony wares among Song literati. Ex...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1492 item #1393642 (stock #CH5.87.1)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$1,100.00
A stunning piece of Qingbai porcelain like this one is rare to find nowadays. The glaze has a rich bluish green colour which offers a jade like effect. With its impressed lotus motif on the exterior of the body, this bowl is dated to the Yuan dynasty when these floral patterns were common. The incised design is very assured and full of vitality. Diameter: 15.5 cm. Condition: Good. No chips, no repairs...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1492 item #1389864 (stock #CH5.101)
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With a lustrous, light blue glaze all over, this beautiful Qingbai cosmetic box represents the high standard that Qingbai porcelain achieved in the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279). It is in the form of fluted chrysanthemum petals and on the cover there is a single chrysanthemum flower moulded in the centre. Diameter: 8.5 cm Condition: Excellent, no chips, no cracks...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1492 item #1389862 (stock #CH4.63)
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This lovely, well potted Qingbai saucer dish with light green glaze has a central moulded decoration of two fish, swimming freely through aquatic plants. The pattern around the fish is known as Lei wen or yun lei wen (Cloud or Rolling Thunder/Cloud Pattern), it symbolized life (rain) and good wishes. Diameter: 14 cm. Condition: Good...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1900 item #1389810 (stock #CH7.41)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$260.00
This small but elegant late Qing Geyao vase is in double gourd (Hulu) shape. The green to grey glaze with a pleasing pattern of dark brown crackle lines, covers the whole vase, inside and out, with the exception of the foot rim. Size: Height: 10.7 cm. Condition: Excellent condition, with only light scratches to the glaze. Purchased in Hong Kong in 1995. Price: USD $260; CAD $350 (13% HST will be applied on all sales in Ontario.)
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1492 item #1388415 (stock #CH4.58)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$120.00
Diameter: 13.97 cm Condition: Good. Two Chinese characters marked at the base: Wu Zhai. Price: USD $120; CAD $160 (13% HST will be applied on all sales in Canada).
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1492 item #1388413 (stock #CH4.591)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$100.00
A must-have Qingbai porcelain piece. Diameter: 13.8 cm Condition: Good, no chips, no repairs. A small firing crack at the base.Price: USD $100; CAD $135 (13% HST will be applied on all sales in Canada).
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1388412 (stock #CH7.62)
Maklaiheung Gallery
SOLD
Produced in the Kangxi period (1661-1722), this fine plate was intended for the export market and painted in the fashionable Japanese style. Jingdezhen's monopoly on porcelain production was broken in 1616 when Japanese potters at Arita figured out how to produce their own porcelain wares. These were exported to the outside world from the port at Imari, and their dramatic combination of underglaze blue with overglaze red and gold proved an enormous success...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Metalwork : Pre AD 1000 item #1388411 (stock #CH1.82)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$700.00
A rare and unusual “Ordos” bronze pin from one of the nomadic cultures located on China’s north-western borders in the first millennium BCE. It represents a ferocious animal, possibly a wolf, standing on two orbs. The decorations on its flanks and neck indicate the animal’s hair...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1492 item #1385699 (stock #CH5.53)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$2,600.00
With a lightly crackled white glaze, this beautiful Dehua porcelain kendi is tending to a light blue Qingbai effect, where it has pooled, over a beautiful white translucent body. It has a long curved spout, a flared rim, and a bulbous body molded with a floral design. These kendis were made mainly for the growing export market in island Southeast Asia. They were used as pouring vessels in Buddhist rituals. This is very early Blanc de Chine, and the porcelain has a lovely softness to it...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Ceramics : Pre 1900 item #1384811 (stock #TH103)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$580.00
This late nineteenth century teapot was manufactured in Jingdezhen and enamelled either there or in Guangzhou. By that period in Thailand ware that previously had been utilized solely by the royal court was becoming fashionable with the newly-wealthy classes. This pot and its lid are decorated in a “trellis and flower” pattern in the Lai Nam Thong (gold wash) style...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1383556 (stock #CH3.35)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$450.00
The Northern and Southern Dynasties (420 AD- 589 AD) are often considered the most chaotic period of time in Chinese history...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Indian Subcontinent : Himalayas : Pre AD 1000 item #1383261 (stock #SA179)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$800.00
