Gorgeous silken Chinese rank badge with a navy blue background, golden stitching along its base, borders and accenting throughout, image of a silvery green pheasant standing on a rock, a fish jumping out at it from the water, and many designs of flowers, and clouds in various vivid shades of blue. Rank badges were to be worn on the front of a robe to show ranking and status of the elite in imperial China during the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties. Pheasants would show the status...

Burmese repousse silver covered vessel. Compressed bulbous form having an intricately hammered ground of interiors featuring pronounced narrative characters set between two bands of chased acanthus. Fitted lid mounted with a lotus bud. Circa 19th Century Dimensions: 12 1/2" Wide X 7 1/2" High 25.3 Troy oz

Burmese repousse silver box. Geometric form with intricate hammered landscape grounds featuring pronounced elephants in a realistic setting. Circa 19th Century Dimension: 10" long X 5 1/2" High X 5 3/4" Deep Acid Tested / 25.30 Troy oz

Ca. 1796 – 1820, early 19th century
Jiaqing Period, Qing Dynasty
Porcelain with overglaze famille rose enamels
D: 18.4 cm, h: 8.3 cm
From a Marine Country, California estate

A large and rare ogee-form bowl, marked with a Jiaqing seal mark in iron red and of the period; interior glazed in turquoise, and gilt rim scalloped; excellently decorated in famille rose enamels with auspicious motifs.

Beginning in the late 18th century, Chinese-taste famille ro...

Late 19th century
Guangxu Period, Qing Dynasty
Porcelain with overglaze famille verte enamels
H: 44.6 cm / 17.6 in
From a Marine County, California estate

An extremely finely painted 19th century rouleau vase, enameled in the Kangxi famille verte tradition. The image illustrated is one known to exist since the 5-7th centuries, commonly entitled “Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove” (zhulin qixian). Shown in casual garbs in a bamboo groove, the seven sages represent...

Chinese Celadon plate with Even coloring and glazing overall. Ming Dynasty 16th century. Dimensions: 11 3/4'' Wide X 2" Tall

Ca. 1700-1720, early 18th century
Kangxi period, Qing Dynasty
Porcelain with overglaze famille verte enamels
D: 20 cm, h: 8.6 cm
From an English private collection

A large and gorgeous Kangxi famille verte / wucai bowl, of lobed shape, and decorated with panels of seasonal flowers to exterior, while floral sprays cover the interior. The quality of the enamels is bright and intense, while the glaze is a nice creamy white. An excellent example of Kangxi famille ver...

ca. 1860-90s, latter half of the 19th century
Tongzhi-Guangxu Period, Qing Dynasty
Porcelain with overglaze famille rose enamels
H: 36 cm
From a Greenwich, CT estate

This vase is lavishly painted with a young wife and nine sons in a garden, and flanked with landscape scenes, dragons in relief, and faux cloths.

The number of boys painted–nine in total–symbolizes “eternity” or “everlasting-ness”. Indeed, such image of domestic bliss and abu...

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. Indeterminate age (capped conservatively with this listing and likely at least a little earlier.) This strongly potted piece (1.01 k...

Ca. 1880 – 1900
Late Qing Dynasty
Porcelain with transmutation flambé glaze
H: 28.7 cm
From an English private collection

An elegant late Qing “Hu” vase, tight and compact in form, and covered with flambé glaze of an intense red. The archaic “hu” form is based on Shang bronze prototypes, which were originally ritual vessels used in the heating and pouring of wine.

The Qing flambe glaze is rooted in the antiquarian revivals of the Yongzhen...

Ca. 1700-1720, early 18th century
Kangxi period, Qing Dynasty
Porcelain with underglaze cobalt blue
D: 27.6 cm, h: 4.7 cm
From a Dutch collection

A Kangxi blue and white charger, of lobed form, with floral panels encircling a central field featuring a scene from The Romance of the Western Chamber. This piece illustrates the illicit love affair between Zhang Sheng and Cui Ying Ying, as the former (robes askew, lamp in hand) leads the latter into his bedchamber unde...

Ca. 1750-60s, early 18th century
Qianlong period, Qing dynasty
Porcelain with overglaze famille rose enamels
D: 22.7 cm, h: 3.8 cm
From a NYC area estate

A charming matched pair of Qianlong export soup plates, with scalloped edges decorated with fleur-de-lis like border, and carefully enameled with floral sprigs in the Meissen fashion. Though made by Chinese potters, these plates reflect late Baroque Rococo design with their attention to naturalism and curvili...

Japanese Kamakura-Bori lacquer box on tray. The cover with bold, high-relief carving of bird in branch - the almost black surface rubbed to a soft, coral-red toned burnished finish. The softly irregular honeycomb textured ground with leathery texture continuing to the sides of the box bottom and into the rim of the tray with edges also rubbed to the underlying coral-red and burnished smooth. Signed under the tray. Surfaces with some distress from use including minor rubbing and scratching with ...

ca. 1890-1920s
Late Qing - Republic period
Porcelain with overglaze famille verte enamels
H: 31 cm
From a Northern California estate

Condition report: a nearly invisible 8.5 cm hairline from rim, otherwise very good.

19th century
Late Qing dynasty
Porcelain with underglaze cobalt blue
H: 35.7 cm
From a Bedford, Ohio private collection

A wonderful 19th century blue and white vase, painted fully with continuous landscapes of mountains and pavilions, with the cliffs and trees rendered in bold calligraphic strokes.

Condition report: tiny chip to mouth rim, bottom drilled (with two glazelines radiating from hole). [Please examine all photos carefully; they are part ...

Late 19th century
Guangxu period, Qing Dynasty
Porcelain with ge-type glaze and famile verte enamels
H: 29 cm
From a Denver, Colorado estate

A late Qing zun of elegant "guanyin" form, pairing overglaze famille verte decorations of birds, flora, and rockwork against a creamy ge-type glaze. Two springs of slip-covered Prunus branches compliment the neck.

Condition report: perfect antique condition. [Please examine all photos carefully; they are part ...

Adorable and whimsical antique baby's hat in the image of a Chinese lion, made of teal silk with golden stitched flowers and swirled designs, side panels in black silk with stitched koi fish in bright multicolors, black back panel with embroidered butterflies, a beautiful, deep purple back flap with gold stitching and an embroidered bird sitting under flowers. The hat's interior is bright red silk. The lion has a wide, silly grin with accordion-like teeth and its tongue sticking out, and has bri...

Exquisite Chinese Huanghuali alter tables. Gorgeous grain with "eyes" seen in the hardwood. Finely carved all throughout with round Jade wrapped in the wood apron. Overall perfect condition with a wonderful color to the wood.

circa Early 20th Century

Dimensions: 33" High X 43 1/4" Long X 14 1/4" Deep