A rare octagonal porcelain dish decorated in underglaze blue with a flowering bush by a rock, along the border stylized Chinese characters. The rim glazed brown, the base with three spur marks and a "fuku" mark within a double square. Dating to the early Edo period. Condition: well with little scratches, rim with 3 tiny frits and two chips, and one chip under the glaze (photo 8). Dimension: diameter: 20 cm, 3.2 cm high.

Antique Chinese blue and white glaze porcelain bowl, with a flower petal shaped rim and impressions of lotus petals near the base. It has cobalt blue designs of blooming cherry blossoms, chrysanthemums, and peonies on curved branches, and the image of a pair of birds. The bottom has a double ring and Kangxi period mark, as well as a sticker verifying the age of the piece from the Chait Galleries museum in New York. (dates 1662-1722) Size: 3.75" height, 7.5" diameter

The is a Qing Dynasty YongZheng era fish plate painted using blue and copper red, there is one visible hairline otherwise in very good condition

This a blue and white Shou and hundred um plate in perfect condition, probably from Qianlong era.

A mid Edo period carved woodn mask for Shishi-mai festival dance covered in red and black lacquer with gilded teath and eyes in rarely seen good condition. The mask is used with the hand, not worn over the head, the dancer usually hidden beneath a long flowing cape. It is 22 x 20 x 20 cm (8 x 8 x 9 inches) excluding the horn and ears. There is an old metal plate nailed over one hinged jaw inside (not visible from outside), where the wood had likely once given way. Overall it is in surprising...

Japanese Arita porcelain round form deep dish decorated in underglaze blue with a karashishi (Buddhist lion dog) among leafy flowers set against a faintly celadon tinted white ground. The back bears an abbreviated apocryphal Chinese Ming dynasty Chenghua reign mark (Taimin nenka) on the glazed base. The foot rim is unglazed. The outside well is decorated around the circumference with karakusa. Circa 1800. Measures just over 11 1/4" diameter x 2" high. Very good overall condition with no ch...

We like to offer you a rare Japanese Hagi Chawan called 'Gohon Chawan', made in the old Korean style from ancient times and dating from the mid Edo period.

Colour and glaze are equally rare and wonderful. We offer this fantastic chawan together with its Edo period wooden storage box and its cloth pouch called 'Shifuku'.

This Hagi Gohon Chawan has a split cross footring called 'warekodai'. Tea bowls of this style were favored by busho chajin (warrior tea men).

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Very Rare Calligraphy by Kang Se Hwang aka Pyo Am (1713-1791), artist, calligrapher, art scholar and critic, and one of the most important figures and the most influential scholar-painter of 18th Century Korea. Calligraphy by Kang Se Hwang is so rare that the only other example that we know of in America is a very similar work in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, illustrated on pages 172-173 of the recently published, Pathways to Korean Culture: Paintings of the Joseon Dynasty by Burglind Ju...

Lovely wear and patina. H. 11,5 cm. From a Dutch private collection.

3 individual Antique Genuine Banded Carnelian Beads, Cone shaped. Color: Translucent Cream/White/Gray. Sizes:length 29 mm, 28 mm and 18 mm. Good condition. Price for all 3 beads $ 275 Approximately 200 + years old.

An absolutely stunning Edo period (1700s) Kuro Oribe Chawan covered in thick, ink-black crackle glaze and some fine cream colour with symbolic decoration.

It has an unidentified kiln mark.

The slightly irregular kutsu-gata form settles easily into the palm of the hand, with the built up rim resting lightly on the fingers. A high quality Japanese wood box is part of the offer.

No chips or repairs. Only natural inborn kiln cracks. Fantastic antique atmosphere! <...

Framed painting. Anatomically correct skeleton striking a rather elegant pose. Black ink and gofun on brown paper. Unsigned. Japan, late Edo, early Meiji era. Mid 19th century.
Image: 35 x 13 inches. Japanese frame: ca. 43 x 17 ¾ inches.
Gofun rubbed here and there. Chip in frame. All in all excellent condition.

This is not a medical drawing, but an artistic rendering of the subject matter.

The square porcelain bodies decorated with moulded lattice work, decorated in blue with long life (shou) characters. Qianlong period (1736-1795). Dimensions: 12x7,8x7,8 cm. Condition: the right caddy has two small hairlines to the mouth and a long hairline in the body. (See pictures). Lovely and rare set, made for the domestic Market.

Another stunning item from our private Buddha collection.

Large Chinese Guanyin Temple statue made of Jade, with changing jade colours from light green to green, yellow, grey and black. This solid figure is seated on a double lotus flower, one hand holding the pearl and the other a vase.

The Guanyin is in great antique condition with very detailed carvings. Absolutely rare and one of a kind. It dates from the Mid Qing Period (circa late 18th. century). There are some spo...

Very fine facial features, the hands in the dhyana mudra (meditation). Excavated piece with a lovely green patina. H. 16,5 cm. From a Dutch private collection.

Chinese Export Imari Porcelain Plate, 18th C. Qianlong period 1736-1795, 9" diameter, 1 7/8" high, with Peony flower branches in the center, within more floral branches decorated on the wide border, all the decorations are done with overglaze iron red on top of the underglaze blue, highlighted in gold. There are very tight glaze hairline under the plate about 2" long and another one is 3/4" long, and small chips 1/8" wide under the rim.

Wonderful 46 cm and 8,16 kg heavy Chinese bronze Guanyin Buddha from our Buddha collection, made in the 18th century.

The Guanyin (Kwan Yin) is wearing a long robe and is sitting with two hands hidden in the clothes, holding a reel. Very smooth and kind expression. Although the statue is hollow inside it is very heavy.

On her back marked the period of "Qian Long". A really very rare bronze collection, can't find from other places.

Size: 18,25'' in height, 6,5'...

Chinese Export Kangxi period Blue and White Porcelain Charger/platter, Ca. 1720, 10 5/8" diameter, 1" high, Kangxi underglaze blue censer mark on the bottom, with large stylized Peony flowering trees in the center with wide border decorated with rock garden and more Peony flowers and other floral design in underglaze blue decoration. The condition is good except one(1) tiny frit as small as less than 1/16" wide, one(1) old chip 1/4" to 1/2" wide on the bottom rim area, no restoration was done o...