Rare Large Chinese Song / Yuan Dynasty Painted Pottery Buddhist Lotus Leaf Jar

This rare pottery jar was made in the 12th/13th century, during the Dali Kingdom (AD 937 - 1253), corresponding to 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 "heavily-potted" and made from a grey pottery, fairly highly-fired, having a distinct ring when tapped...

Five carved hardwood panels from an antique piece of furniture or an architectual element. The pierced one carved probably from boxwood, showing a deity riding a qilin among clouds. The other four carved with two figural scenes or flowers. Condition: traces of usage and age, the pierced one with cracks on the backside, the one with peony with some small losses. Dimension: bright one: c. 17 x 10.1 x 1.7 cm, c. 14.5 x 26.4 x 1.2 cm.

Fine & Rare Chinese Neolithic Pottery Jar with Decoration - Siwa Culture (c. 1350 BC)

This nicely-shaped pottery jar dates to the Siwa culture (c. 1350 BC), one of the later Chinese Neolithic cultures overlapping the Chinese Bronze Age. It is quite highly-fired with a surface colour of an attractive orange-red, although with small areas of grey, 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...

Chinese Neolithic Xindian Culture Painted Pottery Jar

This 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...

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 has an attractive form with its wide body, neck, wide mouth and single handle giving it the form of a ewer. The surface has been burnished to a smooth finish...

Chinese Song Dynasty Stoneware Jar with Rare Stand & Cover - Dragon Chasing Pearl

This rare and unusual stoneware jar was made during the Song Dynasty (AD 960 -1279). It is quite "heavily-potted" with the outer body and inner mouth coated in a dark brown iron glaze. The applied decoration around the shoulder features a dragon chasing a flaming pearl. The pearl represents wisdom, prosperity, power, immortality and the moon, and is also used as a symbol of feminine beauty and purity...

Chinese Ming Dynasty Cloisonné Cover

This small example of Chinese cloisonné must have originally been part of something larger and is possibly a cover to a vessel of some kind. It dates to the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644), more accurately, probably to the 15th or 16th century, and was excavated many years ago from a site in Cambodia from which examples of Ming dynasty porcelain were also excavated. It is in poor condition with the enamels and copper body degraded...

Fine Chinese Tang Dynasty Sancai Glazed Pottery Wine Cup

Made during the Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 906) from a high-fired creamy-white pottery and very attractively glazed in three-colour (sancai) glazes. The body stands on quite a sturdy foot that has a slightly concave flat base. A lovely example in fine condition. No restoration or repair...

Fine Chinese Kangxi Blue & White Porcelain Dish - Crab & Fish

This lovely blue & white porcelain dish was made during the Kangxi reign (1662 - 1722) of the Qing Dynasty. It has a foliated rim, lobed body and quite a pronounced foot ring. The underglaze blue is of good colour and it has a nice glossy glaze. It is profusely and very attractively decorated with sea creatures and aquatic plants, the centre featuring a crab, and around the lobed cavetto four types of fish...

Fine Chinese Tang Dynasty Sancai Glazed Pottery Lady

This elegant pottery figure of a lady was made during the Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 906). The lady wears flowing robes and stands alert with hands clasped together across her chest. Note also the hairstyle. It is made from a high-fired creamy-white coloured pottery...

Fine Chinese Tang Dynasty Glazed Pottery Jar

This attractive pottery jar was made during the Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 906). It is "heavily-potted" and made from a reddish pottery that has been coated with a finely-crackled amber coloured glaze with green streaks. The glaze has run during firing with glaze drips to the flat base. There are a couple of minor kiln scars within the glaze, something that is often seen on similar jars of this period.

Height 15.5 cm...

A rare copper-red decorated "three-fish" with rounded side and slightly everted rim, decorated around the sides in deep copper red of three fish, supported on a tall solid splayed foot with Da Ming Xuan De Nien Zhe six characters mark. Ming Dynasty possibly of the period or later also found at Indonesia Java Island. Condition is very good, no any chip, no any crack and free from any restoration. Diameter; 8,9 cm, Height: 9 cm.

A rare qingbai glazed with iron brown spots and Children sleeping figure, unglazed with spurs mark base.Good condition excepted minor glaze flake to upper rim side, no any chip, no any crack and free from any restoration. Late Southern Song to Yuan Dynasty, from a long time private collections. Wide : 15,2 cm and Height: 8 cm.

Tibetan painted shrine cabinet featuring dramatic fierce protector deities on its double doors and an exceptional tantric Buddhist painting preserved inside...

Antique Tibetan painted cabinet featuring eight individually framed auspicious panels, each rendered in original mineral pigments over a vibrant vermilion-red lacquer ground. The cabinet retains its authentic polychrome surface with rich reds, greens, and golds, along with naturally developed patina from age and monastic use. Each of the eight painted panels incorporates traditional Tibetan auspicious motifs:
Phoenix: A celestial protector associated with liberation from harmful forces...

Early Ming 15th century Hongwu - Yongle period longquan celadon very large plate with flower peony motif covered with jade green glaze, good condition with shallow damage at the back of rim restored please see picture for detail size: 39 cm diameter.

Early Ming 15th century blue and white large plate with flower and bird motif, lobbed rim with classic scroll motif, good condition with restoration at the rim please see picture for detail size: 32 cm diameter.

The mask is made of repoussé copper, mercury-gilded, with some parts painted in green and red mineral pigments. It is a very fine example of 18th-19th century Tibetan monastic craftsmanship. The repoussé work is of high quality, and the mercury gilding is excellent. An embroidered silk band hangs from the mask; this type of object was used to protect temples from demonic attacks. The gilding and pigments are original. There are no repairs. The silk band is sewn onto a thick reinforcing canvas....