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Momoyama Gallery
Sold We offer today a wonderful Chinese Longquan Celadon Porcelain Guanyin (Kwan Yin) dating from the Ming Dynasty. This Guan Yin has been acquired from the world famous collector of Chinese ceramics, Dr. Nearing and his Dragon's Lair Collection some years ago. The Buddha is sitting in the double lotus position. The right hand is in the Karana mudra position, which expels negative energy or wards off evil. It is about 10 1/4 inches tall. It weighs about 1.949 kg. <...
Zentner Collection
$5,000.00 Antique Chinese bronze censor in the form of a snarling foo dog sitting upright, holding a xiu qui ball in his front paws attached to a long tassel. His head is hinged so that incense may be placed inside the body, which will then billow out from his mouth. Overall great form and nice patina, Ming Dynasty 17th century
Size: 8" height, 9" width
Zentner Collection
$5,000.00 Antique Japanese hand-carved wooden theatre mask for the traditional Kyogen performance. The particular mask has the face of a fox, with coarse horse hair eyebrows and whiskers. The fearsome teeth and scowling eyes are lacquered in gold and it has red lacquered lips and veining in its ears. The jaw is hinged so that it jiggles open and closed with the dancers' movements. The inside of the mask has a special hand-carved signature by the original artist. Mounted on steel plates and armature wire p...
Zentner Collection
$5,000.00 Large Japanese woodblock print by Joichi Hoshi (1913-1979), signed in pencil, number 64/99 in its series. Gorgeous metallic silver background. Red artist's stamp in bottom corner. Set in heavy metal frame.
Size: (entire frame) 21" height, 34.25" width (artwork only) 14.5" height, 27.25" width
Zentner Collection
$5,000.00 Antique Chinese pair of blue and white vases with interesting cobalt underglaze panels of oceanside scene, separated by geometric designs. Each vase has a fluted rim, and recessed areas where the geometric patterns show. The bottoms have a cobalt blue double ring, 18th/19th century.
Size: 8.5" height, 4" width at rim
Zentner Collection
$5,000.00 Large Japanese woodblock print by artist Mayumi Oda (1941-present) known for portraying male Buddhist deities as female. This print is titled "Victoria Invention, The Locomotive" Low numbered 6/30 in its series, and signed in pencil.
Beautifully done.
Size: 25.5" height, 19 3/4" width
Zentner Collection
$5,000.00 A beautiful exceptional pair of Japanese bronze vases, wonderfully cast with trumpet shaped necks and receded panels around the main body.
Shakudō (赤銅) is a billon of gold and copper (typically 4–10% gold, 96–90% copper) which can be treated to form an indigo/black patina resembling lacquer.
Bordered design with gilt designs of leaves. Gilt imagery of wild birds among crossing branches, reeds, chrysanthemums in bloom, and a bundle of hay decorate either vase. Accents...
Indian Subcontinent : Pre 1920
item #1305106
Zentner Collection
SOLD Antique Kurdish woven rug with blue, red, yellow, and green diamond design. In good condition, with a beautiful sheen.
19th Century, Bag face.
Size: 48" x 49"
Zentner Collection
5,000.00 A bright, beautiful woodblock print by Mayumi Oda (1941-present), headlining her exhibition in the Satori Gallery, San Francisco, January 1982. It is numbered 93/250 and signed/copyrighted in pencil.
Largest prints she has made.
Size: 39.5" height, 28" width
Japanese Art Site
SOLD Rare Japanese 7th Century Asuka Period
Buddha of Paloma Wood. Beautiful patina and wood grain. The Asuka Period is known for its significant artistic, social, and
political transformations, having their origins in the late Kofun period but
largely affected by the arrival of Buddhism from China. The introduction of
Buddhism marked a change in Japanese society. The Asuka period is also
distinguished by the change in the name of the country from Wa to Nihon. 12.75h x 9.5w x 4.25d, 32.5h x 24w ...
Zentner Collection
$5,000.00 Antique Chinese bronze gu vase. A bronze wine vessel (gu), late Shang dynasty, 12th-11th century BC, with two pieces that separate in the middle, trumpet neck, and archaic taotie style designs along the body. Beautiful patina with crack in rim.
Most likely produced in the Ming Dynasty.
Size: 11.5" height, 6.25" diameter
Zentner Collection
$5,000.00 Antique Japanese choba tansu (merchant's chest) made of kuri (chestnut) wood in warm brown lacquer finish. Each drawer face is decorated with elegant iron hardware accenting. The middle of the chest has two sliding doors with a center locking pin, with two more drawers and shelving within. Keys are included. Dates from late Edo period c1850.
Size: 28" height, 30" width, 16.25" depth
Zentner Collection
SOLD Beautiful Chinese antique display shelf made of Solid Jichi-mu wood (very heavy). The chest has three large display shelves, and two small drawers just under the top display area. The drawers are carved with scrolling mist and chimera and outfitted with brass pulls. Very nicely detailed. Each display area is enclosed on three sides with a low carved lattice work.
Late 19th - early 20th Century
Size: 69 1/2" high x 35" wide x 16 1/2" deep.
Zentner Collection
$5,000.00 Unusual secondary burial jar carved of white limestone in the form of a person. Wonderfully sculpted with the head and shoulders making up the lid portion of the jar. The body of the jar is carved with the person's arms in low relief while the rest of the jar maintains an ovoid form. Kulaman Plateau, Cotobatu, Philippines.
Circa 11th - 15th century. Provenance R. Gervais Size: 36" high x 11" wide diameter.
AntiqueTica.com
On Hold A pair of Song stoneware olive green vases decorated with gods around the vase and the flying dragon on top of each vase. Each lid decorated with birds on the top.
Age: China, Song Dynasty, 10th - 13th Century
AntiqueTica.com
$5,000.00 Chinese ceramic olive green vase with dragon handles.
Age: China, Song Dynasty, 10th-13th Century
Japanese : Pre 1920
item #1337159
Zentner Collection
$5,000.00 New Arrival Antique Japanese fan painting with calligraphy by famed poet Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875). The poem translates to this:"EARLY SUMMER WATER" the blossoms have fallen, the fetters of my heart, have also loosened, and it has become summer, and rivulet murmurs cool and clear. (Translated by John Stevens: from LOTUS MOON)" 首夏水 散る花に かけし心の しが...
Zentner Collection
SOLD Antique Japanese scroll signed Rengetsu (1791-1875), with beautiful calligraphy poem, and small painted flying crane, painted in sumie, beneath. Grass writing calligraphy poem reads:
Tsuki no ,
aki no tomoshi,
saki no toki matsu hodo,
shiru toki wa,
hatsukari no shiru
Along with
The Autumn moon,
Instead of waiting for its coming,
The first geese
Know already
Size: (entire scroll) 70" L x 12.5" W (artwork only) 38" L x 9.25" W |