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Southeast Asian : Metalwork : Pre 1920
item #1319694
(stock #5149)
An impressive spouted vessel, made of bronze, adorned with elaborate relief of animals like frogs, fishes, crabs and Chinese influenced creatures like dragons and Buddhist lions. The movable handle with a crocodile. These kettle were used during festive or ritual occasions. Please refer to "Malay Brassware - A Guide to the Collections of the National Museum Singapore" and compare with object no. TM-1408-1, on the online collection database of the "National Museum of Ethnology" in Leiden, Netherl...
Coins and Antiques Gallery
$450.00 Chinese natural Shou shan blank seal stone carving, depicting Buddha and landscape on all sides. Dimensions; Measurements are 98 x 67 x 27 (mm) or 3.86 x 2.64 x 1.06 inches with total weight of 226 grams. No condition issues. Introduction; Chinese Fujian Shoushan stone is one of four Chinese traditional stamp stones. There are more than one hundred variety of Shoushan stones. Besides stamps, Shoushan stone is crafted for carving figures, animal, flower and bird, landscape, stationery, tool, and ...
Coins and Antiques Gallery
$575.00 Chinese natural Hetian jade pendant - Fortune Kid. Dimension are as follows: 73 x 42 x 21(mm) or 2.87 x 1.65 x 0.83 inches with total weight of 90 grams, no condition issues. Introduction; Chinese Hetian Nephrite Jade Hetian jade, a nephrite jade, is regarded as the only true jade in ancient China until Burmese jadeite becomes popular in late Qing Dynasty. The hardness of the Hetian jade is between 6 to 6.5 and density is between 2.96 to 3.17. Most of the nephrite jade in the world are green. Ho...
Zentner Collection
$650.00 Antique Japanese single section isho tansu (clothing chest) with two large drawers. Made all of sugi (crytomeria) wood with deep reddish brown lacquer finish on the drawer panels and black lacquer top, sides and front frame. Iron work includes two elaborate lock plates, raised seed pods in corners, and moko shaped drawer pulls. From northern Japan, possibly Nigata area.
Meiji Period (1868 - 1912)
Size: 18 1/2" high x 32 1/4" wide x 15 1/2" deep.
Zentner Collection
SOLD Japanese scroll painting depicting a scene from the Genji Monogatari (Tale of Genji). A nobleman and a young man sit on tatame mats and look out onto a garden setting. They are surrounded by painted byobu screens and clouds of gold mist. The painting is rendered in traditional Tosa School manner with flattened over head perspective and fine lined brushwork. Painted in mineral colors, sumi ink and gold leaf flecks on paper. Edo Period.
Size of scroll: 47" high x 19 1/2" wide. Size of pain...
Zentner Collection
$9,500.00 Antique Japanese pair of wonderful Koma Inu shrine guardian fu-dogs, carved from keyaki (elm) wood. Traces of painted details in green, white and brown. Expressively carved with great curling manes and tails. One of the fu-dogs has a single horn on top of it's head. Edo Period.
Size of taller fu-dog: 19" high x 9" wide x 16" deep.
Size of fu-dog without horn: 17 1/2" high x 9" wide x 16" deep.
Zentner Collection
Sale Pending Chinese antique white hardstone (possibly jade) bi shaped plaque, carved with 9 chimera in high relief and set into an ornately carved dark hardwood stand. All carving beautifully rendered, nice white stone. Republic Period (early 20th century).
Total size: 20" high x 16" wide x 6" deep.
Size of bi disk: 7 3/4" wide diameter
Zentner Collection
$2,850.00 Original Antique Japanese Isho tansu with locking bar over three drawers. One large bottom drawer with chrysanthemum Iron lock. Locking safe compartment with two small interior drawers and one secret compartment hidden away! Original opaque black lacquer finish on front, sides and top are a deep red translucent lacquer finish, iron hardware with scrolling design and mon on locking bar. From the Sakata area in Japan (known for its Lacquer work). Early Meiji Period (Circa 1870's). Wonderful ori...
Zentner Collection
SOLD Beautiful tansu with a natural kiri wood front and gorgeous lacquer sugi frame, with iron hardware and black Iron handles on each of its drawers. Small locking door with a kan (ring shape) pull on its front. Its left and right sides have two iron handles and one large locking handle.
Meiji Period (1868 - 1912)
Size: 33.5" height, 29.75" width, 15.25" depth
A round, convex shield with four central bosses. Decorated with raised design of tendrils, embellished with black and red enamel, and some tin plated areas. Reverse with four attaching bronze rings and a velvet pad. Compare with a similar shield in the Royal Ontario museum. Condition: few losses to enamel and wear to tinned areas, reverse with some residue of solder. Dimension: diameter: 28 cm.
Zentner Collection
SOLD A lovely set of four (4) Chinese antique jade buttons, skillfully hand carved in an assorted style of flower.
Size: 1.25"-1.5" W
Southeast Asian : Textiles : Pre 1920
item #1319412
Zentner Collection
SOLD An interesting saddle bag possibly made from the hide of an ibex or mule like animal. The bag retains that rugged look used by the merchants who travelled across the Himalayas during the spring to Tibet and back bring goods from India to the Tibetan plateau. Age: Early 20th century
Size: Length: 43.5" Width: 16.5"
Zentner Collection
Sold Chinese scroll painting with abstract splatter art in gold, blue, green, yellow, and orange pigments. Calligraphy with red stamps along the sides, signature reads Chen Ko Liang.
Size: 72" H, 32" W (entire scroll) 53" H, 26.25" W (artwork only)
Zentner Collection
$1,850.00 Japanese hand painted scroll of a woman in beautiful Heian period robes in soft pink and blue with a scrolling vine of chrysanthemums beside her. Red artist chop signed Kasumi Morikage (c.1580 - 1620). Edo Period
Size: 55.5" L, 16" W (entire scroll) 17.5" L, 8.5" W (painting only)
Abacus Asian Art
Sold, Thank You A late Ming dynasty 17th century vase, Wanli period with rounded body and with slight broad mouth rim, decorated with white slip of crane in flight among cloud scrolls on cobalt-blue ground. Possibly Wanli period. Condition with a chip to inner rim with associated hairline visible on the last enlargement, otherwise is in very good condition. Height: 23 cm.
Spoils of Time
$265.00 Pair of Kinko (soft metal, as distinguished from iron) menuki. The soft metal copper alloy with dark patination (perhaps shakudo) depicting a pair of shishi or dogs (these are more dog like than most shishi I've seen, which are often thought to be lions.) The dogs with hair defined with fine incising. Decoration in gold including spots and pupils on the dogs, the collars each with a bell, and sprays of flowers. One of the menuki appears to have a miniature gold self-righting figure of Daruma (an...
Antique Stones Japan
SOLD. Pair of stone Koma-Inu (lit. Korean dog), each beast and accompanying base sculpted from a single piece of tuff, an igneous stone composed primarily of volcanic ash. Meiji Era ca. 1900. Minor old loss, most notably to the base of each Koma-Inu. Variegated lichen accumulation.
Height of each piece, including base: 46~47 cm A small-scale, classic "ah-un" pair of Koma-Inu guardian beasts, the "ah" piece with maw open and the "un" piece with maw c...
Zentner Collection
$1,500.00 Antique Japanese hanging scroll of a Geisha opening a lacquered box. The geisha's hair is worn in a traditional updo with hair pins. She wears robes that are beautifully patterned as she opens a lacquered box. The scroll is signed in the upper left. It measures overall: 7.75" wide by 81" long, image: 6.5" by 51".
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