Beautiful Chinese antique celadon glazed bowl. The body of the bowl is shaped into six wide lobes and glazed an olive-green with a very fine crackle. The interior is decorated with a delicate raised scrolling lotus stem. A lotus blossom or leaf adorns each interior lobe of the bowl. An incised line circles the outside rim. Song Dynasty. Size: 7 3/8" wide diameter x 2 1/2" high

Antique Chinese porcelain statue of an immortal man, most likely Li Tieguai as he is depicted holding a gourd bottle to cure sicknesses and uses a walking stick. He is glazed in transparent, black, green, and light blue and wears a draping robe with cherry blossom patterns. Kangxi period (1662-1722)

Size: 5.5" L x 5" W x 12" H

Ming cobalt blue + white porcelain platter depicting 4 Fish and Aquatic Plants. A rare collector's item depicting favoured subject during Chieng Hua (1465-1487) and Chia Ching (1522-1566) Reigns, i.e. 4 Fish identified as Qingyu (a fresh water Mullet), Baiyu (type of Carp), Lianyu (Bream) and Quiyu (Mandarin Fish). According to LiYiping, combination of these 4 Fish symbolises "unsullied and incorruptible"...

From our Chinese Blue and White Collection, and in honor of the Chinese New Year / Year of the Dragon, we are pleased to offer this large and unusual, five-clawed dragon decorated Shu-family memorial censer, inscribed and dated to the twenty-third year of the Republic (1934), with the "min guo er shi san nian" date appearing on the right side of the ancestral temple, and a family dedication from Shu family descendants appearing to the left...

Antique Chinese pale cream glaze monochrome eight sided porcelain vase. The glaze suffused with a matrix of fine contrasting dark and fine lighter crackles, inside and out, including the base. Period: 18th century, Qing Dynasty. Size: Height 6.25"

Antique Chinese celadon stoneware bowl with green glaze. The bowl has subtle textures, the center has a faint lotus flower encircled by an incised line, the body has radiating lines from the center, the rim of the bowl is slightly recessed. It measures 14" in diameter, 5" tall. The base has an unglazed ring where it was fired in the kiln and the unglazed ceramic can be seen.

Chinese porcelain vase in a deep purple/navy glaze, with a short body and long cylindrical neck. The color transitions to a light purple near the mouth of the vase.

Dimensions: 6.5" height, 5" width 19th century

Beautiful ox-blood glaze porcelain vase, with flecks of light green and areas of a deeper red. It fades to a white crackle glaze near the top of the neck. Mark on bottom reads Da Qing Qianlong Nian Zhi - "Great Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period, Made". Size: 7" height, 4.75" width

Splendid antique Chinese porcelain water pot in the shape of an egglplant with dark peachbloom glaze. Period: 19th century, Qing Dynasty. Size: 4" length and 2.25" height

1722 - 1735
Yongzheng Period, Qing Dynasty
Porcelain with overglaze famille rose enamels
Height: 28.5 cm / 11.2 in
From a Porto, Portugal estate

An elegant and outstanding Yongzheng period famille rose 'garlic head' vase, painted with interlocked and climbing sprigs of magnolia and peach blossom flowers. The execution of the decoration is masterful and painterly, exhibiting a naturalistic and rhythmic hand so characteristic of the Yongzheng period...

A very rare and characteristically glazed foo lioness with her left paw on the head of her baby. These usually come in pairs. One with the baby foo lion under the paw and one with a ball under the paw. This one has a lot of feeling with the baby foo lion looking annoyed with the paw pushing down on its head. There is always some humor with some of these statues. Size: H. 40cm. W. 35cm. Condition: Some pieces missing from age and weather.

A very rare large four scene Ming jar (1368 - 1644 AD) with three panels depicting the three friends and an additional panel of a small animal, the moon and a mountain scene. Size: H. 56cm. W. 38cm. Condition: No repairs. Some loss of the glaze around the rim. "For his residence, earth was piled to form a hill and a hundred plum trees, which along with lofty pines and tall bamboo comprise the friends of winter, were planted."

Chinese Ming dynasty zhangzhou swatow large dish decorated with blue and white ship, whale, birds and flowers. 47,2 cm diameter. Dish in original good condition. Free from any repair. except has original fault from the kiln (please see on the pictures).

A rare Mother and child Han Oil Lamp.The Mother is sitting and holding the hand of the child. The head piece was used for the oil holding the oil. Size: H. 26.8cm. W. 11cm. Condition: Most of the green glaze is gone and there is an old repair break around the head. See photos.

A beautiful and unusual Chinese Canton Export bowl with four painted sides with custom made stand. This shape is very unusual and rare in Canton ware . The workmanship is the finest. Bought in London many years ago. Size: Bowl, H. 10.5cm. W. 23.9 x 23.9cm. H. with stand. 24cm. Condition: Perfect.

A very rare large Han tomb pillar with stamped designs on three side. Front panel is stamped with four alternating designs of three trees with cloud formations and four girls carrying something over their heads. Each panel is separated with cloud formations. The two side panels have diamond shaped designs all the way to the bottom.In northern China during the Han dynasty, hollow clay bricks were used to construct the small, rectangular chambers of underground tombs...

A densely patterned delicately potted early white porcelain dish decorated with two impressed phoenix, poeny flower,lotus and (unusually) with a flying swan to the centre...

Chinese porcelain lidded seal paste box with yellow glaze. Squat round body with with domed lid. The inside and bottom is glazed white. Blue glazed mark on the bottom.

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Dimensions: 5" wide x 2" high