Believed to protect the owner from misfortune, these were among the most highly prized beads in the ancient world. They were especially valued in Tibet, though they were not produced there. This one would have been manufactured in South Asia some time between 2,000 and 4,000 years ago. As with all dzi beads, the dark brown area of the stone may have been darkened in a process that involved it being coated with a solution of natural sugar and then baked...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #1378324 (stock #CH5.91)
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Jianyao tea bowl with hare’s fur (temmoku) glaze over a rough stone-ware body, Shuji, Fujian province, China, Song dynasty, C12. Traditionally, these rough bowls were thought of as the ideal tea bowls, both because they showed off perfectly the white powdered tea that was fashionable at that time and because their thick bodies retained the heat well...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Sculpture : Pre AD 1000 item #1378322 (stock #KH49)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$3,200.00
This head, possibly of Uma, would have been carved during the reign of King Udayadityavarman II (1050-1066), a great builder and patron of the arts. It is very delicately carved, with open eyes conveyed by simple outlines, sensuous lips and a strong slightly cleft chin. The overall impression is of a powerful but compassionate female face crowned with a ring inset with precious stones around her elaborately braided hair. The Baphuon period produced some of the finest stone carving and this is a ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1378230 (stock #CH6.92&6.93)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$2,200.00
Celebratory porcelain cups (often rather pretentiously called libation cups) with a translucent creamy white glaze over the high-fired perfectly white paste, Dehua, China, late Ming Dynasty, c 1630-1650. The form is that of a rhinoceros horn cup. The decorative appliqués on the larger one show a four-clawed dragon emerging from a cloud, a tiger and a stag standing beneath plum and pine branches. There is a crane, too, on the smaller cup. These cups, with their auspicious symbols, were intended ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre AD 1000 item #1378031 (stock #CH2.8)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$800.00
Boshanlu is the Chinese term for this Boshan (Hill Bo or Mountain Bo) shaped censer. Dating from the Eastern Han dynasty, this Boshanlu is a rare piece as most of the censers in this period were made in bronze or unglazed terracotta, whereas this one has a nice layer of rust-coloured glaze. Condition: Good, one small chip at the rim of the cover. Some age-related wear. Size: H: 21.5 cm, W: 14.3 cm.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1900 item #1374585 (stock #CH7.71)
Maklaiheung Gallery
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A very nice little jar with a thick geyao glaze. it dates to the end of the nineteenth century. Diameter: 7.1 cm. Condition: Very good.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Sculpture : Pre AD 1000 item #1372608 (stock #WA562)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$380.00
This is a simple and very assured carving that catches with just a few strokes the devotion of a middle-aged man to his Buddhist faith. It dates from the 4th century CE. Height: 16.5 cm. Condition: Head reattached. Price: USD $380; CAD $500 (13% HST will be applied on all sales in Canada.)
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1372597 (stock #CH2.78)
Maklaiheung Gallery
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Han dynasty potters were perhaps the most original and creative in the whole history of Chinese ceramics, and their work is still neglected and undervalued - a marvellous opportunity for the collector. This jar, which was made in the late Western-early Eastern Han period (1st century BCE-1st century CE) in the Jiangsu or Zhejiang area, has a full rounded body and a low cut neck which gives prominence to the mask handles. It is very “potterly” and surprisingly modern in appearance. The ash ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Glass : Pre AD 1000 item #1366069 (stock #CH1.122)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$360.00
A rare composite eye bead made during the Warring States Period, circa 481 to 221 BC. The composite type of Warring States bead is made with a thin layer of glass overlaid on a clay or ceramic material core. This one is in especially good condition. From every aspect the frame of rich brown intersecting lines creates an almost mask-like structure for the blue and white, or yellow, raised eyes. This elaborate style of bead was only made during a narrow window of time in Henan province. Dimensi...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Glass : Pre AD 1000 item #1366062 (stock #CH1.102)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$400.00
A rare composite eye bead made during the Warring States Period, circa 481 to 221 BC. The composite type of Warring States bead is made with a thin layer of glass overlaid on a clay or ceramic material core. There are five small white glass eyes around each of the larger eyes which are made of stratified layers of blue on top of white glass. This elaborate style of bead was only made during a narrow window of time in Henan province and apparently never made again. Dimensions: width, 21mm; hei...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Sculpture : Pre AD 1000 item #1366057 (stock #CH3.94)
Maklaiheung Gallery
