Southern Song period ( 1127 - 1279 ) Zhejiang province. Extremaly rare small cup with a superb quality opaque glaze. The exposed clay to the base turned reddish during the fiering prozess. Unfortunately the enclosed images are not able to show how amazing this piece is. Diameter : 4,6 cm. H : 2,7 cm. Condition : Amazing glaze, no chip but there is a unbelievable slight short hairline which is only to see with a 10 X lens.

This Buddhist figure was cast in bronze and sewn into a leather case. It would have been carried in a pocket or worn hanging about the neck by the leather thong...a personal amulet or talisman meant for protection. Good condition, 4 the case in 4 inches high and 3 inches across at the widest point.

A Song - Yuan dynasty qingbai Dragon vase, strong detail Dragon shape motif, vase is in good condition with minor touch up on glaze flacking, size: 18.5 cm height.

A large, very decorative blue and white Imari vase from the 19th. century with a underglaze blue mark to the base. H. : 78 Condition : No damage . There is a fiering crack from the time when this vase was produced ( which can be seen on the last enlargement ) so that it is legitim to say that this piece is in it´s perfect original condition.

A unusual brass tea caddy from the Imperial Romanov era. These boxes are much more frequently seen as rectangular shapes rather than ovals. The hinged lid is decorated with an ornately detailed appliqué of the imperial Romanov double-headed eagle. The interior is tin-lined in the traditional Russian style. The lid can be locked with a small padlock—a reminder that tea was once an expensive, luxurious commodity that had to be protected from household thieves...

The most important first : This piece is not from Ancient Dragon House and not from Roy Hu´s Asian Art ! A very small Song Junyao bowl with slightly rounded sides and incurved rim covered with a grayish-blue glaze with an very nice splash of purplish-red to the interior of the bowl. The glaze thinning at the rim to a buff tone. The base is unglazed and is burnt reddish in the firing. Northern Song Dynasty (1127-1279) Diameter: 6,3 cm...

1800s

Elegant pear-form vase with a gracefully tapering neck is raised on an elongated and subtly flaring foot. It is covered overall in a medium-blue robin’s egg-type glaze mottled with lighter and darker blues that drains toward the foot with violet-toned mottling. The base and interior are both glazed with a clear glaze that is tightly cracked. The footring is unglazed exposing the buff-colored china-like soft paste porcelain...

Antique Japanese okidoko (shelf for tokonoma), for Japanese display and storage, made all of keyaki (elm) wood with beautiful grain, 4 sliding doors open to one large compartment, pulls for sliding panels have raised motifs of flowers and waves, Taisho Period (circa 1920). Size: 14" high (12" high to top surface) x 63 3/4" long x 13 1/4" deep.

A Very Large and Impressive KPM (Königliche Porzellan Manufaktur, Berlin) Pitcher or Ewer; in Blue and White Bisque Relief. Composed of Allegorical Figures; a Cupid and a Man and Woman as Mermen, and the Sea God. Dimensions; 13" high x 8" wide and a weight of 6 lbs. With Blue Scepter Mark and the Red KPM and Globe Mark, circa 1880. In very fine condition.

This 19th century Chinese molded ceramic statue is 8 ¾ inches high, 7 ¼ inches wide and 3 ½ inches thick. It depicts a sitting young boy holding a frog. There is a square maker’s mark “Yi He” stamped on the bottom. The statue has its original leather and silk box from Spink and Son’s. It is in excellent condition.

Ming Dynasty, Ca. 1500s

This bowl is covered overall in an attractive bluish green celadon glaze except for the footring, which shows the buff-toned porcelaneous stoneware body. The glaze is somewhat unevenly applied to the exterior. The interior has a glaze bubble that popped in the firing. Acquired in the early 1980s from an antiques dealer in Alexandria, VA.

Diameter: 4 ½ in., Height: 2 3/8 in.

