Japanese Brush Washer
Description: Beautiful Japanese brush washer with deep carving and gorgeous celadon glazed porcelain. Highly naturalistically rendered with 5 very imaginative wave styles. The piece is in flawless condition with a real jewel-like feel to it and dates to the mid 19th century.
Price: $1,500 US
Art Deco Lamp
Description: A gorgeous pair of art deco Blanc de Chine reticulated lanterns with applied decoration. These lanterns are electric and in very good shape with one cap slightly damaged. They are mounted on art deco style mounts and are truly magical to behold when lit up in the evening. They date to the 1930’s or 1940’s.
Price: $1,800 US (pair)
18th Century Guanyin Sculpture
Description: Lovely small Guanyin (DeHua) of very thick, hard porcelain with inside cracks and crystal clear glaze over cream/white glaze. The main source of fuel in the Dehua region is red and black pine which carpets the hillsides. The piece glows “shrimp” pink when held to strong light.
Price: $400 US
Republic period sculpture of Guanyin
Description: Beautiful tall figure of Guanyin with absolutely perfect and lovely base spray (see detail) of lotus buds, unfolding leafs, and fully open leaf. White porcelain with a crystal clear qingbai bluish glaze.
Price: $250 US
18 / 19th century Imperial Jiaqing vase
Description: Beautiful with totally perfect proportions and the correct imperial feel. The dragon is impeccably painted with the 5 claw dragon intended for the emperor, but in this case the imperial household. The palet is wucai underglaze blue with overglaze enamels and every cloud and each minutely crosshatched dragon scale is done over with gold gilding which has mostly worn away.It was probably intended for a lower ranking concubine and is structurally perfect but much of the gold and lighter enamels have worn off with use.
The white front glaze is pure and cold and the orange foot rim dates it to late Qianlong or definitely to the Jiaqing era (1796-1820). The bottom border is an absolutely perfect green waves and underglaze blue rock crashing waves at the ocean border. The dragons face is absolutely perfect without the single hair wispy at the end of the whisker and the body is long and serpent like so maybe it’s depicting a young female dragon. ( somebody suggestion to us ).
Iron red magic flames with gold still pretty nicely intact. Again, perfect comport fell and shape. It’s interesting to note the the cross-hatch and dot dragon scales that are done on this piece are superhumanly tiny with an overlapping gold dot on each one!! Cross hatch and dot scales didn’t make their appearance for the most part until circa 1870 and never on imperial porcelains.
Price: SOLD
Happy Mandarin Export Figure
Description:
Happy mandarin export figure in famille rose. This figurine is stamped CHINA on the bottom for export to the USA in 1891. The stamp ” Made in China” was enacted in 1914 with the TRUTH IN LABELING LAW.
Price: $1,50 US
