Antique Chinese Yue Chicken Head Spout Ewer

Antique Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Spoon. A deftly modeled fine porcelain spoon with unusual scalloped edge and crisp d...

Antique Chinese Guan-type Meiping, 19th century. A well-potted small porcelain vase with broad shoulder, narrow waist, short narrow neck and everted lip. The glazed base countersunk ...

Chinese Yaozhou Celadon Ceramic Bottle Vase, Northern Song, Shaanxi Province. A high fired bottle form with narrowed base, bulbous body, high shoulder,...

Antique Chinese Porcelain Bowl for the Thai Market, 18th century. Bencharong enamel decoration with Buddhist imagery on a black background. This classic porcelain bowl form having a raised narrow foot rim and slightly everted mouth rim is richly decorated in bright polychrome enamels much favored by the nobility in eighteenth century Siam. This colorful style became known as “bencharong”, a term that derives from two Sanskrit words – panch (‘five’) and rong (‘colour’) and which relates to the number of colours used to decorate such porcelain. This bowl is decorated with typically Thai motifs. The sides are decorated with four Thepanom (Buddhist celestial beings) each wearing a broad necklace of petals and seated on a lotus within triangular cartouches that have a coral-red ground. Four Norasingh (mythical forest-dwelling semi-deity with a human head, torso, and arms but with the hind-quarters of a lion and the tail and hoofs of a deer) against black back grounds filled with flaming pink kranok motifs. This design is framed by two floral bands top and bottom and another double band on the interior mouth rim. The interior glazed in a soft turquoise green and remnants of a floral pattern roundel on center. Sets of porcelain such as this example were commissioned from the Jingdezhen kilns in China and exported to Thailand. 6-7/8 in. in diameter x 3-5/8 high (17.5 x 9cm) 16.7 oz. (475g.) Ayutthaya Period, 18th century. Provenance: German Private Collection. For similar examples see: William Warren & Luca Invernizzi Tettoni, Arts and Crafts of Thailand, Chronicle Books, San Francisco 1994, p.33. Bonhams New York, Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Art, 17 Sep. 2014, lot 180 With the following notes: Bencharong porcelains...

Chicken-head ewers are among the most distinct and emblematic pottery pieces from the Han (206 BC - AD 220) to the Tang (618-907) dynasties. Their production commenced during the Jin...

Chicken-head ewers are among the most distinct and emblematic pottery pieces from the Han (206 BC ~ AD 220) to the Tang dynasties. Their production commenced during the Jin dynasty i...

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

This set of 12 antique Chinese porcelain dishes depicts a lively chicken theme that is sure to add character to any collection. Each p...