4 Vintage Chinese Shiwan Shinwa Porcelain Figurines Maiden Concubines Geisha

Two vintage Chinese Blanc De Chine white Dehua province foo dog lamps. Made of white porcelain featuring ornate guardian dogs with wide eyes and ornate tusks Measures: 24" x 8.5" ...

An impressive Antique 19th century Chinese polychrome floor vase with double handles, a scene of geisha figures seated in a garden, and calligraphy on the back. Measure: 17".  

"Late Meiji era Kutani vase, circa 1903. A beautiful porcelain blue ground centered by an intricate Geisha flanked by gold figural Foo Dog handles. Features a floral and foliat motif throughout. Signed along the base. Kutani ware, Japanese porcelain made in Kaga province (now in Ishikawa prefecture). The name “Old Kutani” refers to porcelain decorated with heavily applied overglaze enamels and produced in the Kaga mountain village of Kutani. The powerful Maeda family had established a kiln there by 1656. The clay bodies used were gray and coarse-grained. On most pieces—dishes and bowls were especially common—a white or blue-white matte glaze was decorated in dark, restrained colours, initially greens, yellows, and some reds, and later purples and dark blues. Some items had cobalt blue decoration under a white glaze. The most noted Old Kutani pieces are “Green Kutani,” in which most of the surface is covered in a green or blue-green glaze to which one or two colours have been added (or the glaze is applied evenly over a design executed in black). The bold designs of Kutani ware drew freely from Chinese ceramics, paintings, and textiles. They are renowned for their rich pictorial ornament executed in lively, intense lines. Owing to local financial problems and difficulties in obtaining the necessary pigments, the Kutani kiln was abandoned some time in the Genroku period (1688–1704). Ceramics production in Kaga enjoyed a renaissance early in the 19th century, however, including the establishment of another kiln at Kutani in the 1820s. In addition to a revival of the styles of Old Kutani ware, there arose a style using gold on a coral-red ground, which was perfected during another spate of activity that began in the 1860s. Technical advances were made and Western-style pigments were adopted, and by the 1890s modern Kutani...

Antique 19th century Staffordshire porcelain figurine featuring a small girl with a yellow bird on her shoulder, seated on an oversized red and white King Charles Spaniel, mounted on...

A pair of vintage Jo Uba Takasago sculptures in the manner of blanc de chine. Jo and Uba are an old an old couple who care for the pine trees and gather n...

Pair of antique 19th century Staffordshire porcelain figurines in the shape of King Charles Spaniels with chain leashes. Measure: 7".  

Amazing set of four Chinese Shiwan pottery figures depicting immortal gods or dieties. Beautifully glazed and made on a large scale with fascinating fac...

Description Lovely shiwan statues of ducks. Dating to the 1980/1990´s Condition 1 duck with some scratches. Size 260 x 220 x 130 mm and 190 x 105 x 90 mm Period 20th cent...

Antique Chinese hand made mud man figurine, finely crafted and hand painted, of a standing elderly scholar dressed in a blue robe, holding a large lobed gourd in the palm of one hand...

Decorated with green and yellow enamels. Standing on a blue rock work base.

Description Lovely Chinese set of Shiwan figurines. middel of 20th century. Condition Overall Condition They had a life, with some damage like missing pieces etc. In general...

This hand sculptured, circa 1900 Chinese Shiwan pottery lamp depicts two Chinese scholars within a country landscape. Sometime in the mid-20th century t...