From our Early Chinese Collection, a rare earthenware Buddhist offering vessel dating from either the Song or Yuan Dynasty (960-1368 AD). This offering vessel is one of a group of several highly obscure and esoteric pottery pieces hailing from Yunnan Province in Southwestern China. The formal scholarship on these pieces is unfortunately thin at best, and we are currently aware of only one publication addressing these pieces at all, which is Michael Teller's Offering Vessels of Yunnan...

Description:

A green-glazed jarlet was mold in a trumpet form.
On the wide shoulder, a circular band of flower motifs were decorated in a fine look.
It was well preserved except some old frets were found on the rims.
Fine crackles and iridescence condition were yielded due to age.

Date: Liao Dynasty, 907-1125.

Width: 10.9cm, Height: 7.3cm.

A FITTED SILK BOX IS INCLUDED.

Description:

A Longquan cup was in rarely-seen Chrysanthemum shape.
Finely mold and was applied with pale green agate-feel glaze on the surface, the cup was stand on a small foot ring which in slightly everted wall.
A molding navel was in the center of the foot ring when darken brownish tint was revealed at the body clay.
Glaze crackles and obvious incursions were happened to the glaze.

The cup was finely shaped and was well glazed as those documentary counterparts...

Large Chinese Song / Yuan Dynasty Painted Pottery Buddhist Jar with Sanskrit Inscription

This large pottery jar was made during the Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1279), or possibly the Yuan Dynasty (AD 1279 - 1368) and has been been excavated from a Buddhist site in Yunnan province.

It is made from a buff-coloured pottery and a very elegant example of its type. It stands on quite an elaborate integral pedestal with the lower body decorated with bands of applied lotus leaves...

Chinese Song / Yuan Dynasty Buddhist Lotus Jar

This rare and interesting pottery jar was made between the 10th and 13th centuries, during the Five Dynasties period (AD 906 - 960), Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1279) or possibly the Yuan Dynasty (AD 1279 - 1368) and has been excavated from a Buddhist site in Yunnan province.�

It is quite "heavily-potted" and relatively highly-fired. The jar and cover have been formed with a lotus leaf design...

Description:

A black-glazed covered box was molded with an interesting motif of butterfly on the surface.
The box was an excavated piece obtaining with obvious evidences of burial earth and whitish incursions in the glaze.
Some similar boxes were in the book of (The Collection of Chinese Box), a book of a famed connoisseur and antique dealer,Ma Wei-Du.

Date: Tang Dynasty, 618-907

Provenance: Henan province.

Width: 7.2cm...

Chinese Yuan to early Ming dynasty very heavily potted melon form sugary textured pale bluish-white porcelain lidded teapot decorated with moulded stylized birds on opposing sides. A prominent luting line is visible around the mid-section of the ribbed body and the interior is glazed. Small loops are at the edge of the lid and top of the rounded handle for attachment. The slightly concave unglazed base and old firing flaws have oxidized burnt orange. Circa 14th century...

Large Chinese Jin dynasty (1125-1234) Henan globular form stoneware jar with a high neck decorated on opposite sides of the shoulder with two appliqué dragons running around the circumference of the horizontally ribbed body. The interior is fully glazed and the exterior glaze stops well above the unglazed base. The rich black/brown glaze, referred to as “temmoku” by the Japanese, is permeated with russet accents. 7 3/4" high x 9" diameter.

Description:

A tripod porcelain censer was finely potted in the form of an archaic bronze Li vessel.
The flattened everted rim poised above the wide straight neck when the compressed globular body with a band around the shoulder extending down to form flanges on the outer side of each leg.
The legs tapering down to the orange-russet unglazed tips.
The censer was covered all over in an even pale-green glaze and thinning to a whitish-green tone at the rim and flanges...

Description:

A white-glazed plate was stand in high stem foot.
Separated in four sections in the cavetto, the plate was mold by lobed rim which was then by accurate look of imitating the silver counterpart of the same date.
In grayish white tint, the glaze was yielded with subtle incursions which was caused from age.
Motifs of tailing fish and sea waves were decorated in the center of the shallow bowl. They were the other characteristics of the ware from the dated periods...

Yuan/Ming Longquan Celadon Ewer. Length approximately 9 cm (the tipspout to the handle) and height approximately 7.8 cm. An old repaired at the spout. Good condition.

Chinese brown glazed pottery jar with round shape.

Age: China, Yuan Dynasty, A.D. 1271 - 1368
Size: Height 26 C.M. / Width 31 C.M.
Condition: Well-preserved old burial condition overall. Please refer to the enlargement photos for more details.
Shipment: Worldwide shipping from Bangkok, Thailand at actual cost. Please e-mail us for the shipping fee.

A good and rare celadon dish with beautifully crackled to whole body. Southern Song dynasty 11th-12th Longquan ware imitating to Guan type. Condition is very good except three minor tiny chips and misfired to an area on back side, no crack and free from any restoration. Diameter: 21.2 cm.

A nice black glaze jarlet with slight thickly potted and fluted side body, covered overall with black glaze. Song dynasty 11th-12th century. Condition is near perfect except found a tiny flake glaze to body. High: 6cm.

Description:

A thin, white-glazed dish was decorated on the surface with vibrant motifs of a galloping horse among flowers and weeds.
By the rice-white glaze, it was revealed with the light grayish-tinted body clay on the rim.
With characteristic shape, the tear-dropping glaze, the dated and exact design of the motifs, and the obvious incursions(which in sore's-like condition under magnify glass) happened to the glaze, the dish can be fully verified its authentication...

Wonderful Qingbai porcelain censer with moulded decoration. China, Yüan Dynasty (1279-1368). Dimensions: H. 12 cm, D. 9,5 cm. Condition: excellent, no cracks or repairs.

A very interesting item for the scholar's table, this Qingbai porcelain brushrest in the shape of mountains with a monkey, bird etc. China, Yüan Dynasty (1279-1368). L. 12 cm. Condition: excellent.

Lovely pair of Qingbai plates with moulded fish pattern. China, Song or Yuan Dynasty. Diameter: 14 cm. Condition: excellent.