- GILT-DECORATED BLUE AND WHITE 'MERIA
SYBILLA MERIAN' BOTANICAL PLATE
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1740 ??? ?1740? ????????·???·????????painted in rich blue and heightened in gilding, the centre with...
[more like this] - COLLECTION OF ART REFERENCE BOOKS
ON
ASIAN CERAMICS ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????including art reference books on asian art ceramics, in total 85 publications:Ashmolean...
[more like this] - CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN SAUCE BOAT,
A PLATE, AND A CHINA TRADE SIDE PLATEThe sauce boat decorated in blue and white in the Chinese taste, the plate decorated in the style of French faience pottery, the side...
[more like this] - 2 "DIANA CARGO" CHINESE PORCELAIN BOWLSTwo
"Diana Cargo" Early 19th Century Chinese Export Porcelain Bowls. Round blue and white bowls, of varying sizes but similarly decorated. Both with chop mark at the underside...
[more like this] - TWO CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE DISHESpossibly
late Qing dynasty, two wide, shallow, footed earthenware bowls: one with floral decoration, 3-1/8 x 12 in. diameter; one with floral decoration to exterior, lily pond border,...
[more like this] - CHINESE EXPORT ARMORIAL PORCELAIN SAUCER
AND PLATE, HAN...comprising: circa 1790, saucer centered with arms of Hannay of Kirkdale, shield left side with three black bucks' heads, impaling Meade, having a black ground...
[more like this] - THREE CHINESE EXPORT ARMORIAL PORCELAIN
TABLE OBJECTS, ...comprising: circa 1790, pot de creme, depicting arms of Teissier, boar on a green mount, on gilt ground under black crescent, above two white stars centered...
[more like this] - 20TH C. TLINGIT FELT & BUTTON BLANKET
W/ TOTEMIC BEARNative American, Pacific Northwest, United States or Canada, Haida or Tlingit peoples, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. A remarkable example of traditional...
[more like this] - GORGEOUS 9TH C. VIKING GLASS BEAD NECKLACENorthern
Europe, Viking / Norse culture, ca. 9th to 11th century CE. A lengthy strand necklace strung with dozens of glass beads dating to the Viking era or earlier Roman and Byzantine...
[more like this] - 19TH C. VENETIAN RED GLASS TRADE BEAD
NECKLACES (PR)Western Europe, Italy, Venice, ca. 19th century CE. A lovely pair of necklaces, each comprised of dozens of red glass trade beads known as "White Heart" or "Cornaline...
[more like this] - 19TH C. VENETIAN GLASS CHEVRON TRADE
BEAD NECKLACEWestern Europe, Italy, Venice, ca. 19th century CE. A dazzling ensemble of dozens of glass trade beads of the Chevron variety in hues of cobalt, scarlet, and...
[more like this] - 18TH C. AFRICAN VENETIAN GLASS / STONE
BEAD STRANDS (2)...Europe, Italy, Venice, found in western Africa, ca. 18th to early 19th century CE. A lovely pair of Venetian glass and stone trade bead strands, each strung...
[more like this] - 18TH C. GERMAN NECKLACES CARNELIAN &
GLASS TRADE BEADWestern Europe, Germany, ca. 18th to 19th century CE; West Africa, ca. 19th century CE. This is a fine pair of necklaces with African glass trade beads and...
[more like this] - 19TH C. AFRICAN ITALIAN GLASS TRADE
BEAD NECKLACES (4)Europe, Italy, possibly Venice; West Africa, possibly Nigeria or Mali, ca. 19th to 20th century CE. A dazzling ensemble of glass beads strung on 4 modern...
[more like this] - 5 CHINESE MING POTTERY JARLETS, BIN
THUAN SHIPWRECKEast Asia, China, late Ming Dynasty, ca. 17th century CE. A wonderful ensemble of 5 pottery jarlets, each presenting an apple-form body, a flat shoulder, and...
[more like this] - 6 CHINESE MING POTTERY VESSELS BINH
THUAN SHIPWRECKEast Asia, China, late Ming Dynasty, ca. 17th century CE. A remarkable ensemble of 6 Chinese pottery vessels: 4 jars and 2 bowls. Enveloped in a pale gray-green...
[more like this] - 5 CHINESE MING POTTERY BOWLS W/ MARINE
ENCRUSTATIONSEast Asia, China, late Ming Dynasty, ca. 17th century CE. A lovely collection of 5 pottery bowls, each presenting ring-form feet and impressively thin walls that...
[more like this] - CHINESE TANG TERRACOTTA GUARDIAN FIGURE
/ EARTH SPIRITFar East, China, Tang Dynasty, ca. 618 to 907 CE. A magnificent guardian figure called a zhenmushou (grave-quelling beast) or earth spirit presenting a characteristic...
