- RARE BRONZE INCENSE BURNER IN THE FORM
OF A DUCK STANDING ON TOAD
MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY ? ????????cast standing with one leg on a three-legged toad, head turned to the right and beak ajar, the wings with plumage...
[more like this] - CHINESE SMALL BRONZE VOTIVE STELE IN
BOX Unusual Chinese bronze votive stele of small proportions, Sui Dynasty, 6th century, in fitted silk box with attached paper labels, dated to Kai Huang period (581-601 CE)...
[more like this] - 19TH CENTURY CHINESE SWORD W/ SCABBARD19th
century Chinese Qing two-hand sword with an unusually long blade and decorated with rare openwork grooves. With fitted scabbard.
Blade length: 29 1/2 in. Overall length: 38...
[more like this] - PUBLISHED ROMAN STONE MOSAIC HEAD OF
OCEANUSRoman, Imperial Period, ca. 2nd to 3rd century CE. A very fine Roman stone mosaic comprised of thousands of stone tesserae, depicting the head of Oceanus - the personification...
[more like this] - GREEK GEOMETRIC BRONZE IMPLEMENT, ROOSTER
& BRACELETAncient Greece, Geometric period, ca. 8th century BCE. A fine gathering of bronze items from ancient Greece, cast into a bracelet, bird finial, and an unusual pendant-like...
[more like this] - 12TH C. KHMER ANGKOR POTTERY LIDDED
STUPA INCENSE JAR**First Time At Auction**
Southeast Asia, Cambodia or Northern Thailand, Khmer Empire (Angkor culture), ca. 12th to 14th century CE. This is a beautiful...
[more like this] - EUROPEAN BRONZE AGE BRONZE STANDARD,
EX ROYAL ATHENAAncient Central to Eastern Europe, Bronze Age, ca. 10th to 11th century BCE. A magnificent bronze pendant cast into 4 pieces and assembled as a massive ornament...
[more like this] - PUBLISHED & EXHIBITED ROMAN BRONZE OIL
LAMP WITH LIONRoman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st century CE. A stupendous leaded bronze oil lamp, cast via the lost wax (cire perdue) process, with an elegant, elongated body,...
[more like this] - TRANSLATED SOUTH ARABIAN LIMESTONE STELE
ABYD**Originally Listed At $6000**
Ancient Middle East, South Arabia, Qatabanian culture, ca. 3rd century BCE to 1st century CE. A striking limestone stele finely carved...
[more like this] - CHINESE EXPORT AMERICAN MARKET NEW MEXICO
CHARGER Xianfeng Era, mid 19th century
having State of New Mexico themed decoration.
Thickly potted, and painted in underglaze blue possibly in imitation of a late seventeenth...
[more like this] - A CHINESE PORCELAIN TRANSITIONAL PERIOD
BLUE AND WHITE BOWL 17th century, transitional period blue and white porcelain bowl with continuous design of Daoist immortals in landscape and unusual swirling clouds in...
[more like this] - AN UNUSUAL CHINESE HEXAGONAL APOTHECARY
CABINET Circa 1910, two part, stand and cabinet, includes 126 drawers, center drawers have three divisions and corner drawers have two, each drawer is labeled in handwritten...
[more like this] - Chinese Ming Archaic Large Bronze Censer
4.5''x15.5''. Unusual large low pan tripod censer with figural archaic head feet. Double bronze ring handles (one replaced). Archaic calligraphy inscription in center. Some...
[more like this] - Rare Chinese, 16th Century Ming Dynasty,
blue and white porcelain sweetmeat box with cover; of circular form; the interior divided into seven compartments, the exterior with design of dragons amid lotus blossoms...
[more like this] - RARE CANTON FAMILLE ROSE US GRANT TYPE
FISH PLATE Tongzhi Era, 1861-75 lively scene decorated in vivid enamels with large central fish with smaller fish and sea life in center and border. 10 in. Diameter. "One...
[more like this] - Chinese nanmu black lacquered triangular
table 17th century Of unusual 'turtle back' parquetry framed top, over a thin waist, bulging wide curvilinear apron carved in high relief to show a beaded edge interrupted...
[more like this] - Chinese blue and white 'lotus' form
footed dish wanli mark, late 19th century Of petal form, potted with barbed rim and fluted walls, raised on molded lotus petals and tall circular foot, decorated to...
[more like this] - Five matched Burmese white-glazed bottles
15/16th century Unusual columned form, four with vertically fluted bodies, all applied with molded triangular pierced handles to the steeply sloped shoulders, raised on flared...
[more like this] - Pair of unusually large Chinese Yumu
and lacquer Offical's Hat chairs 17th century The shaped back rail is supported by an S-shaped plain back rest, the slightly shaped arms supported by plain rounded arm posts,...
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