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Hu's Collection
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Old wine cups were wrapped by bamboo wires. Date, Qing Dynasty, 19th century. Width: 5.8cm, Height: 4.6cm
Abhaya Asian Antiques
$70.00
Sarawak, one cent coin 1896, H (Birmingham mint). D: 28mm, weight 9 grams.
SEBASTIAN ASIAN ART AND ANTIQUES
Price on Request Rare 10Th - 14Th Century Bronze Kinari Oil lamp. 15,5 cm wide. 10,5 cm high. Condition: look at the pictures, Free from any repair.
Intandane ltd
**Sold** to USA, April 2021 A rare dated mid Ming dynasty bronze archaic style tripod altar vessel - Jue. The Jue originated during the Shang dynasty in the Chinese bronze age and was used, probably in ritual, for heating alcohol over fire. This item was commissioned as a Confucian temple dedication and bears the inscription - "Shun De County (Guangdong), Xue Wen Temple Altar Vessel, Hongzhi (1488-1505) 1492, County Magistrate Wu *** Ju ask workman to cast"...
Intandane ltd
Sold to UK - January 2015 售至英国 - 2015年1月 A finely cast bronze Bodhisattva Simhanada Lokesvara (an incarnation of Avalokiteśvara), with trident and seated on a lion. This item was made in Tibet and the bronze is of traditional copper / tin composition...
SwisSiam-Arts-Antiques-Gems
USD $750.00 A very rare large antique TIBETAN SWORD with silver, iron and shagreen skin on the sheath. Intricately and beautifully decorated with a Taotie Mask, Deer, Tigers, a Phoenix and a Dragon on one side, while the other has detailed scrolling, foliage and a copper buckle for attaching. Size: L. 19.5", blade alone 14" (L. 49.5 cm., blade alone 36 cm.). RARE Collector's item!
JJ Oriental
Sold. Thank you. A rare unusual bronze mirror with two mythical animals that might be tigers. Age: Western Jin Dynasty - 265 - 316 AD. Size: Diameter - 9cm. Condition: No repairs. Natural aging with nice patina.
Intandane ltd
**Sold** through our Liverpool shop 2023 A large archaic style bronze (copper tin alloy) incense burner on three legs with lion head terminals and with tall flared flange edged handles. The body is decorated in relief with the Eight Daoist Immortals and above them, centrally, on the front is Shou Lao / Shou Xing, the Star God of Longevity, seated on a recumbent deer...
JJ Oriental
$675.00 are Tang bronze warrior that was cast on one side and has some remains of being gilded. It probably was part of a larger array of a larger group of statues.
Size: H. 10.5cm. W. 4cm.
EDMUND GRUNDNER Asiatica - Ethnographica
SOLD ! Thanks to Indonesia ! The U-shaped body with broad flaring mouth supported on three tall splayed legs, cast around the body with a key-fret band and to the underside of the spout with a nine character Mark. Very nice patina. H : 15,8 cm. L : 17,9 cm. Condition: Perfect.
Please see a similar example in the collection of the British Museum. Another similar example was sold at
Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. 13 May 09 Est. 1,500—2,500 GBP. Lot Sold 1,875 GBP
Conservatoire Sakura
$3,500.00 Pewter and bronze tea box imitating a drum. Decor incised with a chisel representing peony flowers on the sides, a symbol of longevity. Two handle in lion head.Bronze nails are arranged all around imitating a drum.The excellent quality of the workmanship, unusual for pewter, as well as the style suggests that this is an object dating from the very beginning of the Qing period. Good condition, no restoration or welding. One bronze nail is missing. No shock...
A half part of a military tally, finley cast in the form of a crouching tiger. Inside the tally is a protruding character and two round holes. Beneath the tally, nine incised halves of characters.The tally is made of bronze, with remnants of the original gilding and a fine patina. China, Early Ming dynasty or earlier. Height: 4.2 cm. Length: 8.2 cm. Very good condition.
NOTE: a tally was used to command troops in ancient China...
Intandane ltd
Price on Request A gilt bronze Libation Cup decorated on the outside with auspicious symbols: Cranes, Bamboo,Prunus blossom and Lingzhi fungus and with some of the Buddhist Bajixiang ("eight precious emblems").
This item was made in China in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) and is from the collection of a British Architect who was born in China and lived in Shanghai until 1931 when he migrated to the UK...
Jack Nelis Asian and Tribal Art
Sold to Singapore Shaped as a pile of coins, the lid made of a real silver coin. Hallmarked at the bottom. H. 24 mm, D. 18 mm. (1 x 0,75 inch)
Abhaya Asian Antiques
$130.00
Three historical coins from the old Russian Empire. 1) Ivan the Terrible- silver kopek, 1553-1589, Moscow mint, W: 15mm. 2) Boris Godunov- silver kopek, 1598-1605, Moscow mint, W: 13mm. 3) Peter the Great silver kopek, 1689-1725, W: 12mm. Free shipping.
Spoils of Time
$180 This is Volume I of Ancient Chinese Bronzes In The Arthur M. Sackler Collections - Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, by Robert W. Bagley, 1987 (first edition.) A must have for serious students of ancient Chinese bronzes. 599 richly illustrated pages including index and credits. Steeped in substantive historical, cultural, techniques, styles and forms, scientific analyis, and other scholarship. We are not book specialists and are selling from our own library collection...
Zentner Collection
$2,500.00 Chinese repousse silver perfumer shaped like a melon. It is divided into 6 sections with tiny flowers on a vine in each section.
Clasp in back. Bottom has maker's cartouche.
Dimensions: 3"(including stem) X 3.25"
Zentner Collection
$8,000.00 Antique Chinese gilt bronze Medicine Buddha, seated on lotus throne base. With hands held together upright on his lap. Eyes downcast in meditation. Base closed with cover embossed with the visvavajra or double vajra, symbolic of the thunderbolt and diamond. Wear consistent with age.
circa 17/18th century Size 8" High x 4 3/4" Wide x 3 1/2" Deep |