[more like this] - CHINESE MING DYNASTY SWATOW WARE BOWL
(SHIPWRECK)East Asia, China, late Ming Dynasty, ca. 17th century CE. A lovely pottery bowl, known as Swatow ware and presenting impressively thin walls that flare out to a...
[more like this] - CHINESE MING DYNASTY SWATOW WARE BOWL
W/ PHOENIXEast Asia, China, late Ming Dynasty, ca. 17th century CE. A sizable and stunning pottery bowl, known as Swatow ware and presenting impressively thin walls that flare...
[more like this] - 4 CHINESE MING SWATOW WARE CUPS, BINH
THUAN SHIPWRECKEast Asia, China, late Ming Dynasty, ca. 17th century CE. This is a fabulous group of four petite Swatow porcelain cups all from a shipwreck near the Binh Thuan...
[more like this] - ANCESTRAL PUEBLOAN CHACO BLACK-ON-WHITE
POTTERY BOWL**First Time At Auction**
Native American, Southwestern United States, Arizona, Apache County, Four Corner region, Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi), ca. 1000 to 1100...
[more like this] - 6 COLIMA OBSIDIAN PECTORALS & MANY WHITE
SHELL BEADS**Originally Listed At $500**
Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A magnificent ensemble of over 100 hand-carved shell beads and 6 hand-knapped...
[more like this] - GREEK LYDIAN TERRACOTTA PANEL FRAGMENT
W/ PEGASUSAncient Eastern Greece / Western Asia, Anatolia, probably Lydia, ca. 6th to 5th century BCE. This is a wonderful fragmentary piece of a terracotta panel that depicts...
[more like this] - CHINESE TANG DYNASTY SEATED CAMEL WEARING
SADDLE, TL'DEast Asia, China, Tang Dynasty, ca. 618 to 906 CE. A handsome terracotta statue of a camel, shown seated with legs bent beneath him and head tilted skyward as...
[more like this] - FINE SOUTH ARABIAN ALABASTER MALE HEADAncient
Middle East, South Arabia, modern-day Yemen, Qatabanian culture, ca. 3rd century BCE to 3rd century CE. A hand-carved alabaster head boasting soft honey-yellow and white hues,...
[more like this] - CHINESE TANG DYNASTY CAMEL (TOMB FIGURE)**Originally
Listed At $3500**
East Asia, China, Tang Dynasty, ca. 618 to 907 CE. A charming, hollow, mold-made ceramic camel, standing proud with a long curved neck and a pair of pointed...
[more like this] - [A PRIVATE SCOTTISH COLLECTION, EDINBURGH]
COLLECTION OF ART REFERENCE BOOKS
ON CHINESE ART: MUSEUM COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITIONS ?????????????????????Including but not limited to:Art Chinois: Musée Cernuschi acquisitions...
[more like this] - CHINESE EXPORT EUROPEAN-CHINA TRADE
SUBJECT TUREEN Late Qianlong Era, circa 1790 China Trade subject depicting ships and warehouses in the Far East. Late Qianlong era, circa 1790. Of globular shape with a triangular...
[more like this] - RARE CHINESE EXPORT TRAY WITH CHINA
TRADE SCENE Late Qianlong Era, circa 1790
blue and white decorated quatrefoil stand depicting a folly fort in the Far East.
Decorated entirely in underglaze blue and a “true”...
[more like this] - RARE DOUBLE-SIDED TRADE SIGN FOR A CHINESE
LAUNDRY AMERICA, EARLY 20TH CENTURY HEIGHT 13.75". LENGTH 47.75". LAUNDRY America, Early 20th Century "Fred W. Wong, Laundry." in white lettering on a gray ground. Height...
[more like this] - ASIAN: PAIR OF CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE
PORCELAIN TILE PORTRAITS OF AN EMPEROR (QIANLONG) AND EMPRESS, 20TH C., BOTH IN MATCHING FAUX...ASIAN: Pair of Chinese blue and white porcelain tile portraits of an Emperor...
[more like this] - CHINESE SANCAI GLAZED TRIPOD DISH, TANG
DYNASTY A Chinese Sancai glazed tripod plate, dating from the Tang dynasty (618-906). The plate with rounded sloping sides supported on three legs and an everted rim, impressed...
[more like this] - CHINESE SANCAI GLAZED TRIPOD DISH, TANG
DYNASTY A Chinese Sancai glazed tripod plate, dating from the Tang dynasty (618-906). The plate with rounded sloping sides supported on three legs and an everted rim, impressed...
[more like this] - CHINESE KANGXI STYLE BLUE & WHITE CENSER,LATE
QING A Chinese blue and white censer, dating from the late Qing dynasty period. A frieze of figures decorate the rounded area of the body, set between two blue bands. The...
[more like this] - VERY RARE CHINESE EXPORT CHINA TRADE
PLATTER A rare and important large Chinese Export Topographical Subject Platter for the British Colonial Bengal State (Indian) Market. Qianlong Era, circa 1795 of oval shape,...
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