Antique Large and Rare Chinese 19th Century Nanking Craquele SE Asia Bencharong

Nice, rare and beautiful colors in enamel in the shape of a flower. These wares and their specific characteristics of wild colour and thick enamel have all the characteristics that we can also find in Straits and Bencharong wares. We quite often find whole collections of these thick ennameled & bright coloured 18th c plates stuck together in Dutch Indonesian...

A very nicely decorated jar. 18th century Chinese made for the SE Asian / Thai Market. Very rare! Condition Overall condition very good only some enamel loss. 190 x 183 mm Pe...

A very nicely decorated bowl. Extremely well painted and rare Condition Overall condition very good 1 hairline. 145 x 74mm Period 18th century Qing (1661-1912).

A very nicely decorated bowl. Extremely well painted and rare with elephants/tigers and figures. Condition: Overall condition 2 restored chips to rim, some kind of paste and pa...

Nice, rare and beautiful dishes. Flower and rocks as central scene. Condition Dish 1 with 6 hairlines and 2 frits. Dish 2 with 3 hairlines and chips/fritting. Size 200 x 29mm app...

Top Quality Guangxu or early republic lidded bowls. Marked with a leaf. A very unusual decoration of dragons and Lychee fruit. Lychee The Lychee or Lichee is best known for its...

Pair of antique temple urns Chinese rare coloring, 19th century.

Rare Chinese porcelain letter holder. Age: China, Qing Dynasty, 19th Century Size: Height 21.2 C.M. / Width 20.7 C.M. Condition: Nice glaz...

POT WITH LID Chinese 19th century, in cloisonné metal, decoration in shades of blue and polychrome with dragons and dragon-shaped handles in relief bronze. Wooden base. He...

Antique Chinese pillows were made from a wide range of materials including bamboo, jade, porcelain, and wood. Traditionally solid, they were sometimes used with a softer fabric over them. We are pleased to offer this pillow which is decorated with brown glazes which were allowed to run over a beige colored stoneware. On both sides the impressed design is a honeybee and honey combs symbolizing a wish for sweet dreams. Along the top and bottom of the pillow are traditional Chinese cloud collar...

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...

LARGE PLATE 19th Century Porcelain from China, painted in blue on cobalt blue, with a large protruding, stylized dragon in the center. Small chip. Dia.: 50 cm good conditions