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The bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara is shown standing on a lotus plinth rising from a four-legged platform, his right hand raisedin tribangha and a kamandalu ('holy water' bottle) pendent from the left hand. He is wearing a crown centered by a figure of Amitabha Buddha, and his head is surrounded by an aureole inscribed with flames, at the top of which another image of the Buddha emerges. This figure dates from the Northern Wei dynasty (6th century CE), and it’s remarkabe for the way in which, des...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Stoneware : Pre AD 1000 item #1366050 (stock #CH1.16)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$300.00
These hard-stone axes of oval section have been found in Yangshao neolithic sites in Shanxi province, dating to the late 5th-early 4th millennium BCE. This is a particular fine example, made from a large oblong pebble of a very hard jadelike stone. The sides and butt are left rough, and the tip is polished to a slightly curved profile on both sides. It fits comfortably into the hand. Dimensions: length: 10 cm; width: 4.3 cm. Condition: Excellent, with ancient chips and scratches; no modern...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1492 item #1363556 (stock #CH4.55)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$80.00
This small but fine piece belongs to the Maklaiheung's QingBai Collections. About Qingbai Wares: "The special characteristic comes from the body, which is natural porcelain clay, and its glaze, which is made by diluting in water the porcelain body material mixed with lime." "Rims on qingbai bowls and dishes were also sometimes fitted with a silver band in the same manner as the Northern Ding wares, to cover the unglazed rims."- Gotheborg Condition: Good. No sign of repair or restorati...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1492 item #1359705 (stock #CH4.57)
Maklaiheung Gallery
SOLD
A small Qingbai brush washer from Song Dynasty (960 - 1279 AD). Dia: 12.7 cm Condition: Good. No scratch or crack on surface.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1900 item #1358678 (stock #JA74)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$1,200.00
Yokoyama Seiki is an artist from the Shoji school during the late Edo period.(1603-1868) . Seiko was one of the best pupils of Matsumura Keibun (1779-1843). Seiki is particularly renowned for the fine quality of his Kacho-ga as well as for his figurative and landscape paintings. Signed with the artist’s two inkans, Qing and Hui, which are Seiki’s name in Chinese, this particular painting on paper is signed by hand and inkan. It shows a fisherman on a boat and steering it downstream. The foli...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1492 item #1358663 (stock #CH4.54)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$180.00
This little Qingbai bowl brings a refreshing feeling with its creamy minty light blue glaze. Condition: Good. Diameter: 14.9 cm.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1800 item #1354325 (stock #CH6.51)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$180.00
A small, brown glazed vase from North China, Yuan or Ming dynasty. The vase is covered all over with a dark brown glaze that thins somewhat on the base. It has high shoulders applied with a stylized floral pattern and a flaring mouth. It may have originally functioned as a small wine container. Condition: Good with wear commensurate with its age. Size: H: 13 cm. Dia: 10.07 cm
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #1354323 (stock #CH5.109)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$2,600.00
This is a fine purple-splashed Junyao jar with two small strap handles, Jin or Yuan dynasties, China (C12-13). As expected, it is heavily potted and it has a beautifully thick blue glaze. There is a purple splash to the front with the glaze endling unevenly at the foot and revealing the rich red stoneware body at the base. At the upper rim the glaze has thinned and been altered to a brownish green colour which is also found on the two handles. Ex: I.M. Chait. Size: diameter 13.5 cm, h: 13.8 c...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre AD 1000 item #1354322 (stock #CH3)
Maklaiheung Gallery
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A rare green-glazed dragon-handled porcelaneous tripod vessel (Jiaodou) from the Yueyao kilns, eastern Jin dynasty. The head of the dragon is carved very expressively This is an extremely rare censer form that probably derives originally from a bronze shape; more examples have been found in bronze than in ceramics. The Yueyao kilns were the first in China to develop a porcellaneous body and glaze. The glaze on this example is typical of Yue production in the Jin period, a beautifully soft greyi...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Sculpture : Pre 1700 item #1354315 (stock #CH6.54)
Maklaiheung Gallery
SOLD at $150
Every collector should have some of these Ming dynasty pottery burial figures in their collection. They are such a good bargain and they tell us so much about Chinese culture. Whereas the Tang dynasty figures are always rather theatrical, these Ming attendants are resolutely realistic. They remind me of the bored professional mourners one still sees occasionally at funerals today. This musician is a very good example, with his robes covered in a slightly iridescent crackled green glaze, and his ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Sculpture : Pre 1700 item #1354312 (stock #CH6.53)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$180.00
