Chinese 19th Century Enamelled Porcelain Box - "Double Happiness"

This porcelain box is decorated with a variety of different coloured enamels. The main decoration features four standing figures. The Chinese characters around the edge translate as "Double Happiness". Diameter 8 cm. Some surface wear and a small repaired chip to the edge of the cover and a further small chip.

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Pair Chinese 18th / 19th Century Miniature Blue & White Porcelain Vases

These small vases are quite "heavily-potted" and attractively-decorated in underglaze blue, the pattern on each vase featuring a pagoda, trees, figures and varied landscapes. They are coated in a particularly glossy glaze. The height of each vase is approx. 8.25 cm. Condition is very good with one just having old tiny "nibbles" to the glaze at the mouth edge.

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Lovely pair of embroidered quatrefoil round panels, circa first half of 20th century. The stitching is in excellent condition but some discoloration on the edges. Diameter 20cm/8in.

An India bronze figure of Goddess dancing Dakini 17th century, good condition no damage please see picture for detail, size: 21 cm height weight about 650 gram.

A Chinese Tibetan bronze figure of seated Buddha 17 - 1th century, good condition please see picture for detail, size: 21 cm height weight about 3500 gram / 3,5 kg

Stunning traditional scroll painting of a tiger descending mountain. Actual painting size is H: 105cm/41in x W: 40cm/15.5in - mounted dimensions are H: 190cm/74in x W: 50cm/19.5in. Signed Zhang Shanzi 張善孖 but this is probably apocryphal. He was famous for his painting of tigers- based on the quality of the scroll haning screws, this was probably done in the 50s or 60s. Free shipping. The poem translates as follows: “The cliffs are hundreds of feet high and the green is ...

Lovely late 19th century to early 20th century (over 100 years old), meditation panel carpet. These were usually woven like a runner with several carpets together. Dimensions: 65cm/25.5in x 65cm/25.5in. This could use a wash and two of the corners are week with missing pile and repair (see enlargements). This has the classic Ningxia yellow field.

A Red Raku Chawan named Yama no Gotoshi by the chief Abbot of Kenninji Temple Takeda Ekishu enclosed in the original signed wooden box which is in turn enclosed in an outer protective box. It bears the artists Ka-o signature engraved into the clay beneath near the foot ring. The bowl is 13 cm (over 5 inches) diameter, 7 cm (just under 3 inches) tall and is in excellent condition.
Takeda Ekishu (1896-1989) was born in Oita prefecture. He studied under Takeda Mokurai and Takeda Eisen, then...

A heavily formed later Edo period plate decorated with green, yellow and red seaside imagery by Minpai Kashu bearing the artists seal impressed into the back. It is 37.5 x 25 x 5 cm (15 x 10 x 2 inches) and is in excellent original condition. A very rare work worthy of museum collection. It comes in an age darkened kiri-wood box. Awaji yaki was founded in the early 1830s by a scholar of classical literature and Tea Master, Minpei Kashu (1796–1871, last name also spelled Mimpei). From a wea...

This bowl by Shingu Sayaka looks to me as if it were made from petrified butterfly wings. It is titled Gakuyo Wan and comes enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is 15 x 14.5 x 8.5 cm (5-1/2 x 5-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches) and is in excellent condition, directly from the artist. Shingu Sayaka was born in Osaka, the industrial and commercial heartland of central Japan, in 1979. She graduated the Osaka University of Arts in 2001, before being selected as an artist in residence at the The Shigar...

Iris in white a dark gray against silver blades open their flowers against the traditional Nezumi gray and red covering this water receptacle by Wakao Toshisada made for the Japanese Tea Ceremony enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled simply Nezumi Shino Mizusashi. It is 18 x 17cm depthｘ15 cm (7-1/4 x 7-1/2 x 6 inches) and is in perfect condition.
Wakao Toshisada was born in Tajimi, Gifu prefecture, home of Mino pottery, in 1933. He was first recognized at the New Crafts exh...

Antique Japanese bronze pig seal. Original patina, charming pig with floppy ears and curly tail. Underside of the seal, traces of the original pigment.

Age: Mid 1800's

dimensions: 2 1/4" 1 1/4" x 1 1/2"

Japanese Edo period woodblock print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) from a series titled "Sixteen Wonderful Considerations of Profit" published by Enshuya Matabei in 1846. The series paired beautiful women with the sixteen Buddhist rakan, or holy men. This image, titled "Saint Shokuran says Eating Badly is Unprofitable," is number 10 from the series. The rakan, who was known to have struggled with gluttony, is depicted in the scroll at the upper right holding up his associated symbolic item....

Tibetan hand painted floral design storage chest with an upper and lower compartment. Yellow, orange, green and brown pigments comes through. Pigment and chest in original condition.

Age: 19th Century

Dimensions: 51 1/2" high x 50" wide

Ramona R. Mitchell (American 20th Century) Untitled Abstract Signed Ramona Mitchell Oil on panel

Dimensions: 27 1/2" x 27 1/2"

Ramona Mitchell is an artist and yoga teacher living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She paints large abstract paintings and is a certified Yasodhara yoga teacher.
She was born Rosemarie Hilpert in Berlin, Germany, but spent some of her early childhood years in the Palatine area of Germany, near the French border, to escape the Allied b...

Seated bronze Burmese Buddha with traces of gold an original patina. Calm meditative Buddhasitting in the bhumisparsha mudra. A Buddhist hand gesture where the left hand is placed in the lap with the palm facing up, while the right hand touches the ground. Traces of hold leaf representing as an offering. Well cared for piece with signs of age and care.

Age: Early 1800's

An original James Lovera green volcano glazed ceramic 14" platter. Excellent original condition. Beautiful green natural coloring, reminiscent of age bronze with pitted moon like surface.

Signed in clay "Lovera" on bottom

Age: Circa. 1986

Dimensions: 14" diameter x 4 1/2" high

Chinese 19th Century Porcelain Dragon Vase (with Chenghua Mark)

This attractively-shaped bottle-vase, with its wide globular lower body and tall cylindrical neck, was made during the 19th century. It is quite "heavily-potted", the outer body coated in a finely-crackled yellowish-amber glaze. An applied dragon, glazed in brown, is wrapped around the neck. The inner surface and recessed base is coated in a crackled creamy-white glaze. To the base is an impressed apocryphal Ming Dynasty Chengh...