A rare sample of Yuan dynasty with imported Persian blue and white jar, excavated from trowulan east java, jar has been broken and re struck please see picture for detail, size: 6 cm diameter, 5 cm height.

Bhutanese Bon Deity Kyung Mask of Papier Mache, 15 inches, 38 cm.

Beautiful and rare Japanese antique choba tansu (merchant's chest), made all of heavy keyaki (elm) wood, keyaki wood bracing on sides and back, original deep reddish brown translucent lacquer finish with wonderful patina, heavy iron hardware, interior has 2 drawers, Edo Period c1800. Size; 36 1/2" high x 40" wide x 23 1/4" deep.

The dish is remarkable because of its very decorative extraordinary deep and intensive crackled Guan like glaze. Song - Yuan Dynasty Longquan ware. Diameter : 12,6 cm. Condition : Perfect

This is another antique wine bottle of the Song Dynasty from our collection.

This large wine bottle is about 1000 years old and has been made in the Ji Kiln. It has a dark glazed body with an some unglazed dragon / phoenix decoration.

It is in good condition. There are only some little spoils of time and a little scratch ( please watch photos )...

This is a classical form Song dynasty small longquan or celadon dish with moulded appliqué twin fish in the centre and an everted flatten rim. The dish is glazed with an uneven sea green or aquamarine glaze with crazing instead of the standard green colour.

There is no repair or restoration. Minor abrasion on the base and a small stone pits covered with the glaze near the cavetto which does not affect the aesthetic of the dish (picture 2 at 12 o’clock)...

A covered bowl or tureen probably made for the European market, but of conventional Japanese form, decorated with a pattern of Peony branches to the exterior in iron red and underglaze blue with green and black enamels and gilding. The interior painted with an enamelled green and black peony petal mon covering a round area of unglazed biscuit porcelain, that suggests that further bowls may have been stacked within the bowl during the original firing...

Chinese Yixing Teapot GONGEK Marked & Signed

Description & Size

10.16 x 13.33 cm (4" x 5.25") height with & without handle

17.14 x 12.7 cm (6.75" x 5") wide with & without spout

Weight: 425 gram (15 oz)

Age: Late 19th to Early 20th Century

Production: Handcrafted

This is a wonderful & beautiful Late 19th to Early 20th Century Chinese Yixing teapot GONGEK with dark brown & purple patina...

Those , those are familiar with such ware will confirm that the quality of each particular of the three pieces is absolutely excellent. Excellent which concerns the color of the pieces, excellent which concerns the shape, the quality of potting of the pieces. Excellent which concerns the glaze of each particular piece...

Monochrome Celadon Vase (LQC031406)
19th century
Qing Dynasty
Porcelain with celadon glaze
Height: 23.1 cm / 9 in
From an east coast, USA private collection

A nice mid-size 19th c celadon vase, with a well-proportioned form and lovely light bluish-green glaze. The trumpet-neck and ribbed body copies an earlier Southern Song kinuta celadon vases.

Condition: Perfect antique condition. Original firing flaws to the inside of the vase neck...

A Victorian Brass Assembled Desk Set, from the Late 19th Century. Consisting of an Inkstand, with a pen rest (dimensions 9.5" x 7"), a Penwipe (3.75" h),and Scissors (7.5" long). In excellent condition.

Antique Japanese beautiful and rare kura tansu (warehouse storage tansu), this piece would have been a status symbol and would have been used to store very important and special items, made all of thick and dramatically grained keyaki wood with panels all cut from the same section, top sides and front all have panels with mirrored grain, interior right side has 3 small drawers and interior right side has two small drawers, heavy iron hardware through out including locks on all drawers and h...

A rare persimmon glazed Dingyao type covered bowl. It stands on a short unglazed footring, showing the white fine-grained body and everted to a straight persimmon glazed body. The inside of the bowl is glazed white with a burnt black spot in it. The inner mouth rim is unglazed. The cover of the bowl is of mild dome shaped with a small finial, which is likely to be of lotus bud...

