A Chinese White Glazed Dish with a Painted Crane Decoration and Overglaze Splashes. Circa, 1368-1644, Cizhou Ware, Ming Dynasty. Found in the Philippines. Dish covered in a white glaze, painted in black and tannish overglaze splashes. It is decorated with a scenery of a spontaneously drawn centralized crane with vegetation and clouds, bordered by scrolls...

A Chinese Qingbai Glazed Vase with Floral Decoration and Petalled Rim. Circa, 13th-14th Century, Jingdezhen Kilns, Southern Song-Yuan Dynasty. Found in the Philippines. Featuring a baluster shaped body that is raised on a flaring foot. Its long straight neck flares to an undulating rim with down turned petal-tips. Its body is carved in shallow relief of a floral decoration. Its neck is decorated with a band of incised upright petals...

Fine Chinese Western Han Dynasty Burnished Pottery Jar

This fine and rare pottery jar was made during Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 8) or possibly a little earlier. It is made from a relatively highly-fired fine-grained grey pottery and has a burnished surface, very smooth to the touch. The wide body is decorated with two raised bands around the waist that have been impressed with geometric patterns. Around the shoulder there are two bands of impressed lines...

A Chinese Celadon Glazed Bowl with Carved Decoration. Circa, 960-1279, Fujian Ware, Song Dynasty. Found in the Philippines. Bowl with a carved centralized flower inside upright sprays, bordered by combed lines and is covered overall in a green celadon glaze, except for the base. Measurements: diameter (7.5”inches) across. Condition: there is a very small glaze flake at the corner of the rim but is otherwise in perfect condition. No repairs, UV light checked...

A Chinese Yue Celadon Glazed Chicken-Head Ewer. Circa, 220-589, Six Dynasties. Found in the Philippines. Featuring a compressed globular body with a short neck that flares to a thick upper flanged rim and a chicken head spout opposite a curved handle. Two lug handles are set on its shoulders and it is covered overall with a green ‘Yue’ celadon glaze except for the base. Measurements: height (6.5”inches). Condition: in perfect condition...

A very rare Guanyao Official ware bottle vase with crackles glazed around the body, covered overall with greyish tone celadon glazed. Condition is very good, no any chip, no any crack and free from any restoration or perfect condition. Possibly Southern Song Dynasty Hangzhou Jiaothanxia Guan ware. Height: 11,5 cm.

Fine LARGE Chinese Han Dynasty Pottery Amphora with Oxford TL Test

A superbly conceived design; jars of this general type have been found in excavations dating as far back as the Spring and Autumn Period (770-475 BC)...

Very Fine and Rare Large Chinese Western Han Dynasty Pottery Model of a Stove featuring Fish & Seafood

This extremely rare and impressive pottery model of a cooking stove was made during the early Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 8). It is made from quite a high-fired grey pottery that has a distinct ring to it when tapped. Its main upper surface is wonderfully decorated with finely-detailed fish, seafood and various cooking implements...

This piece is just about as good as it gets for this type of carving. The carving, the stone, the composition are superb. Please examine the photographs and see for yourself.The piece measures 3-1/2" X 1-5/8"...

A Chinese Qingbai Glazed Bowl with a Carved Cloud Decoration. Circa, 12th-13th Century, Fujian, Mingqing Yi Kilns, Southern Song Dynasty. Found in the Philippines. Featuring a bowl with thinly potted walls and its interior is decorated with a carved and combed cloud decoration...

A Chinese Celadon Glazed Dish with a Carved Cloud Decoration. Circa, 12th-13th Century, Fujian, Mingqing Yi Kilns, Southern Song Dynasty. Found in the Philippines. Featuring a conical shaped bowl with thinly potted walls and is decorated with a carved and combed cloud decoration...

Fine & Rare Chinese Neolithic Siwa Culture Burnished Black Pottery Jar (c. 1350 BC)

This attractively-shaped pottery vessel was made over 3,000 years ago by peoples of the Siwa Culture (c.1350 BC) from present day Gansu or Qinghai province. It is quite "heavily-potted" and fairly highly-fired. It has high handles, a saddle-shaped mouth and a wide body that tapers down to a small circular flat base. Pottery jars from the Siwa culture are rarer than those of the preceding Qijia and Majiayao cu...

FINE Chinese Western Han Dynasty Glazed Stoneware Jar (206 BC - AD 8)

This very fine stoneware jar, of the type often referred to as "proto-porcelain", dates to the latter part of the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 8). The upper body and inner mouth are coated with an attractive olive-green glaze that is very finely-crackled. The unglazed neck and lower body have fired to varying shades of brown. Around the lower neck are bands of impressed wavy lines. On opposing sides are two sturdy ring...

Rare Chinese Neolithic Pottery Jar - Qijia Culture (c. 2050 - 1700 BC)

This rare and unusually-shaped pottery jar was made around 4,000 years ago by peoples of the Neolithic Qijia Culture (c. 2050 - 1700 BC), from what is now eastern Gansu province, China. They produced a variety of pottery vessels including cord-impressed pottery of many shapes and sizes as well as higher-fired jars such as this. This jar is relatively highly-fired and is quite an unusual shape with its wide and well-define...

Chinese Neolithic Burnished Pottery Jar - Qijia Culture (c. 2050 - 1700 BC)

This rare and attractively-shaped pottery jar was made around 4,000 years ago by peoples of the Neolithic Qijia Culture (c. 2050 - 1700 BC), from what is now eastern Gansu province, China. They produced a variety of pottery vessels including cord-impressed pottery of many shapes and sizes as well as higher-fired jars such as this. This jar is relatively highly-fired and is quite an unusual shape with its almost spher...

Fine & Rare Tall Chinese Sui Dynasty Iridescent Glazed Pottery Figure

This fine pottery figure of an attendant possibly a groom, was made during the Sui Dynasty (AD 581 - 618). The figure stands upright and alert. In the right hand is a small purpose-made hole where an object must originally have been held, most likely made of wood and now long since rotted away and lost. Note the detail of the clothing, including the shoulder straps, and the headgear, tied at the back of the head..

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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 fired to an attractive orange-red and has a burnished surface making it smooth to the touch and a pleasure to handle. 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 referred to ...

Fine Tall Chinese Han Dynasty Painted Pottery "Stick" Girl

This fine and rare painted pottery figure was made during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 8), more specifically, the 2nd century BC. It is one of a small variety of known Han Dynasty "stick" figures. The vast majority of "stick" figures represent males; female figures are particularly rare. It is made from a dense fine-grained grey pottery that has been "cold painted" after firing. It is believed that such figures originally h...