All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Pre 1900 item #1448850 (stock #1277)
Rare to find Byzantine Seljuks Dynasty measuring 6 inch wide, 4 1/2 inches tall
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1920 item #1366721
Antique Japanese small tansu from the Sakata region, with original red lacquer top and sides and black lacquer front. The top drawer's iron lock plate is incised with the image of a flying crane and pine branches; The bottom drawer's lock is incised with an ancient turtle with many tails. This imagery represents good health and longevity. Key is included.

Meiji Period (1868-1912) Dimensions: 32.75" L x 15.75" D x 20" H
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1900 item #1447669 (stock ##0121)
Lacquerer board. Early Meiji period. Coats of lacquer, wears and splashes due to a long time use. Inscription on the reverse. 40 x 28 x 4,5 cm
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1492 item #1490752 (stock #TR3139)
Ming dynasty longquan celadon stem cup, good condition no damage no chip no crack no restoration, please see picture for detail, size: 13 cm diameter 10.5 cm height.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Metalwork : Pre 1900 item #1456826 (stock #2021-996)
Frog on a water lily and a lotus root at the base. The whole is in bronze with a dark brown patina.

In the Japanese bestiary, the frog has a special place, carrying positive values. Both the frog and the toad, called kaeru, come back every year, no matter how far away they are from the pond where they were born. The word Kaeru is a synonym for "coming home". It is the protective animal for travelers and the symbol of hospitality...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1227181 (stock #538)
A excellently potted porcelain bowl. The exterior decorated with five circular medallions encircling the recessed base. Six - character Yongzheng mark in underglaze blue within a double circle and probably of the period. Diameter : 9,5 cm. H : 3,4 cm. Condition : Perfect.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Netsuke and Related : Pre 1900 item #1452749 (stock #2021-917)
Horn netsuke of an reclining ox.

In Japan, the ox (ushi) is the second sign of the zodiac. It is considered usefulness and willingness. Reclining, it is the emblem of Sugawara Michizane (845-903), a great scholar, minister of emperor Daigo (897-930) and statesman of the Heian period. Under the pressure of the Fujiwara family, he was driven into exile to the island of Kyûshû and he rode away upon a bull. Unfairly punished, his memory is rehabilitated after his death...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Furniture : Pre 1910 item #1454179
Antique Japanese small ko tansu (personal chest) made of kiri (paulownia) wood with unusual and beautiful persimmon wood edging on the front. Two medium drawers are placed side by side across the top. A compartment opened by two sliding panels is on the left with three small drawers in a vertical row on the right. The bottom drawer is full width...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1800 item #1393798 (stock #0445)

Wonderful distorted shoe shaped (kutsugata) tea bowl made of light, fine, unrefined Mino clay. Shape and style make it appear contemporary with the late Oribe bowls. The expertly thrown body is covered with the typical black oniita engobe inside and outside - with the exception of the bottom - over which a white, feldspatic Shino glaze has been poured.

Just the foot ring and its immediate surrounding was left unglazed...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1800 item #1463442
Antique Japanese lacquer raised tray. Standing on four legs with square frame and decorated all over with scrolling vines and pine bows in maki-e lacquer on a black ground with clouds of gold nashiji. Prominent in the design is the appearance of the aoi mon (crest) of the Tokugawa clan, marking this tray as the property of the ruling Tokugawa Shogunate.

Age: Edo Period (1603-1867)

Dimensions: 8" high x 14 1/2" wide x 14" deep
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Furniture : Pre 1700 item #1420003
An antique Japanese Edo era Ko Tansu (personal storage chest) made entirely of Kirinoki (Paulownia) wood. All original finish and hand made iron fittings. Made with straight dovetail joinery and hardened wooden nails. Original used to store daily documents, ephemera, small utilitarian accessories and personal items. Present day uses include using it as a small side table or a bedside nightstand.

Size: 19 7/8"W 14 3/8"D 14 3/4"H Age: early Edo Period (1644-1868)
All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Pre 1910 item #1442857
Antique Japanese low tansu with a mix of sliding doors and pull out drawers. Quartered sawn keyaki hardwood front with beautiful natural graining. Original finish with warm red lacquer tones. Hand forged iron hardware pulls. Dark black lacquer top and sides.