A nice quality Ko Imari bowl decorated with three ogee shaped niches containing a stylised Lotus motif against an iron red ground inset against a diaper brocade ground over painted in light gilt with a figure of a Daoist immortal carrying a pine bough over his or her shoulder. The conventionalised pose of the figure is similar to He Xiangu, who carries a Lotus in a similar manner; the only female member of the Baxian...

Rare and unusual stoneware censer with brown Cizhou glaze. China, Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Diameter 13,5 cm, H. 8 cm. Condition: excellent.

Chinese Soapstone Carved Erotic Couple with Frame, 18th Century

It is 12.3 inches (31.5 cm) tall by 9.8 inches (25.1 cm) wide. It is 2.4 Lb.

The head, floor mat and roof's wing were glued back, a gap at the frame, cracks and missing pieces (as seen in the photos).

Our Guarantee: We stand behind all of the items that we sell. That is to say, if you purchase an item from us and are unhappy with it for any reason, return it for a 100% refund of the amount you originally paid...

Chinese Song dynasty longquan celadon dish with twin fish decorations. 20,5cm diameter. Good conditions except chipped on the foot rim (please see on the picture).

Yuan Dynasty ( 1271 - 1368 ) brown glazed stoneware bowl. D : 13,9 cm. H : 6,8 cm. ( with a nice glaze-characteristic in one area outside, which can be seen on the enlargements ) Condition : Perfect

Five dynasties white glaze soucer dish decorated with incised flower motive at the center.flat base.good condition with just found small fritting at the rim.10cm diameter.

A rare late Yuan - early Ming qingbai qhite glaze lobbed cover box, rounded side with lobbed body and glazed base, cover box decorated with lobbed body, there is continuous anhua flower motif at the cover and flower shape knop / handle at the top cover. cover box is in good condition, no chip, no crack, no restoration, there is glaze shrinkage / unglazed at the the top flower motif cover. Size: 9.5 cm diameter, 9 cm height.

This late 19th century Japanese hexagon cloisonn¨¦ vase is 7 ½ inches tall and 3 ¾ inches wide. It has various phoenix cartouches on a dark blue background. There is a small chip close to the bottom quarter.

An intriguing set of five small dishes kozara decorated in kakiwake sometsuke style with a design of three Chinese boys, karako, manoeuvring a large snow ball, set within a yukiwa snow flake shaped reserve framed by a band of plum blossom set against a dark blue ground. The design is a variant of the “One hundred boys playing” pattern popular on Chinese porcelain from at least the Yongle period. The immediate source of the design would appear to be taken from a woodblock polychrome prin...

Description:
A green-glazed vase was well potted and was painted on the surface with black motif of peony flower.
It was preserved in perfect condition with finely spread crackles due to age.
Irridescent reflection can be observed too.
Some burial adhesives were kept at the foot bottom.

Date: Song Dynasty, 11th/12thCentury.

Height: 26.5cm.

A Custom-Made Botton Box is Included.

This is item will be put in the yearly book of 2013 for auction resul...

This is a nice crackle green celadon saucer, except the repaired area by golden dust....

A rare Ming dynasty celadon Ge type dish, unglazed base, excavated from Kalimantan. Dish is in good condition one small chip to the footrim, no cracks, hairlines and free from restoration. Diameter = 9 cm

Rare Ming dynasty jiajing period garlic head vase with dragon biscuit motif, good condition with crack lines on the body please see picture for detail, size: 20 cm height.

Ming Chenghua Period ( 1465 - 1487 ) This piece belongs to the very best kind of a Ming Chenghua Minyao ( peoplesware ) bowl. Very well potted, the excellent painted decoration done with the for good Chengua pieces typical " watery blue ". Diameter : 13,2 cm. H : 6,1 cm. Condition : Please have a look at the last 2 enlargements.

