A beautifully organic pouring vessel as if made of silvered leaves or barnacles by Shingu Sayaka enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Gakuyo Mizutsugi. It is 13.5 x 21 x 18.5 cm (5-1/2 x 8-1/4 x 7-1/2 inches) and is in excellent condition, directly from the artist. Shingu Sayaka was born in Osaka, the industrial and commercial heartland of central Japan, in 1979. She graduated the Osaka University of Arts in 2001, before being selected as an artist in residence at the The Shigara...

This bowl by Shingu Sayaka looks to me as if it were made from petrified butterfly wings. It is titled Gakuyo Wan and comes enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is 14 x 14 x 8.5 cm (5-1/2 x 5-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches) and is in excellent condition, directly from the artist. Shingu Sayaka was born in Osaka, the industrial and commercial heartland of central Japan, in 1979. She graduated the Osaka University of Arts in 2001, before being selected as an artist in residence at the The Shigar...

A Fine Pair of Chinese Western Han Dynasty Painted Pottery Granaries with Original Grain !

This fine and rare pair of painted pottery jars, representing granaries, was made during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 8). They are made from a fairly high-fired grey pottery. They have cylindrical bodies, domed tops with fairly small circular openings. The ridges to the shoulder of each jar represent roof tiles. Each jar stands on three feet moulded into the form of a bear.

Many examples of...

A Fine Pair of Tall Chinese Western Han Dynasty Painted Pottery Granaries

This impressive fine pair of painted pottery jars, representing granaries, was made over two thousand years ago during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 8). They are made from a fairly high-fired grey pottery. They have cylindrical bodies, each decorated with three surrounding bands of raised ridges, the tops of each jar representing tiled roofs. Each jar stands on three feet moulded into the form of a bear. Near th...

Chinese Song Dynasty Stoneware Jar with Rare Stand & Cover - Dragon Chasing Pearl

This rare and impressive stoneware jar was made during the Song Dynasty (AD 960 -1279). It is quite "heavily-potted" with the outer body and inner mouth coated in an iron glaze, the colour of which varies from a "silvery" brown to black. The applied decoration around the shoulder features a dragon chasing a flaming pearl. The pearl represents wisdom, prosperity, power, immortality and the moon, and is also used...

Chinese Song Dynasty Stoneware Jar with Rare Stand & Cover - Dragon Chasing Pearl

This rare and impressive stoneware jar was made during the Song Dynasty (AD 960 -1279). It is quite "heavily-potted" with the outer body and inner mouth coated in an iron glaze, the colour of which varies from a "silvery" brown to black. The applied decoration around the shoulder features a dragon chasing a flaming pearl. The pearl represents wisdom, prosperity, power, immortality and the moon, and is also used...

Very Rare LARGE Chinese Qin Dynasty Military Listening Pottery Jar with Seal and Oxford TL Test

This oversized vessel, in the form of a "cocoon jar" was made during the Qin Dynasty (221 - 206 BC) or possibly a little earlier during the Warring States period (475 - 221 BC), but even then by the Qin state. It is made from a fairly high-fired fine-grained grey pottery. The whole of the outer surface of the body is decorated with repeated cord or woven impressions, particularly crisp in places, ...

1930's Chinese Jadeite Carved Pendant Flower & Bird with Silver backing

The overall length is 1.9 inches (4.9 cm). The jadeite is 1.6 inches (4 cm) long by 1.05 inches (2.6 cm) wide and 0.16 inch (0.4 cm) thick. It is 10.6 gram.

It has tarnished silver, inclusions at the jadeite, surface wears and scratches (as seen in the photos.

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1930's Japanese Mixed Metal Bronze Vase with Frog Signed

It is 9.4 inches (23.9 cm) tall by 4.5 inches ( 11.5 cm) wide. It is 3.2 Lb.

It has a dent at the side and surface wears and scratches (as seen in the photos).

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1900's Chinese Fmaille Rose Porcelain Bowl with Flower Marked

It is 2.95 inches (7.5 cm) tall by 7.7 inches (19.6 cm) wide. It is 1.1 Lb.

It has a hairline crack at the rim, skip glazes, dark spots, surface wears and scratches (as seen in the photos).

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19th Century Chinese Export Vietnamese Market Bleu & White Porcelain Plate with Calligraphy Marked

It is 0.98 inch (2.5 cm) tall by 4.9 inches (12.5 cm) wide. It is 118 gram.

It has dark spots, skip glazes, glaze chips, flea bite chips at the rim, and surface wears and scratches (as seen in the photos).

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19th Century Chinese Bronze Scholar Water Dropper Recumbent Water Buffalo & Boy Figurine

It is 8.26 inches (21 cm) tall by 5.3 inches (13.5 cm) wide. It is 1157 gram.

It has oxidation, rubbing patina, pitting and surface wears and scratches (as seen in the photos).

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A small Hip-shaped vessel by Yamaguchi Michie enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Momo-yu Kaki (peach colored Vase). This pink is her signature color, meant to intimate flesh, it is finely veined and matte, with a sense of moisture lik human skin. The vase is 20 x 21 x 17 cm and is in excellent condition, directly from the artist.
Yamaguchi Michie was born in Aichi prefecture in 1964, and came to pottery at the age of 35, opening her studio in Nagoya in 2003. She first exhi...

Two Jubako stacking porcelain boxes enclosed in their unique wooden boxes which are both enclosed together in an additional outer wooden box for protection. According to the lid, the designs were by Kinoshita Itsuun and Uragami Gyokudo, and the pieces were made by Kawamoto Hansuke. Hansuke is considered the progenitor of porcelain production in Seto, and it was through an act of industrial espionage that he was able to bring the techniques, until then the secrets of the Kyushu potteries, to Seto...

ROOF TILE 1

Actually used at a private house in Gangwon-do as the northeastern part of Korea, early 20th century, approx. 29 x 10 x 0.9 cm (11.41 x 3.93 x 0.35in). *Vase is not attached with this item.


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ROOF TILE 2

Actually used at a private house in Gangwon-do as the northeastern part of Korea, early 20th century, approx. 28 x 14 x 0.5 cm (11.02 x 5.51 x 0.19in). *Vase is not attached with this item.


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STONE PHALLUS

Applied its coincidentally essential natural form with minimal processing by human hands. Personally its details unknown, but heard it was excavated from the old site in Chichibu region in Northern Kanto area, Japan when acquired. 22 x 11 x 6 cm (8.66 x 4.33 x 2.36in). *Wooden shrine is not attached.


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Very Rare LARGE Chinese Qin Dynasty Pottery Cocoon / Listening Jar (55cm)

This oversized vessel, in the form of a "cocoon jar", was made during the Qin Dynasty (221 - 206 BC) or possibly a little earlier during the Warring States period (475 - 221 BC), but even then by the Qin state. It is made from a fairly high-fired fine-grained grey pottery. The whole of the outer surface of the body is decorated with repeated cord or woven impressions with vertical bands then being made around the body ...