Sale Price- reduced from $800 to $500. Rare stoneware jar circa Southern Song or Jin Dynasties jar with soy brow glaze and russet and Jun type, phosphatic splashes. This is heavily potted with an applied dragon chasing a flaming pearl. The brown glaze has a subtle metallic iron oxide patina. It is usually assumed that the blue splashes are accidental (serendipitous) rather than intentional in these brown glazes. This piece is in perfect original condition, there are are a couple of small ungla...

Rare soy brown glazed stoneware vessel made in the shape of a grain silo. This basic style are well documented in Qingbai wares but this is the first I have seen in a brown glaze, also it has a fence going around the base which is quite unusual. It is in excellent condition with no repairs, cracks or fritting of the glaze and it is unusually large. H: 24cm/9.5in and D: 18cm/7in. It reminds me a lot of a Jizhou glaze but this seems heavier and more stable.

Fine Chinese Song / Yuan Dynasty Buddhist Pottery Zodiac Jar

This interesting pottery jar was made during the Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1279), or possibly the Yuan Dynasty (AD 1279 - 1368) and has been been excavated from a Buddhist site in Yunnan province. It is made from a relatively high-fired yellowish-grey pottery.

It has been decorated using various techniques. Strips of clay have been applied to the outer wall of the body to form six lotus leaf panels. Within each panel there are t...

Large Thai 14th - 15th Century Celadon Glazed Bowl

This large and impressive stoneware bowl was made at the Sawankhalok kilns around the 14th - 15th century. It is heavily-potted and has a flared and upturned rim. The central inner surface is attractively decorated with an incised "sun" pattern surrounded by parallel bands. Surrounding this are five incised roundels each containing lotus blossoms. The outer wall is carved with vertical grooves and horizontal bands below the rim. It is coated...

Fine Large Chinese Song / Yuan Dynasty Glazed Buddhist Jar with Sanskrit Inscription

This large and impressive pottery jar was made around the 13th / 14th century, during the Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1279) or the Yuan Dynasty (AD 1279 - 1368). Until recent years, this type of jar was almost unknown in the west with some people initially attributing them to the Liao Dynasty (same general period but in the north of China). These jars are now known to have originated from Yunnan province in the s...

Chinese Ming Dynasty Glazed Pottery Altar Table with Food Offerings

An impressive pottery model of a laden table made during the 16th century (c. 1550 - 1600), from a hard creamy-white pottery. On the table are twelve dishes containing various foods, some stacked, including a duck, fish and a boar's head. The table top cold-painted in a black pigment, the rest of the table and the items coated in green, yellow and golden-brown glazes that have, in places, acquired a silvery iridescence, a re...

Set of Twelve Chinese Song / Yuan Dynasty Buddhist Pottery Zodiac Animals

This set of pottery models comprising the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac was made during either the Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1279) or the Yuan Dynasty (AD 1279 - 1368). This type of pottery zodiac animal is quite distinctive and comes from a Buddhist site in Yunnan province. The details have been individually sculpted as opposed to having been formed by a mould. The twelve animals comprise the rat, ox, tiger, rabbi...

Very Rare Chinese Han Dynasty Painted Pottery Ding with Human-shaped Feet

This unusual pottery tripod vessel, or "ding", was made during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 8). It is made from a grey pottery, relatively highly-fired, both body and cover having a distinct ring when tapped. There are traces on the surface still remaining of its original "cold painted" pattern. The body has, on opposing sides, two square-cut handles. The raised circular band around the top of the cover allows ...

Fine Large Chinese Han Dynasty Glazed Granary

This large and impressive pottery vessel was made some 2,000 years ago during the latter part of the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 8), the short-lived Xin Dynasty (AD 9 - 25) or the early Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 25 - 220). It is very similar to other large amber-glazed granaries excavated from a tomb in Xi'an dated to the Xin Dynasty (AD 9 - 25).

It is made from a red pottery and coated in an amber glaze that in places has a silvery sheen...

Thai 13th - 15th Century Incised Celadon Bowl (Ex. Grahame Clarke Collection)

This heavily-potted stoneware bowl was made at the Sawankhalok kilns during the 13th - 15th Century. The inner surface is decorated with incised geometric patterns with a flower head at its centre. It is coated in a finely-crackled celadon glaze that, on the outer surface, stops short of the foot. In the centre of the recessed base can be seen the mark form the pontil on which this bowl stood in the kiln during fir...

Chinese Tang Dynasty Painted Pottery Horse (AD 618 - 906)

This very attractive pottery model of a horse was made during the Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 906). It is made from a buff-coloured pottery that has been "cold painted" in a reddish-brown pigment with black, white and red pigments to highlight the head, mane and tail. This horse is well-modelled and stands straight, alert, looking ahead.

Height 20.5 cm (8 inches). A very nice example in good condition with any possible repairs having b...

Mother of pearl inlay forms a continental scene of sages wandering among pavilions before steep mountains on this writing box by Tei-shitsu Gigei-in (Imperial Artist) Suwa Sozan I complete with artist made celadon ink grinding stone, water dropper, brushes and a paper knife enclosed in the original signed wooden box. Inside the lid mandarin ducks swap glances under a blossoming plum tree, while cranes soar among clouds below. It is signed in red lacquer beneath. The piece is 23.5 x 27 x 5 cm (...

A han-forged iron 5 point candlestand dating from Edo period Japan set onto an iron base. It is 39 x 10.5 x 39.5 cm (15 x 4 x 15-1/2 inches) and is in excellent condition.

A large seed-shaped object by legendary female artist Koike Shoko. It is 27.5 x 17.5 x 17 cm (11 x 7 x 6-3/4 inches) and is in excellent condition, enclosed in a contemporary kiri-wood box.
Born in 1943, Koike Shoko graduated Japan’s top art school (the Tokyo University of Art) in 1969. Eschewing the world of public Exhibition, Shoko has concentrated on private venues and museums. Her list of exhibitions both within Japan and out is extensive, with works in any number of important pu...

A set of demitasse sized coffee cups with saucers in vibrant colors by Matsuda Yuriko. The cups are roughly 9 x 6.5 x 6.5 cm, the saucers 11.5 cm (4-1/2 inches) diameter and all are in perfect condition.
Matsuda Yuriko was born in Ashiya, Hyōgō Prefecture in 1943nd lives and works in Oshino, Yamanashi Prefecture. Yuriko is an avid exhibitor; it is a wonder she has time to do any work at all. Both within Japan (Nihon Togei Ten, Gendai Togei Ten etc.) and without she has an impressive li...

OLD JAPANESE ILLUSTRATED MEDICAL MANUSCRIPT

Meiji period (1868-1912) hand-drawn anatomy book. 15 x 20 cm (5.90 x 7.87in), Human body diagram: 17 x 65 cm (6.69 x 25.59in). Total 27 illustrations (at 27 papers on total 30). Aged deterioration as is as seen.


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FENG SHUI LAYOUT OF HOUSE

Hand-drawn physiognomic floor plan of a certain traditional Japanese house based on 'Feng shui' (ref. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feng_shui), Showa period, 20th century, 154 x 80 cm (60.62 x 31.49in). Aged deterioration as is as seen.


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If you are familiar with the work of Hiramatsu Ryoma you know that he creates very unconventional ceramics inspired by forms found in nature. Here we have a set of sake cups inspired by “Ou-tekko” (pyrite) and “Ammonite” (same in English - a kind of sea fossil). Part of a series he has been developing for several years now, the ancient Ammonite fossil has been the inspiration behind his latest creations. Pyrite, meanwhile refers to the metallic patterning on the outer surface...