Chinese Chinoiserie Enamelware Eggs

Large-scale chinoiserie pagoda, seven-tier, white painted tôle Vintage large-scale white metal (tôle) pagoda. Rare and stunning scale and detailing, including little bells on each tier. Each level graduates from 10" at the bottom level to 6" at the top level. It is an impressive piece, whimsical and charming, and very very chic. Can be easily dismantled in tiers for shipping. Chinoiserie-inspired decoration has entranced generations of discerning collectors from 18th-Century France to Hollywood Regency. The architectural and columnar shape of this piece frames a space. Probable prior provenance: John Rosselli Antiques.

Despite common belief that water pipes such as these were used to smoke opium, water pipes such as these were more commonly used for smoking Tobacco. The h...

A bronze Chinese Gu vase.

A Chinese antique handbell made of copper alloy. I think it is from the late Qing dynasty to the end of the Qing dynasty. Although it is a casting, ...

A Chinese paktong basin, engraved with scenes of many children at play and before pagodas, within borders of shou characters, bats and flowerheads, the flattened rim with vases of flowers and lingzhi, swords, lotus pods...

A fine set of ten polished brass ceremonial spears each with different and unusually elaborate symbolic spear heads representing good fortune, power and strength, long life, accomplishment. One of the few conventional spears is a rare Chinese spear with the double crescent moons either side of a elongated spear head. A Guan Dao...