1900's Chinese Flambe Glaze Scholar Porcelain Brush Washer

It is 3.5 inches (9 cm) tall by 11.8 inches (30 cm) wide. It is 5.5 Lb.

It has skip glazes, glaze crazing, chips at the foot, and surface wears and scratches (as seen in the photos).

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Pair of 19th Century Chinese Rosewood Carved Candelabra with Jade Plaque Inlay

Each is 9.6 inches (24.3 cm) tall by 7.5 inches (19 cm) wide. They are 1.3 lb.

They have chips and surface wears and scratches. One of the candelabra is missing one foot at the bottom (as seen in the photos).

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Chinese pottery foreign court man, bulging eyes, high nose, wearing hat, with red black, and white pigments remaining.

Age: China, Tang Dynasty, A.D. 618 - 907
Size: Height 36.2 C.M. / Width 11.3 C.M. (size excluding stand)
Condition: Well-preserved old burial condition overall with some amount of soil adhering (some abrasions and wearings on the piece due to the long burial time underground). Please refer to the enlargement photos for more details...

19th century Chinese Peking glass hair pin of classic shape. Glass perfectly imitates celadon jade both in color and finish, great patina, couple of tiny chips to edges, pleasant feel of age. Length 6 3/8 inches. Part of a small Massachusetts collection of Peking glass.

19th century Chinese Peking glass bangle bracelet of classical shape made out of opaque white glass with green and pink/red splashes imitating jadeite. Nice colors, occasional bubbles inside the material typical for the period. Beautiful patina and slight wear to the surface, overall in excellent condition. Inner diameter 72 mm (2 13/16 inches), outer diameter 3 7/16 inches. Part of a small Massachusetts collection of Peking glass.

19th century Chinese Peking glass bangle bracelet of classical shape made out of opaque black glass. Beautiful color, great patina and slight wear to the surface, overall in excellent condition. Inner diameter 67 mm (2 5/8 inches), outer diameter 3 3/8 inches. Part of a small Massachusetts collection of Peking glass.

19th century Chinese Peking glass bangle bracelet of classical shape made out of apple green glass perfectly imitating jadeite. Nice color, occasional bubbles inside the material typical for the period. Beautiful patina and slight wear to the surface, overall in excellent condition. Inner diameter 65 mm (2 9/16 inches), outer diameter 3 1/4 inches. Part of a small Massachusetts collection of Peking glass.

19th century Chinese Peking glass bangle bracelet of classical shape made out of opaque pink glass. Nice color, occasional bubbles inside the material typical for the period. Beautiful patina and slight wear to the surface, overall in excellent condition. Inner diameter 77 mm (3 1/16 inches), outer diameter 3 3/4 inches. Part of a small Massachusetts collection of Peking glass.

19th century Chinese Peking glass bangle bracelet for a small child of classical shape made out of transparent red glass. Nice color, beautiful bubbles inside the material typical for the period. Beautiful patina and slight wear to the surface, overall in excellent condition. Inner diameter 48 mm (1 7/8 inches), outer diameter 2 3/8 inches. Part of a small Massachusetts collection of Peking glass.

Antique Japanese Tobako-bon (tobacco box) with two small drawers. The top portion has an open square compartment lined with copper, a small rectangular-shaped space and another square compartment closed with a wooden lid. Just above the drawers is a long diagonal space to hold pipes. The box has a bamboo handle for carrying. Made with hardwood burl with dramatic swirling figure...

Antique Japanese rare gyosho bako (peddler's box) for a barber. A set of 3 separated boxes that fit together and can be easily carried. The largest box has 5 drawers with bronze hardware including hirute shaped drawer pulls and decorative peony back plates. The top of the box has 2 open compartments, a small covered compartment, and a handle for carrying. On the right side, a smaller box attaches onto the large box with 2 hooks...

Unusual 19th century small iron and bronze ojime (slide bead for tightening the cord going from netsuke to inro) in oval puck shape with two relief mushrooms on the front. Wonderful crisp detailing, the body of ojime is iron, mushrooms and the back are bronze, in excellent condition, pleasant patina. Signed on the back TERU in hiragana. Height 7/16 inches.

Faience ushabti for Horpenaset. Depicted mummiform, wearing a tripartite wig and beard. With pleasant, well defined, facial details, with arms crossed and hands emerging from tightly-fitted garment, hands holding hoes and seed sack behind the left shoulder. A T-shaped column of incised text at the front reads: "Illuminate the Osiris, Horpenaset, born of Asetshesen". 30th Dynasty, 365 -332 B.C. 4 3/8 inches high. Intact. Mounted. From an old New Jersey collection.

Netsuke - chestnut and a plump mushroom. Japan Edo 19th.

Antique Japanese uma-jirushi, flag standard for battle. This uma-jirushi is a large inverted gourd surrounded by smaller gourds. The great daimyo, Hideyoshi Toyotomi (famous for being the second unifier of Japan) made the upside down gourd his uma-jirushi symbol. A large upside down gourd was placed on top of his flag pole and smaller gourds were added around it with each victory. Called "Sen nari hisago" or "thousand gourds"...

Antique Chinese pair of porcelain figures of standing children, each holding a vase with lotus. Dressed in traditional baby clothes, the "heavenly twins" are delicately painted with enamel in a famille verte pallet. Impressed signatures on the bottoms.

Hehe Erxian, "two immortals of union and happiness", comes from the ancient story of two best friends, Hanshan and Shide, who were Buddhist monks...

Antique Japanese bronze suiban with raised designs of dragons on the front and back. Swirling mist motifs decorate the sides of the suiban and continue on the four feet it stands on. A key motif runs along the edge of the rectangular container. Four character mark on the bottom. Suiban are intended for displaying flowers (with a kenzan) or for displaying suiseki scholar stones for viewing and contemplation...

19th century staghorn Asakusa School netsuke carved as an old square coin on a coiled ribbon, which was traditionally used to hold coins together. Clever design, netsuke is essentially a wish for wealth, great quality carving. There are some natural lines in the material, but no cracks or repairs. Beautifully stained, superb mellow patina. Wonderful subtle piece in Japanese taste. Length 1 1/2 inches.