Wonderful Japanese antique two panel byobu screen painting in ink and mineral colors on silk, Nihonga School, depicting a scene of a group of seven crows and a single magpie near a waterfall and hot springs possibly Onsen Baths, beautifully painted churning water and falls, signed and with hanga of artist Aizu Katsumi: born Fukushima Prefecture.

Exhibited Teiten and Bunten Exhibitions during prewar period.

c. 1900.

Size: 76 3/4" high x 90" wide

A kaki (persimmon) is playfully rendered in orange and green on the wide white sides of this green bordered square bottle by Avant-garde Sodeisha Potter Kumakura Junkichi enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is 15 x 6.5 x 12 cm (6 x 2-1/2 x 5 inches) and in excellent condition.
Junkichi began working in ceramics in the 1940s, his works submitted to innumerable National and International Exhibitions including the Japan Art Festival, New York and the international Arts and Craf...

Japanese antique couch, elaborately carved with coiling dragons, curving arms are carved in the form of two dragons, the seat is fitted with a cushion covered in silk brocade with a Chinese design, Meiji Period. Size: 41 1/4" high x 49" wide x 22" deep. (the seat is 42" wide x 16/17" deep.)

Authentic antique 18th -19th century finely painted on cloth Tibetan Tangka – Thanka of Chenrezig -Avalokiteshvara - Buddha of compassion.

The deity, with white skin, is seated majestically on a grand throne, elegantly dressed in a traditional dhoti, and adorned with an array of ribbons and intricate jewelry, which adds to the overall grandeur of the scene. The deity is surrounded by a radiant nimbus and aureole, which further emphasizes the deity's divine nature. The scene is set amids...

Pair small Japanese blue and white porcelain dishes. Hawthorne style decoration of prunus branches in bloom. Verso with three prunus branches. Blue underglaze mark centered within the foot rim. Fair to decent condition with a few frit like flea bites to the glaze along the rims. No cracks and no hairlines. Diameter each about 7 1/8 inches (18.1 cm)

Japanese Genroku era Imari bowl with blue underglaze and red and gold overglaze enamel decoration. The octagonal form with alternating panels on both interior and exterior of flowers and of boat in garden landscape. The cavetto with vase and flowers decoration. Flowers and vine decoration around the foot. Flower head decoration in red enamel inside blue ring within ring foot. The white glaze around the buff colored foot rim burned to a thin dark iron colored ring before the unglazed rim. The con...

Distressed Japanese Iki mask with crystal eyes. Gofun finish over dry lacquer composition. Details including veins, wrinkles and furrows. The surface is in a distressed state with significant losses and some 'alligatored' texture possibly from exposure to elements. Would make a worthy conservation project for someone with the patience to recoat and touch up losses (the missing left ear being most challenging.) Length, about 9 1/4 inches (23.49 cm)

A very rare yab-yum bronze from the end of the 19th. century ( Qing Dynasty 1644 - 1912 ), acquired for the van Norten collection in the early 30's of the last century in Sichuan showing the male deity in sexual union with his female consort. Yab-yum means Tibetan literally 'father - mother'.

The statue presents a great amount of detailed wealth. It is a 3,1 kg heavy bronze with a size of 31 cm x 25 x 18.

The symbolism of union and sexual polarity is a central teaching in ...

Chinese late Qing dynasty Guangxu period multi-lobed wedding collar embroidered in polychrome silk thread with flowers, birds, insects, and small animals on a silk ground. The collar is composed of two layers of streamers, with shorter red narrow streamers lightly stitched onto longer white streamers which terminate in ruyi heads. Applied ribbon and black edging outline the streamers. The neck and lining are cotton. Late 19th/early 20th century. 10” streamer length x 5” wide ruyi head. ...

Late 15th – 16th century
Mid-Ming dynasty
Porcelaineous stoneware with Longquan celadon glaze
H: 32.8 cm / 13 in (with stand); 29.7 cm / 11.7 in (without stand)
From a Marine County, California private collection

A beautiful and highly elegant Longquan vase, of a typical mid-Ming pear shape, covered with a thick and luxurious celadon glaze, and decorated with hand-carved floral motifs. In many ways, this vase is a “revival” piece: its body is deeply carved i...

