3 x Small Chinese 18th Century Enamelled Porcelain Dishes (repaired)

These three attractive and fine-quality porcelain dishes were made during the Qianlong reign (1736 - 1795) of the Qing dynasty. All three have underglaze blue decoration as well as gilded and enamelled decoration. Two are decorated in the "Chinese Imari" palette of colours.

Diameters 11.5 cm to 12 cm. Unfortunately all three have had sections at the rim broken and re-stuck (see images). However, a good opportunity to ac...

Chinese Blue & White and Enamelled Porcelain Bowl (with Daoguang mark)

This fine quality and very attractive porcelain bowl bears the six-character reign mark of Daoguang (1820 - 1850) although it is probably later. The inner surface is decorated in underglazed blue of good colour and features a circular panel with two characters, one standing beside an ox. Around these figures, and to the inner wall of the bowl, are clouds and birds. The outer wall is very nicely decorated in various colour...

Chinese Qianlong 18th Century Blue & White Enamelled Porcelain Dish

This fine-quality porcelain dish octagonal form was made in the 18th century during the Qianlong reign (1736 - 1795) of the Qing Dynasty. The pattern comprising various flower blossoms and precious objects is mostly decorated in the Imari palette of underglaze blue and overglaze red enamel with gilding, but with the addition of pink and green enamels. Around the rim edge is an iron-brown wash to help prevent fritting of the ...

Chinese Qianlong 18th Century Blue & White Enamelled Porcelain Dish - Birds

This fine-quality porcelain dish was made in the 18th century during the Qianlong reign (1736 - 1795) of the Qing Dynasty. The underglaze blue decoration features two birds standing on a rock looking at each other. There are also two other birds around the rim. In addition there are floral decorations in red, pink and green enamels. Around the rim edge is an iron-brown wash to help prevent fritting of the glaze durin...

Chinese Qianlong 18th Century Imari Porcelain Dish

This fine-quality porcelain dish with attractive floral pattern in underglaze blue, red enamel and gilding, was made in the 18th century during the Qianlong reign (1736 - 1795) of the Qing Dynasty. Around the rim edge is an iron-brown wash to help prevent fritting of the glaze during firing.

It is in very good condition. There is no restoration or repair and although there is the finest of hairlines to the rim edge, it still has a good r...

Chinese Qianlong 18th Century Imari Porcelain Dish

This fine-quality porcelain dish with attractive floral pattern in underglaze blue, red enamel and gilding, was made during the 18th century, most likely during the early part of the Qianlong reign (1736 - 1795). Unlike the majority of similar dishes of this period, the undersize is also decorated, albeit with a much simpler design.

There is no restoration or repair, no cracks and the dish has a good ring when tapped, although there are ...

Chinese Song Dynasty Pottery Tile - Deer

This attractive pottery tile was made during the Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1279) and depicts a deer. The deer represents longevity, being the only animal able to find the sacred fungus of immortality.

This is quite a large tile with a length of 29.5 cm, height 17 cm. There is the usual surface wear and chips to the corners but no sign of repair or restoration; very good condition.

This is one of a pair of Song Dynasty deer tiles we are selling se...

Chinese Song Dynasty Pottery Tile - Deer

This attractive pottery tile was made during the Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1279) and depicts a deer. The deer represents longevity, being the only animal able to find the sacred fungus of immortality.

This is quite a large tile with a length of 30 cm, height 17 cm. There is the usual surface wear but no sign of repair or restoration; very good condition.

This is one of a pair of Song Dynasty deer tiles we are selling separately (see the final ima...

Fine & Rare Chinese Western Han Dynasty Pottery Rice Mill / Millstone

This pottery model of a millstone, for grinding grain, was made during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 8) or possibly a little earlier. It is "heavily-potted" and made from a dense grey pottery. The millstone itself is separate whilst the base, for collecting the ground flour, stands on four sturdy legs.

It is a sizeable item at approximately 23 cm square, with a height of 12 cm. A very rare item in exceptional co...

Rare Tall Chinese Han Dynasty Decorated Pottery Well Head

This rare and unusual pottery object is a model of a well head and was made during the Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220). It is made from quite a high-fired dense grey pottery. At its top is a small roof formed to represent tiles. Other than the roof, the whole of the outer surface has been decorated with repeated stamped circular impressions.

This is quite a large object with a height of 30 cm and in fine condition.

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Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty Glazed Pottery Jar (AD 25 - 220)

This pottery jar of "hu" form was made during the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 25 - 220) and comes from Shaanxi province in the northwest of China. It is made from a relatively highly-fired reddish pottery and is quite "heavily-potted". There are decorative incised lines surrounding the jar at its shoulder. The surface of the jar and the inner mouth are coated in a unusual coloured glaze, varying in places from a yellowish olive-green t...

Antique Chinese ceramic water dropper modeled as Li Tieguai, the Drunken Immortal of Daoist tradition. Rendered in a vivid green glaze associated with southern coastal kilns, the figure reclines on his right elbow with eyes closed, a wine vessel resting across his midsection and a sword strapped along his back. When filled, water would have been dispensed through the small opening at the mouth of the vessel to moisten an inkstone as needed for writing or painting. The open interior cavity also a...

Fukutaro Terauchi (Tanouchi)
Nara Sarusawa Pond
Publisher: Takemura Hideo.
Size: 5.5 x 3.5 inches.
Date: 1930-40s.
Signed by the artist.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

Ming dynasty 15th century blue and white large dish with flower motif, good condition with very short firing crack the rim please see picture for detail, size: 23 cm diameter.

Large Chinese Han Dynasty Glazed Pottery Jar with Bear Feet

This large and impressive pottery vessel was made some 2,000 years ago during the latter part of the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 8), the short-lived Xin Dynasty (AD 9 - 25) or the early Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 25 - 220). It is very similar to other large amber-glazed granaries excavated from a tomb in Xi'an dated to the Xin Dynasty (AD 9 - 25).

It is "heavily-potted" and made from a high-fired red pottery and coated in an ...

Rare Large Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty Pottery Money Tree Base (AD 25 - 220)

This very rare and large interesting pottery object was made during the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 25 - 220). It is the base to a "money tree" and has been excavated from Sichuan province. The coin-shedding, or money tree is known from late Han Dynasty funerary art from the south-west of China. It was believed that if shaken, coins would fall from it. The money tree itself would comprise a bronze trunk, or pole, to whi...

Rare Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty Pottery Money Tree Base (AD 25 - 220)

This very rare and unusual interesting pottery object was made during the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 25 - 220). It is the base to a "money tree" and has been excavated from Sichuan province. The coin-shedding, or money, tree is known from late Han Dynasty funerary art from the south-west of China. It was believed that if shaken, coins would fall from it. The money tree itself would comprise a bronze trunk, or pole, to which ...

Rare Large Chinese Neolithic Xindian Culture 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 rarer and generally less refined than pottery from some earlier Chinese Neolithic cultures. 

It is quite thinly-potted and the surface colour of the pottery varies due to uneven conditions in the...