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The Bodhisattva Collection
Price on Request From our Early Chinese Collection, a large and magnificent Southern Song Dynasty qingbai funerary urn (960 - 1279 AD). Based upon published and nearly identical examples dated to 1209 AD, we can probably safely date this piece closer to circa 1190 - 1230 AD. The lower bell of this extraordinary lidded urn is smooth and glazed, while the upper section is deeply ribbed and glazed featuring hand-formed and applied figures of people and animals, including a coiled dragon, a tortoise, a cockerel, a...
The Bodhisattva Collection
$1,295.00 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. As Teller ...
Hu's Collection
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A recumbent beast was shown with its head turned back and slightly tilting upwards. The Bixie was well carved with protruding eyes, ruyi-shaped nose, curved ears and single-horned head. By vividly depicted ribs on its abdomen and the flouring hairs of the tails, the fairy beast was rest on the flat bottom in plain form-an important characteristic for early jade carvings. The jade pebble was in black and brown fissures and markings and in greasy and warm feel. ...
Chinese : Scholar Art : Pre 1492
item #981176
(stock #lot700)
Hu's Collection
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A well-modelled cat shown coiled on a circular base which surrounded by Bo-Shan(mountain ridges) with head turned and resting on its back, the tail emerging in the center and three paws together at the front. Comparing to the pieces we’ve usually seen in obvious bronze material and was gilt on the surface, this tiger weight was calcified totally and was covered with the burial BaoJiang(the mineral coatings). Obviously had been excavated for a long time and had been...
Hu's Collection
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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.
Hu's Collection
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Done by top-quality marble stone, a great Buddha’s head was well carved. A typical piece of the early to mid-Tang periods, the marble head was well carved by the hands of the excellent craftsman. The religious piece was well depicted in details: on top, the spiral ushnisa and the features of the face –the full cheek, almond eyelids and well-defined lips, all were meticulously rendered by affluent and sleek carving skills. Due to natural cause or some...
Hu's Collection
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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. ...
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$810.00 Khmer brown glazed pottery jar with flared mouth, long neck, decorated with carved band around the neck and shoulder, encircled lines on the lower body and foot.
Age: Cambodia, Bayon period, 12th-13th Century
Chinese : Antiquities : Pre 1492
item #998836
Priceless Past
$1995.00 This incredible antiquity is a glazed ceramic offering vessel from the Song Dynasty of ancient China (960-1279 AD). Besides being in near perfect condition, this rare piece has impeccable provenance from the collection of the famous Arthur M Sackler as sold through Christies auction house in NY in April of 2010. Auction #2301, lot #323.. It measures roughly 38 cm in height and shows no signs of repair or restoration. Don't miss this rare opportunity to add such an important piece to your collect...
Japanese Art Site
$7300.00 Rare Kamakura Period Sculpture of a of a Nio Guardian King exhibiting power and fierceness. According to Japanese tradition,
they traveled with the historical Buddha to protect him. Within the generally pacifist traditions of Buddhism, stories of Niō guardians like Kongōrikishi justified the use of physical force to protect cherished values and beliefs against evil. It is rare to find such an early example. Carved wood and lacquer with some imperfection and losses, as with most works ...
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. The cover is nicely d...
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$1,130.00 Chinese green glazed pottery jar with lotus leaves design on the lid and body.
Age: China, Yuan Dynasty, A.D. 1271 - 1368
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$1,130.00 Chinese green glazed pottery jar with lotus leaves design on the lid and body.
Age: China, Yuan Dynasty, A.D. 1271 - 1368
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$1,130.00 Chinese green glazed pottery jar with lotus leaves design on the lid and body.
Age: China, Yuan Dynasty, A.D. 1271 - 1368
Chinese : Antiquities : Pre 1492
item #1009435
(stock #lot199)
Hu's Collection
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A pair of Jizhou tiger toys were excavated in original condition. It is very hard to find genuine Jizhou wares with tortoisshell glaze. It was unique too to find them in pairs even though they're dolls. And most importantly they were in obvious condition for authentication. The buried deposits were firmly left here and there on the surface. And the glaze were partially crackled due to age. The body clay were light brownish with soft matrix quality. W...
Southeast Asian : Metalwork : Pre 1492
item #1021068
(stock #D175)
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$1,130.00 Khmer bronze tray in circular form with nice patina.
Age: Cambodia, 12th Century
Hu's Collection
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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. Height: 4.5cm. A CUSTOM-MAD... 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. 4 3/8” high (to to...
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