From our Chinese Blue and White Collection, a lovely Kangxi Period (1662-1722) export dish with barbed rim, depicting a flowering tree in a fenced garden setting in the center medallion, with eight panels in smaller scale repeating the same pattern on the border, and with flowering branches and an auspicious buddhist symbol in double circles on the reverse, all painted in a deep and attractive Kangxi blue...

From our Early Chinese Collection, an excellent neolithic tripod (Li) pottery vessel from the Xiajiadian Culture of either Inner Mongolia or Liaoning Province, circa 2500-1500 BC. These strange, other-worldly looking vessels belie their true age, which is an astonishing 3500 to 4500 years old. Constructed of a buff colored earthenware with partially hollowed-out udder-shaped legs, it has a slender and well-burnished body that flares out to a wide rim...

A rare southern Song dynasty longquan celadon bulb cup, rounded side with deep center and glazed base, cup covered with nice bluish green glaze, brown color rim.
Cup is in good condition with two small defect / chip on the rim filled, please see picture fro detail.
Size: 9 cm diameter.

Very nice 19th/20th C. Chinese yellow glazed porcelain vase with raised flower motif,marked China,in excellent codition. H: 9-1/2"

A beautiful 19th/20th C. Chinese porcelain famille noire 9 dishes in a very nice wooden tray, with plum blossom motif. In excellent condition. Wood tray has a little cracking (pls. see the phote) L: 11"x11"x2"

Edo Period Kyogen Theater Karura (Garuda) Mask, donated in the 19th Century by the prominent collector, Dr. C.G. Weld to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Karura is a mythical fire-breathing bird-human creature from Buddhist-Hinduist mythology. A fine and rare example. Wood with lacquer. 8 x 6.25 inches, 20.5 x 16 cm.

A porcelain box and cover of circular form, the slightly domed cover mould stamped and sculpted with a spray of flowers within a foliate rim, with an pale blue (Qingbai) glaze. Southern Song Dynasty. Diameter : 7,1 cm. H : 5,3 cm. Condition : The cover broken and restored, the under part in perfect condition. For a similar box decorated with flowers see fig. 290, page 161, He Li, Chinese Ceramics: The New Standard Guide, Thames and Hudson, 1996...

An Extremely Rare Bamboo Tea Caddy/Incised Poems/a man in Traditional Dancing: Korea, 18th – early 19th Century This is an extremely rare as a Korean tea caddy, container, incised both sides with poems, caver’s and maker’s name with seal and a dancing boy with a Korean traditional dance and its outfits in 18th or 19th century...

Beautiful Japanese antique kaidan tansu (step tansu) made of dramatic keyaki (elm) wood burl, iron hardware with hirute shaped drawer pulls, in two sections, Edo Period, circa 1850s, (early 19th century). Size: 76 3/4" high x 71 1/2" wide x 27 1/2" deep.

Japanese bronze usubata (container for ikebana flower arranging), with pair of Mandarin ducks with gold inlay, wonderful red patina pattern over all, in two pieces, Taisho Period (early 20th century). Size: 10" high x 12" wide

Museum quality, because there was a bowl with a quite similar decoration in the Percival David Foundation which is now in the collection of the British Museum. ( please have a look at the last image ) Very fragile potted, a amazing Cobalt blue. Ming Dynasty Jiajing Period ( 1522 - 1566 ) Diameter : 6,6 cm. H : 4,3 cm. Condition : Chipped, very fine short hairline that however nothing changes in the fact, that this is a amazing piece.

This is samurai's battle surcoat in Edo period. It is a family crest of the deer horn and the character in the cotton of the indigo dye. There is a motif of Maru also in surroundings of the skirt. It is very a battle surcoat of Chatami. There are discoloration in the plain wood cotton and the white ground of the collar.There is no damage. It is very good. It is a very valuable excellent article. In this item, the family crest (mark of the deer horn) in the part of the back is tsutsugsaki...

A beautiful Chinese Guangxu 1875-1908 imperial ware Ox blood flambe porcelain plate. In excellent conditon. D: 7-1/4"

Chinese Yixing Bird feeder,well potted of square form, with indented corners. Decorated in blue and white enamels with a landscape. Interior with white glaze. With wooden fitting. C19thc. Dia. corner to corner, 1 3/4" (4.4cm) Small chip to base 0.3cm

Never before offered anywhere, is this extremely rare zitan treasure shelf. These were a favorite of any good scholar who would place his small objects of miniature toggles, snuff bottles, jades, etc. The design is simple, streamlined and clean; which is a feature of the late 18th to early 19th. Often zitan lacked excessive carving, due its natural beauty which never required a coat of lacquer. The wood is in excellent condition and has a very natural dark patina that only comes with time...

Chinese Bronze Waterdropper in the form of a reclining dog. Good patina. C18thc. L.3.5" (9cm). Ht.2 1/8" (5.3cm). No damage

A beautiful 19th/20th C. Chinese Famille Rose porcelain Longevity Buddha. It is customary, in Chinese tradition, to present the Longevity Buddha as a birthday gift for the elderlies. Signed and in excellent condition. H: 10-1/2"

Bronze betel box, inlaid with silver and copper. Mandanao, Philippines, 19th century W. 16 cm H. 8cm D. 8 cm Condition: excellent patina, box contains it's original inner lids (2 of them need to be fixed)