Large Chinese Ming Dynasty Blue & White Porcelain Dragon Dish (Ex. Lammers Collection)

This attractive porcelain dish was made during the Wanli reign (1573 - 1620) of the Ming Dynasty. This particular type of ware is referred to as "Zhangzhou" or "Swatow" ware and it was commonly exported around south-east Asia. The underglaze blue decoration is of very good colour. The pattern features a chilong (qilong) dragon in a landscape with three further dragons around the cavetto interspersed with p...

Fine Chinese Ming Dynasty Blue & White Conical Covered Porcelain Box (Ex. Lammers Collection)

This attractive small round porcelain box of rare and unusual form was made during the Wanli reign (1573 - 1620) of the Ming Dynasty. The underglaze blue decoration is of a particularly good colour. The decoration to the conical cover comprises two chilong dragons. The lower section is decoration with a floral pattern.

Diameter 5.5 cm. It is in fine condition with no repair or restoration, altho...

Fine & Rare Chinese Ming Dynasty Blue & White Kraak Porcelain Dish

This fine "kraak" porcelain dish was made in the late 16th century, during the Wanli reign (1573 - 1620) of the Ming Dynasty, or possibly slightly later. The dish has a moulded lobed cavetto and is decorated in underglaze blue of good colour. The rare and unusual pattern features a singing bird sitting in a blossoming tree (no such dish with this pattern appears in the "bible" of kraak porcelain, "Kraak Porcelain" by Maura Ri...

Fine & Rare Chinese Ming Dynasty Blue & White Kraak Porcelain Dish

This fine "kraak" porcelain dish was made in the late 16th century, during the Wanli reign (1573 - 1620) of the Ming Dynasty, or possibly slightly later. The dish has a moulded lobed cavetto and is decorated in underglaze blue of good colour. The rare and unusual pattern features a singing bird sitting in a blossoming tree (no such dish with this pattern appears in the "bible" of kraak porcelain, "Kraak Porcelain" by Maura Ri...

Delicately carved head of Fuxi, wearing an elaborate cap, his beautifully detailed face showing a slight smile. Wood, with remnants of superimposed layers of colouring. Remains of animal hair under the nose and chin to represent mustache and beard. Votive box (closed) at the back. China, Ming Dynasty period, 17th century. Height: 30 cm. The head is nicely mounted on a custom stand. Very good condition despite some flaking of the colouring. NOTE 1: Fuxi, also called Nuo Gong, with his wife Nüw...

Rare Chinese Ming Dynasty Blue & White Hexagonal Porcelain Jar

This rare blue & white porcelain jar of hexagonal form was made during the 16th Century. It is quite "heavily-potted" and attractively decorated in underglaze blue of good colour. Each of the six sides features a chrysanthemum blossom (the emblem of friendship and representing a life of ease). Around the shoulder is what is possibly a cloud collar (representing long life). As can be seen, on the edges of the sides there is "frit...

Rare Burmese wood carving panel with a set of Buddhas.

Age: Burma, Shan Period, 16th Century
Size of panel only: Height 83.3 C.M. / Width 43 C.M. / Depth 11 C.M.
Height including stand: 92 C.M.
Condition: Some expected degradation due to its age including old wears. 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.

Antique Chinese 8 panel coromandel screen with a carved lacquer palace scene of noble figures on one side, pine trees and animals on the other. An inscription states that the screen was carved in the eleventh month of the thirty-second year of Kangxi. There is a poem that talks about the proud and powerful pine tree reaching for the sky and an approaching storm. The inscription also mentions a congratulations to Guo Zanzhang, a candidate for the the title of Dengshilang. Artist mentioned: Homgd...

A beautiful green glazed covered box with imperial seal mark Qianlong. Qing Dynasty. Condition is perfect. Diameter: 6,2 cm

A pair of Chinese porcelain blue and white dishes.

Age: China, Kangxi Period, 17th - 18th Century
Size: Diameter 24 C.M. / Thickness 3 C.M. (size excluding stand)
Condition: Nice condition overall (some tiny frits on the rims). 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 long neck bottle vase with well balance potted and decorated to the body with main classic scroll motif in underglazed red design. Condition is very good, no any crack, no any chips and free from any restoration. Ming Dynasty possibly 16th Century. Found recovery at South Sulawesi area. Height: 29 cm

Fine Chinese Ming Dynasty Blue & White Porcelain Dish - Peonies

This fine and very attractive blue & white porcelain dish was made in the early 17th Century during the Tianqi (1621 - 1627) or the Chongzhen (1628 - 1644) reign. The decoration in underglaze blue features an elaborate peony spray with a geometric trellis pattern around the rim. The peony is the emblem of Spring and represents wealth, love, honour, affection and feminine beauty.

The underside is much more simply decorated wi...

Fine Chinese Ming Dynasty Blue & White Kraak Porcelain Dish - Birds (21 cm)

This fine and very attractive blue & white porcelain dish of good size, and with a foliated rim, was made during the Wanli reign (1573 - 1620) of the Ming Dynasty. The decoration is particularly fine and the underglaze blue is of very good colour. The pattern features in its centre two birds, one standing on a rock within a garden, the other in flight. Around the cavetto are ten roundels containing peach blossoms, le...

Rare Chinese Ming Dynasty Blue & White Kraak Porcelain Dish - Duck

This blue & white porcelain dish with a foliated rim, was made during the Wanli reign (1573 - 1620) of the Ming Dynasty, more specifically c.1575-1600). It has an unusual pattern we have not seen before: a duck in a pond within a garden with a Chinese character above it. The border is decorated with a scrolling floral and leaf pattern, as is the border and cavetto to the underside. The glaze is particularly thick as can be se...

Fine Chinese Ming Dynasty Blue & White Tianqi Porcelain Dish - Roosters

This fine and rare blue & white porcelain was made during the Tianqii reign (1621 - 1627) of the Ming Dynasty. The unusual pattern features two roosters standing among tall blossoming plants. Around the inner rim is a wave pattern. The underside is simply decorated with just two thin blue bands. This dish does actually have some characteristics of "kraak" porcelain of the period, "chatter" marks and kiln grit embedded wi...

Fine Chinese Ming Dynasty Blue & White Tianqi Porcelain Dish - Ko-sometsuke

This fine and rare blue & white porcelain dish was made during the Tianqii reign (1621 - 1627) of the Ming Dynasty. It was made specifically for export to Japan (a ko-sometsuke dish for use in the tea ceremony).

Firing conditions have resulted in it being rather dark in colour with the underglaze cobalt blue firing more to black than blue. It has a striking and unusual pattern featuring a deer, a crane in flight ...

Rare Chinese Ming Dynasty Blue & White Porcelain Dish - Deer & Monkey with Mark

This rare and unusual blue & white porcelain dish was made around the time of the Wanli reign (1573 - 1620) of the Ming Dynasty. The pattern, in underglaze blue, is very unusual, featuring a deer and a monkey within a garden that also contains a peach, a flying insect and a bird in flight. The deer represents longevity, the monkey to keep away bad spirits. The cavetto is decorated with peach blossoms and flying i...

Small Chinese Transitional Blue & White Porcelain Dish - Boys

This attractive small blue & white porcelain dish was made during the "Transitional" period (c.1630 - 1660) at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty. The design, in underglaze blue of good colour, features two sitting male figures either at a meal or playing a game, whilst, what appears to be female figure, looks on. This underside is undecorated apart from an unusual mark enclosed within two fine bands...