Chinese hardwood jewelry chest; with two doors to the front opening to reveal three drawers: the hinged cover also opening to reveal a compartment; with lantern-shaped pulls, decorative corner mounts and two wire handles, from late 19th/early 20th century period. Size: Height of chest is 10"H x 9.5"W x 6.5"D, in good condition with no imperfections.
高奇峰(1888 - 1933)雄鹰雙棲圖 設色水墨紙本立軸 1915 年作 款識:朝飲蒼谿暮醉扉,月鈅倒掛澗藤青。不須行近巴西路,已聞啼聲不耐聽。乙卯秋九月奇峰高嵡。鈐印:高崙、奇峯。 Hanging Scroll of Twin Hawks/ Gao Qifeng (1888-1933) Ink & Color on Paper 39 1/4 x 19 3/8 inches 99.6 x 49.2 cm Inscribed and signed Qifeng, with two artist seals
Date: 1915
Condition Report: Hand-Painted, Good Condition
Provenance: Property of a Vancouver co...
From a collector of Chinese antiques; never seen the internet light of day. Please do not let the fair price detract from the value of this beautifully carved antique Asian Chinese cup. Also have an almost matching set of two, not seen here - one slightly rounder and an odd smaller one (total of 4 from same)...
Chinese serigraph print on rice paper by artist Hon Chew Hee (1906-1993) titled "Junkboat Musicians". Hee was a Hawaiian born artist who went to China at the age of 14 to study Chinese brush painting. Titled and signed in pencil at the bottom, #24/26. It is set behind a glass frame.
Size: (entire frame) 29" height, 23.4" width (artwork only) 22" height, 16.5" width
Chinese scroll painting of a butterfly resting atop a blooming lily, with calligraphy and signature chop of Xie Zhi Liu (1910-1997), a well-known member of the Shanghai School who would later befriend the famous artist Zhang Daqian and joined him for later studies. His artworks can be found in the China Art Museum in Shanghai and has an art gallery named after him in Changzhou. Zhi Liu was married to another famous painter named Chen Peiqiu...
Ohara Koson
Peafowl on flowering cherry
Size: O-tanzaku. Approximately 14.5 x 7.5 inches.
Date: ca. 1900s-1923.
Bears Koson seal.
Publisher: Daikokuya (97)
Reference: K38.13 and plate 87 in Crows, Cranes and Camellias: The Natural World of Ohara Koson (Reigle Newland).
Condition: Excellent. A few small black marks in sky at left and above bird. Pencil number on back.
Provenance: The Bedford, NY estate of Eleanor Jay and Arthur Iselin...
An antique Chinese nam gua tray.
Date:Republic Period (1910-1920)
Dimensions: 10.75" X 7.25"
A Bamboo Brushpot with a boy chasing a bat, the reverse side with a poem.
Size Pending
A set of four gold Favrile coupes. The interiors of the bowls are engraved with a grape vine encircling the bowl just below the rim which has alternating grape leaves and grape bunches hanging from it. The pieces have polished pontil marks and the undersides of the feet are signed with “L C Tiffany - Favrile” in script around the edge. The pieces are 4 inches tall and the bowls are 4 ½ inches in diameter. All pieces are pristine and are well matched.
Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)
Dancing Girls Enjoying Cool Breeze On River Kamo
Date: 1919.
Size: Approximately 7 x 4.5 inches.
Hasui signature and seal at lower right.
Publisher: Yoshusha.
Edition: First.
This marginless print was issued as seen here tipped along its top edge into the 1919 first edition book, "Sights of Old Capital" by Aisaburo Akiyama...
Setof three Thai benjarong enameled dishes, the larger lobbed dish decorated with lotus flowers on a green ground, together with a pair of small footed dishes decorated with similar motif.
circa 1920s
Largest 4" H x 10 1/4" W
Smaller 2" H x 4 3/4" W
A slip inlaid olive drab celadon stoneware pottery pear form bottle vase. Decoration of fish in black inlaid slip over a ground of white slip inlaid punched flowerheads. Possibly Japanese (see Korean legacy wares from provinces in Kyushu [Hizen, Higo, Satsuma] illustrated in Morse) and possibly Korean Joseon era punchong ware. Signed on bottom. Excellent condition...
A very nice small 1917 Chinese famille rose porcelain wall plaque, with a child holding a peach represents longevity. In excellent condition 19cm x 12cm $175
For your consideration are two, difficult to find, CANINE, veterinary medicine texts published in the first quarter of the 20th century!
Presented first is "DR. LITTLE'S DOG BOOK", with an original copyright of 1924 - this being a second printing from May 1925. It features 345 pages that include seven photos along with some illustrations depicting dog care...
This is a very nice example of a Lowell, Massachusetts, patent medicine complete with box.
The 8.5 inch bottle is in fine condition and sports a label only on the side panel because it is embossed on the remaining three sides. The bottle label is almost complete with modest staining from content leakage.
This medicine retains its original, very decorative box which notes a 1915 date-- apparently when this "new" box was first introduced to the public in August of that year...
Han-juban (short under kimono) made of plain weave silk and beni-itajime (clamp-board dye) with hand painted Yuzen design. The red dye is chemical which was practiced from Meiji period (late 19th century), after beni-itajime with beni(safflower), practiced in Kyoto in Edo period. The last image is beni-itajime with Yuzen dye. The lining is cotton. In excellent condition...
German Rudolstadt porcelain Potpourri Jar with inner top with holes under the top cover, 7 1/4" high, 5 1/2" wide, made by "New York & Rudolstadt Pottery" before 1920 with large pink and baby blue transfer floral design highlighted in brilliant gold on semi dull finish glaze, gold finish is worn on the round knob, and swirling wave pattern on the body. Glaze hairline across the top cover but did not go down all the way.