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Zentner Collection
$3,500.00 Antique Chinese jade pebble carved into a pat flying over a bamboo tree with clouds in the background. It is beautifully carved. The back bears a seal. It measures 1.75" wide by 1" tall.
June Hastings
SOLD Deeply carved Cantonese style hardwood calligraphy brush depicting figures, foliage, and other designs with a pin pierced background. Ferrule and end cap is one piece and brush is natural animal hair. Circa 1900. Excellent condition. Total length is 13 inches long, wood handle 9".
Chinese : Scholar Art : Pre 1920
item #1299801
Zentner Collection
$650.00 Antique Chinese celadon ware water dropper in the form of an adorable crab. Charming form.
Very Unusual.
No repairs, Early 19th Century.
Size: 1.25" height, 3.25" length
Chinese : Scholar Art : Pre 1940
item #1428699
(stock #262)
This is a beautiful and colorful Table Screen with a Circular Famille Rose Porcelain Plaque. It is placed on a dark rosewood Stand decorated with openwork design of floral and foliage scrolls. The plaque depicts a detailed and colorful enameled painted scene of Birds and Flowers. Artist signed.
The table screen measures 22 inches (57cm) tall, and 15 inches (38cm) wide. The round porcelain plaque measures 11 inches (30,5cm) in diameter...
Chinese : Scholar Art : Pre 1837 VR
item #1221939
Zentner Collection
SOLD A Chinese literati themed landscape fan painting with a signature reading the name of Li Ching-yi. The soft pastel colors and brush strokes of the landscape evoke the preferences of the literati scholar tradition. Age: Qing Dynasty 18th/19th century.
Size: Length: 19.75" Width: 12.6"
Zentner Collection
$7,500.00 Large framed Chinese painting on silk ground, of two white herons crouching beneath lotuses and reeds, as a small hummingbird flies into frame from the top lefthand side. The painting is displayed within a bamboo style gilt hardwood edge frame.
18th/19th Century Dimensions: 37" W x 60" H
Zentner Collection
SOLD A beautiful and exquisite Chinese painting, signed Tao Ran Yu, with red chop in corner. The painting is a foggy, snowy scene with an icy river flowing down its center. Snowy mountains loom in the distance, with a full moon peering through the fog. Many stalks of bamboo and blades of grass are covered in blueish ice. Flecks of mica have been incorporated to give the picture a shimmery appearance...
Zentner Collection
$4,500.00 Antique Chinese framed painting of the mythological figure Zhong Kui, commander of 80,000 demons, vanquisher of evil spirits, and guardian of households. He appears to be controlling an unhappy looking green demon with a turtle shell, sometimes called Shui Gui. Two small bats fly just next to the calligraphy on the lefthand side, with red chop by the artist.
Circa 1800 Size: (entire frame) 24.5" L x 22" H (artwork only) 16.5" L x 13.5" H
Zentner Collection
$750.00 Antique Chinese framed silk painting of two beautiful young ladies. Vibrant color and wonderful detailing. 19th century.
Size: (entire frame) 12.5" W x 15.5" H (artwork only) 8.75" W x 11.5" H
Zentner Collection
$750.00 Antique Chinese framed silk painting of two beautiful young ladies. Vibrant color and wonderful detailing. 19th century.
Size: (entire frame) 12.5" W x 15.5" H (artwork only) 8.75" W x 11.5" H
Chinese : Scholar Art : Pre 1920
item #1414921
Zentner Collection
SOLD An antique Chinese Fu Dog artist rendered from one piece of natural Wisteria root wood. Designed with its mouth open, it is expelling evil spirits. Its angled posture combined with its knobby and swirling texture adds visual movement to this magnificent burl root .
Age: Republic Period, circa 1920s Dimensions: 12" High x 15 1/2" Wide x 9" Deep
Chinese : Scholar Art : Pre 1920
item #1320190
Zentner Collection
$1,250.00 Antique Chinese large inkstone with gold lacquer dragons and calligraphy writing. The side is inscribed with a signature. Early 20th century.
Size: 9" H x 4" W
Zentner Collection
SOLD Chinese zitan wood ink well, with gold flecks throughout the natural graining. The top is carved with geometric patterns and two wells for ink. The opposite side is hand carved with calligraphy inscription.
Dimensions: 6 1/2" x 4 1/4" x 1"
Zentner Collection
Price on Request A large Chinese gongshi, or scholar rock, highly appreciated as a contemplative viewing piece by literati. The piece is formed by natural elmwood root that has been lacquered, entangling a lingbi stone, originating from the Anhui province of China. Inset within a wooden base.
19th Century Dimensions: 16" x 20.5" x 35" H
Momoyama Gallery
sold This offered painting dates from the early or the mid Qing-Dynasty around the 17th. and 18th. century. It was impossible to identify the artist, but it is obvious that he was a great painter of his time...
Zentner Collection
SOLD Chinese small hardwood folding screen with hard stone panels, hand-painted front to back with scenes of immortals, scholars, and nature scenes with calligraphy inscriptions and red chops.
19th century Size: 30" L x 21.5" H x .75" W
June Hastings
SOLD 17th century scene of "Son Returns Home After Making His Fortune to the Surprise of His Family". Hand painted with inks on silk, we are dating this painting pre 1900. Not examined out of frame, it looks to be in excellent antique condition. Measures in frame 20" x 38" high, site size 14" 27" high.
Ancient East
$240 DESCRIPTION: A long, six-sided Chinese ink stick with nicely detailed dragon and phoenix curling about the surface. Short, impressed Chinese inscriptions are found on two sides. One of the four treasures of the scholar's studio, ink sticks (or cakes) would be carefully ground by the scholar and mixed with water on an inkstone to paint calligraphy or scrolls with a brush. This black ink stick is in good antique condition. DIMENSIONS: 6 1/2" long (16.5 cm) x 1 1/4" diameter (3.2 cm).
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