Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

A CHINESE REVERSE PAINTING ON GLASS OF Empress Dowager Cixi 1st Half of 20th Century. Fine painting on glass of Empress Cixi seating on a throne in or...

Vintage Chinese Porcelain Wall Art Plaque Framed and Signed. circa 20th century. Two birds looking down at a nest of fledglings in a tree. The tree ...

One of the most vivid small Thangkas I have ever owned. Purchased from a wealthy Mongolian collector along with 3 other fine small Thangkas in the 1990's from his very best personal pieces as a thank you for a long friendship. Painted thangka is 6.75 x 9 inches, frame is 13 x 15 1/8 inches. Custom mat and frame, with museum glass and silk matting. Exquisite. Not inexpensive for a small Thangka, but you won't find better. Probably early to mid 20th century (in reality many of the Mongolian Thangkas sold in the west as 19thC are early 20thC, as the environment there causes cloth and paper to usually soil, darken and degrade. The number of truly early Thangkas that are bright and clean are very few. Even most of the early/mid 20th Cones show great wear and soiling. This one almost sure lived all of its life in a large Gau box or in a drawer or trunk, as the colors look as bright as the day it was painted. It was very difficult 20 years ago to find pieces like this- today is nearly impossible. Many of my pieces like this end up...

Wonderful Modern signed oriental watercolor Woman and Child with a fish Every item of our Gallery, upon request, is accompanied by a certifica...

Antique Japanese Meiji period silk embroidered screen /room divider Byobu C.1900 Kyoto, Japan. Silk embroidered satin lacquer framed panels....

A large Pichhavai painting of Krishna with female Gopis dancing Krishna playing flute on a bed of lotus, the composition is enclosed in a lush gree...

This intricately detailed composition is a late-Qing dynasty ancestor portrait depicting several generations of a family's male ancestry. Or...

With exquisite detail and sparkling color, this portrait of a young woman is a remarkable example of reverse glass painting. Lending the finished work a subtle three-dimensional effe...

Lovely and large bamboo artifact behind glass. Marked. Condition Overall condition perfect. Size: 1100x 400mm approx. Period 20th century.

Painted lacquer on wood with bronze mounts. Signature reads: Isawu-O.

Japanese two-panel screen, study of an Okinawan mother and child, Taisho period early 20th century, dating from the 1920's. Signed by Matsumura Baiso, (1884-1935). Baiso was a studen...