Stoneware Tomb Altar Model Ming Dynasty

A Chinese stoneware day bed model circa Ming dynasty (15th-17th century). The miniature models were traditionally made as burial offering objects. Pottery models of daily life necess...

A Chinese stoneware day bed model circa Ming dynasty (15th-17th century). The miniature models were traditionally made as burial offering objects. Pottery models of daily life necess...

A group of five figurines made of terracotta and glazed in green and splash of yellow. These figurines of musicians were made as burial objects to be placed in the tomb, often as a l...

A pair of Chinese stoneware horseshoe cross chairs circa Ming dynasty (15th-17th century). The miniature models were traditionally made as burial offeri...

A stoneware shrine model with a figurine made in Ming dynasty (15th-17th century) in China and used as funeral burial objects. It is not known whether the two objects were originally associated, but they display similar glaze and oxidation and were in the same collection. The stoneware building is an architectural rendering of a typical ancestor shrine used at the time. It features a single room behind an elaborate front with double doors, under a multiple layered eaves. There are great architectural and decorative details throughout. The green glaze shows a wonderful silvery oxidation, an indication that the piece was buried in the ground. The side appears to be glazed lightly originally and some scrape marks and oxidized glaze residues remains. The back is unglazed. The figure is a typical tomb figurine...

A Chinese molded stoneware figure on a custom display stand likely from Han Dynasty (202BC-220AD). These pottery figures were used as part of tomb accouterment for the burial practic...

A small and charming Chinese cizhou ware glazed pottery figure of a Taoist deity or official, Song to Ming Dynasty, 13th - 15th century, China, ex. Christi...

Antique Chinese green glazed ceramic votive chair. Ming Dynasty 1368 A.D.–1644 A.D. Originally purchsed from Gracie Gallery, New York City; original label on base. Provenance: A P...

Ming dynasty Chinese longquan celadon large carved sphere porcelaneous stoneware. This is unquestionably a very important and extremely rare example ...

This rare sencai glazed man on a horse is a stunning example of funerary pottery figures used as spirit objects or Mingqi in Chinese burial tombs for millennia. This Tang style horse, rider, and dog appear to be a hunting trio--possibly representing the provision of ample game and sustenance for the deceased in the afterlife. The facial expressions of the hunter and dog...

Chinese Ming Dynasty 1368 - 1644 Martaban Jar . Dates to the early Ming period . High neck and wide shoulders , brown slip glaze , unglazed base , loop-handles. rolled lipped rim ty...

Ming dynasty celadon glazed charger having fluted interior with plain well center.