Song Dynasty Round Bottomed Bowl with Encrustations, 12th Century or Earlier

Korean Celadon  Jar with Four Handles. Goryeo dynasty, 12th century. A stoneware body of baluster form with bulbous high shoulder, four small strap ...

Khmer Pedestal Jar, 12th century. A sturdily potted earthenware globular form on a raised and waisted pedestal base decorated with bands at the shoulder and tightly packed applied pe...

Khmer Elephant Form Lime Pot, 12th century. A globular stoneware form with narrow aperture on top for the slaked lime. The pot modeled after an elephant...

A beautiful bowl, originally a musical frame drum called Terbang, which was used in ecstatic devotional music. The drum was hewn from a single piece of teak...

Early 20th century porcelain Maneki Neko, Japan This porcelain Maneki Neko, the good fortune beckoning cat, is a molded seated form with the right raised ...

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...

A charming Korean celadon glazed stoneware bowl with white and black sangam inlay, Goryeo Dynasty, 12th - 13th century, Korea. The celadon glazed stoneware bowl of generous propor...

Song jarlet with deep brown glaze, 12th century. This small piece is all about purity of form, enhanced by the rich color of its glaze, which has a subtle crackle. The glaze, which covers almost the entire piece except for the very edge of its foot, looks like melted chocolate poured over...

This very large and substantial bowl or basin is signed by and unknown artist and originates from China, dating to approximately 1920 and done in the period Chinese Export style. The...

A large Chinese Qing dynasty porcelain wucai (five color) glazed bowl painted in underglaze blue and overglaze red, green, and yellow upon a pure white ground, and featuring a design...

Extraordinary Tang Dynasty style bowl - wheel thrown - large size - artful slip splashed decoration to the interior and the outside walls - a rich amber glaze covers the entire body ...

The celadon bowl on offer here was likely dated to the 14th century toward the end of Goryeo Dynasty, after the production quality reached its zenith during 11-12th century. The bowl...