From our Chinese Blue and White Collection, a very fine and well-painted Kangxi Period (1662-1722) porcelain dish with apocryphal Chenghua Period mark, depicting two elegant ladies looking out over a terrace with banana leaf plants and trees. Cross-hatched motifs decorate the border along with four vignettes of peaches signifying longevity. The reverse is decorated with stylized mountains on the outer rim, and a six character apocryphal Chengua Period mark is contained within double circles in ...

From our Chinese Blue and White Collection, a very fine Kangxi (1662-1722) Mark and Period porcelain dish depicting a scholar with two ladies on a terraced pavilion, bordered by two bunches of flowering branches on the outer rim. The scene is probably derived from an earlier wood-block print. The reverse is decorated with flower sprigs on the outer rim, with a well-drawn six character Kangxi mark of the period contained within double circles in the center. The dish is executed in high quality un...

From our Chinese Blue and White Collection, a very fine and elegant Kangxi Period (1662-1722) phoenix bowl, early Kangxi Period circa 1675-1690, decorated with two well-painted phoenixes and a treed outcropping, all well-executed in a strong blue against a delicately potted pure white body with everted rim. The interior features a single flower encircled within a medallion of double lines. The base is plain. The footrim is especially finely cut and very neatly glazed exposing just a narrow swath...

From our Chinese Blue and White Collection, a very fine Kangxi Period (1662-1722) porcelain plate with flower basket motif, the border executed with cash diaper design interspersed with four vignettes of floral sprigs. This piece is export ware but still arguably "Chinese taste" given the understated elegance and restraint from over-decoration. The genius of its appeal is in the wonderful balance between the painted areas and the areas of unpainted white reserve, which provide lovely contrast to...

A Very Fine Korean Buncheong White Slip Inlaid Bowl-15th C, : Korea, Joseon dynasty, 15th century. The deep bowl on short raised ring foot with everted rim, decorated in inlaid white slip with a central medallion of floral heads and dots surrounded by a narrow band of stylized double rings and wide band of “rope curtain” design, the exterior decorated en suite beneath a pale celadon glaze. It’ in good condition but some chips to foot-rim, it measures 19 cm d. x 8 cm h.

A Very Fine Korean Goryeo Blue/White Slip Inlaid Celadon Wine Cup-12th-13th C.: Korea, Goryeo dynasty, 12th – 13th century. The 8 lobed wine cup on the short flared foot and with scalloped rim finely decorated in inlaid black and white slip, each lobe with a single chrysanthemum flower head beneath a thin, clear crackled celadon glaze, earthen on foot rim. It’s in good condition with kingfisher celadon glaze but 2 tiny mouth rim chips, otherwise very good condition, it measures 6....

A Very Fine Korean Gourd Shape of Koryo Pottery Bottle-13th C.: Korea, Koryo dynasty, 13th to 14th century. A slender and double gourd shape of bottle made with a very refined and very pure dark clay. It’s in fine condition with hair line firing cracks on lower body, it measures 28.5vm h. x 13,5 cm d.

A Very Fine Korean Paulownia Wood Wall Letter Rack--考備-19th C.: $1,300. (LETTER DOCUMENT FILE HOLDER ORGANIZER). Korea, Joseon dynasty, 19th century. A long beautiful paulownia carved three medallion open work wood letter or Documents rack (holder). with stylized word pattern, with black patina. It’s in good condition, measures 65.6cm h. x 16.5cm w. *** Items that are hung on the wall and put letters, etc.: those that preserve the texture of pine or paulownia wood boards, those th...

A very Fine Korean Peony Incised Celadon Cup-Stand-12th C.: Korea, Koryo dynasty, 12th century. Finely potted cup stand with flaring saucer is on raised ring foot, decorated with four large single delicately incised peony and are each other around the saucer bordered by bands of key-fret patterns beneath a rich translucent celadon glaze evenly whole body, three spur marks. It’s in very good condition without any damages at all, and measures 13.5cm d. x 5.2cm h.

