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 Chinese Ming Dynasty Blue & White Porcelain Brush Washer

This attractive small porcelain jar, a brush washer, was made during the late 15th to early 16th century. It is relatively heavily-potted and decorated in underglaze blue of very good colour with a pattern featuring scrolling lotus blossoms. Both inner and outer surfaces are coated in a thick glaze. The foot and recessed flat base remain unglazed.

Diameter 6.75 cm. A fine example in fine condition. No repair or restoration. ...

Chinese Ming Dynasty Blue & White Porcelain Brush Washer (Ex.Lammers Collection)

This attractive small porcelain jar, a brush washer, was made during the Hongzhi reign (1488 - 1505) of the Ming Dynasty. It is relatively heavily-potted and decorated in underglaze blue of good colour in a pattern featuring scrolling lotus blossoms. Both inner and outer surfaces are coated in a finely-crackled glaze. The foot and recessed flat base remain unglazed.

Diameter 6.75 cm. It is in very good condi...

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...

Large Chinese Ming Dynasty Blue & White Kraak Porcelain Dish

This lovely example of "kraak" porcelain was made in the late 16th century, during the Wanli reign (1573 - 1620) of the Ming Dynasty. The dish is moulded with the decoration around the cavetto following the moulded form. The underglaze blue is of a good intense colour with the central pattern featuring birds in a landscape. Referring to the "bible" of kraak porcelain, "Kraak Porcelain" by Maura Rinaldi, the cavetto is decorated wit...

Chinese Ming Dynasty Blue & White Octagonal Porcelain Box

This blue & white porcelain box, complete with its original cover, of octagonal form was made during the Wanli reign (1573 - 1620) of the Ming Dynasty. Each facet of both the box and cover are decorated with a bird, flower, precious object or auspicious symbol. Both inner and outer surfaces are coated in a finely-crackled glaze.

Diameter 9.25 cm. It is in very good condition with minor surface wear and no repair or restoration. <...

Chinese Ming Dynasty Blue & White Porcelain Bowl (mark)

This attractive and very interesting blue and white porcelain bowl was made in the 16th century. It is decorated in underglaze blue of very good colour. The centre is decorated with a male figure standing next to a deer. The decoration to the outer wall is quite elaborate and includes a varied landscape, two male figures and one female figure. To the base is a mark (not translated).

Diameter 12 cm. There is no repair or restoration...

Chinese Ming Dynasty Blue & White Porcelain Bowl - Birds

This blue and white porcelain bowl was made in the 16th century. It is decorated in underglaze blue of good colour, the design featuring birds perched upon blossoming branches. To the base is a seal mark (not translated).

Diameter 12 cm. It is in good condition. There is minor surface wear, some "fritting" of the glaze at the rim edge and a kiln scar at the top of the outer wall. It has a good ring when tapped and there is no repa...

Chinese Ming Dynasty Blue & White Porcelain Bowl - Birds

This attractive blue & white porcelain bowl was made during the latter part of the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644). The underglaze blue decoration around the outer wall depicts a varied landscape that includes a bird (stork) in flight, a bird sitting in a tree in blossom and a winged insect. The inside of the bowl is decorated with a blossoming flower.

Diameter 10.5 cm. Although there is no repair or restoration, there is a tiny chip...

Chinese Ming Dynasty / Transitional Blue & White Porcelain Bowl

This small blue & white porcelain bowl, or dish, was made during the early to mid 17th Century. Although it is attractively decorated in underglaze blue, we are unsure what the unusual central design represents; our best guess is that it is the conch (a symbol of prosperous travels) together with the Shou character (meaning longevity). the glaze is crackled in places.

Diameter 11 cm. It is in fine condition and has no repair...

Chinese Ming Dynasty / Transitional Blue & White Porcelain Bowl

This small blue & white porcelain bowl, or dish, was made during the early to mid 17th Century. Although it is attractively decorated in underglaze blue, we are unsure what the unusual central design represents; our best guess is that it is the conch (a symbol of prosperous travels) together with the Shou character (meaning longevity).

Diameter 10.5 cm. It is in fine condition and has no repair or restoration.

From a loc...

Rare Large Chinese Song Dynasty Qingbai Glazed Porcelain Dish

This unusually large porcelain dish, or bowl, was made during the Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1279), most likely at one of the kilns in Fujian province where ceramics were made for export around south-east Asia. The inner surface is decorated with incised swirling patterns and it has been coated in a pale greenish qingbai type glaze. Much of the underside remains unglazed revealing the pale greyish-white body. It has quite a sturdy foo...

An unusual and rare Arita Chawan and cover in late 18th century Qianlong Canton high footed style decorated with an "over the wall" "guogianzhi" pattern of a four toed Chinese dragon. Its full body obscured by the rim and continued in the interior of bowl and under the dish cover. Similar patterns appear on Chinese porcelain dating from the Yongzheng period. The interior of the bowl and cover contain a stylised flaming pearl, and the interior of the footring contains a mark of Chinese Kangxi or...

This guinomi by Watanabe Takuma would complement well the Future Fossil series Sake Server currently being offered. It too has a variegated surface like patched together mtal plates, with brilliant coloration. It comes enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Bizen Sake-nomi. It is roughly 6 cm (2-1/2 inches) diameter and in excellent condition acquired this summer from the artist.
Watanabe Takuma was born in Hyogo prefecture in 1968, and after graduating Kansai Daigaku Univer...

A Future Fossil series Sake Server by Watanabe Takuma enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Bizen Shuki. Like something out of a Miyazaki Hayao animation, one expects to see steam pumping as the vessel makes its way of its own accord toward the destined sake cup. Each piece in this series has a unique serial number, this number S151. It is roughly 16 cm (6 inches) long and in excellent condition acquired this summer from the artist.
Watanabe Takuma was born in Hyogo prefect...

A smokey landscape billows like clouds on this fabulous raw form by Atarashi Kanji enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Iga Guinomi. Coals cling to one side, opposite milky green and white while inside a blast of crackled green ice has formed on the wall among a haze of smoke. It is 7 cm (2-3/4 inches) diameter, 5.5 cm tall and in excellent condition, directly from the artist. I highly recommend this with the Tokkuri following.
Atarashi Kanji was born in Osaka in 1944, and ...

Pink, purple and red glazes mingle on the surface of this Mizusashi water jar by Matsuyama Gae enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Kujaku-yu Mizusashi and signed inside the lid by the Urasenke Konnichi-an Grand Tea Master, Sen Genshitsu. It is 20.5 cm (8 inches) diameter, 12 cm (5 inches) tall and in excellent condition.
Gae I Returned from China in 1945, where he had been posted for eight years and had studied in depth ancient Chinese ceramics. In 1947 he opened his own k...

A pair of sometsuke underglaze blue san kaku-gata choku, three sided cups, decorated with contrasting patterns of a pair of "Dutch" figures set against a diaper brocade ground, a scene of Chinese boys, karako, one playing with a standard, the other holding a double gourd form tokkuri, and an auspicious kara hana (literally Tang flower) inset within an arabesque of kara-kusa (Tang grasses) painted in kakiwake style. This form of cup is rare and apparently only occurs with this pattern. The ...