Pair of Japonesque sterling silver open salts. Made by John C. Moore for Tiffany & Co. in New York. Round with open rectangular bracket handles and straight foot. Engraved overlapping seals decorated with modish motifs, including fan, bug, vase, and bamboo. Foot decorated with acid-etched spirals and lunette-form flower heads, and pierced leaves. Union Square mark (1870-5) with pre-1875 pattern no. 3007 and order no. 901. Very good condition.

Dimensions: H 1 7/8 x W 4 5/8 x D 3 3/8 in...

Diameter approximately 12.3 cm. Height approximately 8.5 cm. There are some firing cracks at the base. Flat color. Bluish color. More pictures are available. In good condition.

A lovely Chinese porcelain Kangshi Period polychrome dish. The edges are "flueted" in 4 places and the interior base features a garden scene with flowers, rocks, and a fence. In excellent condition, no chips, no cracks, no hairlines. Measures 5.25 inches diameter by 1.25" high. Dates circa 1790

The dagger with high shoulders, short tang and the blade with diamond cross-section.

The dagger is very attractive with a very beautyful patina.

Size: 250 mm - 9,8 inches.

Condition: Choice, with fine metal.

Antique Japanese scroll painting of two tigers. One looks back as it climbs up a rocky hill while the other looks out from it's shelter under an outcropping. Beautifully painted with details of every stripe and whisker. Ink and colors on silk. Signed by the artist.

Age: Taisho Period (early 20th century)

Dimensions: Size of scroll: 78 1/2" high x 21 5/8" wide (24" wide including rollers). Painting: 44 3/4" high x 16 1/4" wide

DESCRIPTION: Outstanding Japanese porcelain Imari charger, circa 1880, acquired in Brussels, Belgium. This charger is profusely painted in under-glazed blue, red, green and gilt with a central blue medallion of scrolls highlighted in gilt. Surrounding the medallion is a wide border of alternating cartouches enclosing pairs of birds with bamboo leaves, and flowers issuing from rockwork with butterfly. The reverse is painted with three sets of flowering blue branches...

Japanese tsuba, a sword fitting to protect a swordsman's hand from sliding up the blade during use as well as to provide balance. The tsuba depicts a scene of hunters, one on horseback and the other on foot wielding a staff, in pursuit of a leaping rabbit, in gilt and silver. The backside of the tsuba depicts a running fox in gilt and copper.

Dimensions: 2 1/2" x 2 1/8"

1900's Chinese Famille Rose Porcelain Covered Bowl with Kids

It is 3.1 inches (8.1 cm) tall by 4.8 inches (12.2 cm) wide. It is 0.5 Lb.

It has dark spots, rubbing paints, hairline cracks at the rim and surface wears and scratches (as seen in the photos).

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Comprised of solid forged steel head, cut-out stencil family crest of Sada-uji and Matamasa clans.
Ya used in war by the samurai had a variety of tips called yajiri or yanone; these arrowheads were forged using the same steel (tamahagane) and methods as traditional Japanese swords...

A Fine Elegant Gray Stone Torso Of A Female Divinity, Angkor Baphuon Period 11th Century. Standing in samabhanga, both arms broken, wearing vertically striated sampot secured by a decorated belt and knotted in the center...

Korean Joseon Dynasty 19th Century Polychrome Painted Wooden Oil Lamp Stand with attached original cut out Tin type gallery rim Metal top to hold the 19th Century White Porcelain Oil Pot, 7 1/2" high, 4" wide for Hexagonal shape Base, this is the Korean Shamanistic style Polychrome painted Oil Lamp. The condition is as found condition, White Porcelain top of oil pot has hairline on the side, some Polychrome paints are rubbed off and Tin Top is somewhat rusted inside the cut out gallery rim.

Rare handmade askos of lenticular body and truncated conical neck.
The lip around the spout is shaped as an oversized disc. Its back was bent by the potter to create space for an unusual ring handle of square cross-section.
Decorated with orange and purplish black bands alternating with very thin fillets and diamond patterns. The front of the neck with chevrons, one of them spiky, both flanked by a branch or shrub...

This handsome, late 19th century leather case is a wonderful example of a physician's traveling medicine case of this era. This particular example is larger in size and number of sections than is typically found, and additionally sports the personalized label, "Dr W. J. Gier MD" in old, silver-toned lettering on the front of the folded case...

 

This gourd cricket cage is a late 19th or early 20th century product. It is 4 ½” long and 2” wide from the top. The rim and lid were made of ivory and carved hard wood. A gourd is grown inside a carved wooden form(s) to create a patterned or shaped body. This cage does not have pattern or design but has a very nice balanced, shaped and light brown body. The ivory rim and lid are in great condition as well. There are no repairs, chips or crack lines.

A detailed miniature Ming pottery money chest depicting a lock and handles on each side. Size: H. 11cm. L. 12.6cm. W.(Base)8.5cm. Condition: Two minor small chips. See photos.

A larger festival icon, Russian Empire, 19th century AD. According to the expert certificate, made between 1880-1895.

Tempera on chalk and golden ground. Wooden panel. In the center the Easter event with Ascension and Resurrection of Christ. Framed by the feast day themes. Lavish gilt used and very accomplished painting!

Height 35,7cm, width 30,6cm...

Pair of authentic antique, 19th-century large, solid brass, seven branches’ Menorahs - the most recognizable symbol of Judaism.

This magnificent pair of Menorahs were made in the second half of the 19th century in Poland. Each Menorah is composed of a multi baluster stem rising from a round base, fitted with six scrolling branches, topped by an urn form of candle holders and drip pans, with matching central candleholder...