Like all our pieces also this piece is genuine, the body of the piece is in a perfect condition with no chips or cracks. The only problem of this extremely rare excavated piece is that to the outside the surface of the glaze during hundreds of years was heavily attacked by aggressive soil. To the inside of the piece there still are remainders of the former very attractive oilspot decoration. Jian Kilns, Fujian or Henan province, 12th - 13th century. Excavated in Indonesia. Diameter: 8,3 cm. H:...

A fine quality five colour Arita shallow saucer dish decorated with Cherry branches and storm waves, arashi-nami, awash with fallen rafts of cherry blossom. Presumably the design is a play on the words nami, wave, and hannami, cherry viewing, and the design derived from a contemporary or earlier textile pattern. The reverse of the dish simply decorated with cherry blossom. Dating early Eighteenth century, circa 1700-20. The dish is in good condition with no cracks chips or restoration. The dish ...

A rare late Ming Chongzhen - Tianqi blue and white large censer with immortals motif, two ears with animal motif, good condition with crackline on the rim please see picture for detail, size: 24 cm diameter with ears, 20 cm diameter mouth rim 10 cm height.

Huge 'Kraak Porselein' Charger (WBW111609)
Date: c.1580-1600s, late 16th century | Wanli period, Ming dynasty
Material: Porcelain with underglaze cobalt blue; Jingdezhen ware
Diameter: 52 cm / 20.5 cm
Height: 9 cm
Provenance: From an English private collection

A monumentally large late Ming Wanli period blue and white 'kraak porselein' charger, of typical design for the period featuring a central well with three ruishou 'foo' lions playing among flowering ...

A good quality five colour Imari deep bowl decorated with a meandering arabesque of double headed Peach flowers. The interior decorated with boughs of the same, and the base decorated with a Clove motif in green enamel (Oliver Impey identifies this as a Daikon). The bowl measures 8 inches 20.5cm in diameter and is in good condition, some slight frits to the rim, no crack, chips or restoration, some slight losses to the enamels. English Provenance. Shipping at Cost

A fine mid 18th century Arita scalloped form dish decorated with a pattern celebrating the arrival of Spring containing the traditional motifs, ume ni uguisu, Japanese Nightingales and a flowering Japanese Apricot (Plum tree), and Botan, Peonies, traditional harbingers of Spring combined in an imaginary landscape with a fingers of brocade intended to suggest spring mists, kasumi. The dish would date to the period 1740-60, and would appear to be the precedent for the so-called “Thumb and Fing...

Unusual longquan celadon jar decorated with two dragons chase each other. 6,5cm high. 14th-15th century. Good conditions.

A good Arita sometsuke style dish probably from one of the favoured inner set of kilns at Arita, the so-called Uchiyama kilns. The dish is decorated with a border of stylised waves, painted in reverse style, with a single branch of a Camelia Tree in the centre. The underside of the dish decorated with a pair of sketchily painted Gourd vines. For an identical dish see no 216 of the Shibata Collection Part II at page 87. There dated circa 1660-80. The dish measures approximately 18.1 cm in diam...

 

A Very Good Long Quan Celadon Jar with Dragon Decoration from Song/Yuan Dynasty. In almost perfect condition with even green tone. Approximate diameter is 10 cm. Free insured shipping.

A rare sample of Yuan dynasty red under glaze yuhuchun vase, rounded side with pear shape body and glazed base, vase is decorated with under glaze copper red of poem written in grass script character in vertical rows between horizontal red lines borders and neck with four petal containing scroll motif. this vase is very good for studying and comparison for any one who interested in studying early Chinese porcelain, newly excavated from trowulan east java.
Size: 26 cm height.

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An amusing netsuke form model of a mischievous monkey dressed as a Manzai dancer based on an Ivory model of the late Edo period. The figure is crisply modelled, the head partially bisque with cobalt blue and iron brown glaze applied to the head dress and flowing robes. Both the head and the long tongue are separately modelled from the base. Sarumiwashi, trained monkeys were a popular form of entertainment in Japan, and also performed as part of Shinto rituals relating to the New Year. The netsuk...

