2 Types of Jian small cup, "烏盞　Wuzhan" and 灰被 Haikatsugi Ashes covered" These types of small Jian cup would be used to examine water at "闘茶 Doucha" tea ceremony. Wuzhan is deep beautiful black...

Porcelain pieces made at the Jingdezhen kiln are famous for their blueish white color, they are also called "影青". This tea bowl has beautiful curving on the surface, they are blueish, and it has silver cover on the edge of rim. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-DA3flydEI Size: 17.8cm(D) 5.5cm(H) Accessary: wooden box Certification: by Noriki Shimazu the famous researcher of Asian antiques in Japan

Very rare tenmoku cup with white spots like as pattern at chest of pheasant in China named "Shako", so it is called as "Shako-spots" tenmoku. The white spots were put artificially. YouTube movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IroYuzQKV6s Accessary: wooden box written with certificate Size:9.6cm(D) 4.0cm(H) Certification : written by Noriki Shimazu famous researcher with Asian antiques in Japan.

12-13th century
Southern Song Dynasty
Porcelain with green-blueish Qingbai glaze
D: 17.1 cm / 6.7 in; H: 6.5 cm / 2.6 in (without stand), 9.4 cm / 3.7 in (with stand)
Basically perfect: slight original manufacturing flaw and some age wear to rim.
From a Seattle, Washington area estate


An elegant Song Qingbai bowl, decorated in the interior with carved / incised details and covered in a green-blueish translucent glaze...

Chinese late Ming (16th/17th century) Zhangzhou (Swatow) porcelain deep charger decorated in iron-red, green, and black overglaze enamels on a cream-colored crackle glaze ground with a central roundel holding flowering peonies. A band containing four floral panels against a crossed line ground extends around the circumference of the rim. 13" diameter x 2 3/4" high. There is significant wear to the enamels and several very old rim chips (see enlargements 6 and 7)...

The Longquan celadon in Song dynasty is well known as clear and beautiful color...

This piece was made at the kiln in Henan pottery area. It is very popular to be called as "Henan tenmoku" which has black glaze with patterns of rusty glaze. The pattern tends to peel off because of overglaze, however this piece has patten clearly remained. YouTube movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-DktYj1GdY Certification: written by Noriki Shimazu the famous researcher with Asian antiques in Japan. Size: 18.0cm(D) 8.3cm(H)

This piece has beautiful color development of glaze and repaired with minute silverwork on the ridge of mouth. YouTube movie/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4kEByQCGcY Certification: written by Noriki Shimazu the famous researcher with Asian antiques in Japan. Size: 9.0cm(D)/ 4.2cm(H)

Late 14th - early 15th century
Hongwu - Xuande Periods, early Ming Dynasty
Porcelain with Longquan celadon glaze
D: 31.5 cm, h: 5.5 cm
Age wear to glaze, otherwise perfect
From a Palm Beach, FL private collection

In terms of design and artistic execution, this beautiful Longquan celadon charger is solidly early Ming; its barbed rim, decorated cavetto, incised decorations, and fluted panel to central field are all very typical of late 14th / early 15th century ...

Tall Chinese Song dynasty brown glazed tapering form horizontal ribbed vase. The glaze was poured into the interior while the top shoulder of the jar was left unglazed. 14” high. Circa 13th century. The unglazed base has significant grit adhering from the kiln which causes the vase to be slightly slanted and a bit unstable. There are small chips along the rolled mouth. The form of this vase would eventually develop into the better known meiping vase...

LARGE MING LONGQUAN CELADON DISH (MLQ091412)
ca. 1400 – 1430s, early 15th century
Ming Dynasty
Porcelaneous stoneware with a lime-alkali glaze; Longquan celadon ware
Diameter: 34 cm / 13.4 in
Height: 5.5 cm / 2.2 in
From an Greenwich, CT estate

A large early Ming Longquan celadon dish, incised with swirling scrolls along the inner wall, and mold-decorated in the center with a floral roundel...

This piece had been imported to Japan in 14th century by "Tenryu-ji ship", and so called "天龍寺青磁 Tenryu-ji celadon" in Japan. It has peony pattern carved at the inner and outside surface, and fretwork pattern at the inner rim. Certification: by Noriki Shimazu the famous researcher with Asian antiques in Japan. YouTube movie/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynYiOqpdoVE Size:15.7cm(D) 8.7cm(H) Publication time limit : Feb.28

Henan kiln of Cizhou kiln group is famous for black glaze ware. It is supposed that 4 handles were used to tie up the lid with rope. Condition is almost perfect except some chips. Certification : written by Noriki Shimazu the famous Asian antique researcher in Japan. Size: D:17.0cm/ H:19.5cm YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CkbrsztjPc&list=PLcPjV3Xf0-WPWoVxtqux54Unn8C1bQ7YJ&index=29

Henan kiln of Cizhou kiln group is famous for black glaze ware. This piece is very rare because of white spotted. Condition is perfect. Certification : written by Noriki Shimazu the famous Asian antique researcher in Japan. Size: D:9.5cm/ H:8.8cm

Yuxi yao was making blue and white glaze or iron pattern ware at Yun nan area mainly in Yuan dynasty, the pieces are popular because of rough and familiar opposite to Jingdezhen the official kiln. YouTube movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0eKVHYY-TY Certification: written by Noriki Shimazu the famous researcher with Asian antiques in Japan. Size: 10.5cm(D) 16.1cm(H)

Incised Dish with Floral Motif
13th century
Yuan - early Ming dynasty
Porcelain with Longquan celadon glaze
d: 26.5 cm
Basically perfect, one very shallow small chip to rim, surface wear
From a Northern California private collection

The main Chinese ceramic for export in the 13th to 14th centuries was the Longquan celadon of Zhejiang province. Glazed in monochrome green, Longquan-type wares have been found in archaeological sites around the world...

Large Chinese Qing dynasty celadon charger decorated in the interior with a carved scrolling peony motif. Late 19th century to circa 1900. 15 1/2” diameter x 2 5/8” high. Heavily potted and in very good overall condition. There are some original crazing and production flaws to the interior. From a North Scottsdale, Arizona collection. Please note that the stand is not included.

Molded Dish with Floral Design
ca. 1690-1710s
Kangxi Period, Qing dynasty
Porcelain with underglaze cobalt blue
d: 14.5 cm
Perfect condition
From the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buhl Ford III, of Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan