Authentic Tang tomb guardian wearing a typical warrior's uniform standing on an evil creature with remains of the original pigments an white slip. Age: Tang Dynasty 618 - 907 AD. Size: H.58cm. W.21cm Condition: No repairs. Small piece missing from the back of his skirt. See photo.

Massive late Qing dynasty Chinese ancestor portrait executed in ink and color on paper depicting a civil official seated on a draped armchair over a floral rug decorated with Buddhist swastikas and dressed in formal attire. A Mandarin rank badge showing the official’s rank in the civil bureaucracy is on the center front of his cobalt-blue fur surcoat. The bird appears to be a silver pheasant, indicating an official of the 5th rank...

A beautiful and rare micro blue glass bead necklace from South China. Can be made into two necklaces. Age: 100 BC Size:Total Length 118cm (46 inches)

A rare and beautiful, flattened form bamboo box with cover, probably used as a seal paste or brush washer. It is carved out from the root part of bamboo and nicely polished. Inside the lid a compass (no longer functioning). Qing, 18–19th cent. H 3 cm, D 7,5 cm. Condition: Over-all fine, and really good, old patina, but with small chip to lid.

Chinese Green Glazed Monochrome Pottery Joss Stick Lamp, 12" to the top of the brass fixture, 5" wide base, newly converted to a lamp, ready to use. The condition is good.

Chinese Green glazed Monochrome Pottery temple Joss Stick Lamp on wooden stand, 12" high to the top brass fixture, 5 1/2" wide bass, newly converted to Lamp, ready to use. The condition is good.

Description: It is a very nice water basin of Chinese antiques.
A rare piece for connaisseurs.

Date: Mid to early Qing periods, 17th-18th Century.

Width: 6.0 cm, Hight: 4.3cm.

Condition: Perfect.

A Chinese statue of a maiden holding a lotus flower and a fan, carved from celadon jade, fixed on a matching wooden base. Condition: fine, only lotus flower with few tiny rim frits. Dimension with wood stand: c. 22.3 cm high.

Light green, figured silk ground, embroidered with butterflies among peonies in "sanlan". Paper Label. Condition fine. Dimension: c. 123 cm long x 8cm wide (without seams).

A beautiful rare etched paitong basin depicting court ladies playing chess in the center. Around the inside of the basin there are scenes of scholars, artists, falconer etc. Around the inside edge is etched the "shou" characters representing good luck and fortune. Size: Diameter: 42.5cm. Condition: No repairs. A small casting crack on the inside that does not go all the way through.

Pair of Chinese blue and white porcelain cups, with small hand carved hardwood wood stands. Each cup has a calligraphy inscription with two chops, imagery of flying cranes and a house below a pine tree. Each cup is signed with two character mark on the foot.

17th/18th Century

Dimensions: 2 1/2" x 1 3/4" H (each)

Chinese jade carving known as a cong, an implement dating back to Neolithic China, once used for unknown but culturally important reasons. The cong is often seen with squared outer edges carved of a taotie or beast's mask, which the inside is smoothed round with a central groove. The stone's coloring is light green with mottled brown.

Circa 19th Century

Dimensions: 2 1/2" x 2 1/2" x 2 1/2"

Chinese hardstone hand-carved cup with a handle shaped like a chimera peeking inside. Below the rim of the container is a band carved with geometric pattern. The stone is pale white with areas of darker beige and brown.

The Ming dynasty was the ruling dynasty of China – then known as the Great Ming Empire – for 276 years (1368–1644) following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.
The Ming, described by Edwin O. Reischauer, John K. Fairbank and Albert M...

Chinese ceramic water coupe, of a flattened round form with crackle enamel glaze in pale greens and brown. The slightly recessed foot is left is glaze in a pale matte green enamel.

Dimensions: 4 1/4" x 2" H

A nice Song brownish-black glazed wine receptacle with still some sticky remains of the sweet rice wine that was placed in it. Over 1,000 years old. Size: H. 20.6cm. W. 18cm. Condition: No repairs or chips.

Chinese pale white Jade brush washer. hHand-carved into a flattened gourd flanked by beautiful natural flowers and vines.

Republic Period Early 20th Century

Dimensions: 5 1/2" x 2 1/2" x 3/4"

Height: 10 cm (4 in)
Length: 16 cm (6.4 in)
Depth: 9.5 cm (3.4 in)

Chinese cinnabar box; fine carving throughout; good original patina; some fine surface cracks and age wear; good condition

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Antique Chinese pair of hand-carved boxwood scholar's scroll weights. With mirrored imagery of a fisherman in a boat catching a fish, landscape scenes with pine trees and groves of bamboo.

Dimensions: 9" x 2 1/2" x 1 1/2"