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Zentner Collection
$2,500.00 Antique Chinese figure of Quan Yin. Revered as the goddess of mercy and compassion she stands holding a strand of prayer beads in her hands. Her sweeping robes are decorated with scrolling details and her hair is arranged on top of her head. Also considered the goddess of beauty, her name in Sanskrit is Padma-pani (Born of the Lotus). In Japan, she is called Kannon.
This figure is carved of wood and lacquered a deep red.
Age: 19th Century Dimensions: 18 3/4" high x 9 1/...
Zentner Collection
$850.00 Antique Chinese wooden box lacquered red and gold with designs of palace life. Noble figures and scholars stroll through gardens with fine pavilions and trees. The lid lifts to reveal a continuation of the theme.
Dimensions: 2 1/2" high x 13 1/4" long x 7 1/2" wide
Zentner Collection
$7,000.00 Chinese cabinet, lacquered all over and inlaid with scenes of beautiful ladies and children in a pavilion garden setting, the sides of the cabinet are also lacquered and inlaid with scenes of birds and flowers, interior has three shelves - the middle shelf has is two drawers built in, the front of the drawers are also decorated to match the front with beautiful lacquer work of scrolling flowers, 19th century.
Size: 56 1/4" high x 36 1/4" wide x 17" deep.
Zentner Collection
$3,500.00 Antique Chinese Jun Ware (Chun Yao) chawan (tea bowl) with grey-blue glaze. Outside with drips of dark and light blue glaze mingling to create greens and browns. Evaluation done in the 1930's by TZ Shiota when the family was inheriting the collection from their great grandfather, Federic Torrey. The collection was stored in a trunk since his death in 1935.
Age: Yuan Dynasty 13th century Dimensions: 2 1/4" high x 5 7/8" wide Provenance: From the personal collection...
Zentner Collection
$3,500.00 Antique Chinese Jun ware bowl. Made of earthenware and glazed a light blue color with a purple splash that is dripping toward the center. The rim is a brown color where the glaze is thinest and the foot is left unglazed as was the tradition with Jun ware. The blue and purple colors are made with straw ash in the glaze. Looking closely, a subtle crackle, pitting and rivulets of mixing colors can be seen. Jun ware is from one of the Five Great Kilns of the Song Dynasty and produced over sev...
Zentner Collection
$1,850.00 Antique Chinese cabinet, made of heavy pieces of jumu (elm) wood with beautiful and dramatic grain, one shelf on inside, bottom is open for storage, from the Shanxi area, 19th century.
Size: 70 3/4" high x 35 1/2" wide (31 1/2" in the middle) x 22 1/2" deep.
Zentner Collection
$1,200.00 Chinese antique ox bow arm chair, made of jumu (elm) wood with bent wood legs. The back splat is carved with a round good fortune symbol.
19th century Dimensions: 36 1/2" high x 23 1/4" wide x 22" deep (seat: 13 1/2" deep)
Zentner Collection
SOLD Chinese antique painting table, all solid jumu (elm) wood, very strong traditional construction, original dark brown worn lacquer finish, beautiful grain especially on surface of table top, 19th century.
Size: 32" high x 40 1/2" wide x 19 1/2" deep.
Zentner Collection
SOLD Beautiful Chinese antique display shelf made of Solid Jichi-mu wood (very heavy). The chest has three large display shelves, and two small drawers just under the top display area. The drawers are carved with scrolling mist and chimera and outfitted with brass pulls. Very nicely detailed. Each display area is enclosed on three sides with a low carved lattice work.
Late 19th - early 20th Century
Size: 69 1/2" high x 35" wide x 16 1/2" deep.
Zentner Collection
$2,000.00 Antique Chinese Song Style Jian Zhan chawan (tea cup) with lovely thick black glaze and mineral drips. Made specifically for the appreciation of whisked tea.
19th century or earlier Dimensions: 2 3/4" high x 5 7/8" wide
Zentner Collection
SOLD Antique Chinese Song Jian Zhan chawan (tea cup) with beautiful cafe au lait coloring and subtle hare's fur effect. Made specifically for the appreciation of whisked tea.
19th century or earlier Dimensions: 3" high x 5" wide
Zentner Collection
SOLD Chinese antique Jade Vase with lid, intricately carved and elegant in a Mughal design.
Provenance Berkeley Hill Estate Dates 19th Century Size H 9" x W 3"
Zentner Collection
Price on Request A rare Chinese jade carving of a recumbent water buffalo. Laying with legs folded under his body, the buffalo extends his head forward. His ribbed horns curve backward, the tips almost meeting behind his neck. The artist's skill is evident in the naturalistic slope of the buffalo's spine over his rotund form as well as in the details of his face and tail. Carved of opaque yellow and brown mottled jade.
Age: Qing Dynasty Dimensions: 3 1/2" high x 7 5/8" long x 6" wide ...
Zentner Collection
$3,500.00 Antique Chinese jade carving of a recumbent horse. Seated on it's haunches, it's hooves curved underneath it's body, the horse looks back over it's shoulder. Details of face, main and tail accent the pleasing arch of the horse's neck. Carved of yellow and brown mottled jade.
Age: 19th century Dimensions: 3 3/4" high x 4" long x 1 5/8" wide
Zentner Collection
$3,750.00 Very fine Chinese antique belt hook carved in the shape of a knot with a butterfly on either end, made of beautiful mottled jade ranging from white to grey to bright blue/green, a silver fitting on the back was added later to convert this clothing hook to a pin or broach.
19th century Size: 4" long x 2" wide
Zentner Collection
$2,500.00 Antique Chinese carved jadeite snuff bottle. The stone is speckled with variations of green including small striations of a brilliant apple-green color. The flattened globular formed body is carved with peony flowers on one side and lotus blossoms and birds on the other.
19th century Dimensions: 2" high (not including lid)
Zentner Collection
Price on Request Antique Chinese jade water coupe in the form of a duck. Carved of pale green jade with detailed feathers and scrolling archaic motifs. On a small wooden base.
Age: 19th century Dimensions: 2 1/8" high x 3 1/4" long x 1 7/8" wide
Zentner Collection
3500.00 Chinese antique nephrite jade bowl with worn gilt design of maiden and children at play in garden on side, bottom has scrolling vine and imperial mark in cartouche. Old restoration stabilizing crack to body.
Provenance Jack Warner, movie executive's estate Ming Dynasty, circa Late 17th - Early 18th century Size: 2 5/8" High x 6 1/8" Diameter |