Southern Plains Beaded Hide Doll probably Comanche Kiowa, c. 1900. She has yellow ochre high-top moccasins, yarn hair, and an ink-drawn face. She is 12" tall.

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A Rare Tang Dynasty Bronze Mirror with Archaic Shanzi Motifs Diameter: 7 5/8 inches (20 cm) Condition Report: Good Condition Provenance: Property of a MA Collection

 

A Chinese Yixing Teapot, Qing Dynasty. Length approximately 21 cm (the tipspout to the handle) and height approximately 14 cm. Good condition.

A Chinese Yixing Teapot, Qing Dynasty. Diameter approximately 13.8 cm and height approximately 7 cm. There is chip inside the cover rim. Good condition.

A Very Rare Blue-White Vase with a Portrait of Lao Tzu, Founder of Taoism and Mark of Ming Dynasty Emperor Chenghua Reign The vase is exceptional in both its design and figure-painting motif...

A Chinese Yixing Teapot, Qing Dynasty. Height approximately 8 cm and length 12.3 cm (tipspout to handle) and diameter approximately 8 cm. A soft small chip inside the cover rim. Theres a 2 cm hairline at the rim (not appeared from inside teapot). Good condition.

An antique Chinese seal chop of soapstone with an image of Hotei. Chinese seals are used with red ink or cinnabar paste (zhusha). A seal in an East is a general name for printing stamps and impressions which are used in lieu of signatures in personal documents, office paperwork, contracts, art, or any item requiring acknowledgement or authorship. The process started in China and soon spread across East Asia.

Date: Early 20th Century

Dimensions: 2" tall X 1" square

A Peach Bloom Taibaizun Pot with Six-Character Mark of Qing Dynasty Emperor Kangxi Condition Report: Good Condition Provenance: Property of a NY collector Dimensions: Height: 3 3/4 inches (9.53 cm) Medium: Porcelainware

Painted in mirror images with figures surrounded by buildings in a mountainous coastal landscape. The opposite side with grey birds perched upon a slender prunus. Each side and tops of the vase contain texts and poems...

Like many pottery traditions in Japan, Karatsu takes its name from the city where it originated. As early as the 15th century, Korean potters heavily influenced the development of this form—helping to endow it with the earthy, simple, and natural qualities it is so appreciated for...

An antique pair of Chinese vases with lingzhi mushroom outcrops on a craggy rock platform. The lingzhi mushroom is a symbol of longevity and health. The platform could display an object. These wares originated out of kilns in the Shiwanzhen sub-district within the city of Foshan, going as far back as the Neolithic period. Each vase is pigmented with custard yellow and aubergine.

Date: Late 18th to Early 19th Century

Dimensions: 11" tall X 9" X 6" deep

This is an excellent hand-carved Japanese Netsuke depicting Shoki, the demon queller, in his usual standing position, with his sword drawn. Although he appears to have captured one of them, the other Oni is playfully standing on his shoulders while pulling one of Shoki's ears. Outstanding detail and form symmetry characterizes this miniature sculpture...

Diameter: 3½ inches (8.89 cm)Height: 4¼ inches (10.8 cm). This ingeniously designed white glazed wine-cup is composed of two parts, locked with each other. The cup can be turned but cannot be taken off its stem. In the light, the seemingly plain white cup shows an amazing motif of dragons chasing a fiery ball. Its unuaual design is characteristic of refined porcelain making craftsmanship of the Yuan Dynasty...

元青花一把蓮紋龍雲如意碗 A Rare Yuan Dynasty Blue-White Bowl with Dragon-Lotus Motifs. The bowl is characteristic of refined Yuan Dynasty porcelain-making craftsmanship. Diameter: 5 1/2 inches (12.2 cm) Height: 2 1/2 inches (6.35 cm) Condition Report: Good Condition Provenance: Property of a CT Collection

Antique Japanese pottery Kiyomizu bowl made by the 3rd Rokubei Kiyomizu (1820-1883). The seal of the potter is stamped on the bottom.

The Rokubei family is one of the most influential pottery clan from Kyoto leaded by 8th generation now with over 240 years of history.
Rokubei III became the head of the family business in 1838 after his father, Rokubei II, retired.
He is known to revive Kyoto ceramic industry after 1868 when the capital moved to Tokyo.
In 1879, he was...