Every collector should have some of these Ming dynasty pottery burial figures in their collection. They are such a good bargain and they tell us so much about Chinese culture. Whereas the Tang dynasty figures are always rather theatrical, these Ming attendants are resolutely realistic. They remind me of the bored professional mourners one still sees occasionally at funerals today. This female servant is a very good example, with her robes covered in a slightly iridescent crackled green glaze and...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre AD 1000 item #1354310 (stock #CH4.73)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$780.00
This is a very unusual and rare bowl that shows the experimental nature of the northern kilns in the late Tang and early Song. Very few examples of underglaze paintings are known from these kilns at that time period. The bevelled trim to the footrim is similar to that which may be seen on the better Yaozhou production. Size: dia 12.7 cm, h 7.9cm. Condition: It has slumped a little in the kiln and the rim is slightly askew; there is wear to the glaze and there are a few small frits close to the ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1347704 (stock #CH2.53)
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This is a grey, high-fired earthenware cocoon-shaped jar, cold-painted with swirling cloud patterns in red, white and light blue from the Western Han period, 206 BC- 9 AD. It has a short neck and everted rim. The marks of old plant growth can be found close to the bottom. It is very unusual to find one of these jars in such a fine state of preservation. This one is somewhat larger than the norm. It’s a fine example of the skill and creativity of the Han potter. Ex: Antony J.Allen. Condition...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1492 item #1347696 (stock #CH5.60)
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This is a superb and rare Yaozhou ware russet porcelain vase, brown glaze over a grey-white paste, Northern China, Song or Jin dynasty, 960-1234. Russet- or persimmon-glazed wares from Yaozhou were probably first made to imitate dingyao pieces, but the yaozhouyao glaze fires with a uniquely metallic lustre, as in this example. The paste on the footring and the unglazed base has fired to a rich creamy-colour, which is quite common with these brown-glazed wares. All these pieces are rare, especia...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Ceramics : Pre 1492 item #1347695 (stock #TH162)
Maklaiheung Gallery
SOLD for $3800.00
This is an extremely rare iron black underglaze-painted porcelaneous dish, with a design of black flowers under a crackled, lustrous glaze,Kalong, Lanna kingdom, Northern Thailand, C15-16. Most Thai collectors refer to the motif as crows or ravens, but I’m fairly sure that these are in fact a very rare orchid that grows in the mountains north of Chiang Mai and very near to Wiang Kalong - impatiens psittacina, the parrot flower (“dork geyow” in Thai). This particular example shows the free-...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1900 item #1344013 (stock #CH7.103)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$780.00
This finely enamelled bowl features two pheasants resting on peony branches on a rich coral ground(Yanzhihong). A Kangxi Yuzhi Mark (A mark in underglaze blue within a double square) is at the base but most likely it is a 19th century to early republic piece. Dia: 15.3 cm, H: 7.7cm Condition: Excellent, no chips, no cracks or sign of repairs.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1340627 (stock #CH6.117)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$500.00
This is a possible Jiajing piece as it has a purple undertone and no black spots, which was common for Jailing porcelain (During the Jailing period, the formula that was used to produce blue and white porcelain was generally low in iron and manganese which produced an undertone of purple). Inside this lovely bow, it depicts a scholar wearing high hat on a deer which is called “Lu Gao Sheng”. “Lu Gao Sheng” are phonograms of “deer”, “High, tall” and “To raise”. On the outside...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1492 item #1340555 (stock #CH6.43)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$120.00
Yuan dynasty is the time when Zaju (Variety show ) begins to take over people’s entertainment life. This adorable porcelain figure captures a Zaju character riding a horse with a typical Shusheng(Scholar, usually a young one) hat in Zaju (Later adopted by Peking Opera).This porcelain figure is well painted with variety of colour. The horse has a red decoration on its head suggests this is a young scholar who had made a success in Keju (Imperial examinations) and he is riding the horse returni...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Snuff Bottles : Pre 1900 item #1340485 (stock #CH7.109)
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Snuff was introduced into China from the West in the seventeenth century and its popularity quickly engendered a new art form, the snuff bottle. This exquisite little ovoid bottle is very well made from layered opaque white/pink/white glass finely carved into an elaborate surface of lotus petals with a coiled lotus stem forming the base rim. The term Sandwich Pink is rather banal for such a beautiful object; the Chinese name, Taohua Dong, meaning frozen peach blossom, seems much more appropriate...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1340482 (stock #CH4.59)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$380.00