A Very Fine Korean 책가도-冊架圖) 8 Panel Screen-19th C.: Scholar’s accoutrements (Chaekgori), Korea, Joseon dynasty, 19th century. Chaekgeori paintings always included books, bronzed, boxes of various kinds, lacquer, porcelain flower vase and bowls of fruit, writing paraphernalia (rolled scrolls of paper, brushes, ink sticks, and ink stone) and glass fishbowls, among other objects. There is literary evidence for the tradition of Ch’aekgori from the late 18th century. It’s in...

A Very Fine/Large Korean Wood Carved Wedding Duck-19th C.: Korea, Joseon dynasty, 18th/19th century. A good and large wood hand carved Mandarin duck, traditionally used in wedding ceremonies, with old patina overall, its bottom square carved out for holding. It’s in very good condition with old dark-brown patina due to its age, it measures 19cm high. and 31cm length.

From our Japanese Collection, a very fine and early Gosu Blue satsuma vase, late Edo Period circa 1840-1860, signed Gyozan. There are four separate gilt-framed panels: Two depict shi-shi, one depicts scholar's table objects, and one depicts a flowering plant. Each panel is surmounted by birds in flight on the upper shoulder, probably phoenix. As with all of our satsuma offerings, this piece is of the highest quality, and is a particularly fine example of early Gosu Blue satsuma.

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A Very Finely Painted with Butterfly by Chung Navi(정나븨) Korea, dated:Sept.1952, signed in Korean and English and red sealed, framed with documents on the back. Painted with 15 different butterflies, and on silk. It's in very fine condition, it measures 7.5” x 10,5” (19cm x 27cm). About Artist: Born in 1906, graduated from Tokyo Art Academy, Tokyo, Japan. A specialist in drawing and painting butterflies. The professors spent 15 years gathering more than 7,000 types of butt...

From our Early Chinese Collection, a very fine Ming bronze of Guanyin, 16th-17th century, crisply cast with a wonderfully serene countenance, a tiered and pierced diadem (crown), urna on the forehead signifying divine sight, body jewelry, and seated with right hand in verada mudra upon a double lotus base. This piece has developed a nice deep brown / dark gray patina with several areas of greenish verdigris suggesting high copper content to the bronze. We think this piece compares well with tw...

From our Japanese Collection, a very fine assembled pair of Fukagawa imari porcelain chargers, Meiji Period (1868-1912). The blue Koransha mark on the reverse dates these more specifically to circa 1875-1880. One charger depicts figures set against a field of tall bamboo grass executed in mostly gilt and blue, along with very subtle use of green, orange and pink, while the second charger depicts just the bamboo grass. Both have scrolling floral sprays / karakusa in blue and orange on the revers...

A Very Fine/Rare Korean Pigments Enameled Wood Carved Wedding Duck-19th C.: Korea, Joseon dynasty, 19th century A quite large and finely carved wood duck painted with a thick natural mineral pigments in white, light brownish red, green, blue and black over the surfaces for a wedding ceremonial events, the base has a rectangular in-hole for fitting, its head is removal. It’s in excellent condition with old pigment colors with some areas faded, measures 12’ (30.5cm). ***Provenance; Colle...

From our Chinese Blue and White Collection, a very fine Qianlong Period (1736-1795), blue and white sauce tureen base of rectangular form with chamfered corners, depicting a river scene with fenced pagodas, people, bridges, and boats on water, with a meticulously intricate border design of cash diaper motifs, butterflies, key frets, and other details, all executed in an attractive blue of varying shades upon a body of dense 18th century export porcelain.

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A very fine QING DYNASTY Blue and White Vase depicting fruit, leaves and foliage, 18th Century, from the Portuguese market. Size: height 34 cm. Very good condition, no chips, no cracks, no hairlines nor restorations.