All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1492 item #934499
A Ming dynasty Dehua white glaze cup, rounded side with straight foot ring, cup covered with milky white glaze. It decorated with a flower blue underglazed on the center. Cup is in good condition no chip, no crack, no restoration, there is a airline. Size: 6.5 cm diameter.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #934162 (stock #3367)
A good looking one of Song dynasty flower shape bowl, decorated with carved of scrolls motif, underside is plain showing teardrops effect and covered overall with creamy white glaze. Song dynasty 11th-12th century, possibly one produced from Hebei Ding type ware, found at Borneo site. Condition is very good, only appear crackled glaze and a firing crack to interior, otherwise is perfect. Diameter: 18.6cm and High: 7cm.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1900 item #933998 (stock #lot628)
Description: A rectangular brush-licker was made from a multi-colored pudding stone.
Preserving with fine greasy patina on the surface, the brush-licker was kept in a very good condition except some old abrasions and some original stone defects.
Brush-licker was used for adjusting brush wet when scholars were practicing calligraphy or Chinese brush painting.
In usually-seen flat and simple form, the artistry will always come out of the original beauty of the material itself.
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All Items : Archives : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Edwardian : Pre 1910 item #933415 (stock #6255)
A great looking, flashy and colourful Edwardian period size 6-1/2 opal row ring in 14k yellow gold c1900. This ring measures 3/4" x 1/4" across the five opals; each stone has deep and vibrant blue and green flash with attractive transparency. It is stamped KENTS 14K, it weighs 2.4 grams, and it is in very good condition with no cracks, dents, bends, corrosion, losses, damage or repairs other than a chip at the claw to the middle opal (upper part of stone)...
All Items : Archives : Collectibles : Nostalgia : Pre 1970 item #933409 (stock #6252)
A gilt metal and screen-printed plastic pub advertising sign for Whitbread Tankard beer circa 1950s 1960. This vintage 8-5/8" x 3-1/8" bar table or counter advertising sign has white, gold, red and gold screening on a royal blue plastic oval, set in to a metal tripod-style base. Whitbread Tankard is an English beer, first introduced in 1958 or 1959 by the Whitbread brewery. (The Whitbread brewery is no longrer in business)...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1920 item #933240 (stock #MOR2664)
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The turret of a lonely outpost rises from the mountain peak formed by this small Japanese scholar rock set into a hand carved wooden base and enclosed in a wooden box titled Ko jinkaku (Small Armored Tower). The stone is 7 inches (18 cm) tall, 5 x 3 inches (13 x 8 cm). It likely was put together in the early 20th century.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1700 item #932842 (stock #3359)
A nice decoration of Ming dynasty early 16th century blue & white circular box. Condition with a short crack to cover, no any chip and free from restoration. Diameter: 6cm and High: 4.5cm.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #932805 (stock #3355)
A rare plate specimen Dingyao with vividly moulded decoration of chrysanthemum flowers and key-fret pattern border, exterior is plain and covered overall with ivory tint white glaze, rim unglazed . Song dynasty Ding ware. Condition with two tiny flake chips to the underside and re-touched , further in good condition with no any cracks, no any chips found at the interior. Diameter: 18cm and High: 3.5cm.
All Items : Archives : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Art Nouveau : Pre 1920 item #932732
This is a Rarity from a Maryland Estate: a DIAMOND & SAPPHIRE ART NOUVEAU PENDANT ~ Necklace. Size is 1" x 1". Another Rarity from Kensington, Maryland. Please contact us for details
All Items : Archives : Decorative Art : Pre 1800 item #932728 (stock #40F37 107)
Rare sterling silver spectacles in a green shagreen eye glasses case with silver mounts. Circa 1790-1800. The silver eyeglasses are unmarked, but are probably English, with folding frames. The shagreen (shark skin) case is in excellent condition with unmarked silver mounts and a working push-button catch. Size: 5 1/4" ht. x 2" width x 5/8" depth. Shagreen was made from the skin of the dogfish, a variety of shark, and was filed smooth and then applied like leather over a wooden case...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1700 item #932693
A blue & white Yuhuchun from shipwreck, decorated with floral around the body. Late Ming dynasty 17th century. Condition Excellent no chips, hairlines, cracks and or restoration. Height: 14 cm, Width = 11 cm
All Items : Archives : Decorative Art : Pre 1800 item #932672 (stock #40F37 105)
Georgian physician's blood letting set including a silver mounted green shagreen case with hinged top, complete with its four original thumb lancets, each with a triangular steel blade housed in hinged tortoiseshell protective guards. Circa 1790. Three of the steel blades are stamped with the cutler's mark of a crown with a six pointed star below, while the fourth blade is stamped SARLING. The set is in remarkable condition, with the only the catch for the lid closure being missing...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #932429 (stock #lot625)
Description: A blue-glazed Jun bowl was decorated on the surface with charming purple splash.
In a foggy look, the bowl was endured through long time of burial and was survived in a very good condition.
By a steep wall rising from a small circular foot ring, the bowl was mold in an elegant oval shape.
Incursions was observed on the surface amid with crackles.
Date: Jin/Yuan periods, 12th/13th century.
Width: 17cm, Height: 8cm.
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All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre AD 1000 item #932110 (stock #M7100)
Fine & Rare Chinese Neolithic Pottery Jar

