Catalog: Antiques (5195)

Splendid well-matched pair of antique Japanese gilt bronze lanterns with incised floral pattern and tokugawa mon designs. With opening doors lined with paper for illumination. Used in temple passageways. Edo period, circa 1850s. Size: 16" H x 13" Diameter.

Antique Japanese Red Lacquer Dragon Altar Table with Floating top cover and raised ends. Wonderfully elegant and dramatic. Top inset panel Gilt carved dragon clutching his flaming ball over clouds. Glass eyes on dragon. Lower inset panel with birds flying over waves in gilt. Done with lovely lively quality. Lower shelf on four carved curving legs. Gilt bronze hardware of floral design. Overall good condition for age. Meiji Period (1868-1912) Size: 60" L x 19" D x overall 37"H

A very unusual and rare mid Edo period iron Duo. Full wrap around breast and back plate with hinged shoulders plates. Detail of an incredibly fierce and deleted dragon wrapped around and suspended around swirling clouds.
In japan, the dragon represent wisdom, strength, force for good, wind, water and of coarse wealth. Dragons are destructive forces, but they are also considered guardians.
The collar of the undergarment is hand sewn silk embroidered with gold threads...

An antique blue ceramic Vietnamese bowl with images of birds and trees on the sides. Found in a ship wreck from the Hoi An Hoard ship with a numbered label. Provenance: Prominent Private Collection from San Diego, CA

Date:12-13th C

Dimensions: 2.5" tall X 3.5" diameter

A blue ceramic Vietnamese cosmetic box w/lid. The lid has a raised image of a tiger. Found in a ship wreck from the Hoi An Hoard ship with a numbered label. Provenance: Prominent Private Collection from San Diego, CA

Date:12-13th C

Dimensions: 2" tall X 2.75" in diameter

A rare large antique Japanese Kuruma Tansu (wheeled chest) made of solid quartered sawn Keyaki (zelkova) wood with hand forged iron hardware and wooden wheels. Sliders are made of burl keyaki hardwood. The upper portion of the chest has a large compartment opened by sliding panels with horizontal slats and a heavy hand forged iron latch. The bottom portion has two large drawers...

An antique Japanese Ko Tansu with the original finish. The tansu has 6 drawers. Three top drawers, 2 middle drawers with iron locks and a large bottom drawer.

Date: Edo Period (1603-1868)

Dimensions: 19"tall X 32" long X 15" deep

An antique bronze Inoshishi (white-moustached pig) made by Hobundo. It features prominently in Japanese culture, where it is widely seen as a fearsome and reckless animal,Among Japanese hunters, the boar's courage and defiance is a source of admiration, and hunters and mountain people not uncommonly name their sons after the animal. The underside of the pig has a maker's mark.

Date:Meiji Period (1868-1912)

Dimensions: 8" X 3"

An antique Vietnamese glazed bowl with brush strokes on sides and in the interior. Provenance: Prominent Private Collection from San Diego, CA

Date: Tran Dynasty (13th-14thC)

Dimensions: 5.75" in diameter X 2.75" tall

An antique Vietnamese celadon glazed bowl with floral motifs in the interior. Provenance: Prominent Private Collection from San Diego, CA

Date: Ly/Tran Dynasty (12th-13thC)

Dimensions: 9" in diameter X 4" tall

Vietnamese glazed bowl. Provenance: Prominent Private Collection from San Diego, CA

Date: Tran Dynasty (13th-14thC)

Dimensions: 7" in diameter X 3.75" tall

An antique blue ceramic Vietnamese cosmetic box with an image of an elephant in grasses with birds on the lid. Found in a ship wreck from the Hoi An Hoard ship with a numbered label. Provenance: Prominent Private Collection from San Diego, CA

Date:12-13th C

Dimensions: 2" tall X 2.5" diameter

An antique Nepalo-Tibetan White Tara cast in bronze with gold gilt and a ruby stone mounted on the crown. White Tara is seen as a protective deity. This is a fragment to a large shrine which included a Green Tara, central Buddha and White Tara.

Date: 18th C

Dimensions: 8.75"

A small antique blue ceramic Vietnamese cosmetic box. The sides have images of birds among grasses with a raised geometric image on the lid. Found in a ship wreck from the Hoi An Hoard ship with a numbered label. Provenance: Prominent Private Collection from San Diego, CA

Date:12-13th C

Dimensions: 2.5" diameter X 2" tall

An incredible monumental triangular architectural pediment, chua from Thailand. Carved of wood in high relief, the design is of scrolling peony vines entwining monkey figures. The anthropomorphized monkeys, dressed in clothing and with human hands, are suggestive of the Hindu deity, Hanuman. In keeping with the Hindu/Buddhist theme, makara heads emerge from the ends of the scrolling peony vines...

An antique blue ceramic Vietnamese cosmetic box. The lid has a raised image of a dragon with geometric images on the sides. Found in a ship wreck from the Hoi An Hoard ship with a numbered label. Provenance: Prominent Private Collection from San Diego, CA

Date: 12 - 13th C

Dimensions: 2.75" diameter X 2" tall

A pair of antique Japanese folding keyaki doors with iron mounts. The door is constructed with mortise and tenon joints. The panels are divided into 7 parts framed with carved decoration and hinged with iron mounts. The carved decoration is finely painted with polychrome mineral pigment with gold gilt accents. The subject matter of the temple doors is a scrolling lotus motif and 8 phoenixes.
The phoenix represents power sent from the heavens to the Empress...

A pair of antique blue ceramic Vietnamese mini bottles. Found in a ship wreck from the Hoi An Hoard ship with a numbered label. The bottles were used as perfume bottles. Provenance: Prominent Private Collection from San Diego, CA

Date:12-13th C

Dimensions: 2.5" tall X 1.25" wide