Large Chinese Neolithic Machang Painted Pottery Jar (Ex. Christie's)

This large pottery jar was made over 4,000 years ago during the Machang Phase (c. 2300 - 2000 BC) of the Majiayao culture, also known as the Gansu-Yangshao culture, from present day Gansu or Qinghai province. It is a well-made jar of fine form and good proportions. At the waist of its wide body are two sturdy loop handles. At the top of its wide body is quite a narrow neck with a flared mouth...

A Chinese Qingbai Glazed Vase with Petalled Rim. Circa, 12th-13th Century, Minqing Kiln, Central Fujian, Southern Song Dynasty. Found in the Philippines. Featuring a baluster shaped body rising from a slightly splayed foot, tapering to its shoulders onto a long waisted neck with a petalled mouth. Its body is adorned with carved and combed floral patterns and is covered overall in a green-white ‘Qingbai’ glaze stopping short above its foot...

Fine Pair of Tall Chinese Han Dynasty Burnished Pottery Vases

This very fine, impressive and rare pair of pottery vases was made during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 8) or possibly a little earlier. They are of a particularly pleasing and elegant form, the wide bodies rising up from the flat bases, then constricting into long slender necks and finally opening up into fairly wide mouths...

A Chinese Qingbai Glazed Water-Dropper...

A Chinese Qingbai Glazed Box and Cover. Circa, 13th-14th Century, Yuan Dynasty. Found in the Philippines. Featuring a small rounded body supported by a short foot, tapering to its shoulders to a short neck and is topped with a circular cover. Its body is decorated with carved floral scrolls and vertical lines encircling its shoulders...

A Chinese Blue and White Miniature Guan Jar. Circa, 1368-1644, Ming Dynasty. Found in the Philippines. Its tapering body is horizontally joined in two sections with a bordering underglaze decoration of acanthus leaves running along its shoulders and panels above its foot. Its base is fully unglazed...

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...

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...

A Chinese Pottery Figure of an Attendant. Circa, 8th Century, Tang Dynasty. Acquired from a Philippine private collection. Measurements: height (10"inches). Condition: the repairs on this figure are very well done and has been professionally restored...

Rare Chinese Warring States Covered Pottery Stem Jar (475 - 221 BC)

This attractively-shaped pottery vessel with its flared foot and pear-shaped body was made during the Warring States period (475 - 221 BC). It is "heavily-potted", made from a fine-grained grey pottery and has a smooth burnished surface. The surface colour varies a little in places from pale to dark grey due to uneven conditions during firing...

Fine Large Chinese Warring States Impressed Pottery Jar (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 grey pottery. It has wide globular body and a short flared out neck...

Large Chinese Warring States Impressed Pottery Jar (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 grey pottery...

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

This exceptionally large and impressive pottery jar was made during the Warring States period (475 - 221 BC). It is made from a fine-grained grey pottery, relatively highly-fired, having a distinct ring to it when tapped. It has a wide mouth with a thick rolled rim. It is decorated simply, yet effectively, with raised bands surrounding the body just above its waist. Just above the concave base is a small purpose-ma...

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

This large and impressive pottery jar was made during the Warring States period (475 - 221 BC). It is made from a fine-grained grey pottery and has a smooth surface with bands of lightly incised/burnished lines surrounding the shoulder and the upper body. Around its middle are two bands of impressed decoration. Unusually, the whole of the outer surface has been cold painted with a thick white pigment that...

Rare Chinese Neolithic Xindian Culture Pottery Jar

This rare pottery jar was made around 3,000 years ago by peoples of the Neolithic Xindian culture (c. 1200 - 500 BC). The Xindian culture is a relatively late Neolithic culture and overlaps with the Chinese Bronze Age. Xindian pottery is rarer and generally less refined, more coarse and brittle than pottery from some earlier Chinese Neolithic cultures. This jar, however, is well-made and of an attractive form. It is made from quite a gritt...

A Chinese White Glazed Seated Lion Joss Stick Holder. Circa, 1368-1644, Dehua Kilns, Ming Dynasty. Found in the Philippines. Model of a lion seated on a tall rectangular plinth with a tubular holder and is covered in a white glaze. Measurements: height (2.9”inches). Condition: some soil stains on the glaze but can still probably be removed with thorough cleaning. No cracks, no chips, no restorations. Photos by: The Oriental Room® Feel free to contact me at theorientalroo...

Chinese Neolithic high fired, well potted jar with side lugs. Very good condition with original pigment and no repair- just some small chips on the mouthrim- please examine enlargements. Majiayao culture circa 3000BCE. D: 12cm/4.8in and H: 12cm/4.8in

A Chinese White Glazed Melon Shaped Covered Box. Circa, 12th Century, Nan-an Kiln, Southern Fujian, Northern Song Dynasty. Found in the Philippines. Covered box with an elongated melon shaped body with a depressed button top and incised vertical lines. It is covered overall in a white glaze, except for the base. Some similar examples of elongated melon shaped covered boxes with depressed bottom tops and incised vertical lines can be seen in the book ‘Fujian Ware Found in the Philipp...