BUTTERFLY CANDLE STANDS

Pair of vintage Korean brass candle stands with auspicious designs of butterfly (removable) and a single Chinese character of ‘Double Happiness’ with fish, late 20th century, Height 58 cm (22.83in), Pedestal diameter 11.4 cm (4.48in). Some scratches due to aging. Stable condition.


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A rare blue and white offering dish with thinly potted in flower shaped, decorated with pattern of double wild goose among chrysanthemum flowers and classic scrolls surrounded around the rim. Condition is very good, no any chip, no any crack and free from any restoration. Yuan Dynasty 14th Century. Diameter: 16,1 cm. Please see the similar one in Anhui Provincial Museum China illustrate by Blue and White of the Yuan page 100-101 visible on the last enlargement.

Small chaire tea caddy, made of ceramic, for use in the tea ceremony during the colder months of the year. Bulbous body with short, everting neck and wavy mouth. Matching cover. Very light brown stoneware covered in red glaze with green patches and white streaks.

Impressed seal: Raku.
Probably seal of Raku Kichizaemon X (1795-1854), named Tannyu.

Japan, second quarter of 19th century.

H 2.1 x W 2.5 in.

Calcification in glaze crackle, small chip at lip of cover from w...

19th Century Chinese White Jade Deeply Carved Relief Plaque with Plum Blossom

It is 2.6 inches (6.6 cm) long by 3.93 inches (10 cm) wide and 7.1 mm thick. It is 75.3 gram.

It has small chips at one corner, flea bite chips, drilled holes at the corners, inclusions, and surface wears and scratches (as seen in the photos).

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Fine & Rare Chinese Neolithic Xindian Culture Painted Pottery Jar

This rare 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. Xindian pottery is quite distinctive and rarer than pottery from some earlier Chinese Neolithic cultures: the painted designs are quite different and the pottery has different characteristics, tending to be mo...

TIBETAN ELEMENTAL DIVINATION PAINTINGS This extraordinary publication represents a landmark in both Tibetan studies and the art of bookmaking. It presents for the first time two magnificent eighteenth-century manuscripts illuminating in exquisite detail the essential but little-known practices of elemental divination as described in The White Beryl an important seventeenth-century treatise written by Sangs-rgyas rGya-mtsho (1653 -1705), the reknowned polymath who was regent to the Fifth Dalai L...

Fine Chinese Tang Dynasty Painted Pottery Horse & Rider with Dog

This fine and attractive model of a horse & rider, together with a dog sitting on the horse's back behind the rider, was made during the Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 906). Although such models with dogs are known, they are very rare.

It is made from a relatively high-fired orange-brown pottery that has been cold-painted in various coloured pigments, very good traces of which still remain. It is well-modelled and nicely painted w...

Fine Chinese Tang Dynasty Painted Pottery Horse & Rider with Dog

This fine and attractive model of a horse & rider, together with a dog sitting on the horse's back behind the rider, was made during the Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 906). Although such models with dogs are known, they are very rare.

It is made from a relatively high-fired orange-brown pottery that has been cold-painted in various coloured pigments, very good traces of which still remain. It is well-modelled and nicely painted w...

A Fine Pair of Chinese Ming Dynasty Glazed & Painted Pottery Horses with Riders

This fine and attractive pair of pottery horses with riders was made during the early part of the Ming Dynasty (!368 - 1644). They are made from a creamy-white pottery with features picked out in turquoise and purple glazes that have, in places, acquired a silvery iridescence due to time and exposure to moisture. The bodies of the horses have been cold-painted in a white pigment, the riders in an orange pigment. ...

Eagle Perched on a Cliff
Artist: Not Known. Variously attributed to Koson or Koho.
Date: ca 1930s.
"Made in Japan" stamped on verso.
Size: Approximately 8.5 x 3.75 inches
Provenance: The Robert O. Muller Estate.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent. Original white kento mark at the lower right corner.

Toshi Yoshida (1911-1995)
Morinji in Spring
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.75 x 10.75 inches.
Date: 1951. This edition later.
Impressed block signature.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition. Back has one piece of tape and one spot where the paper is slightly thinner.

Fine & Rare Chinese Early Tang Dynasty Pottery Camel

This fine and very rare pottery model of a camel was made during the early part of the Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 906).

The camel stands upright and alert and has a very "friendly" looking face! It is laden with a back pack together with, on each side, a water container and a rabbit.

It is unusually "heavily-potted" and made from a dense creamy-white, almost pale pink, pottery that is quite highly-fired. The thickness of the pottery c...

Fine & Rare Pair of Tall Chinese Han Dynasty Painted Pottery Incense Burners (with Oxford TL Test)

This pair of unusually tall and elaborate incense burners was made during the Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220). They are made from quite a high-fired fine-grained grey pottery that has been decorated with multiple bands of "cold- painted" red pigment. Each incense burner comprises two parts: the lower part has a wide saucer with a stem leading to the container for burning the incense, which is alm...

A rare blue and white Meiping vase with well balance potted, decorated with human figures visiting the friends which are this is very popular design motif since interregnum period of Ming Dynasty Zhendong --JIngtai --Thianshun or very famous of the Dark period in Ming Chinese history circa 1436--1464. Condition is good excepted the pair of Sea Dragons beside the horses on the shoulder is missing. Height: 46 cm.

Plovers soar over strips of white and gray along the jagged edge of a green pool on this elongated Oribe slab platter on four raised feet by Kato Kuniya enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Oribe O-zara. It displays much of the most notable aspects of Mino ware, from the rough white clay torn and scarred, the rich green of Oribe copper, and the snow-white and gray and of Shino and Nezumi Shino wares. It is 65 x 28.5 x 10 cm (25-1/2 x 11 x 4 inches) and is in perfect condition.