Age: Meiji period (1868 - 1912)

Dimensions: 45" long x 16" deep x 23" high
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1345912
Green glazed pottery wirh wonderful iridescence. The roof can be removed and the pig can be taken out of the sty. Similar pieces can be found in the book 'The Spirit of Han'. Condition: excellent old burial condition. Diameter 18 cm, H. 15,5 cm. From a Dutch private collection. Han Dynasty (206BC-220AD).
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : Italian : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1219579 (stock #TBD00123)
Pair of late 18th century Doccia porcelain plates.

A pair of porcelain dinner plates with a narrow border of blue dots in gilt ovals encircled by gilt lines, a narrow gilt floral border at the inside of the rim centering a large delicate letter, “N” composed of garlands of hand painted flowers. Both borders are well known on Doccia porcelain and while numerous factories did initials and single letters so did Doccia. The porcelain is typically slightly grey and creamy...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Stoneware : Pre 1900 item #1098603
Rare Chinese Martavan. A martavan is a large stoneware or highly fired earthenware storage jars. Martavans were made by the Chinese in the ports of Maraban and Burma to ship goods to India and the near east. Their primary function was to store goods for shipment. Martavans were also used to store tuak, rice wine...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1427360 (stock #STWD01R707)
A fine Chinese Tnag dynasty pottery tomb guardian. Ht. 31cm. Condition: no restore, in good condition as shown. Shipping from Taipei, Taiwan via EMS at actual cost. Item selling at various platforms, please ask before ordering.
All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Pre 1930 item #1486567 (stock #3646)
A fine set of twelve nineteenth century apple green color crystal wine goblets with clear cut crystal stems. Measuring 8” in height. Sold as a set only
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Sculpture : Pre 1900 item #1282933 (stock #0198)

Huge and heavy Thai bronze Ayutthaya Buddha, dating back to the 18th/19th century.

The Ayutthaya Buddha is sitting in the Earth Touching, Calling the Earth to Witness, or The victory over (Subduing) Mara position.

He sits with folded legs (right on top of the left). The Ayutthaya Buddha is seated on an interesting representation of a boat.

The boat is decorated with flowing designs...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1700 item #1283838 (stock #0199)

Cylinder shaped (hanzutsu) tea bowl made of light, fine, unrefined Mino clay. The style of the foot lets it appear contemporary with the late Oribe bowls. But the shape of the expertly thrown body, the orange skin effect on the typical Shino glaze with beautiful orange 'fire colour' recalls the days of the single chamber kilns, but the glaze and the somewhat irregular foot is typical for the late production of the 1620's at the Motoyashiki and Kamagane kilns...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Metalwork : Pre 1920 item #1426268
Antique Japanese bronze vase molded with a pair of phoenixes in flight. Signed on the bottom. Also called hou-ou, the pair of mythical birds together are often symbols of fidelity but also represent fire, sun and justice. When used in reference to the imperial household, the phoenix represents the empress.

Age: Taisho Period (1912-1926)

Dimensions: 13" high x 8 1/2" wide
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1920 item #1310857
Antique Japanese book of 34 various woodblock prints. Each page vividly depicts a story, with bright color and exciting subjects. The outside is covered in brick red fabric with flowers. Size: 13.5" x 9" x .75"
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1920 item #1266128 (stock #GMB051301))
Late 19th – early 20th century
Late Qing Dynasty – Republic period
Porcelain with monochrome blue glaze
Height: 28.5 cm / 11.2 in, Width: 18.3 cm / 7.2 in (at widest point)
From a Northern California private collection

A late Qing / Republic anarchistic vase, shaped after “hu” bronze vessels. Its glaze is a semi-translucent bubbly blue, thinning near edges to create beautifully pale contours all around the piece...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Pre 1900 item #1465853
A pair of Indonesian lamps comprised of wood temple carvings and Mica shades that were later added. The faces have carved leaves while the eaves have leaves that cascade down.

Age: 19th C

Dimensions of each: 16 1/4" Wide by 22" High by 9 1/4" Deep
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1492 item #1226009 (stock #TR2260)
A Yuan dynasty longquan celadon large deep bowl, rounded side with deep center and unglazed base, bowl covered with good green glaze, good condition no damage, minor crackled at glaze surface, tiny glaze fritt at inner rim, no chip no crack no restoration, high ping sound with finger tip, size: 20 cm diameter.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1372876 (stock #MLQ091715)
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16th c Carved Longquan Charger (MLQ091715)
c. 1550 - 1600, later half of the 16th century
Ming Dynasty
Porcelain with lime-alkali glaze; Longquan celadon ware
Diameter: 34.5 cm
Height: 7 cm
From an Ambler, Pennsylvania collection

