A late Qing covered jar container with landscape painting and nice calligraphy , repaired covert
Indian painting of a woman on a black background upon a marbled page.Undated, estimated to be late 18th century.
41 x 30 cm. Surrounded by hand drawn calligraphy between elaborate borders. Text on reverse. Framed and glazed.
Description:
4 Houtien Jade rings were nicely made.
They were preserved in perfect condition with greasy feel quality.
Inner Width: (1) 1.8cm, (2) 1.7cm,(3)1.7cm, (4) 1.9cm
Date: Qing Dynasty, 19th Centuruy
18th Century Irish or English Mahogany oval shape Cross Banded tilt top Breakfast Table, 30" high, 51" x 42" wide, with Coromandel wood Cross Banded around the rounded edge, standing on the Pedestal with Cabriole Queen Anne legs with caster on the bottom. There are some dark small spots on the table top with age and useage, some wears on the edge but very solid and heavy table.
These are 13 modern casts of famous Paleo points from famous Museums and private collections with labels showing type and provenance. The types include from left to right Sandia, Eden, Lake Mohave, Meserve, Folsom, Clovis, Dalton, Eden, Jimmy Allen, Agate Basin, Browns Valley and Clovis. These are great study pieces or just to have a complete collection of Paleo points that cost a fraction of what one Paleo point would. Appropriate materials are even translucent...
A beautiful 17th/18th C. Chinese blue and white porcelain bird feeder in excellent condition. W:7cm $345
Thai bronze head of a Bodhisattva. Ayutthaya period. Presentable decorative condition with tips of earlobes missing, core exposed atop head, and the body missing of course. Black lacquer and traces of gilt on the diadem and the back of the neck. Height of the head , about 3 3/4 inches (9.54 cm) not including the pin for securing on plinth. Total height including the plinth, 5 7/8 inches (14.9 cm)...
Chinese Grey Sand Stone Mortar with high relief raised Peach decoration outside, 4 1/2" high, 8" diameter on top, round shape mortar with hexagonal shape base. Couple of small stone pieces are chipped from the base.
This ornately hand carved hard wooden frame comes with antique Chines lithograph of the summer palace. The frame is approx 8.5 x 13 inches...
16th century blue and white glazed Ko sometsuke porcelain dish, made in China for export to Japan for use in the Japanese Tea Ceremony, decorated with blue underglaze bird and flowers. "Ko-sometsuke (‘old blue and white’) porcelain was produced specifically for the Japanese market during the final decades of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644)...
Pair of Chinese enameled porcelain bowls, having four lobed reserves with various floral sprigs, set against a yellow sgraffito ground, the base with an apocryphal Qianlong mark, from late 19th/early 20th century period. Size; Diameter of each bow is 5.25 inches. Condition Report; Both item are in good condition with no issues. Provenance: Estate of Reynold Tom of Oakland, CA
Chinese Bronze Figure of Kwan Yin. Left hand raised in Buddhist mudra meditation. The gown the figure is wearing has embossed all over floral decoration. In good condition. Measures 6 inches in height.
A massive bronze (copper tin alloy) vase cast in Han dynasty Hu shape and with Han style Taotie mask handles. The archaistic style decoration is an amalgam of Shang and Zhou dynasty motifs. These consist of upper and lower bands depicting stylized dragons and a central band of large Taotie ("monster"} masks. All are reserved against a flattened Leiwen (cloud) daiper ground...
This is a Southern Song era celadon brush washer from longquan kiln
This is a dragon and Phoenix blue and white bowl from late qing or republic era
Double sided, 4 compartment Jain painting from an unidentified manuscript.
Undated, estimated to be 15th century. Showing a demon with sword admonishing a chained man. Text above, edges cracked. Mounted between perspex.
Three Jain Bhagavati pages, Western India 1622. Gouache on paper, one with images on both sides, depicting Yayati and her children. Each 14 x 24 cm. Mounted under Perspex. Private collection Germany.
NOTE: A single leaf from the same manuscript was sold at the Sotheby's London sale on 31/5/2011 of the Stuart Cary Welch collection. Lot 40. Other examples in numerous collections. Can be viewed in central London and shipped worldwide.
DESCRIPTION: A large and delightful carved wood figure of one of the seven Japanese gods of good fortune, Daikoku, the deity of prosperity. Here he is seen in his traditional pose, standing on two bales of rice with his wish-granting mallet in his right hand, and a bag of riches slung over his left shoulder. Daikoku is also venerated as the deity of the kitchen where such carvings were traditionally displayed, sometimes in the ceiling rafters for good luck...