13"H buff-colored earthenware Yangshao type funerary urn decorated on the shoulders with bold black and red geometric designs. The symbolic significance of this decoration is apparently unknown. Ovoid form with a wide body extending to its widest girth at the mid-section and tapering to a narrow base. Two strap handles at the sides. Neck ending in an everted rim with evenly spaced tiny holes. Machang type (circa 2200 B.C.) of the Majiayao culture, Gansu Province...

Large Chinese Han Dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD) high-fired gray-black pottery bottle-form vase with geometric incised designs of unusually fine form. 11 1/2"H. Very good overall condition with minor wear. One thin old chip to the foot.

Standing on hexagon stand with his left hand clasped to his chest, wearing tall red hat, painted in green and yellow glazes.

Age: China, Ming Dynasty, 16th-17th Century
Measurement: Height 37 C.M. / Width 10.5 C.M.
Condition: Well-preserved old burial condition overall with some amount of soil adherings (some abrasions and wearings on the piece due to the long burial time underground). Please refer to the enlargement photos for more details...

Standing on hexagon stand with his left arm outstretched, right arm clasped to his chest, wearing tall red hat, painted in green costume glazed.

Age: Chinese, Ming dynasty, 16th-17th century
Measurement: Diameter 10.7 C.M. / Height 37.3 C.M.
Condition: Well-preserved old burial condition overall with some amount of soil adherings (some abrasions and wearings on the piece due to the long burial time underground). Please refer to the enlargement photos for more details...

Small phosphatic glazed earthenware jar with double handles. Reddish brown clay covered with dull black glaze with several mottled white glaze splashes. Jun-type pottery as made in the Tang dynasty, China, 19th century or earlier.
Height 5 ¾ inches (14.9 cm).
Black glaze dull, showing water streaks, one chip on back of one of the loop handles, some dirt residue. Otherwise good condition.

Terracotta statuette of Immortal God of longevity and health holding a staff, has a longevity seal/character/medallion (shou) stamped on the back below hair, good condition, late 18/19th Century, China, size: H. 9.5cm x W. 4cm x D. 3cm

Terracotta statuette of immortal God of power, authority, fortune/success standing holding a scepter, has a longevity seal (shou) character/medallion stamped on the center back, good condition, late 18/19th Century, China, size: H.10cm x W.4cm x D.3cm

SONG Celadon pot-vase with light green-ash glaze, China, condition: good except one chip on foot/base, size: H. 3cm x 3.75cm diameter

Standing straight, wearing hats and long robes, with the remaining of red, black and white pigments.

Age: China, Ming Dynasty, circa A.D. 1368 - 1644
Measurement:
No. 1: Base 9 x 7.3 C.M. / Height 27 C.M.
No. 2: Base 8.3 x 7.1 C.M. / Height 25.7 C.M.
No. 3: Base 9 x 7.3 C.M. / Height 27 C.M.
No. 4: Base 8.9 x 7.7 C.M. / Height 25.7 C.M...

Standing straight, wearing a scarf hat and loose long robe, with the remaining of red, white and black pigments.

Age: China, Tang Dynasty, circa A.D. 618-907
Measurement:
Width 11 C.M. / Depth 8.5 C.M. / Height 40 C.M.
Condition: Well-preserved old burial condition overall with some amount of soil adherings (some abrasions and wearings on the piece due to the long burial time underground). Please refer to the enlargement photos for more details...

Description:

A porcelain stem-cup was uniquely molded.
By a geometric pattern of lines and circles which were composed by dozens of pointed clay dunes on the outer surface, the stem-cup was applied with the milky-yellow glaze inside and outside until to the portion of the stem trunk.
Obvious glaze crackles and fading condition were caused by the enduring age when one minute old chip was found on the mouth rim...

This is a unique and rare offering of a highly desirable Changsha kiln jar. Based on archaeological records, Changsha wares originated and were developed from the foundations of the Yue Zhou kilns which were built prior to the Tang Dynasty in the same region. Usually these are characterized by such components such as under-glazed brown and green motifs and with molded design in relief, appliqué designs or impressed designs in relief and also incised or carved designs...

Chinese pottery granary jar with amber and green glaze, round shape, decorated with bands of incised lines on the body, and supported by three legs in the shape of bears...

Beautiful antique Chinese celadon glazed plate, incised with design of flowers and scrolling vines, Ming Dynasty (early 17th century). Size: 11" wide diameter x 2" high.

A blue-grey glazed pottery form of a large-eyed turtle. The turtle shell has relief patterns over which a glaze was applied.

Period: Song (10th - 13th Century, China)

Size: Length = 5.5 cm from head to tail. Height = 3.8 cm

Condition: Very good. No breaks. Natural crackle in the glaze from age.

PLEASE NOTE: WE HAVE RECENTLY RE-ACQUIRED THIS VERY FINE COCOON JAR FROM A CLIENT WHO IS LIQUIDATING HIS ANTIQUE HOLDINGS DUE TO HEALTH ISSUES AND MEDICAL EXPENSES: WHILE WE ARE VERY SADDENED TO LEARN OF THIS CLIENT'S CONDITION AND CURRENT CIRCUMSTANCES, WE ARE GRATIFIED AT LEAST TO BE ABLE TO ASSIST THIS WONDERFUL GENTLEMAN IN THIS MANNER, AND TO RE-OFFER THIS FINE COCOON JAR ONCE AGAIN: From our Early Chinese Collection, a very good Qin or Han Dynasty (221 BC- 220 AD) cocoon jar, of well-know...

From our Early Chinese Collection, an excellent neolithic tripod (Li) pottery vessel from the Xiajiadian Culture of either Inner Mongolia or Liaoning Province, circa 2500-1500 BC. These strange, other-worldly looking vessels belie their true age, which is an astonishing 3500 to 4500 years old. Constructed of a buff colored earthenware with partially hollowed-out udder-shaped legs, it has a slender and well-burnished body that flares out to a wide rim. This particular piece has signs of root grow...

From our Early Chinese Collection, a very good Han Dynasty hu jar, most probably Western Han (circa 100 BC - AD 08), of well-known and documented form with a dish-shaped mouth, a molded animal frieze on the upper shoulder, and with two taotie mask handles on either side of the jar. Constructed of reddish earthenware covered in a green lead flux glaze that is somewhat crackled and has fired to an attractive brown in some spots, this jar has acquired a silvery iridescence from burial.

Han D...