Tibetan 'Frog Foot' Sitting/Meditation Rug, Tibet, Late 19th/early 20th C. Khagangma square with deeply saturated color.
Blue trade cloth covered felt attached border. This is a single meditation mat it is not a square cut from a long runner.
Size: 2'5'' x 2'8'' (74 x 81 cm).
Provenance: Bill Liske Collection
Sublime ceramic Kannon statue of old Kutani-yaki made by one of the greatest potters, Aoki Mokubei. The statue is 200 years old and in great antique condition with only a small repair on the right hand with transparent lacquer and only one! tiny spot with peeling of glaze. The all over glaze is spectacular.
Aoki Mokubei (1767-1833 ) was born in the Gion district of Kyoto as Aoki Sahei...
A late Ming dynasty heavily potted porcelain dish made for export, probably to Sumatra. The decoration is in underglaze blue starting with a thin line around the outer edge, a double ring about a quarter of the way toward the center with grasses growing inward toward a large expressive carp. The style of painting with brush strokes not enclosed by lines is typical of the late Ming and the size and heaviness are typical of the export porcelain to South East Asia...
A group of five small pottery figures, four of people and one of a very smush faced lion. All painted in what look like both overglaze and underglaze colors. This type of figure was two part molded and produced in quantity. The tallest is 5 inches tall. These figures date to the first quarter of the 19th century.
Condition: All have some chips and the man with his head leaning on one hand has had the base repaired.
Rare high grade Japanese mounted shubuichi dragon okimono. The dragon is seen as if it is in mid flight, twisting, an thrusting forward. Overall excellent original condition
Shubuichi seen here has a Dark grey / silver tonality an has a trace of gold warm colors tones. Incredible detail seen from the fine scales to the tip of the dragons claws.
The dragon represents freedom, good luck, and balance...
Antique Chinese cloisonne incenser in the form of a standing duck. Vermillion tones with white, yellow and black feather details. well models with detailed lift of lid (seen on back of duck). Lid has a floral pattern with wild vines finding the correct shape. Incense flows from in side the body chamber and through the florida open lid...
Unusual Japanese incensor of two Japanese toads made from Izushi Yaki pottery technique. Depicting a large toad with a smaller baby toad resting on top. Smoke rises from the inner chamber an rises and vents from each of their mouths. Beautiful original patina consisting with age. Overall very good condition.
Izushi is a town that continues on from the mythical era. Today it is a castle town popular for its nostalgic atmosphere of old Japan...
An antique Japanese porcelain hibachi (brazier) with a hand painted blue and white sometsuke design of a landscape scene and an indoor garden design. Key fret pattern along the base with a background of Chrysanthemum blossoms and a repeating eight window floral design along the top. Unusual mushroom style pedestal shape.
Age: Meiji Period (1868-1912) Dimensions: 18" Diameter x 12" High
An antique Japanese Ko Tansu (personal storage chest) made of Kirinoki (Paulownia) and Suginoki (Cryptomeria) woods. All original hardware including the Warabite bronze handles and hand made iron fittings. Constructed using straight dovetail joinery and hardened wooden nails. Two small drawers are hidden behind the hinged door.
Chests such as these were used primarily by a Japanese family to store their documents, letters, ephemera, photos and other treasured keepsakes...
Japanese hand split bamboo basket with high slender sides rising from a square base to a round lip. Bamboo intertwined into a handle fashioned with small split bamboo. Cheveron pattern is seen repeating on all sides with a squad symmetrical pattern seen on the base.
Ikebana (生け花, 活け花, "arranging flowers" or "making flowers alive") is the Japanese art of flower arrangement.[1][2] It is also known as Kadō (華道, "way of flowers")...
A unique hand split bamboo basket in the shape of a natural double gourd. Wild gnarled wisteria forms a steady base while branching up and around the backside of the double gourd.
Early Meiji Period C. 1870's
14" long X 11" deep X 24" high
Japanese ikebana (flower basket) used in tradition ikebana flower displays.
Beautifully natural finish of split bamboo and gnarled wisteria branch each twisting and blending into a full moon. Condition is very good. Includes copper insert (may allow to be used for flowers).
Edo Period C. 19th Century
Dimensions: 18 1/2" wide X 10" deep X 15 3/4" high
A very rare and unusual parrot form bronze (copper tin alloy) incense burner made in China in the late Ming Dynasty, probably circa 1620 to 1640, during either the Tianqi or Chongzhen reigns.
This item is partially coated with old black lacquer.
Condition: the cover is missing; and there are losses to the tip of the tail...
This jar stands out by its exceptional size and by its very decorative crackled " Guan " glaze. Song - Yuan Dynasty Longquan ware ( Celadon ).
Diameter : 11,2 cm.
Condition : Perfect original condition...
A Southern Song Dynasty ( 1127 - 1279 ) covered box. The white porcelain body most beautifully molded and covered with a very nice, clean white glaze. Probably Dehua ware.
Diameter : 6,4 cm.
Condition : One short fiering crack to the cover ( visible on the last enlargement ) and one fiering crack to the base of the box...
Rare 17th Century Chinese Kangxi small peach bloom vase scholars object. Incredible speckled glazing revealing natural lighter of purple, off whites with a touch of green under tones. May have been used as a glaze example, kept with similar objects, each an example of glazing techniques...
Chinese Qing dynasty 17th - 18th century bronze censer with "QIn Shu Jia Ban" mark. 20 cm wide. 14 cm mouth rim diameter. 8,3 cm high.2114 gram weight. Good condition. Free from any repair and crack. You can see scratch and minor dent because wearing age.
A very rare under glaze blue decorated porcelain bowl, decorated on the outside with a stylized Japanese Honeysuckle pattern in the Doucai manner with 'dovetailed' over glaze green, iron red and yellow enamels.
This item was made in China, in the first half of the 19th Century, in the Imperial kilns, for the court of the Daoguang emperor (1821-1850).
There is another another Daoguang example illustrated in "Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing from the Kwan Collection"published 1983 by T...