Large Chinese yellow Peking glass vase. Dramatic baluster form with tall neck and rounded foot. The rim displays how many layers of glass it took to create this vase. The color is a vivid golden/yellow color previously reserved for imperial use.

Age: Mid 20th century

Dimensions: 13 3/4" high x 7" wide

A parcel-gilt silver cricket box and its cover. The body of the box is decorated with embossed flowers in cartouches, and its base is pierced with an intricate lattice design. The lid is also decorated with embossed concentric decorations, at the center with flowers in an octogonal frame, and around the rim with large fowers of various forms. China, early 19th cetury, maybe earlier. Diameter: 7.7 cm. Height: 4.4 cm. Very good condition. NOTE: similar boxes were sold at auction at Christie's in ...

24” high Chinese late Qing dynasty Guangxu period baluster form geyao style crackle glazed porcelain vase decorated in underglaze blue with a central panel featuring a deer and crane in a landscape on a white ground. Blue pine branches extend from the central panel to the front of the golden neck. A cream-colored crackled glaze lines the base and interior of the wide dish-form mouth. The rim is dressed brown. The splayed base holds blue and white huts among mountains in front and a celadon...

A Japanese bronze flower vase, mid 19th century, of quatrefoil cross section, with dragon head and tongue handles. Good condition. With (as yet unidentified) four character maker's mark. Height 26cms.

Japanese inlay ceramics (zōgan) are created by making incisions on the surface of a clay body which are then filled with various colored clays, creating a pattern. After the pattern is finalized, an overglaze is applied and the piece is sent to the kiln to be fired. As can be seen here, the results are quite striking and produce unique patterns that cannot be replicated through painting alone. Inlaying as a technique is thought to have originally derived from practices in metal and ...

Chinese pottery brown glazed granary, with cylindrical shape, decorated with bands of incised lines, and supported by three legs in the shape of bears. Lead glaze with copper is the main colorant used in Han period to produce brown glaze. Brownnware became popular during the Eastern Han period.

Age: China, Han Dynasty, 206 B.C. - A.D. 220
Size: Height 28.8 C.M. / Width 20 C.M.
Condition: Well-preserved old burial condition overall with some amount of soil adherings (some abrasi...

Han, Chinese pottery laddle with handle, with red and black pigments remaining.

Age: Chinese, Han Dynasty, 206 B.C. – A.D. 220
Measurment: Height 7 C.M. / Width 15.4 C.M. (size excluding stand)
Condition: Nice condition overall (some expected degradation due to its age). Please refer to the enlargement photos for more details.
Shipment: Worldwide shipping from Bangkok, Thailand at actual cost. Please e-mail us for the shipping fee.

Han, Chinese pottery laddle with dragon handle, with red and black pigments remaining.

Age: Chinese, Han Dynasty, 206 B.C. – A.D. 220
Measurment: Height 7.2 C.M. / Width 16.5 C.M. (size excluding stand)
Condition: Nice condition overall (some expected degradation due to its age). Please refer to the enlargement photos for more details.
Shipment: Worldwide shipping from Bangkok, Thailand at actual cost. Please e-mail us for the shipping fee.

Han, Chinese pottery laddle with dragon handle, with red and black pigments remaining.

Age: Chinese, Han Dynasty, 206 B.C. – A.D. 220
Measurment: Height 7.2 C.M. / Width 16.5 C.M. (size excluding stand)
Condition: Nice condition overall (some expected degradation due to its age). Please refer to the enlargement photos for more details.
Shipment: Worldwide shipping from Bangkok, Thailand at actual cost. Please e-mail us for the shipping fee.

Height: 3 cm (1.2 in)
Width: 3.4 cm (1.4 in)
Depth: 2.3 cm (0.9 in)

Fine Japanese (whale tooth material) netsuke of a rat; very well carved; nerve fissure present on the belly; good condition

A rare pair Japanese plates showing a dragon among textile-weave patterns worked in dull colored enamels, the brass or copper rims and wires showing partially remnants of gilding. The reverse decorated with further floral motifs, the base with green contre-émail. The enamel showing concavities and pits. Condition: fine, only wear to gilding. Dimension: diameter: 24.9 cm, 4.2 cm high, weight: 1400 g.

Width: 10.4 cm (4.2 in)
Height: 4.5 cm (1.8 in)

Chinese square form famille rose porcelain bowl; a band of polychromed diaper-work surrounds the bowl above standing lappets; Tongzhi marks to the base; good condition

Jurōjin / Gama Deity of Good Luck. Painted with ink and pigments on silk. Signed Tosa no mori Fujiwara Mitsusada and sealed. It is attributed to Tosa Mitsusada.

In Japan, Jurōjin, also known as Gama, is known as one of the Seven Gods of Fortune. He is the God of longevity. Jurōjin is originated from the Chinese Taoist god, the old man of the south pole. He is known as the immortal of the Northern Song dynasty (960 – 1127), and may have been a historical figure of the period. Jurōjin...

Hotei, one of the seven lucky gods. Painted with ink on paper. Signed and sealed. It is accompanied by an inscripton authenticating the painting that it is painted by Okamoto Hansuke. It is attributed to Okamoto Hansuke(1575-1657).

Okamoto Hansuke(1575-1657) was a military tactician and calligrapher of the early Edo period. His original surname was Ishigami, and he later inherited the Okamoto clan. He is well known by his given name, Nobunari, and his common name, Hansuke. He originally se...

A black pipe reminiscent of both an ancient Japanese court cap and a industrial burner chimney by Shibata Shigeru dating circa 1978 enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Kuro-yu Kaki, Okoru (Black Glazed Vase Titled Rise-up or Occurrence). This piece strongly shows the convention of the second generation Sodeisha members interest in form over decoration. It is quite large at 15 inches (38 cm) tall and in excellent condition.
Shibata Shigeru was born in Tokyo in 1950, graduati...

The large vase with silver wire cloisonne on ceramic with "tree bark" textured surface. Decoration of butterflies and peonies, with the blooms depicted in enamel tones of sienna, umber and dark mica, and the stems and leaves in dark green - almost black. The body of the vase covered with a dark, warm brown lacquer on intentionally course texture like tree bark - which it emulates. The Kyoto, crackle glazed greyish porcelain body visible from the foot. Taisho era (1912 - 1926). Good condition. He...

DESCRIPTION: A Japanese Imari porcelain dish, shaped in “double fish” form and decorated in traditional Imari colors with floral designs in rust red, and fish scales and fins in royal blue. The reverse has painted florals and grasses on the four sides. Late 19th/early 20th century, and in excellent condition with no chips or restorations. DIMENSIONS: 10 ½” long (26.6 cm) x 9” wide (23 cm).

A finely cast bronze priest's bell with a nice patina and sound, dating to the Late Central Javanese Period. The body resembling a stupa with floral ornaments and garlands. The top of the bell was originally a five-pronged vajra emerging from a lotus flower. For quite an identical piece please refer to: "Indo-Javanese Metalwork" by Linden-Museum Stuttgart, no. 65. Provenance: Private Collection, Switzerland. Condition: pronges lost, tops of floral decoration missing. Dimension: 10.2 cm high, Dia...