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 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...

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...

Chinese Northern Song Dynasty Qingbai Porcelain Bowl in Kiln Saggar

A rare opportunity to acquire a Northern Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1127) kiln saggar still containing its Qingbai porcelain bowl, excavated from a kiln site in the Jingdezhen area of Jiangxi province. This is one of a variety of different Qingbai porcelain wares in saggars, mostly bowls and dishes of varying sizes and patterns, that we were very lucky to be able to acquire several years ago and now offer for sale. 

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Chinese Northern Song Dynasty Qingbai Porcelain Bowl in Kiln Saggar

A rare opportunity to acquire a Northern Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1127) kiln saggar still containing its Qingbai porcelain bowl, excavated from a kiln site in the Jingdezhen area of Jiangxi province. This is one of a variety of different Qingbai porcelain wares in saggars, mostly bowls and dishes of varying sizes and patterns, that we were very lucky to be able to acquire several years ago and now offer for sale. 

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Chinese Northern Song Dynasty Qingbai Porcelain Bowl in Kiln Saggar

A rare opportunity to acquire a Northern Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1127) kiln saggar still containing its Qingbai porcelain bowl, excavated from a kiln site in the Jingdezhen area of Jiangxi province. This is one of a variety of different Qingbai porcelain wares in saggars, mostly bowls and dishes of varying sizes and patterns, that we were very lucky to be able to acquire several years ago and now offer for sale. 

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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...

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...

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...

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

This attractively-shaped 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...

Fine & Rare Chinese Neolithic Pottery Tripod - Siwa Culture

This fine and interesting pottery vessel was made over 3,000 years ago during the Chinese Neolithic or early Bronze Age. The form is of a cooking vessel and the three wide udder-shaped legs allow it to be stood in a fire with as much heat as possible being transmitted to its contents. It is not always easy to determine exactly which culture such vessels come from as similar vessels were made by various Chinese cultures...

Chinese Han Dynasty Painted Pottery Cover (for a jar)

Many Han Dynasty pottery jars are known although only a small percentage of them still retain their covers. Here we have a cover made during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 8). It has an interesting moulded pattern of hills or mountains outlined in white and reddish-brown "cold-painted" pigments. It is made from quite a high-fired grey pottery...

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

This pottery head was made during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 8). It is "heavily-potted" and made from a fairly high-fired grey pottery. It has been "cold painted" in a base coat of white pigment on top of which have been painted pink, red and black pigments to pick out the facial details.

Height 10.5 cm. It has been repaired, as is most obvious at the back of the head...

This piece has some very beautiful oil spots that look like rainbows when exposed to sunlight or strong light. It's very rare phenomenon. One of oil spotted tea bowl "Yuteki tenmoku" is designated as national treasure in Japan, however this piece is small size. Please refer YouTube movie. https://studio.youtube.com/video/Z5jX4ZYdVbI/edit Size: 11.0cm(D)/ 4.8cm(H) Certification: written by Noriki Shimazu the famous researcher with Asian antiques in Japan.

Very rare potter image of a woman breastfeeding her child. This is the only one in this style I have ever seen. The woman is kneeling in heavily swaddled clothing-in her right hand she is holding her breast to feed her child that she is cradling in her left- a timeless image. H: 18.5cm/7.2in

A finely carved pair of coconut bowls with inserts of pure silver (with silver stamps). Decorated on the corpus with good-luck symbols and the attributes of the Eight Immortals. Both with a later Danish owner’s inscription reading: “G. Kina 24/12/1925.” China, Qing, 19th cent. most probably Daoguang period. H 5.5 cm, D 13 cm. Condition: Perfect.

Pair of lovely light turquoise pastel blue Qingbai glazed jars with lotus leaf shaped lids circa 1200 CE, which would put them on the cusp of Southern Song/Yuan Dynasties. The lids have been restored- so please see enlargements, jars are in good condition with no damage. H: 16.5cm/6.5in and D: 12cm/4.8in.

Beautiful Eastern Han, circa 20- 225CE, pottery image of a dancer from Sichuan. Eastern Han pottery statues distinguish themselves from the rest of the Chinese Dynasties with their fluid movement and liveliness and the way the garment drapes on the body is very reminiscent of more Hellenistic sculpture. She has a lovely face with a trace of a smile as she puts lifts the hem of her script to put one foot forward. Excellent condition with no damage or repair. H: 25cm/9.8in.

Large Chinese Song / Yuan Dynasty Glazed Buddhist Jar with Sanskrit Inscription

This large and impressive pottery jar was made around the 13th / 14th century, during the Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1279), the Yuan Dynasty (AD 1279 - 1368) or possible the early part of the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644). Until recent years, this type of jar was almost unknown in the west with some people initially attributing them to the Liao Dynasty (same general period but in the north of China)...