Alabaster Hindu Figure of Shiva vintage Altar Piece. From India size 4" by 5"
Pair of Vintage Hindu Alabaster Deity alter Figures some losses as seen in pictures. Size 3.5" by 2.5"
Antique British Colonial Betel nut Brass Box with compartment, beautifully made with a piano hinge.Lockable but no key and the lock seems like it would work. Size just under 6" by 4" by 3"
Antique British Colonial Betel nut Brass Box with compartment, beautifully made with a piano hinge.Lockable but no key and the lock seems like it would work. Size just under 6" by 4" by 3"
Hocking Glass Company made Colonial from 1934-36. There are no chips or cracks in the glass. Thanks for looking.
Large porcelain statue of Guanyin with a serene expression looking down dressed in flowing windswept robes standing on a lotus pod . Her left hand gently holding her robe and in her right hand holding a basket containing two removable fish. Glazed in a thick off-white with a light grey crackle throughout. The inside left bare. Made in the Jingdezhen kilns...
Blanc de Chine statue of Guanyin holding a flowering lotus stem in her right hand dressed in flowing windswept robes standing on a base of rolling waves, standing on a lotus pod. Her open robes reveal a beaded necklace. Glazed all over in white with the inside left bare. At the base, the faint stamp of "CHINA" is engraved...
Pair of Chinese carved wooden (Rosewood) Buddhist lions (Foo Dogs). The male and female each represented in pose; the female with the cub and the male with the ball. Each has a loose ball in their mouth. The base of each with a removable wooden prayer slot.
Age: Late 19th century
Size: 7" high by 2-1/5" depth by 3-1/4" wide
Condition: Generally in overall good condition. One of the bases has a chip (refer to pictures)
Pair of large Chinese porcelain blue and white beaker vases in the Kangxi style. Each is decorated all around in under-glaze blue lotus blooms and flowering prunus on a white ground. The inside of each is glazed white. The base glazed the same with a double circle in under-glaze blue. These vases are quite large and heavy.
Age: Late 19th century to early 20th century
Size: 15-1/2" high
Condition: Overall in good condition...
Pair of Chinese stoneware turquoise glazed seated lions on pedestal bases.
Age: Ming Dynasty (16th/17th century)
Size: Approximately 14" high
Condition: There is some wear to the glaze and slight chipping. I am not sure if one of the ears on the lions has been repaired or if the yellow glaze covering has just chipped away.
Chinese porcelain under-glaze blue and white baluster jar with cover. Decorated all around with prunus and cracked ice design. The inside and base glazed white. The lid glazed in the same design.
Age: Late Qing Dynasty
Side: 14" high
Condition: This vase and cover was converted to a lamp. The base has been drilled and the knob on the top of the cover has been removed and there is a repaired crack...
Chinese Peking glass ovoid snuff bottle in good egg yolk colour, decorated in relief with flowers, foliage & sprays of peaches throughout. Recessed base with Yixing type stopper.
Age: 19th century or later
Size: 3" high by 1-1/4" depth by 2" wide
Condition: Good condition
Large green stoneware model of a standing horse, done in Tang style, covered in a rich crackled green glaze, on an integral rectangular base. The base is unusual having a central piercing & being built up rather than simply flat as in the originals.
Age: Pre 1920
Size: 16-1/2" high by 17" length
Condition: Good overall condition, some small areas of chipping and one corner on the base has a chip. On the upper back of the horse is the remains of a Jian Ding seal.
A pair of Chinese Blanc de Chine figures of recumbent females, each lying on a large lotus leaf on a rock bed and with partial crackle. Their left hands are raised gently supporting their heads and in their right hands, laying by their side they are clasping the ties of their robes...
Pair of Famille Rose Mandarin flattened quatrefoil form vases brightly enamelled with shaped moulded panels enclosing figures at leisure. One side displays a balcony setting and the opposite side displays a picnic setting with each having a lake and mountains in the background. The sides have a further rondel with flowers and birds. All displayed on a bright orange diaper ground. The sides are moulded with twin dragon handles in gilt. The lids with a foo dog finial...
Imperial Cape Cod Shakers are in excellent condition. Sold as a pair. Made from 1932 into the 1980's.
Imperial Candlewick Oval Tray measures 9" by 5". In mint condition. Produced up to the 1980's.
