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Place of Origin: Chinese
Art Deco Gray Stone Chinese Stamp with Hand Carved Guardian Lion Motif
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful Art Deco stamp was realized in China, circa 1925. It features a volumetric rectangular body crowned with a hand carved guardian lion (a Chinese leitmotif) and accompan...
Category
1920s Art Deco Vintage Chinese Paperweights
Materials
Jade
Glass Aquarium Paperweight with Fishes
Located in Oirlo, LI
Glass Aquarium Paperweight with Fishes
Additional information:
Dimensions: 7 W x 7 D x 7 H cm
Period of Time: 1960
Condition: Good
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Chinese Paperweights
Materials
Glass
$63 Sale Price
20% Off
Chinese Speckled Green Brush Rest, c. 1800
Located in Chicago, IL
Set alongside the four treasures of the study - the calligraphy brush, ink, paper, and inkstone - a brush rest was an essential fixture of the Chinese scholars' desk. This early 19th...
Category
Early 19th Century Qing Antique Chinese Paperweights
Materials
Porcelain
Blue & White Ming Scale Weight Drum, c. 1600
Located in Chicago, IL
This small porcelain object is a scale weight from the late Ming-dynasty (1368-1644), a dense counterweight for a tabletop balances used by merchants to ...
Category
Early 17th Century Ming Antique Chinese Paperweights
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Buddhist 'Nine Peaches' Stone Carving, Unsigned, China, 20th Century
Located in Chatham, ON
Vintage Buddhist 'nine peaches' hard stone carving - symbolizing immortality and long life - peaches are one of the three 'blessed fruits' in Buddhism...
Category
20th Century Chinese Paperweights
Materials
Stone
Chinese Green Glazed Brush Rest, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Set alongside the four treasures of the study - the calligraphy brush, ink, paper, and inkstone - a brush rest was an essential fixture of the Chinese scholars' desk. This 19th-centu...
Category
Mid-19th Century Qing Antique Chinese Paperweights
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Serpentine Paperweight, Chinese, Soapstone, Marble, Desktop, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique serpentine paperweight. A Chinese, stone and marble dragon fish figure, dating to the early Victorian period, circa 1850.
Distinctive...
Category
Late 19th Century Early Victorian Antique Chinese Paperweights
Materials
Stone, Marble
Decorative Paperweights '8' in Black / White / Red Terrazzo
By Bentu Design
Located in Paris, IDF
'8' paperweights in terrazzo (Black / white / red). Brass detail.
Set of three pieces.
Measures: 8.3 x 6 x 6 cm
Bentu design furniture and lightings derive its uniqueness fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Industrial Chinese Paperweights
Materials
Brass
Chinese Yellow Glazed Brush Rest, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Set alongside the four treasures of the study - the calligraphy brush, ink, paper, and inkstone - a brush rest was an essential fixture of the Chinese scholars' desk. This 19th-centu...
Category
Mid-19th Century Qing Antique Chinese Paperweights
Materials
Porcelain
Contemporary Large Aquarium Murano Cenedese Style Egg-Shaped Glass Paperweight
By Barbini, Cenedese
Located in London, England
An impressive large egg-shaped aquarium Chinese paperweight made in the Murano style. This beautiful and unique paperweight made in the "sommerso" technique style depicts an aquarium...
Category
2010s Mid-Century Modern Chinese Paperweights
Materials
Glass
Reclining Ho Ho Boy Charm Weight, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
This 19th century weight originally used its heft domestically to protect a child. A simple yet ingenious concept, the stone anchored the baby’s swaddling cloth to the bed so the chi...
Category
Mid-19th Century Qing Antique Chinese Paperweights
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese Robin's Egg Peach Water Dropper, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This porcelain peach is a traditional Chinese water dropper, a calligraphy accessory that would have been found upon a scholar's painting table a...
Category
Early 20th Century Qing Chinese Paperweights
Materials
Porcelain
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Located in Richmond, CA
An antique Chinese porcelain charger, hand decorated in underglaze blue and white, exemplifying the revered Ming style. The focal point, a central medallion within a double circle bo...
