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Zentner Collection
SOLD Unique Antique Tibetan 19th century lacquered cabinet with beautiful age and charming country look. Sunflower and peony flower detail on doors painted in yellow and green. Top of cabinet has two drawers that pull out and bottom cabinet has two opening doors with loop hole handles.
Circa 1800-1850
Dimensions: Height 39", 38" Long, 21.5" Deep
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 Light green, figured silk ground, embroidered with butterflies among peonies in "sanlan". Paper Label. Condition fine. Dimension: c. 123 cm long x 8cm wide (without seams).
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"
Conservatoire Sakura
$180.00 Silk panel embroidered with colored threads and golden metallic ribbons, it seems to be gold because the metal is not oxidized. The tail of the phoenix is embroidered with dark gray metallic ribbons, certainly silver that has oxidized. A Five-Clawed Dragon surrounded by clouds and a Phoenix holding a flower in its beak, compete for the sacred pearl. At the bottom a rock is represented on which waves are breaking...
Conservatoire Sakura
$1,700.00 Snowy landscape, in the foreground pine branches (?) bending under the snow, in the distance a mountain, black crows contrast with the ambient whiteness and grayness of this freezing winter. Watercolor on extremely fine silk canvas. Beautiful composition good mastery of the brush, unfortunately no signature. It's hard to say if it's a Japanese or Chinese creation, but usually on Japanese landscapes when a mountain is represented it's almost always Mount Fuji, which is not the case here...
Welcome To Another Century
$300.00 Almost square hand-made embroidery. On a background of green satin silk two lion dogs, or foo dogs, are playing with a ball and each other between peonies and other flowers, next to a rock formation, a bat in the upper right corner. They are embroidered by hand with bright colors of silk in straight stiches and looped stiches, the lions detailed and outlined with gold-thread, which are twisted silk threads wrapped in thin gold foil...
Conservatoire Sakura
solded Blue silk chair cover, embroidered with a Phoenix, a Buddhist Lion, a cloud and a lemon in gold thread. Chinese work from the Qing period 19th century or before.
Many disjointed gold threads but complete. A strip at the top cut should be missing 2 centimeters.
51x166cm
Chinese : Pre 1960
item #1088026
(stock #4336)
Galerie Hafner
Sold. An aquatint in colors by the famous Chinese artist Zao Wou-ki (Zao Wuji). He was born in Beijing 1921 and worked in Paris. Signed, dated '59 and numbered 32/95 in pencil. Condition: trimmed (die stamp of l'Oeuvre gravée only last 3 letters), slightly soiled and creased, reverse with annotations in pencil and traces of former mounting, one pinhole in image. Dimension: image: 39.6 cm x 44.5 cm, paper: 49.9 cm x 58.6 cm.
Zentner Collection
SOLD Antique snuff bottle made from beautifully hand-carved peking glass with a smokey clear-tone body, dipped into vibrant green and white glass. One side of the bottle shows a hawk perched upon a branch with blooming flowers, and the other side shows a dog pup gazing up at the bird. Has a jade topper. Signed with a cartouche, dates from early 20th century.
Size: 3.5" tall, 1.5" wide
Conservatoire Sakura
solded Porcelain Shou-Lao. In one hand he holds a stick ending in a deer's head which is usually his companion, and in the other hand a peach of longevity. The glassure is covered with enamels of the rose family. It is rare to encounter this type of porcelain Divinity of very small size. The Iron red is of the best colour.
A lack of glaze on the tip of the nose and a crack on the right cheek,look photo. No restauration.
High: 13.5cm
Zentner Collection
Sale Pending A fascinating letter composed by the noted Chinese artist, Xu Beihong (1895-1953). The letter is addressed to a Mr. Fu Wen and discusses about an exhibition and several works of art that Xu Beihong was expressing his congratulations to the person he was writing to. Letter signed by Xu Beihong. Age; 20th century. Size: Length 15.25" Height 12.25"
Conservatoire Sakura
$1,700.00 A mother-of-pearl and silver cup. The natural shell, without human intervention, is discreetly mounted in brush washer. The shell rests on three simple spherical silver feet which are held by three silver butterflies with outstretched wings. When the cup is filled with water, the butterflies stand at the edge of the liquid, like at the edge of a pond, in reality...
Nice old well worn Qing Dynasty Shekwan green and blue flambé glazed pillow. 19th century- very nice impressed floral scroll and coin pattern unglazed ends. L: 34cm/13.5in and W: 10cm/4in. Here is an “amusing” Youtube video on opium pillows and their history from the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for your edification https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zOVd9LEabo&t=182s
Global Ceramics
$120.00 Two green glazed Shekwan / Shiwan jars, probably late 19th century. Both with molded decoration of flower sprigs and a ruyi border. Jars like these were placed on either side of a grave as offerings, one containing rice and the other water. Height "3 ½ / 9 cm, diameter "4 and 4 ½ / 10 and 11 cm respectively. Condition: fine. Price:
Spoils of Time
$180.00 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...
Chinese : Antiquities : Pre 1920
item #1392009
(stock #6A24F)
Lilly Parker Antiques, Inc.
$75.00 Several pieces of antique carved art pieces, Ming to Qing period, 14th Century to 19th Century carved pieces, 10" to 3" long, as is condition.
Seven Chinese Late Ming Blue & White Bowls Fused Together
This stack of seven complete, plus fragments of two, blue & white porcelain bowls dates to the late Ming Dynasty / 17th Century. They have been excavated from a kiln site. The bowls have fairly wide bases apart from the remains of the top item that seems to be a smaller dish with a smaller foot... |