A Chinese Iron-Brown Painted Bowl with a Figural Decoration. Circa, 1368-1644, Cizhou Ware, Ming Dynasty Found in the Philippines. Bowl with rounded walls and a slightly rolled rim, supported by a straight foot. It is covered in a white slip and is decorated with an iron-brown underglaze standing figure in between floral branches and clouds, bordered by encircling lines. The exterior is decorated with spontaneously drawn standing figures in between vegetations...

Large Chinese Western Han / Qin / Warring States Cord-Impressed Pottery Jar (206 BC - AD 220)

This large pottery jar was made over two thousand years ago during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 8) or possibly as early as the Qin Dynasty (221 - 206 BC) or the Warring States period (475 - 221 BC). It is made from a fairly high-fired grey pottery. The surface from the shoulder downwards has been attractively decorated with repeated cord impressions that are crisp and clear...

Fine Large Chinese Han Dynasty Painted Pottery Jar (206 BC - AD 220)

This rare, large and attractively-shaped pottery jar was made during the Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220). It is made from a grey pottery and is quite "heavily-potted". It has quite a wide flat base, a round body with a short neck and flared mouth. Unusually, it has been "cold-painted" with an orange-red pigment, very good traces of which still appear on the surface.

Height 30 cm...

Fine & Rare Chinese Neolithic Pottery Tripod

This fine and interesting pottery vessel was made over 3,000 years ago during the Chinese Neolithic or early Bronze Age. The form is of a cooking vessel and the three wide udder-shaped legs allow it to be stood in a fire with as much heat as possible being transmitted to its contents. It is not always easy to determine exactly which culture such vessels come from as similar vessels were made by various Chinese cultures...

Fine & Rare Chinese Neolithic Pottery Tripod

This fine and interesting pottery vessel was made over 3,000 years ago during the Chinese Neolithic or early Bronze Age. The form is of a cooking vessel and the three wide udder-shaped legs allow it to be stood in a fire with as much heat as possible being transmitted to its contents. It is not always easy to determine exactly which culture such vessels come from as similar vessels were made by various Chinese cultures...

Rare Chinese Neolithic Pottery Tripod

This fine and interesting pottery vessel was made over 3,000 years ago during the Chinese Neolithic or early Bronze Age. The form is of a cooking vessel and the three wide udder-shaped legs allow it to be stood in a fire with as much heat as possible being transmitted to its contents. It is not always easy to determine exactly which culture such vessels come from as similar vessels were made by various Chinese cultures...

Fine Chinese Neolithic Pottery Tripod with Oxford TL Test

This fine and interesting pottery vessel was made over 3,000 years ago during the Chinese Neolithic or early Bronze Age. The form is of a cooking vessel and the three wide udder-shaped legs allow it to be stood in a fire with as much heat as possible being transmitted to its contents. It is not always easy to determine exactly which culture such vessels come from as similar vessels were made by various Chinese cultures...

A Chinese, Yue ware, jar; Western Jin dynasty. C4th. The jar is of squat form with four handles, and an imprinted diaper-pattern in a band around the shoulder. The celadon glaze is in good condition, and terminates above the flat, unglazed foot. The interior of the jar is unglazed. Diameter, approximately 16 cm. Condition: The glaze quality is good, with an even crazing. There is an old repair to the rim, approximately 5 cm wide...

A Chinese, amber glazed, covered jar; Tang dynasty. Elegantly rising, this high-shouldered jar is covered by an amber coloured glaze which terminates, unevenly, above the slightly-splayed foot. The matching lid is covered in the same amber glaze. The paste is of a light, buff colour. Height; 21.5 cm, including cover. Condition; in generally good, unrestored condition. There are a couple of small chips to the underside of the jar's mouth-rim...

Chinese Neolithic Siwa Culture Burnished Pottery Jar (c. 1350 BC)

This attractively-shaped pottery vessel was made over 3,000 years ago by peoples of the Siwa Culture (c.1350 BC) from present day Gansu or Qinghai province. It is quite "heavily-potted" and fairly highly-fired...

Chinese Neolithic Siwa Culture Burnished Pottery Jar (c...

Fine Chinese Western Han Dynasty Painted Pottery Lian Tripod

This fine example of a pottery vessel known as a "lian" was made during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 8). It is made from a fine-grained grey earthenware, quite highly-fired, having a distinct ring to it when tapped. The wide body is of cylindrical form with a straight wall and stands upon three legs, each moulded into the form of a bear. Around the middle of the body of a wide band of "cold-painted" red pigment.

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Fine & Rare Chinese Neolithic Xindian Culture Painted 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 quite distinctive and rarer than pottery from some earlier Chinese Neolithic cultures: the painted designs are quite different and the pottery has different characteristics, tending to be mo...

Rare Large Chinese Neolithic Xindian Culture Pottery Jar

This very 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 much less refined, more coarse and brittle than pottery from some earlier Chinese Neolithic cultures. Like many Xindian jars, this example is quite "thinly-potted" and shows ...

Fine Chinese Tang Dynasty Painted Pottery Horse & Rider with Dog

This fine and attractive model of a horse & rider, together with a dog sitting on the horse's back behind the rider, was made during the Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 906). Although such models with dogs are known, they are very rare.

It is made from a relatively high-fired orange-brown pottery that has been cold-painted in various coloured pigments, very good traces of which still remain. It is well-modelled and nicely painted w...

Fine Chinese Tang Dynasty Painted Pottery Horse & Rider with Dog

This fine and attractive model of a horse & rider, together with a dog sitting on the horse's back behind the rider, was made during the Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 906). Although such models with dogs are known, they are very rare.

It is made from a relatively high-fired orange-brown pottery that has been cold-painted in various coloured pigments, very good traces of which still remain. It is well-modelled and nicely painted w...

A Fine Pair of Chinese Ming Dynasty Glazed & Painted Pottery Horses with Riders

This fine and attractive pair of pottery horses with riders was made during the early part of the Ming Dynasty (!368 - 1644). They are made from a creamy-white pottery with features picked out in turquoise and purple glazes that have, in places, acquired a silvery iridescence due to time and exposure to moisture. The bodies of the horses have been cold-painted in a white pigment, the riders in an orange pigment. ...

Fine & Rare Chinese Early Tang Dynasty Pottery Camel

This fine and very rare pottery model of a camel was made during the early part of the Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 906).

The camel stands upright and alert and has a very "friendly" looking face! It is laden with a back pack together with, on each side, a water container and a rabbit.

It is unusually "heavily-potted" and made from a dense creamy-white, almost pale pink, pottery that is quite highly-fired. The thickness of the pottery c...