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Murano Glass Paperweight
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage Italian Murano glass paperweight hand blown with intricate white, light blue, and dark blue ribbons / Made in Italy, circa 1960s
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Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage Italian Murano glass paperweight hand blown with white "filigrana" - white filaments intricately superimposed and intertwined within the glass / Made in Italy, circa 1960s
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Beautiful Fish Murano Italian Art Glass Aquarium Paperweight
By Murano Glass Sommerso
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Beautiful Murano hand blown aquarium design Italian art glass paper weight. Showing two fish inside, in orange colors. Colors are orange, blue, ...
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1980s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Chinese Paperweights
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20th Century Chinese Polished Carved Stone Sex Toys
Located in North Miami, FL
A pair of 20th century Chinese polished carved stone sex toys.
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20th Century Chinese Paperweights
Materials
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Antique Chinese Green-on-Green Overlay Glass Snuff Bottle
Located in Point Richmond, CA
A Green-on-Green Overlay Glass Snuff Bottle, Qing Dynasty. A clear bubbly glass bottle of flattened teardrop form with a cylindrical neck, and a neatly carved oval foot rim. The tr...
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Late 18th Century Qing Antique Chinese Paperweights
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Glass
Pair of Chinese Bronze Deity Figures, 20th Century
Located in Belmont, MA
Pair of Chinese bronze figures of deities standing on dragons. The two sculptures were made in the 20th century. They represent the Tao gods Lu Xing and Fu Xin...
Category
1980s Chinese Export Vintage Chinese Paperweights
Materials
Bronze
$1,330 Sale Price / set
30% Off
H 21 in W 8.5 in D 12.5 in
Chinese Ming Small Vase porcelain blue and white Wanli /Transitional, Ca 1625-40
By The Hatcher Collection
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a hand painted 17th century, late Ming dynasty, porcelain Jar or small Vase hand painted in a blue and white figural scene, which we attribute to the Wanli / transitional period, circa 1625 - 1640.
This piece may be from the Hatcher shipwreck cargo but we have no certificate or paperwork to support this. Please note, since the Hatcher collection was auctioned by Christies in 1984/1985 ( 40 years ago) many pieces have now lost their original auction paperwork and certification.
The Jar/ Vase is fairly thickly potted with a very white glaze to the porcelain.
It is decorated with a man and a boy stood against a tree with rocks, mountains and flying bats in the background all hand painted in various shades of a clear under-glaze cobalt blue. The irregular shaped head, bald high forehead, and straight pencilled beard with moustache support this date and period.
Overall a good Chinese Ming period porcelain small vase.
Notes: The Hatcher Cargo...
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17th Century Ming Antique Chinese Paperweights
Materials
Porcelain
$673
H 4.38 in Dm 1.75 in
New Brush Stand Solid Wenge Wood Small Holds 12
Located in Somis, CA
Our calligraphy brush stands are made of solid wenge wood, a prized, sustainable, exotic wood with beautiful grains. Top of the stands are deco...
Category
2010s Chinese Paperweights
Materials
Wood, Wenge
$49 Sale Price / item
34% Off
H 14 in W 14 in D 4.25 in
A Chinese Longquan Celadon Lotus Bowl, Ming Dynasty
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Chinese Longquan Celadon Lotus Bowl, Ming Dynasty
Diameter: 16.7 cm Height: 5.5 cm
Provenance: The Collection of Dr. John Yu AC
Dr. Yu was the Foundi...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Ming Antique Chinese Paperweights
Materials
Ceramic
Large Chinese Export Carved Soapstone Foo Dog Scholars Seal
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Large Chinese export carved soapstone foo dog scholars seal, nicely carved, in two color soapstone, with large seal at base.
The inscription reads:
...
Category
20th Century Chinese Export Chinese Paperweights
Materials
Soapstone
$380 Sale Price
20% Off
H 4.5 in W 1.5 in D 1.5 in
XL Calligraphy Brush Jade Archer's Rings 17" Engraved
Located in Somis, CA
The extra large, extraordinary 17" Chinese calligraphy brush captivates with its fusion of history, symbolism, and artistic finesse. Comprising a collection of seven jade Archer's ri...
