Exceptional & Very Rare Chinese Song / Yuan Dynasty Sanskrit Inscribed Buddhist Pottery Jar

This very rare and fascinating pottery jar was made around the 13th - 14th century during the Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1279) or possibly the Yuan Dynasty (AD 1279 - 1368) and has been excavated from a Buddhist site in Yunnan province, at the time a particularly isolated part of China...

Fine Chinese Song / Yuan Dynasty Buddhist Pottery Zodiac Jar with Sanskrit

This interesting pottery jar was made during the Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1279), or possibly the Yuan Dynasty (AD 1279 - 1368) and has been been excavated from a Buddhist site in Yunnan province. It is made from a fairly high-fired pale grey pottery.

Strips of clay have been applied to the outer wall to form five lotus leaf panels...

Chinese Song / Yuan Dynasty Buddhist Lotus Leaf Pottery Jar

This interesting pottery jar was made during the Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1279), or possibly the Yuan Dynasty (AD 1279 - 1368) and has been been excavated from a Buddhist site in Yunnan province. It is made from a fairly high-fired pale grey pottery. Decoration comprises strips of clay applied to the upper body to form five lotus leaf panels. Within, and between, each lotus leaf there are also incised patterns...

Fine & Rare Chinese Neolithic Banpo Burnished Pottery Bottle with Oxford TL Test

This fine, elegant and incredibly ancient pottery vessel was made over 6,000 years ago during the Banpo phase (c. 4800 - 4300 BC) of the Yangshao culture in present-day Shaanxi province. It is quite heavily-potted and very finely finished with its attractive form and very smooth burnished surface...

Fine Chinese Neolithic Xiajiadian Culture Burnished Pottery Li Tripod

This fine pottery vessel was made some 4,000 years ago by people of the Xiajiadian culture (c. 2300 - 1600 BC) from Inner Mongolia. The form of this vessel is characteristic of this Neolithic culture with its wide rim, partly hollow udder-shaped legs and carefully constructed body...

Rare 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 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 as "saddle-shaped"...

Rare 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 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 as "saddle-shaped"...

Rare Chinese Neolithic Qijia Culture Cord-Impressed Pottery Jar / Bottle

This rare jar, or bottle, 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 quite "heavily-potted", fairly highly-fired and made from a coarse gritty clay...

Ten Ancient Chinese Bronze Arrowheads - Han Dynasty / Warring States

Here is a group of ten bronze arrowheads from the Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220) to the Warring States period (475 - 221 BC). Some have remains of their iron shafts. As seen...

Ten Ancient Chinese Bronze Arrowheads - Han Dynasty / Warring States

Here is a group of ten bronze arrowheads from the Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220) to the Warring States period (475 - 221 BC). Some have remains of their iron shafts. As seen...

Eight Ancient Chinese Bronze Arrowheads - Han Dynasty / Warring States

Here is a group of eight bronze arrowheads from the Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220) to the Warring States period (475 - 221 BC). These all have parts of their shafts and a couple of them seem to be a mixture of bronze for the actual head and iron for the shaft. As seen...

Fine pair of black temmoku bowls with russet rims and traces of silver leaf patterns. Both are in excellent condition. D: 9.1cm x H: 3.9cm. Suitable for tea ceremonies. These are about 90% correct for being of the Song period, but the lack of excavation traces and inside the foot rim being to level and flat throws doubt on this, also the patterns are usually seen on Wuyi Shan Kiln pieces and not in Jianyang.

Antique Chinese pair of porcelain cranes. Each perched on one foot on a rock formation. The feathers have intricate incised details. This pair of cranes symbolize good fortune and prosperity.

Age: mid 20th century

Dimensions: 22" high x 9 1/2" wide

Chinese antique carved panel with fu-lions. Scene of two frolicking fu-lions (shi-shi) and large peony blossoms. Carved of hardwood and accented with gold lacquer.
Shishi (fu-dogs, fu-lions) are strong and playful Buddhist protectors.

Age: early 20th century

Dimensions: Hight: 17", Width: 34"

Large Chinese late Qing dynasty pewter double-handled lidded teapot decorated in low relief with calligraphy and a crane among flowering foliage. A separate removable strainer is in the interior...

An extraordinary and handsome underglazed- red altar vase, decorated with rich flowers motif to the neck is lotus, chrysanthemum, peony and rose flanked by lotus petals and lotus panels, two horizontal animal handles to the neck with diaper pattern above and ruyi/fungus surrounded to the foot rim. Condition is perfect with no any crack, no any chips and free from any restoration. Early Ming Dynasty Hongwu period. Circa 1368-1398. Height: 33,5 cm

Full set of 24 prints- published in 1972. Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Hardcover. Folio. Mc-Graw Hill Book Comapny, New York. 1972. 56 pgs, followed by 24 plates. Parts adapted from the author's previous books of 1940, 1943, and 1947. Plates printed in Switzerland. The box is broken and the leaves are coming off the spine. The prints are in good condition and suitable for framing. A treatise on calligraphy and painting of the Ten Bamboo Studio, including discussion of Chinese writing and i...

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. These types of dishes with a spontaneously drawn motif in iron-brown or underglaze black and sometimes come in yellow-orange or tann...