A Fine Pair of Chinese Western Han Dynasty Round Pottery Boxes (206 BC - AD 8)

This pair of fine-quality round pottery boxes, complete with their original covers, was made over 2,000 years ago during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 8). They are made from a fine-grained grey pottery and quite highly-fired, both boxes and covers having a distinct ring when tapped. The design of these boxes is very simple yet also elegant and pleasing to the eye...

A Chinese White Glazed ‘Tiger’ Pillow with a Painted Decoration. Circa, 1115-1234, Cizhou Ware, Jin Dynasty. Found in the Philippines. Featuring a pillow covered in a white glaze and is modeled in the form of two crouching tigers with black painted facial features and stripes below its flat resting surface which is decorated with a painted goat in vegetations...

A Very Rare Pair of Chinese Western Han Dynasty Painted Pottery Ram / Sheep Vessels with Oxford TL Test

This rare and unusual pair of pottery vessels was made during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 8). They are each in the form of a recumbent ram, or sheep...

A Chinese White Glazed Dish with Carved Upright Petals. Circa, 13th-14th Century, Dehua Kilns, Fujian, Southern Song-Yuan Dynasty. Found in the Philippines. Featuring a round dish decorated with carved upright petals and is covered in a white glaze, below its unglazed rim. Note: The Dehua kilns (德化窑), situated in Fujian province, are renowned for their production of exquisite white-glazed and ‘Qingbai’ glazed ceramics...

Large Chinese Warring States Impressed Pottery Jar with Oxford TL Test (475 - 221 BC)

This large and attractive pottery jar was made during the Warring States period (475 - 221 BC). It is made from quite a high-fired pale grey pottery the surface colour of which has fired to a pale pinkish-brown in places. It has an unusual wide mouth with a flat rim. The whole outer surface has been decorated with repeated impressed comb patterns.

Diameter 36 cm (14 inches), height 28 cm (11 inches)...

Fine Large Chinese Warring States Glazed & Impressed Stoneware Jar (475 - 221 BC)

This rare large and impressive stoneware jar was made during the Warring States period (475 - 221 BC). It is of an attractive globular form and has an unusual wide mouth with a flat rim. Its surface has been attractively decorated with bands of repeated impressed comb patterns. Its upper body is coated in a pale olive-green ash glaze, as indeed is the inner base...

Richly decorated of imitating the bronze vessels, decorated with old celadon tone of standing tripod censer with three little ducks to the cover.. Condition is very good, no any chips, no any cracks and free from any restoration. possibly Han Dynasty 206 BC- 200 AD. Diameter: 19 cm. Height: 18,5 cm. It's very rare example which can found in Indonesia.

A Chinese Blue and White Dish with Floral Decoration. Circa, 1368-1644, Ming dynasty. Found in the Philippines. Dish with a free hand decoration of flowers in under-glaze blue. Measurements: diameter (20cm across). Condition: one small chip on the rim. Photos by: The Oriental Room® Feel free to contact me at theorientalroomph@gmail.com or via private message for further inquiries, price offers, additional photographs, or for payment and shipping options...

Chinese Western Han Dynasty Painted Pottery Cocoon Jar (206 BC - AD 8)

This pottery "cocoon" jar was made over 2,000 years ago during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 8). It is made from a relatively highly-fired grey pottery and has been decorated by "cold painting" different coloured pigments in a design featuring cloud patterns within vertical bands.

Height 22.25 cm, length of body 26 cm. This is a very good example...

Exceptional Pair of Tall Chinese Western Han Dynasty Painted Pottery Jars (Fang Hu)

This outstanding pair of painted pottery jars was made during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 8). They are relatively highly-fired and have been made from flat slabs of pottery that have been luted together in imitation of an archaic bronze vessel. Their form is unique to the Western Han period and is known as a "fang hu"...

Fine & Rare Chinese Han Dynasty Inscribed Pottery Jar with Oxford TL Test

This very rare and fine-quality pottery jar was made during the Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220). It is skilfully potted, made from a fine-grained pale grey pottery that is quite highly-fired and has a very smooth surface. It has a wide, almost semi-spherical body with a short neck and flared mouth...

Fine & Rare Chinese Han Dynasty Inscribed Pottery Jar

This very rare and fine-quality pottery jar was made during the Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220). It is skilfully potted, made from a fine-grained pale grey pottery that is quite highly-fired and has a very smooth surface...

Fine & Rare Chinese Han Dynasty Inscribed Pottery Jar

This very rare and fine-quality pottery jar was made during the Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220). It is skilfully potted, made from a fine-grained pale grey pottery that is quite highly-fired and has a very smooth surface. It has a wide, almost semi-spherical body with a short neck and flared mouth. The wide base is flat with a bevelled edge.

To the shoulder is an inscription in red pigment, the characters being in the traditional/archai...

Chinese Neolithic Pottery Jar - Siwa Culture (c. 1350 BC)

This attractively-shaped pottery jar dates to the Siwa culture (c. 1350 BC), one of the later Chinese Neolithic cultures overlapping the Bronze Age. It has been quite highly-fired to an attractive orange-red and has a smooth surface making it a pleasure to handle as well as to view! It has a wide body with a relatively small flat base. There are two loop handles joining the shoulder to the mouth which is of the form sometimes referre...

Chinese Neolithic Pottery Jar - Siwa Culture (c. 1350 BC)

This attractively-shaped pottery jar dates to the Siwa culture (c. 1350 BC), one of the later Chinese Neolithic cultures overlapping the Bronze Age. It has been quite highly-fired, mostly to an attractive orange-red although, interestingly, in places the surface has fired to a grey colour.

It has a wide body with a relatively small flat base. There are two loop handles joining the shoulder to the mouth which is of the form somet...

Fine Chinese Neolithic Pottery Jar - Siwa Culture (c. 1350 BC)

This attractively-shaped pottery jar dates to the Siwa culture (c. 1350 BC), one of the later Chinese Neolithic cultures overlapping the Bronze Age. It has been quite highly-fired to an attractive orange-red, the surface colour varying in places, and has a smooth burnished surface making it a pleasure to handle as well as to view! It has a wide body with a relatively small flat base. There are two loop handles joining the should...

Chinese Neolithic Qijia Culture Cord-Impressed Pottery Jar (4,000 Years Old)

This pottery jar was made some 4,000 years ago by peoples of the Neolithic Qijia Culture (c. 2050 - 1700 BC), in the north of China, what is now eastern Gansu province. They produced a variety of pottery vessels including cord-impressed pottery of many shapes and sizes. This particular example is made from a coarse buff-coloured gritty clay.

Height 14.5 cm. It is in fine condition with no sign of any restoration...

Rare Chinese Neolithic Qijia Culture Cord-Impressed Pottery Jar (4,000 Years Old)

This jar was made some 4,000 years ago by peoples of the Neolithic Qijia Culture (c. 2050 - 1700 BC), in the north of China, what is now eastern Gansu province. They produced a variety of pottery vessels including cord-impressed pottery of many shapes and sizes. This particular example is made from a coarse gritty clay and more "heavily-potted" than some. It is of a rarer form that most known cord-impressed Qij...