This large storage vessel has a fine amber glaze (Hong tao, red pottery) on the upper body. It was made during the Tang dynasty (618 AD - 906 AD), when ceramic firing technology (both low-fired and high-) was developing rapidly. It was made in a northern kiln for daily use, but even such functional objects have a strong aesthetic identity that is typical of Tang culture. Size: h: 27.5 cm, dia: 20.2 cm
 Condition: Good. Wear to the glaze at the top rim; otherwise only some colour variations...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Monochrome : Mirror Black : Pre 1900 item #1340477 (stock #CH7.92)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$450.00
It was not until the Qing dynasty that the Jingdezhen potters finally mastered the production of this very difficult bright black enamel glaze. Unfortunately, these vases were frequently fired a third time overpainted with intricate gold enamel patterns, but the plain monochromes are much more achieved. The very elegant form of this vase with its long neck and compressed body derived ultimately from Han bronze models, and became especially popular in Qianlong times. This example has an underglaz...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre AD 1000 item #1340473 (stock #CH2.41)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$680.00
Ear cups were originally used only in ceremonies (Li Qi) back in the Zhou Dynasty. Later, the form became popular in Han dynasty and on into the Jin and Northern and Southern Dynasties, and it was used for wine drinking in daily life. The pair of lead glazed earcups that we also have listed were produced for burial purposes, but this example would have been used by the living. The oval body has an ear-shaped handle on both sides. It is coated with a crackled jade green celadon glaze that already...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1900 item #1337693 (stock #CH7.104)
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Peach-bloom glaze or apple-red (Jiangdouhong) Liuye ping was an original and major innovation of Jingdezhen ware in the Kangxi Period (1661-1722). The deep red glaze is beautifully applied all over the body, giving way to the white base layer of glaze only at the mouthrim. This small but exquisite vase shows the perfection of Liuye ping: A fine and slender boy sits on a narrow recessed base (white). It has a flared rim, medium-length neck, rounded shoulders and long tapered body that ends in a ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Textiles : Pre 1900 item #1336467 (stock #CH7.42)
Maklaiheung Gallery
SOLD FOR $650
Rank badges (Buzi, Mandarin Square) were textile panels that normally decorated the official outfits of nobles and civil and militarily officials during the Ming and Qing dynasties. This particular example has 5 bats (wu fu) symbolizing  5 blessings (a commonly used homophone in traditional Chinese culture): health, wealth, longevity, love of virtue and a peaceful death. The embroidery is skillfully stitched, and there is a border of “gold” metallic threads in the key-fret (leiwen) pattern ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1336465 (stock #CH2.16)
Maklaiheung Gallery
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This cylindrical granary stands on three feet decorated with a moulded bear motif, which are often found on such containers. In the Han Dynasty, people interred these granaries in graves to provide grain for the deceased. This one is made with fine grey pottery and decorated with three sets of horizontal incised bands. Dimension: H: 24.5cm Dia: 12.5cm Condition: very good, with an aged patina and traces of ancient root growth. No sign of damage or repair. Price: USD $350; CAD $455 (13% HS...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1334666 (stock #CH2.20)
Maklaiheung Gallery
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A small hu-form jar with green and amber lead glaze. It dates to the Han dynasty, probably the Western Han (206BCE-9CE). These small jars are actually much less common than the larger ones, and it is rare to find them with two colours. Height: 12.4 cm; diameter: 9.4 cm. Condition: good and intact; normal wear and with the usual small chips to the glaze. Ex Anthony J. Allen. Price: USD $550; CAD $715 (13% HST will be applied on all sales in Canada)
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1334581 (stock #CH4.21)
Maklaiheung Gallery
SOLD FOR $600
This is a very nice example of a small Tang Dynasty (618-907CE) sancai pot for the scholar’s table at an affordable price. The glaze is finely crackled and has a slight iridescence. Diameter: 5cm. Condition: Intact and good with no repairs; normal wear for its age.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1334578 (stock #CH4.41)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$500.00
This is a good example of an utilitarian Tang Dynasty (618-907CE) jar that would have been used for storage. It is roughly but skillfully potted and the green glaze has gathered into a light blue drop that in other kilns might have been deliberately exploited so as to produce the sought-after suffused grey effect. Diameter: 5cm. Condition: Intact and good with no repairs; normal wear to the rim.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pottery : Pre 1492 item #1334382 (stock #CH5.02)
Maklaiheung Gallery
SOLD
A polychrome Liao Sancai saucer dish incised with good luck cloud patterns. The dish is glazed in green, yellow and cream colours. Condition: Very good, no repair, no crack, minor glaze fritting on the side close to the rim.  Diameter: 12.00cm  Ex: I.M. Chait
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pottery : Pre 1492 item #1334379 (stock #CH5.01)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$300.00