This fine pottery jar was made some 4,000 years ago. Although it was excavated from Gansu province, we are not certain from which Neolithic culture it derives although it is probably a product of the Qijia Culture (c. 2050 - 1700 BC).� It is well-made and quite highly-fired, having a distinct ring when tapped. The lower body has been decorated with an impressed, almost spiral pattern...

All Items : Archives : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Retro : Pre 1910 item #931844 (stock #01616)
A 10k enamel heart charm with Canadian provinces circa 1900. It has crests of the (then 7) Canadian provinces and this lovely antique yellow gold pendant was made the George H Lees jewellery company of Hamilton ( Ontario Canada) and is stamped 10K with the maker's mark. This piece dates to the pre-1905 era since Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland are not shown...
All Items : Archives : Decorative Art : Glass : American : Pre 1900 item #931779 (stock #6247)
A true rarity of vintage American pressed or pattern glass. This is the 5-1/4" long and 4-5/8" wide wall pocket in the Elephant or Jumbo pattern in amber glass, issued by the King Glass Co. in 1890. Variously described as a match holder, match striker, wall pocket or vase, this item has vivid and crisp detail. It is 2-3/4" deep and is guaranteed to be antique glass...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1492 item #931726 (stock #lot624)
Description: What an artistry it is indeed for this 800-years-old Minyao bottle vase which full of strong Zen spirits.
With four leaf-like handles, the vase was mold in oval shape and was applied with buff-tinted glaze on the surface.
Being decorated with circular lines around the body which like the halos around the stars, it was in simple form and owned with serene atmosphere.
Had been produced in one of the Cizhou kilns of northern China in 12th-13th centuries, the bottle was done...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1700 item #931207 (stock #3349)
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All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1700 item #931179 (stock #3347)
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All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #930874 (stock #3346)
A circular celadon box, decorated to the top with lotus blossom. Southern-Song dynasty 12th-13th century Longquan ware. Condition is very good near perfect, only with minor flake glaze to rim (visible on enlargement 4) and tiny dull to glaze considered excavated from sea water, further in perfect shape. Diameter: 7.5cm and High: 3cm.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1700 item #930865 (stock #3348)
A rare and hard to survive white glaze Kraak type flower shape bowl, fine and thinly potted near egg shell porcelain, decorated with moulded lotus flowers to inside and outside cavetto, encircled ruyi head pattern to everted rim side. Ming dynasty 17th century in perfect condition, no any chip, no crack and free from restoration. Found in South Sulawesi. Diameter: 14.6cm and High: 4.7cm
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1700 item #930742
A finely blue & white dish with abstract phoenix on the center, underside decorated with Emblems and continuous floral spray. Condition is excellent, three tiny frits on the rim, no any chips and cracks, well balance potted with good bright blue tone and free from any restoration as well. Dating Ming dynasty late 15th century, Wanli period. Diameter: 19 cm
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1700 item #930544
Bronze tripod censer with six character mark on the base (Da Ming Xuande Nian Zhi). Diameter : 16 cm Condition : no damage or restoration Ming Dynasty
All Items : Archives : Instruments and Implements : Scientific : Pre 1900 item #930450 (stock #M1014)
Offered is an extraordinarily decorative pair of late 19th century, English, Arsenic and Opium, apothecary shelf bottles.

