Mid-16th Century Ming Period Porcelain Plate

A mid-20th century republic period canton enamel vase of good scale, decorated in polychrome glazes with scrolling foliage upon a turquoise ground,...

A pair of early 20th century Meiji period Shibayamama panels of oval form, set within aubergine decorated frames, housing black lacquer panels with carved eagles, smaller bird and fl...

A set of three Chinese Export style porcelain leaf dishes, decorated with red, blue, green and gold glazes upon a white ground, each depicting the Great Seal of the United States: A ...

A twentieth century Republic Period porcelain foo dog vase of good scale, decorated with bright red glazes upon a white ground, with character marks vers...

A mid-eighteenth century ebonised occasional tripod table, the circular top raised upon a turned stem and terminating in three cabriole legs. Circa 1760 England Dimensions: 23....

A pair of late 19th century orange glazed satsuma vases, each with handles and a bulbous body, decorated with courtly figures in landscapes. Now raised on turned giltwood bases as ta...

Material: wood, Measures: 70 cm high 40 cm wide. Weight: 12.3 kgs. Ava style. Bhumisparsha mudra. Originating from Burma. 16th Century - early Ava period. A very good piece,...

Lovely polychrome porcelain bowl from Canton. We find on this Canton porcelain the characteristic decoration painted on a white background representing large polylobed medallions or cartridges alternating palace scenes and nature decorations with motifs of birds, plants, flowers, and butterflies. Period: Mid-19th Century Dimensions: diameter 20cm Solid and fairly excavated funds use gold. The artist painter uses the circular shape of the object to represent the scenes continuously. Here we find the Chinese characters in a palace, surrounded by friezes of flowers. The colors remain vivid, especially with light greens and pinks. In the second half of the 19th century, when Japan established itself as a source of artistic inspiration, and the image of China and its inhabitants tarnished, several Chinese porcelain collections...

Material: bronze 32,3 cm high 18,5 cm wide and 10,5 cm deep Weight: 2.833 kgs Bhumisparsha mudra Originating from Thailand 16th century With confirmed TL-test, see pictures A special Buddha...

Material: bronze 60 cm high 34,5 cm wide and 22,3 cm deep Weight: 12.4 kgs Bhumisparsha mudra Originating from Laos 16th century With inlaid eyes of mother-of-pearl Long nec...

An exceptional Indo-Portuguese colonial mother-of-pearl veneered casket with silver mounts India, Gujarat, 2nd half of the 16th century, the silver mounts Goa or probably Lisbon Measures: H. 16 x W. 24.6 x D. 16.1 cm An exceptional Gujarati casket with a rectangular box and truncated pyramidal lid (with slopes on each side and a flat top) made from exotic wood, probably teak (Tectona grandis), covered with a mother-of-pearl mosaic. The tesserae, cut from the shell of the green turban sea snail (Turbo marmoratus, a marine gastropod) in the shape of fish scales, are pinned to the wooden structure with silver ball-headed nails. The casket is set on bracket feet on the corners. The masterfully engraved decoration of the silver mounts follows the most refined and erudite Mannerist repertoire of rinceaux and ferroneries dating from the mid-16th century. The high quality and refinement of the silver mounts and, likewise, the silver nails that replaced the original brass pins used to hold the mother-of-pearl tesserae in place indicate the work of a silversmith probably working in Lisbon in the second half of the 16th century. The Indian origin of this production, namely from Cambay (Khambhat) and Surat in the present state of Gujarat in north India, is, as for the last three decades, consensual and fully demonstrated, not only by documentary and literary evidence - such as descriptions, travelogues and contemporary archival documentation - but also by the survival in situ of 16th-century wooden structures covered in mother-of-pearl tesserae. A fine example is a canopy decorating the tomb (dargah) of the Sufi saint, Sheik Salim Chisti (1478-1572) in Fatehpur Sikri in Agra district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, north India. This is an artistic production, geometric in character and Islamic in nature, where usually the mother-of-pearl tesserae form complex designs of fish scales or, similar to the dishes also made using the same technique, with the thin brass sheets and pins, stylized lotus flowers. The truncated pyramidal shape corresponds, like their contemporary tortoiseshell counterparts also made in Gujarat, to a piece of furniture used in the Indian subcontinent within the Islamic world prior to the arrival of the first Portuguese. This shape, in fact, is very old and peculiar to East-Asian caskets, chests or boxes used to contain and protect Buddhist texts, the sutras. A similar chest is the famous and large reliquary chest from Lisbon cathedral that once contained the relics of the city's patron saint, Saint Vincent. Both match in shape, having the same kind of socle or pedestal and bracket feet, and in their engraved silver mountings, featuring the same type of refined, erudite decoration. Their differences lie in the silver borders that frame the entire length of the edges of the chest (both the box and the lid), pinned with silver nails, and on the lock plate, shaped like a coat of arms in the Lisbon example. Given the exceptional dimensions of the reliquary casket...

This porcelain wall plate is a decorative object manufactured in Japan at the end of the 19th century. This refined wall plate is completely ma...