Rare Tall Chinese Han Dynasty Decorated Pottery Well

This rare and unusual pottery object is a model of a well and was made during the Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220). It is made from quite a high-fired dense grey pottery. At its top is a small roof formed to represent tiles. Other than the roof, the whole of the outer surface has been decorated with repeated stamped circular impressions.

This is quite a large object with a height of 30 cm and in fine condition.

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Fine Tall Chinese Western Han Dynasty Painted Pottery Granary Jar

This fine painted pottery jar, representing a granary, was made during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 8). It is made from a fairly high-fired grey pottery that has been cold-painted in various coloured pigments, the base coat being a creamy-white pigment with geometric and swirling cloud patterns on top in orange, purple and black pigments, very good traces of which still remain. The vessel has a cylindrical body that is...

Fine Chinese Ming Dynasty Glazed Pottery Model of a Folding Chair (16th Century)

This fine pottery model of a folding wooden chair was made during the 16th century (c.1500 - 1600). Made from a hard creamy-white pottery and coated in green and greenish-yellow glazes.

Height 15 cm. It is in fine condition with no sign of restoration or repair.

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Chinese Ming Dynasty Glazed Pottery Model of a Chair (16th Century)

A pottery model of a wooden chair made during the 16th century (c.1500 - 1600). Made from a hard creamy-white pottery and coated in green, amber and dark purple glazes that have in places, acquired a silvery iridescence, a result of very long exposure to moisture. Height 15.5 cm. In good condition with any possible repair performed to a professional standard.

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Chinese Han Dynasty Glazed Pottery Hu Jar

This attractive small pottery jar of "hu" form was made some 2,000 years ago during the Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220). It is quite "heavily-potted", made from a reddish pottery, coated in a finely-cracked green glaze that varies in thickness. Unusually, the inner mouth is coated in a yellow glaze. In places the glaze has acquired a silvery iridescence, a result of exposure to moisture during its long burial. There are incised decorative bands surroun...

Fine Chinese Han Dynasty Glazed Pottery Hu Jar

This attractive small pottery jar of "hu" form was made some 2,000 years ago during the Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220). It is made from a reddish pottery, coated in a finely-cracked green glaze. Unusually, the inner mouth is coated in a yellow glaze. In places it has acquired a silvery iridescence, a result of exposure to moisture during its long burial. There are incised decorative bands surrounding the body. To the flat base and mouth are the t...

Antique Tibetan wood image of the standing Avalokitesvara Ekadasamukha, depicted in his classical form with 11 heads and six arms. Ekadasamukha is an esoteric form of Avalokitesvara of Vajrayana Buddhism The Eleven-head Avalokiteshvara 3 levels of 3 heads, are rendered in peaceful countenances, the tenth head is that of the wrathful Mahakala, followed on top by the head of Buddha Amitabha. The two primary hands in Anjali mudra, the gesture of worship and respect, parly chipped off; the right lo...

A very rare Mandorla for use in a double image A small but very beautiful mandorla for a double image in gilt, hammered copper of the highest quality decorated with twenty-one images representing Buddhas, bodhisattvas, protectors and Vidyarajas. The central top images being Vajrasattva. On a fitted metal stand. Tibet, 15t cent. H 14.5 cm, W 14.5 cm. Condition: Small piece lost to top of mandorla and very minor rubbing. Otherwise excellent.

A fine Chinese QING Dynasty TUNGZHI (Tung-Chih) 1862-1874 LOTUS Porcelain Bowl enameled around exterior with 6 large Lotus heads borne on leafy scrolling strap work, all below Ruyi band. The base bears a 6 Character mark. Size: Top diameter 16 cm. (6 1/4" x height 2 3/4"). Very good condition, no restorations, chips or hairlines whatsoever!

Buddhist monk in bronze cast with lost wax, gilded with gold leaf on lacquer. The character is represented standing on a lotus flower, hands joined in prayer. Chinese work from the end of the Ming dynasty, end of the 18th century or beginning of the 17th. No restoration. H:158mm

A finely carved wooden image of Vajradakini holding kapala in the raised left hand and chopper in the lowered right hand. She is naked except for her ornaments and skull garland. Mostly carved from a single piece of wood, a part a piece of the garland. Remains of original painting. Size: H. 14,3 cm. Tibet, 18th cent. Condition: Very good, only minor brake to left side of the skull garland.

This is a Japanese antique BORO Indigo dye cotton sashiko Stitch. Beautiful indigo dyeing boro with a pleasant texture. Size:Length:180cm / 79.8inch Width: 94cm / 37inch

Late Qing Dynasty “minyao” (household ware) porcelain bowl with a lovely light green celadon glaze and subtle russet treatment to the rim. Very good condition i.e., no cracks or chips. The shopmark inside the footrim is in seal script and is undecipherable. D: 17.5cm/6.9in and H: 6cm/2.5in. The original owners name is stippled in the cavetto as was the custom of the period.

A devil dressed in priest robes hunches down, prayer beads clutched in one gnarled claw, an incense burner held up to his sleepy visage, a humorous image carved from a single block of wood by Hirata Masaya (1900-1980) enclosed in the original signed wooden box dated Showa 35 (1960) and titled Sui-ko (Drunk on Incense). It is 25 x 20 x 26.5 cm and is in excellent condition.

Ready to soar off the table, a magnificent basin by Minegishi Seiko enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Suiseiji Utsuwa. The glaze is like layers of shattered ice, mirror smooth and emerald (actually Jade according to the title). It is 46 x 30 x 20 cm (18 x 12 x 8 inches) and in perfect condition.
Born in 1952 in Saitama, Minegishi Seiko studied under various masters in Nagano, Tochigi and Ibaragi, going solo at the young age of 22. He worked in Kohiko ware initially, but m...

Lovely traditional brush and ink painting of a lady This is signed DENG FEN 鄧芬, but is probably a later copy of his work. Apocryphally dated 1943 this was hand done in the later part of the 20th century. Backed on mounted on silk paper total dimensions are 100cm/39.5cm x 40cm/15.8in.

PLAY JUST ALONE

Vintage Japanese oil painting on canvas, a figure playing kendama (duce ball), titled ‘Play just alone’, by Akira Takeuchi (1935-2013), 1975, 38 x 45.5 x 2 cm (14.96 x 17.91 x 0.78in)


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A rare small blue and white stemcup, decorated with a lovely shaped and drawing human figures and scenery around the body and leaf petals around the foot rim. Condition is very good, with no any crack, no any chip and free from any restoration. Ming Dynasty possibly Ming Dynasty 15th Century Thianshun period . Diameter: 8,6 cm and Height: 8,5 cm.