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...

Ming dynasty 15th century blue and white large bowl with flower motif, good condition with shallo glaze chip at the back of the rim please see picture for detail, size: 15 cm diameter.

Ming dynasty 15th century blue and white large bowl with flower motif, good condition with hairline at the rim please see picture for detail, size: 15 cm diameter.

Rare Chinese Tang Dynasty Painted Pottery Horse & Rider

This very rare and unusual pottery model of a horse & rider was made during the Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 906). It is made from a reddish-pottery that has been "cold painted" in various coloured pigments, good traces of which remain. Note the detail of the rider, his clothing and his hands. Note also the sturdy legs of the horse and the way the horse's unusually long tail joins the cut-out base to give extra strength to the model.

A g...

Chinese Western Han Dynasty Painted Pottery Vase / Jar (Fang Hu)

This attractively-shaped pottery jar was made during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 8). It is relatively highly-fired and has been made from flat slabs of pottery that have been luted together in imitation of an archaic bronze vessel. Its form is unique to the Western Han period and is known as a "fang hu". Amazingly, it still retains its original cover. Both cover and jar have been elaborately decorated with swirling clo...

Chinese Jin Dynasty Painted Pottery Filial Piety Tile (AD 1115 - 1234) - Tian Brothers

This interesting pottery tile was made during the Jin Dynasty (AD 1115 - 1234) and most likely comes from Shanxi province. It depicts a scene from the story of the Tian Brothers, one of the stories of the twenty-four paragons of filial piety:

In the Eastern Han dynasty, there were three brothers in the Tian family. After their father passed away, they turned against each other and split the assets, inc...

Large Thai 14th - 15th Century Celadon Glazed Bowl

This large and impressive stoneware bowl was made at the Sawankhalok kilns around the 14th - 15th century. It is heavily-potted and has a flared and upturned rim. The central inner surface is attractively decorated with an incised "sun" pattern surrounded by parallel bands. Surrounding this are five incised roundels each containing lotus blossoms. The outer wall is carved with vertical grooves and horizontal bands below the rim. It is coated...

Fine Tall Chinese Tang Dynasty White Pottery Female Figure

This fine and impressive pottery figure was made during the Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 906). It is "heavily-potted" and made from a dense and quite highly-fired creamy-white pottery. The lady stands upright, as if in attendance, with hands clasped across her waist. This figure is particularly well-detailed: note the detail of the clothing, also the facial features and the hairstyle that have been picked out in black and red cold-painted ...

Fine Chinese Song Dynasty Qingbai Porcelain "Baby" Bowl

This fine quality qingbai porcelain bowl was made during the Southern Song Dynasty (AD 1127 - 1279). It is quite "thinly-potted" with a particularly translucent body. and is coated with a pale greenish-blue qingbai glaze. The decoration of the inner wall features two lightly incised (baby) boys on opposite sides with phoenixes with outstretched wings between them, together with other incised scrolling patterns.

It is a good size wit...

Good Han Dynasty bronze bowl with molded taotie masks, there is an epoxy repair noted in the last two enlargements, but otherwise very good condition- considering it is 2000 years old. D: 15.3cm/6in and H: 7cm/2.8in.

A very rare Ming dynasty fahua type wine jar with lotus flower and leaf motif, good condition no damage minor glaze degradation please see picture for detail, size: 22 cm height, 21 cm diameter.

Chawan tea bowl of conical shape, typical for use in the tea ceremony in the summer months, slightly lopsided. Soft stoneware covered in rich iron brown (ameyu) glaze; the rims covered in tenmoku-like hare’s fur glaze.

Potter’s seal on side just above the foot rim: Ohi. Most likely referring to Ohi Chozaemon IX.

Japan, mid-20th century

H 2-2.25 x Diam 6 in.

Excellent condition

Comes with a silk pouch and wooden storage box

Ōhi Chōzaemon IX (1901-1986) i...

Fragment of asa unlined kimono (katabira) for summer which is woven of very fine choma (ramie), and both weft and warp are hand-plied. It has beautiful embroidery with silk and gold metal yarn of peony motif and letters. Mid Edo period (18th century) In excellent condition for the age. W:26cm, L:42cm