Ife Benin Bronze Hip Plaque with Warriors and a leopard head. Size H 9" W 7" H 2"
Han Dynasty Ash Glazed Proto Porcelain Handled Urn with an ash glazed shoulder . Good condition slight rim chip size 10.5" H by 10 w
Chinese molded Pottery Han Well Head Model with Zodiac Animals . Well molded reattached front plate area near fish, missing its 4 support rods and its terracotta roof. Size H 4.5" D 9" W 8" Near matches on Antique Tica .com but listed as houses though they are well heads.
Early Chinese Zhou Impressed red Terracotta pot with cross hatch pattern on a clay built not thrown pot. Condition is good no breaks or cracks . Size H 4.5" by 7"
Primitive Han Dynasty Pottery tomb stove Model with molded patterns and cooking utensils on top. Condition is good no damage has some root marks underneath .
Size 10.5" 7.5" by 4" age unknown
Chinese Sung or Tang Dynasty Terracotta tomb tile depicting a formal court lady with colors . Chait Auction house .
Size 8" by 11"
Chinese probable Tang or Sung Bronze pieces , from a collection of buckles I had purchased 2.25" l each.
Unique Silver nut dish from the infamous States Lines Cargo ships, they were hot beds of spying just before WW11 between Ny and Germany . below is some info on the ships. Size D 4.5" by 1" high. Hallmarks on back
The decade started with United States Lines absorbing the Roosevelt Line in 1940, leaving United States Lines as Roosevelt International Mercantile Marine's sole operating business...
Qing Dynasty Soapstone Shoushan Incised Poem Cup with mountainous and farm house scene . slight scuffs. Size h 2.5" by 3" diameter
Square Philippine Ifugao basket with cover, known as a hu'up, used at meal time for steamed rice by the Ifugaos. Purchased in the Cordillera Region of Luzon island in the mid 1980s. Age of basket not known, but probably mid-century. 11.5"x 11.5"x 5" in height. In overall good condition.
Pair Of Chinese mule liver glazed porcelain statues of recumbent dogs on fitted wooden stands.
Condition: Very good, no chips or cracks
Size: Each dog is approximately 5" long by 4" high by 3" in width. Stands not included in measurements.
Age: Late 19th century to Republic
A pair of Chinese crackled celadon vases, the flared lip rims over short necks with the curved sides tapering to a semi ogee foot and raised glazed base (drilled for electricity).
Size: 23 cm high by 12.5 cm diameter
Date: 19th century
Condition: Good overall condition. Bases drilled for electricity
Hand painted vase made by the Alexandra Porcelain Works, Ernest Wahliss in Turn-Teplitz, Bohemia, c. 1911-1912. This vase depicts a maiden walking with her ducks in a country setting on one side while the other side continues with the country scene. It is hand signed by the artist "....... der Classen" at the bottom of the main scene...
This is a rare antique porcelain figurine glazed all over in white depicting a courtship couple sitting on a large rock with a young sheep at their feet. This figurine was made by the Ernst Bohne Sohne Rudolstadt Volkstedt plant in Germany in the mid to late 19th century. At the back of the figurine near the base is a blue 5 prong crown with the letter "N" written in under-glaze blue...
Chinese Qianlong blue on white under-glaze octagonal porcelain plate with a landscape design. The base is glazed white.
Condition: Good condition. There is a 2" hairline crack and some slight fritting on the rim edges. (Please refer to pictures)
Age: Qianlong Period
Size: Approximately 29 cm diameter
This is an antique Chinese ink painting of young bamboo in fan form on silk done in shades of black ink with 3 seals in red. This is a lovely rendering, with subtle brush work as well as decisive strong definition.
Size: Approximately 16 cm high by 46 cm long
Condition: This painting is old and exhibits the normal signs of aging. Visible wear and discolouration on the ribs, with some minor foxing throughout. No tears or missing pieces.
Age: Qing Dynasty
Antique tea caddy done with a central lotus bloom in a thick blue enamel on white with extending branches and smaller blooms on all sides. Original lid with a similar but smaller design. The base is unglazed, as well as the caddy's top rim for the lid
Condition: Good condition, some slight wear to the enamels
Size: Approximately 6" high by 4-1/2" wide by 2-1/2" depth
Age: Qing Dynasty to Republic
Early Indian Hindu Pallava style Bronze seated statue of Parvati.
Pala Hindu art is quite scarce and this is a wonderful intact figure very nice worn condition still retaining her features. She was cast in two pieces and the top of the base crimped around the separately cast figure.Size H 8" w 6" d 4"
Early Chinese Pottery Horse and Rider Possibly Tang, nice old burial figure with remains of its original pigment colors as well as burial dirt fills his underside. Loss of tail and figure reattached. Size H 12.5" by 9" by 3"