The amethyst glass poison bottle is labeled "LIQ:ARSEN: or ARSENIC, and the cobalt bottle is labeled "EXT:PAPAV:LIQ" - the abbreviation for the Latin PAPAVER which is an OPIUM alkaloid...

All Items : Archives : Collectibles : Memorabilia : Pre 1950 item #930358 (stock #BA761)
Measuring 7 inches wide by 11 inches long by .25 inches thick, this wonderful wooden 1940's Mammy grocery memo board retains fourteen of its original multi-colored wooden pegs which, today, are very often found to be missing.

The graphic of Mammy remains in very fine condition as are the painted list of groceries...

All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #930012 (stock #lot622)
Description: A green-glazed Longquan Meiping was mold in a decent size of 31.5cm in height.
Being decorated on the surface with flowing motifs of floral, this Meiping bottle was shaped with broad shoulder, narrowed neck and small mouth rim.
The bottle vase was stand firmly with the well shaped foot ring which was revealed with firing red tint in the unglazed body clay...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1920 item #929415 (stock #ANR2648)
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A quintessential Taisho style painting of a boy in a mystical forest of flowers, pigment on silk by Hoson Reisui (b. 1897). The ethereal image seems not so much to be drawn on the silk, but to eminate from it. The boy too seems as if a sprite living in some fantastical reality...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1800 item #929101
Blue and White dish, decorated with a pair of Phoenix on flight among flower scroll, all painted under rich and strong cobalt-blue tone, fine glazed also. Character Mark to the base within double circle. Early Ching Kangxi period. Condition : a chip to rim, rim fritting, further in good condition. Diameter: 15 cm and High: 4.5 cm. Shipping cost : USD 30
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1700 item #929100 (stock #lot621)
Description: A bronze Karmapa Lama figure was finely cast.
Being preserved rarely with original gilding, this strikingly depicted statue was in sitting posture on a square pedestal.
Fine carving craftsmanship was well rendered in depicting the deity's facial expression in a natural way.
The bottom cover was a later restoration which was not unusual for Tibet bronze pieces.
Date: 16th Century.
Height: 11.9cm, Width: 8.5cm Depth: 6.4cm.
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All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1900 item #929050 (stock #lot620)
Description: A Zitan wood carving of a sitting figure was well rendered.
Depicted as a long robed scholar official wearing a an official hat and leaned against a stool, the figure was vividly carved in the features and on the costumes.
In perfect condition, the wood piece was reflected on the surface with enduring old patina.
Date: Qing Dynasty, late 19th century.
Height: 9.5cm. Width: 7.0cm.
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All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1700 item #929042
A blue & white foliated dish with Qilin on the center, exterior decorated with continuous floral spray. Condition is good, with a star cracks, one tiny chip on the rim but free from any restoration as well. Dating Ming dynasty late 15th century, Thiansun to early Chenghua period. Diameter: 20.8 cm Shipping Cost : USD 35
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1800 item #929014
Blue & White dish, decorated at interior with two Cabbage. Dating as early qing (1664-1795). Found in Kotabaru, South Kalimantan Indonesia. Condition is perfect, no chips, hairlines, cracks or restorations. Porcelain ware. Diameter: 23 cm
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1910 item #929007
Famille verte dish decorated with a three. Period : late qing D = 23 cm Condition : PERFECT Shipping Cost : USD 50
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1700 item #928998
Blanc de chine covered box decorated with beautifull flying crane and clouds. D=9.5 cm H= 5 cm Ming Dynasty Condition : chips on the inner rim and hairline. Shipping cost : USD 25
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1900 item #928996
Blue and White covered box decorated with playing boys, ridding qillin. Qing Dynasty D= 9 cm Perfect condition, no chips, hairlines and free from restorations.