1560s-1620s, late 16th – early 17th century
Wanli period, Ming dynasty
Porcelain with underglae cobalt blue
H: 37.3 cm / 14.7 in (with stand); 35.5 cm / 14 in (without stand)
W: 16 cm / 6.3 in
From a Northern California private collection

An extremely rare, museum-quality late Ming blue and white incense stand or vase, of unusual reticulated form, with a circular cupped rim and neck above a square-sectioned body, the curving walls partially undercut and pain...

Ca. 1890-1810s, late 18th – early 19th century
Qianlong – Jiaqing period, Qing dynasty
Porcelain with overglaze enamels
H: 11.5 cm / 4.5 in, W: 6.5 cm / 2.6 in (Ox head alone)
H: 15 cm / 5.9 in, W: 18.3 cm / 7.2 in (Ox head on display stand)
From a San Francisco private collection, ex-Sotheby’s New York, ex-Bluett London

A rare mid-Qing polychrome enameled rhyton / stirrup cup in the form of an ox head, with curved horns covered with aubergine colored g...

Ca. 1720s, early 18th century
Late Kangxi – Yongzheng period, Qing dynasty
Porcelain with underglaze cobalt blue
D: 22.7 cm / 8.9 in
From a Northbrook, Illionois estate

A pair of Kangxi-Yongzheng lotus-shaped blue and white dishes, freely painted with floral sprays in nine separate panels encircling a central field. Both dishes have very fine and luminous glaze.

Condition report: Dish 1 is basically perfect with only slight wear to rim edges. Dish 2 ...

19th century
Mid – late Qing dynasty
Porcelain with teadust glaze, underglaze cobalt blue and copper red
H: 34.7 cm / 13.7 in, W: 22.4 cm / 8.8 in (at widest point)
From a Dutch private collection

This gorgeous is quite rare due to its technical sophistication: in manufacturing this vase, Jingdezhen potters would have had to fire it twice; first, to complete the raised appliqué decorations in underglaze blue and copper red (which had to be coated with a transpar...

19th century
Late Qing dynasty
Porcelain with celadon glaze
D: 29.6 cm / 11.7 in
From a Northern California private collection specializing in Chinese celadons

A 19th century late Qing charger, glazed in light pea-green celadon, and molded / carved with various floral motifs in relief.

Condition report: Basically perfect condition. There is a Chinese character for “two” etched to the front surface, and there are some age scratches to glaze.

Ca. 1720-30s, early 18th century
Yongzheng – early Qianlong period, Qing dynasty
Porcelain with overglaze famille rose enamels
D: 22.4 cm / 8.8 in, H: 4 cm
From an English private collection

A gorgeous early 18th c famille rose soup dish or plate, fantastically decorated with an auspicious deer resting within a flowery realm. The enamels are quite fresh and vibrant.

Condition report: a short 1 cm glazeline to rim (affecting the glaze only, and does n...

ca.1890-1910s
Late Qing Dynasty - Republic Period
Porcelain with overglaze famille rose enamels
H: 44 cm
From a Boston area estate

A late 19th – early 20th century famille rose vase, enameled profusely in the “hundred treasures” pattern and bordered with ruyi medallions.

Condition report: basically perfect condition, which some origin impurities to the enamels, and just one tiny shallow chip to the foot rim.

Ca. 1730s, early 18th century
Yongzheng – early Qianlong Period, Qing Dynasty
Porcelain with overglaze famille rose enamels
H: 45 cm (with lid), 36 cm (without lid)
From a Palm Beach, FL estate

An early 18th century famille rose vase in the square baluster form, with various still-life antiques and decorative arts in molded relief, and paired with an old custom-fitted hardwood lid. Vases such as this were built by slabs rather than formed through the wheel,...