Fine Chinese Northern Song Dynasty Glazed Stoneware Water Pot

This globular water pot with a lobed body was made during the Northern Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1127). It is a coated in quite a thick glossy and finely-crackled creamy-white glaze that just falls short of the shallow foot that remains unglazed, revealing the creamy-white stoneware body. Diameter 8 cm, height 6 cm...

Chinese Northern Song Dynasty Glazed Stoneware Bottle

This attractively-shaped small bottle was made during the Northern Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1217). It is coated in a finely-crackled creamy-white glaze. Height 12.75 cm...

Rare Tang - song dynasty Liuli green crystal glass small Tianqiuping vase, good condition no damage please see picture for detail size: 8 cm diameter.

excavated from 10 - 12th century Srivijaya kingdom site in south Sumatra.

Rare Chinese Song / Yuan Dynasty Sanskrit Inscribed Buddhist Pottery Jar

This 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 comes from Yunnan province, at the time a particularly isolated part of China. It is made from a relatively highly-fired grey pottery, quite heavily-potted and with a slightly irregular-shaped mouth...

Very Rare Chinese Neolithic Pottery Jar - Banshan (c. 2600 - 2300 BC)

This very rare and unusual pottery jar was made over 4,000 years ago during the Banshan phase (c. 2600 - 2300 BC) of the Majiayao Culture from present day Gansu province. Banshan pottery is usually recognised as being finely burnished and elaborately painted, but more unusual vessels such as this were also made and are sometimes found alongside the painted vessels...

Chinese Southern Song Dynasty Qingbai Porcelain Jar

This fine quality porcelain jar was made during the Southern Song Dynasty (AD 1127 - 1279). It is quite thinly-potted and made in two sections luted together at the waist. The body is nicely decorated with incised vertical lines and a repeating leaf band around the shoulder. Around the shoulder are four small loop handles. It is coated in a very pale translucent greenish qingbai glaze that is finely-crackled in places...

An unusual and very rare washer with well balance potted, the exterior shape with octagonal side, each with lion mask. the interior is rounded side with eight emblem motif and above with waves around cavetto, surrounded by classic scroll to the rim, so elegant and luxury Yuan Dynasty middle of the 14th century. Condition is very good, no any chip, no any crack and free from any restoration. Diameter: 13,7 cm and Height: 5,5 cm.

Fine & Rare Chinese Neolithic Pottery Jar - Caiyuan Culture

This rare pottery jar was made over 4,000 years ago by peoples of the Caiyuan Culture (c. 2600 - 2200 BC) and comes from the Ningxia Autonomous Region in the north of China. It is finely-potted and quite highly-fired. It is of an attractive form with its wide body, neck, wide mouth and single handle giving it the form of a ewer...

Rare Chinese Neolithic Painted Pottery Jar - Xindian Culture, Tangwang type

This very rare pottery jar is of the Tangwang type and dates to the Xindian Culture (c. 1200 - 500 BC). The Xindian culture is a relatively late Neolithic culture and overlaps with the Chinese Bronze Age.

It is made from a buff-coloured pottery, the surface colour varying in places, even to small areas of black. It has a wide body, two wide handles and a flared mouth...

Fine Tall Chinese Neolithic Siwa Culture Burnished Black Pottery Jar

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", has high handles, a saddle-shaped mouth and a wide body that tapers down to a small circular flat base...

Fine & Rare Chinese Neolithic Siwa Culture Black Pottery Jar with Pattern (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", has high handles, a saddle-shaped mouth and a wide body that tapers down to a small circular flat base...

Rare Chinese Neolithic Siwa Culture Burnished 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 highly-fired, has high handles, a saddle-shaped mouth and a wide body that tapers down to a small circular flat base...

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"...

Chinese Neolithic Pottery Tripod

This pottery tripod vessel was made over 3,000 years ago during the Chinese Neolithic or early Bronze Age. It is not always easy to determine exactly which culture such vessels come from as similar vessels were made by various Chinese cultures. This example was excavated from Gansu province in the northwest of present-day China and we date it to possibly the early part of the Xindian culture (c. 1250 BC) or as early as the Qijia culture (c. 2050 - 1700 BC). ...

Chinese Neolithic Pottery Tripod

This pottery tripod vessel was made over 3,000 years ago during the Chinese Neolithic or early Bronze Age. It is not always easy to determine exactly which culture such vessels come from as similar vessels were made by various Chinese cultures. This example was excavated from Gansu province in the northwest of present-day China and we date it to possibly the early part of the Xindian culture (c. 1250 BC) or as early as the Qijia culture (c. 2050 - 1700 BC). ...

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

This rare 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.

It is made from a pale pottery that is quite highly-fired for its type. It is nicely proportioned and has one loop handle j...

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

This unusual 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 example is quite heavily-potted and made from a buff-coloured gritty pottery. It is nicely-proportioned and has two w...

Large Chinese Song / Yuan Dynasty Painted & Incised Pottery Buddhist Jar

This rare pottery jar was made in the 12th / 13th century 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 buff-coloured pottery and is of globular form standing on an integral foot. Around the cover and lower body are bands of "pie crust" decoration, as well as ridges around the mouth and e...