This Sancai plate dated to Liao - Jin period (1115-1125), features an incised Haitang flower with open leaves around it in the centre. Begonia is the type of flower that is commonly seen in other Liao Sancai wares. The flower is coloured white with a bright red pistil surrounded by a cream glazed circle. There is no restoration. Abrasion and some glaze flakes on the rim, which is normal considering the age and the nature of the glaze. Diameter: 12.5 cm Condition: Some glaze flakes on the rim,...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1492 item #1332709 (stock #CH5.87)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$950.00
This is quite rare. The moulded design in the cavetto shows a pattern of young boys amid vines that was popular in Song dynasty times but uncommon in these Qingbai moulded dishes that were produced at Jingdezhen in the Southern Song period (1127-1279). This bowl was probably intended to be used as a brushwasher. The glaze on this example is especially good and thick, making it difficult to make out the pattern in the centre. Diameter: 17.2 cm; Height: 4.8 cm. Condition good and intact; expecte...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre AD 1000 item #1332708 (stock #CH4.76)
Maklaiheung Gallery
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This bowl is typical of the highly original porcelaneous vessels that were produced in the eighth century by the kilns at Changsha. Many were exported in large quantities to Southeast and West Asia, and some were recovered from the Belitung shipwreck, which this one probably comes from. The abstract pattern of spirals and squiggles is painted with great vitality, and can easily be read from one angle as a vase and, from the opposite one, as a human face. Price: SOLD at USD $1800. Height: 5...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1332707 (stock #CH2.13&2.14)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$1,080.00
These ear cups - erbei - originally coated with a green lead glaze, have developed a very attractive iridescence over many years of burial. This form, used for drinking wine, was made in a variety of different materials in the eastern Han Dynasty (25-220CE), bronze, jade, glass, lacquer, and, of course, ceramics. These two cups are moulded on the exterior with a wave pattern and a saw tooth band below the rim, imitating the decoration on a bronze model. Length: 11 and 11.5 cm. Condition: One ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Sculpture : Pre AD 1000 item #1332706 (stock #SA76)
Maklaiheung Gallery
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A small stucco head in excellent condition, it dates to the 4th or 5th centuries CE and comes originally from one of the Buddhist monastic complexes in what is now Northwestern Pakistan or Eastern Afghanistan. It is very expressively modelled, conveying a sense of all-knowing compassion and gentleness. In this it is quite different from the run-of-the mill Buddhas which convey distance and power. Much of its original polychrome decoration remains. This is a very fine example. Height: 10.8 cm; ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1700 item #1332704 (stock #CH6.116)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$750.00
Very little seems to have been written in English about these brown-glazed boxes with moulded lids. I bought this from a Japanese collector who believed it to be Vietnamese, since siimilar boxes were produced in Vietnam during the fifteenth-sixteenth centuries. But the clay is quite different and more gritty than the smooth grey paste used in Vietnamese ceramics. Apparently these Fujian boxes were exported to Southeast Asia and competed there with the Vietnamese variants. They are unusual and un...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1900 item #1332703 (stock #CH7.45)
Maklaiheung Gallery
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This attractive barrel-shaped jar has a crackled cream glaze with a second bright green enamelled overglaze. A bright apple green enamel had been used previously but never as an overall monochrome glaze on top of a crackled one until the Kangxi period (1661-1722). This jar has a Kangxi four-character mark but dates, like almost all four-character “Kangxi” pieces, from the late nineteenth century. Height: 11.5 cm; diameter: 13 cm. Condition: A couple of patches where the green enamel h...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Indian Subcontinent : Himalayas : Pre AD 1000 item #1332692 (stock #SA218)
Maklaiheung Gallery
$900.00
There is very little accurate information about Pema Raka beads. As they have become more and more popular the stories about them have multiplied, but most of the information is fanciful at best. Presumably they were made in India, but the irregularities in form and the perforations are very different from the carnelian beads that were made for the South Asian or even the African markets. Whether they were made specifically for the Tibetan market or found their way there, we can’t tell. But th...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1900 item #1332594 (stock #CH7.12)
Maklaiheung Gallery
SOLD
This is an excellent example of one of the most sought-after kinds of porcelain snuff-bottles. It has a good jadeite stopper and dates from the Daoguang reign (1821-1850). On one side there is a typical close-up of a cricket and on the other a slightly more unusual depiction of a cricket climbing over its open cage. It has fanciful mask handles on each shoulder. Height: 6.3 cm; Width: 5.4 cm. Condition: Very good, with a small abraded patch to the glaze on the rim.