A 16th century Ming Longquan celadon charger plate, heavily potted and covered with a crackled translucent pea-green glaze with a subtle bluish undertone...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Metalwork : Pre 1492 item #1436218 (stock #28)
part of a lance? of a chariot? in bronze inlaid with gold and silver.Lacquer traces. Part of highly oxidized iron. Beautiful natural antique patina on the bronze. Nice work in fair condition. 102x23mm
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1800 item #1437082 (stock #0487)

Perfectly shaped Ko-Seto Chawan dating back to the mid Edo Period (1603-1868). The expertly thrown body is covered with the typical white, feldspatic Shino type glaze...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1492 item #1337865 (stock #678)
The dark grey paste makes this dish to a very rare example of an Longquan Guan-type dish. Southern Song Dynasty ( 1127 - 1279 ). The shallow dish with sloping sides, everted rim, and fourteen-lobed mouth rim is covered in a crackle-suffused glaze of sea-green color that thins on the edges. The dark grey stoneware body has turned to a reddish brown color where exposed in the firing. Diameter: 16,2 cm. Condition: Perfect.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Korean : Ceramics : Pre 1492 item #1020035 (stock #772)
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...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Wood : Pre 1837 VR item #1413449 (stock #1-1164)
Ancient mask of the traditional esoteric "Nuo" theater, representing the character of General Guanyu, wearing his helmet. Wood, with multiple superimposed polychrome pigments, meant to enhance the mask features, of which part is painted on paper glued to the mask. China, early 19th C. Height: 33 cm. The mask is mounted on a custom stand. Very good condition.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Furniture : Pre 1920 item #1461811
An antique Japanese Choba Tansu made entirely of Hinoki (Cypress) wood. All original bronze and iron hardware. Six drawers and a pair of hinged doors that open to a merchant books and records storage area with vertical separators and a removable shelf. Thick wood drawer construction and the Tansu was made using straight dovetail joinery and hardened wooden nails.

Age: Early Taisho (1912-1920)

Dimensions: 34" Wide by 34 7/8" High by 14 1/8" Deep
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Textiles : Pre 1837 VR item #1100154
This is Indigo dye cotton tsutsugaki furoshiki textile of the Edo era(1800-1867). It is a very beautiful crane and a lucky design of the tortoises.It is a characteristic of tsutsugaki of the Edo era that the ear of the tortoise is expressed like a dragon. There is a thin stain. There is not damage. It is in a very good state. It is made of hand-spun cotton and natural dyed. size:141cm x 142cm (55.5" x 55.9")
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pre AD 1000 item #1487015 (stock ##625)
Ceramic figure of a Peyote Shaman, 6" tall, 2,000 years old, from Jalisco, Mexico. He has a decapitated snake in his right hand, a death bubble between his lips, and a peyote-button bowl on his head. He has faced death and returned to serve his people. Peyote is a small psychedelic cactus used in life-altering ceremonies.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1700 item #1232481 (stock #0110)

This is a rare Wan type chawan, around 400 years old in shape close to a tenmoku tea bowl. It is thrown on a wheel from coarse, unrefined iron bearing clay.

The grey ash glaze has been painted on the body with a straw brush as seen on Korean hakeme chawan. A stone in the wall has exploded in the fire - a very sought after effect ( see pic number 2 ), giving this type of Karatsu bowls its name: ishihaze (exploding stone). At the rim is a repair in silver lacquer ( refer to pic number ...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Indian Subcontinent : Himalayas : Pre 1800 item #1370947 (stock #1-1063)
Gilt iron plate, of rounded triangular shape, finely cast in openwork, to represent a dragon in relief in clouds. Four coral inlays enhance the beauty of the plate. This plate is likely to have been part of a saddle decoration. Tibet, 18th century. The plate is nicely mounted on a custom stand. Length: 15.6 cm. Height: around 9 cm. Oxydation at the back due to age, otherwise very good condition.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Textiles : Pre 1837 VR item #1431525
This is Shonai Sasiko made in the Edo period. This is an item made by Sashiko craftsmen during the Edo period. And it is a very rare design sashiko. This is the work clothes that a wealthy merchant had as one of his daughter's wedding supplies. The front side is dark indigo dyeing. The back side is a blue color called hanada. There are almost no traces of use and it is in good condition. You can wear it and enjoy it. And you can wash it with water. Length 75cm 29.5”  Back width 63cm 24....