An Arita long dish of sampan form somewhat deeper and narrower than usually found. Painted with an idealised Chinese style landscape incorporating the elements of water and land. The cavetto painted with stylised lotus flowers enmeshed within a Hagi-karakusa, Bush clover vine arabesque. Gobenka with karakusa motifs to the sides of the dish, and a similar auspicious Lozenge (one of the Eight Precious objects) with karakusa at each end. A four character fukichosun mark to the interior of the foo...

Ming Chenghua period ( 1465 - 1487 ) blue and white high fired Minyao ( peoplesware )porcelain bowl. The model for the decoratin of this bowl were the decoration of one of the most prominent Imperial so called " Palace Bowls ". ( Please have a look at the last image ) Diameter : 12,2. H : 6,3 cm. Condition : Perfect ( nice bell like ring tone when tapped )

Porcelain vase decorated with carved peonies and glazed in the typical blueish green Qingbai color. H. 23 cm. Condition: some discoloring, a firing crack on the shoulder (under the glaze)and a very small star crack in the glaze on the inside of the mouth. China, Song Dynasty (960-1279)

Jarlet of globular form with a short cylindrical lipped neck and two horizontal lugs on the shoulder.Decorated in underglaze cobalt - blue with a continuous chrysanthemum scroll.Porcelain body covered with a transparent glaze. Base unglazed. H : 5,7 cm. Jingdezhen or Fujian. Yuan Dynasty fourteenth century. Condition : Perfect ( John S. Guy - Oriental Trade Ceramics in South - East Asia, item Nr. 58 )

Beautiful Japanese antique choba tansu (merchant's chest), made of keyaki (elm) with sugi (Japanese cedar) interior, beautiful heavy iron hardware, sliders on top, bottom with removable locking bar (bo) over two drawers, lower right side with safe box, interior of safe with two small drawers, all original deep red translucent lacquer finish, Mikuni area, late Edo Period (mid 19th century). Size: 33 1/2" high x 36 3/4" wide x18 1/2" deep.

A small pair of finely potted U-shaped Chinese porcelain wine cups painted to the exterior in underglaze blue with stylized scrolls of flowering lotus above a band of Ruyi heads over a narrow foot. Above the lotus flower heads are eight Tibetan style Buddhist Lanca (Lantsa) characters. On each base of each, painted in under glaze blue within a double square, is the six character reign mark of the Ming dynasty Chenghua emperor (1465-1487) but these cups were made later, possibly in the earl...

A rare square dish, kaku-zara, of cushion fom made in the early 18th century for Export to Europe. It is decorated in the centre with a classic kacho-ga motif of Chrysanthemums and Butterflies, and the border is painted with hosoge-mon, stylised floral motifs, reserved within a blue and gilt brocade ground with further stylised floral motifs. The dish is decorated in a kinsai palette of blue, gold and iron red wash. Dating circa 1700-30. The reverse decorated with Iris and Plum sprays, and an ...

From our Chinese Blue and White Collection, a very fine and elegant Kangxi Period (1662-1722) phoenix bowl, early Kangxi Period circa 1675-1690, decorated with two well-painted phoenixes and a treed outcropping, all well-executed in a strong blue against a delicately potted pure white body with everted rim. The interior features a single flower encircled within a medallion of double lines. The base is plain. The footrim is especially finely cut and very neatly glazed exposing just a narrow swath...

A rare Ming dynasty Hongzhi - Zhengde blue and white cover box with three legs, rounded side with dome shape and three legs, cover with flying phoenix bird motif, sides with flower motif, three legs with qilin motif, unglazed base, good condition no damage please see picture for detail, size: 10 cm diameter.

A late 19th Century ovoid jar painted, in Yongzheng style, with 'Famille Rose' enamels depicting thirty-five boys in a dragon festival / procession. This item was made in China, possibly for export, during the reign of the Guangxu emperor (1875-1908). Condition - very good - no damages and no restoration. 20cm (8 inches) high.

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