Chinese Bronze Archaistic Lidded Vessel with Silver Inlay and Bird Handles

A Chinese bronze lidded ritual vessel modeled after a Late Warring States, 3rd-2nd century BC original. With four whimsical bird form handles as well as a mushroom shaped ornament on...

Chinese archaic style gilt bronze pouring vessel with dragon headed handle and geometric decoration. With wonderful gilt and verdigris patina. The boat...

A wonderful Chinese Archaistic lidded wine vessel in the rare form of a ram, the surface decorated with dragons, birds and fish as well as stunning geometric designs, the top with a kui dragon for a handle. In late Shang dynasty style, 13th-11th century BC. Animal-form vessels are the rarest form of Chinese archaic bronze...

A finely cast Chinese Shang style bronze ritual vessel known as a fangding. With faces on all four sides, this is a wonderful decorative piece which coul...

19th century Meiji Period diminutive bronze vase with lovely etched and applied decoration. A raised gilt bird is shown flying above etched bamboo on one side, gilt applied lilies wi...

Impressive and very cool large scale flute form brass vases with intricate etched designs covering the surface and peacock decoration. Colored in red and green in a manner similar to...

Chinese bronze vase with decoration in the Archaistic style and dragon mythical beast loop handles.

A fine antique Japanese Meiji twin handled bronze vase decorated with floral designs in silver, brass and copper inlay dating from the 19th century...

Japanese bronze vessel with pair of dragon handles, falcon lid, birds in landscape and elephant heads base.

This Chinese cast bronze urn was made to pay honor to the fine vessels produced in the Shang, Zhou and Han periods. This work cast in the late 18th into the early 19th century (circa...

An exquisite pair of Japanese mixed metal bronze hibachi with idyllic landscape scenes, Meiji period (1868-1912), late 19th or early 20th century, Japan. The hibachi of generous proportions, with a high, slightly splayed foot, a short, narrow waist, and a large and wide cylindrical body. The body decorated in the mixed metal technique. The bronze carved and set with inlays of copper and silver to create wonderful landscape scenes. A pair of animal mask handles to the sides. Each hibachi with a cast signature reading ?? (Toyomi?) to the underside. One side of each hibachi depicting an evening scene, with scholars walking about a mountain retreat, replete with a waterfall, pavilions, pagodas, and pine trees, all shimmering under a full moon. The other side of the hibachi depicting a daytime scene, with a view of similar pavilions, pagoda, and pine, though with boats also visible in the distance. Copper inlay has been used for the roofs and the trunks of the pine trees. Silver inlay has been used for the pine needles, scholars, building supports, water, boats, moon, as well as the distant mountains. Originally used as a simple and elegant space heater...

A well cast and powerful Chinese dragon bronze altar vase with arrow handles, Qing Dynasty, 18th century or earlier, China. The altar vase of bottle form, set on a high, splayed r...