Chinese Song dynasty longquan celadon washer bowl. 12,7 cm diameter. Good condition.

Chinese Song dynasty longquan celadon washer bowl. 12,8 cm diameter. Good condition except very small chipped at the rim.

Chinese Song dynasty longquan celadon washer bowl. 13 cm diameter. Good condition except very small chipped at the rim.

BLACK AND RED LACQURED CONTAINER

Old wooden lidded container for storing food like vegetables, lacqured up in the refined two tones of black (for surface) and red (for inside), once used among the middle class or richer in the Edo period (1603-1868) in Japan, D 35 x H 26cm (13.77 x 10.23in). Some lacqure-peelings due to aging as is...

Chinese Song dynasty longquan celadon small jar. 6 cm high. 8,5 cm body diameter. Good condition.

ORT. The Order of Railroad Telegraphers (ORT) was a United States labor union established in the late nineteenth century to promote the interests of telegraph operators working for the railroads...

A Very Rare/Fine/Large Korean Iron Black Porcelain Jar Painted with a Plum And Bamboo-19th/Older: Korea, late Joseon Dynasty, 18th century, or older. This unusual large global shape of inky tones of underglaze blue and white porcelain jar painted with large wind-blowing bamboo, and old and large plum tree with flower blooming underglaze inky blue, in this case, this cobalt blue turned to black-inky tones under firing circumstances, this well-balanced jar must be painted by professional ...

A pair of massive museum quality matching pottery figures of two male house attendants, middle Ming Dynasty, 15th.-16th. century.

The figures are matching in the Green and Yellow Sancai colors and they are plced on large plints. The figure to the left in this pair was Termo-Luminescence testet by Ralf Kotallas Laboratory and it was made during the Middle Ming period (15th.-16th. cent.).

They are both carrying scarfs. Figure to the left also an umbrella on his back...

A beautiful & large Indus Valley pottery jar, dating to c. 3rd mill. BC. Probably Mehrgarh-civilisation.

The jar is designed beautifully as a large beaker with a wide mouth, a concave body on a narrow base. The jar is decorated with several concentric rings and an animal and a flower. The other decorations could be some sort of writing (?).

Size: ca 14 cm each 8-9 cm. wide - nice pieces from Indus Valley.

Condition: Superb for age and type...

An Indian Bronze Figure of Vishu. The four armed figure standing on a raised base of traditional form. Holding in two raised arms a chakra and a conch shell. South India 18/19thC. Height; 3 3/4" (9.5 cm). Condition; normal wear and a good patina

A fine thick and large cylinder seal, Mesopotamia Uruk-Pre-Dynastic, 4th.-3rd. mill. BC

Very vividly engraved in a black stone with what looks like a human holding a bulls eye or sun symbol and perhaps about to climb a latter. Interesting symbols in the fields as well.

Size: 25 mm. tall and 15 mm. thick.

Condition: Nice Very fine, intact with fine patina and deposits in the details...

A very early stone cylinder of the group of massive Uruk seals, Uruk-Jemdet Nasr, probably late 4th. mill. BC. in Mesopotamia.

A very thick seal engraved in a fine black stone with symethric eye symbols in the drill style.

Size: 22 mm. thick and 27 mm. tall.

Condition: Nice Very fine, with even Wear and fine patina with deposits...

A large uninscribed heart scarab, Rameside to Late Kingdom, c. 12th.-6th. century BC.

The scarab carved in a greyish type of stone, stylized type made to be placed at the heart of the body. The details of the head and front faintly incised.

Size: 55 mm. long and 34 mm. wide. Made of a heavy type of stone.

Condition: Good very fine for type, finely patinated.

Ex Old 1960's-1970s private collection

Rare Tai Yai Burmese wooden disciple seated on a base, with gilded gold and inlay of colorful glass pieces on the borders of the robe.

Age: Burma, 19th Century
Size: Height 38 C.M. / Width 22 C.M. / Depth 23 C.M.
Condition: Nice condition overall (some expected degradation due to its age). Please refer to the enlargement photos for more details.
Shipment: Worldwide shipping from Bangkok, Thailand at actual cost. Please e-mail us for the shipping fee.

Kicho made of kosode (meaning kimono with small opening of wrists) which is made of silk damask dyed with beni (safflower). All embroideries are also vegetable dye silk yarn and gold yarn. Kicho is a kind of screen used as blinder, wind guard and partition. It was used in the house of the aristocrats since Heian period (late 8th to 11th century). This one is recycled from kosode kimono possibly late Edo or early Meiji period (mid to late 19th century. The lining is also beni dyed silk damask...

This finely detailed Tibetan thank of a seated Buddha sitting on a lotus pedestal holding a blue bowl that is emblematic of healing powers, and he is surrounded by the various jatakas, displaying the tales of the various stages of the Buddha's life starting with his birth, with white elephants and stylized lions, It is superbly painted in great detail with minerals and pigments on cloth, and beautifully framed with silk mat and gilt frame...

Circa 1780, English creamware with black transfer pheasants and a molded feather edge. Made by Sadler & Green of Liverpool, it measures 10" diameter and .75" deep. Condition is very good with just 2 small chips to edge.

An accomplished and very interesting larger stone cylinder seal, from the Uruk period of Mesopotamia, c. 3500-3000 BC.

The fine drill-style carved shows thick vertical bars, and some strange creatures behind and around these bars. Attractive high relief seal carved in a black stone, with loop at the top instead of the usual vertical drilling.

Size: c...