All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Swords and Related : Pre 1837 VR item #1436435 (stock #34)
Exceptional fushi in shakudo inlaid with gold and sentoku ,recounting the legend of the warrior Hide Sato victorious over the giant Mokume. As a reward, the Dragon King Ryu-Jin presented him with a precious bell, an always hot cauldron and an inexhaustible sack of rice. We see these three objects carried by the servants of Ryu-Jin emerging from the waves. Exceptional quality.Important note that the gold parts are solid gold in pieces and not just gilded. 35x27mm. Sign...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Metalwork : Pre 1800 item #1436431
Helen M Edwards
$650.00
Width including handles: 13.4 cm (5.5 in)
Height without stand: 5.1 cm (2.1 in)
Weight: 490 gms

Fine Chinese Shisou bronze censer; wooden lotus stand; silver inlay over the exterior and handles; 18th century; excellent patina; good condition
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Stoneware : Pre 1492 item #1436430
Helen M Edwards
$360.00
Height: 10 cm (4 in)
Width: 12.8 cm (5.2 in)

Early Chinese crackle glaze ridge neck pot; Song Period or earlier; original firing fault to one side; good condition
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Netsuke and Related : Pre 1900 item #1436429
Helen M Edwards
$550.00
Length: 6cm (2.3 in)
Height: 2.3 cm (0.8 in)
Depth: 1.5 cm (0.6 in)

Japanese netsuke of a dry salmon head; carved from some form of horn; remnants of colour in the eyes; interesting himatoshi location; 19th century; condition
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Devotional Objects : Pre 1900 item #1436420
Zentner Collection
$5,000.00
Antique Japanese large hanging Buddhist temple lantern made of gilt copper. Elaborately designed with a three dimensional hexagonal form and decorated all over with pierced scrolling filigree featuring chrysanthemum blossoms and swirling mist. Smaller friezes display ocean waves. Raised roundels with peonies decorate the feet. The interior is lined with rice paper.

Age: Late Meiji Period (circa 1900)

Dimensions: 29" high x 33" long x 31" wide
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Jewelry : Pre 1920 item #1436401 (stock #BI-P1C )
Bhadrakalpa
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Miao silver counter-weight used to hold the apron, stamped with the silversmith’s name in Chinese ; also supposed to hold the soul of the wearer. L:8 cms, H:6,5 cms.
Perfect condition, beautiful patina. CE p.300 (see Bibliography) . Miao, Guizhou, China.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Prehistorical item #1436394
A polished, thinbladed Danish neolithic axe dating to late 4th-early 3rd mill BC.

Very nicely polished on the sides, unpolished top and bottom.

Size is c. 13 cm. In length.

Condition: Choice with a few smaller dents to the edge. Very nice light brown and grey patina.

Ex. Private collection.

*** This item comes with a standard export license, when shipped outside Denmark...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1920 item #1436391 (stock #49)
Dragon's Pearl
$4,150.00
A very rare and highly charming porcelain figure of Budai (Daduze), bare chested with a laughing expression, seated leaning on his sack of treasures. Decorated in famille rose manner with additional gold. Two maker’s seals: “Fujian Huiguan” and “ Made by You Linji). ****These seals are identifying marks of the Jingdezhen artist working at Fujian Huiguan. **** You Linji was the artist name of You Zhangzi /You Linzizi ( 1872-1922 )...
A fine antique apothecary mortar in beautiful early brass/bronze alloy, Northern Europe, dated in the bottom to 1734!.

A very large and usual early type brass mortar with a corrosponding pestle, very decorative and a nice antique for both display and kitchen use. Note the pecular wide upper part, which we haven't seen before and must have been made in a few early years only during the 18th. century.

Size: Mortar is 134 mm. high and 148 mm. wide, pestle is ca. 25,7 cm...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Jewelry : Pre 1920 item #1436388 (stock #BI-P1N )
Bhadrakalpa
€ 80.00
Silver ear pick in the shape of a rat, Miao or Dong minorities, Yunnan, China. L : 6,5c
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Jewelry : English : Pre 1837 VR item #1436383
Our muff chain is known as "pinchbeck" and has a wonderful hand clasp with a diminutive emerald paste ring on the hand and a charming carved ruffled sleeve at the end of the hand clasp. We love “jewelry wearing jewelry” and the hand clasp with its fingernails and green paste ring can only be described as quintessentially Georgian. The links of the chain are embossed with textural dots...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Pre 1900 item #1436372
E & M Perez
$180.00
A traditional gift for the tenth wedding anniversary was an item made of tin, and 19th century Americans created useful and sometimes whimsical forms to celebrate ten years...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Indian Subcontinent : Pre 1920 item #1436358 (stock #BI-P2I )
Bhadrakalpa
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Antique Indian « ayigalu », lingam casket, “chauka” style (Nandi’s horns shape), used by the Lingayat in Karnatakka, India. 9 x 6,5 cms. CE 236 (see Bibliography)
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Wood : Pre 1800 item #1436347 (stock #M-S3T )
Bhadrakalpa
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Very deep and heavy Nuo mask of a serene unidentified character with very long ears, ancient polychromia, perfect condition, beautiful patina.
At least 18th. C, probably Ming Dy. 18 x 17 cms. Yunnan, China.(see bibliography)
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Wood : Pre 1900 item #1436346 (stock #MB-HQ)
Bhadrakalpa
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Very old Nuo mask of Heshang, the Buddhist Monk, serene and smiling ; usually has a red circle of holyness on the forehead (we can see trace of it) and very long ears.
Very rare "bianlian" (changing face), eyes and mouth moveable, they can be animated from the inside by the wearer;
Old native restorations around the chin, 21 x 15 cms, 18th C. or before. Guizhou, China. RM 142-207-245; MC 48 (see bibliography)
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Glass : English : Pre 1800 item #1436336 (stock #g1449)
A fine example of an English lead metal antique air twist glass. The ogee bowl is above a multiple spiral air twist (MSAT) stem above a conical foot with a rough pontil.

The condition is excellent, with no chips, scratches, or restoration. Good color, striations, and tooling marks. The height is 6 1/8", with a bowl diameter of 2 1/8" and a foot diameter of 2 1/2".

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Metalwork : Pre 1900 item #1436299 (stock #S-1SL )
Bhadrakalpa
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Small bronze statue from Sri Lanka, typical of the Ceylonese style. H : 10,5 cms, 19Th C, Sri Lanka
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : English : Porcelain : Pre 1837 VR item #1436287 (stock #20210103-06)

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Offered is an excellent and useful Old Imari/Traditional Imari Pattern waste bowl by Derby, during the Robert Bloor years (1825 to 1848). This piece is measures about 6 1/2 inches (16.5 cm) across and about 3 1/8 inches ((7.9 cm) high. It appears to be completely hand-painted...