Category
2010s Qing Chinese Paperweights
Materials
Jade
Previously Available Items
Blue & White Ming Scale Weight Drum, c. 1600
Located in Chicago, IL
This small porcelain object is a scale weight from the late Ming-dynasty (1368-1644), a dense counterweight for a tabletop balances used by merchants to ...
Category
Early 17th Century Ming Antique Chinese Paperweights
Materials
Earthenware
1970's Yin Yang Scorpio Lucite Paperweight
Located in San Diego, CA
1970's lucite encased scorpio with Yin Yang , nice condition very rare and unique item.
Category
20th Century Chinese Export Chinese Paperweights
Materials
Lucite
Chinese Rock Crystal Seal, C. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This small rock crystal carving is a personalized seal once used by a Qing-dynasty scholar-official to sign important documents. Also known as a chop, such stamps were widely used by anyone who regularly signed formal documents, such as scholar-officials, merchants, and doctors. The final addition to any document or calligraphy painting, seal marks conveyed the scholar's authority and affirmed the document's authenticity.
Seals were one of the many treasured accessories of the scholars' studio and many were carved from fine materials such as jade or jasper. This crystal seal...
Category
Early 20th Century Qing Chinese Paperweights
Materials
Rock Crystal
Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Seal
Located in Chicago, IL
This small porcelain column recreates the personalized seals used to sign important documents throughout the Ming and Qing dynasties. Also known as a chop, such stamps were widely us...
Category
20th Century Chinese Export Chinese Paperweights
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Seal
Located in Chicago, IL
This small porcelain block recreates the personalized seals used to sign important documents throughout the Ming and Qing dynasties. Also known as a chop, such stamps were widely use...
Category
20th Century Chinese Export Chinese Paperweights
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Qing Period Gold Plated Bronze Cloisonné Dragon & Phoenix Paperweight
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Chinese Qing Period gold plated bronze Cloisonné dragon & phoenix paperweight
Qing Period, 19th century or older
Exceptional cloisonné work depicting the dragon and phoenix, repre...
Category
19th Century Chinese Export Antique Chinese Paperweights
Materials
Bronze
H 4.5 in W 3 in D 0.5 in
Chinese Blue and White Water Coupe, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Alongside the Four Treasures of a Chinese scholar - paper, brush, ink, and inkstone - this delicate porcelain water coupe likely once resided on the desk of a great calligrapher. Created in the mid-19th century, this petite coupe would have sat beside an inkstone, and held the water used to mix the scholars' ink. An excellent example of Chinese blue-and-white porcelain, the dish is expressively painted with plum blossoms and eternal knot...
Category
Mid-19th Century Qing Antique Chinese Paperweights
Materials
Porcelain
Cast Brass Swordfish Letter Opener
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming mid-20th century cast brass swordfish letter opener. Doubles as a paperweight too!
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Paperweights
Materials
Brass
Chinese Stone Shoemaker's Weight with Foo Dog
Located in Kastrup, DK
18th-19th century Chinese carved stone sculpture depicting a Foo Dog.
Carved from a solid piece of stone, this weight was originally used by a Shoemaker. After layers of fabrics are...
Category
18th Century Qing Antique Chinese Paperweights
Materials
Stone
Chinese Stone Shoemaker's Weight with Happy Buddha
Located in Kastrup, DK
18th-19th century Chinese carved stone sculpture depicting a Happy Buddha.
Carved from a solid piece of black stone, this weight was originally used by a Shoemaker. After layers of ...
Category
18th Century Qing Antique Chinese Paperweights
Materials
Stone
Vintage Pair of Carved Soapstone Floral Garden Urn Bookends, circa 1930s
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
8-166, a vintage pair of Chinese bookends offering deeply carved soapstone with jardinière with draping foliage, circa 1930s.
Category
1930s Vintage Chinese Paperweights
Materials
Soapstone
Set of Four Bronze Puppy Dog Paperweights
Located in Somis, CA
These little guys have such adorable, sweet presence. Great depiction of details and lively expression. Heavy and sturdy, they make wonderful paperweights.
Category
20th Century Chinese Paperweights
Materials
Bronze
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