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. ...

Chogappo made of fragments of choma (ramie), one of bast fibers, which is recycled with fragments of choma, and it is dyed with vegetable indigo. Pojagi is the general name for the wrapping cloth and "chogappo" is one kind of pojagi which is patchworked with asa (choma or hemp) fragments. (Reference source: "Korean Embroidery and Wrapping Cloths from the Choson Dynasty" published by Japan Art & Culture Association in 1995). Both warps and wefts are hand-plied for all fragments. Ramie one is for ...

MYSTERY OF SEA

Early Japanese Western oil painting on cardboard canvas, by Teruhiko Shigyo (1890-1964), Kurume, Fukuoka, early-mid 20th century, 33 x 24 x 0.3 cm (12.99 x 9.44 x 0.11in). Scarce references about this painter himself as he is a mystery artist as well.


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A fabulous carved wood image of the fearsome Shishi Lion with glass eyes dating from the Meiji period signed Kazumoto-to (Carved by Kazumoto). It is 35.5 cm x 26 cm x 27 cm (14 x 10-1/2 x 11 inches). There are a few chips in the curly mane and tail and some cracks typical of age along the grain in the base.

A spectacular bold statement in burnt straw and raw clay by Master of the genre Yamashita Joji enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Bizen Hidasuki Hirokuchi Hanaire. Slightly elongated with four somewhat flattened sides, each is a unique perspective. It is roughly 35 cm (14 inches) diameter, 38 cm (15 inches) tall and weighs 8.2 Kg (18 pounds). It is in perfect condition.
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Yamashita Joji (b. Tokyo, 1947) lives...

Eagle Perched on a Cliff
Artist: Not Known. Variously attributed to Koson or Koho.
Date: ca 1930s.
"Made in Japan" stamped on verso.
Size: Approximately 8.5 x 3.75 inches
Provenance: The Robert O. Muller Estate.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent. Original white kento mark at the lower right corner.

Toshi Yoshida (1911-1995)
Morinji in Spring
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.75 x 10.75 inches.
Date: 1951. This edition later.
Impressed block signature.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition. Back has one piece of tape and one spot where the paper is slightly thinner.

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...

Fine & Rare Pair of Tall Chinese Han Dynasty Painted Pottery Incense Burners (with Oxford TL Test)

This pair of unusually tall and elaborate incense burners was made during the Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220). They are made from quite a high-fired fine-grained grey pottery that has been decorated with multiple bands of "cold- painted" red pigment. Each incense burner comprises two parts: the lower part has a wide saucer with a stem leading to the container for burning the incense, which is alm...

Chinese Ming Dynasty Painted Pottery Horse & Rider

This pottery model of a horse & male rider was made during the early Ming Dynasty (AD 1368 - 1644), possibly even as early as the Yuan Dynasty (AD 1279 - 1368). It is made from a reddish earthenware that has been cold-painted in many different coloured pigments. Note the detail, for example, to the clothing and the stirrups.

Height 31.5 cm. There are some minor losses and minor repairs, for example, to the lower legs. In places there are...

A rare blue and white Meiping vase with well balance potted, decorated with human figures visiting the friends which are this is very popular design motif since interregnum period of Ming Dynasty Zhendong --JIngtai --Thianshun or very famous of the Dark period in Ming Chinese history circa 1436--1464. Condition is good excepted the pair of Sea Dragons beside the horses on the shoulder is missing. Height: 46 cm.

Plovers soar over strips of white and gray along the jagged edge of a green pool on this elongated Oribe slab platter on four raised feet by Kato Kuniya enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Oribe O-zara. It displays much of the most notable aspects of Mino ware, from the rough white clay torn and scarred, the rich green of Oribe copper, and the snow-white and gray and of Shino and Nezumi Shino wares. It is 65 x 28.5 x 10 cm (25-1/2 x 11 x 4 inches) and is in perfect condition.