Late Qing to Early Republic Period Altar Melon Covered Bowl

A Japanese, Meiji period, porcelain wine ewer. Fans set off the figural reserves. This is the finest & earliest of the "new Kutani". Marked Kutani & Happiness. 9 1/2" h., 6" over ha...

Circa 1860s Blue Canton covered vegetable dish, Chinese. Rectangular with original cover. Minor glaze flaws. From the clipper ship trading era. 9.25" x 8.25" x 4.5" h. Whitehall Ant...

Qing dynasty cloisonné bowl, circa 1900 late Chinese. Brass cloisons and enamel on brass. Chrysanthemums & spider chrysanthemum decoration; good...

Late 19th century Aesthetic movement Imari Charger, 15 7/8" dia. Rich, deep colors. Six alternating panels of a bamboo tree in garden with "seaweed" motif & geometric motifs surrounding the central floral medallion. Reverse blue and white decoration. Whitehall Antiques...

Early 19th century copper milk flagon from Burgundy (farm in Blanzy). Hand-raised. Original cover & chain. By descent through one family. M...

Pair of saucier stands, stoneware by Davenport, Imari pattern, late 19th century. Impressed registry & Davenport marks on one, both with retailer stamp in Manchester (Bandbach & Co, ...

This is a beautifully hand painted Chinese Export porcelain Plate or Bowl from the Qing, Kangxi period, 1662-1722, fully marked to the base with the Kang...

This is a beautifully hand painted Chinese Export porcelain Plate or Bowl from the Qing, Kangxi period, 1662-1722, fully marked to the base with the Kang...

This is a beautifully hand painted Chinese Export porcelain plate or bowl from the Qing, Kangxi period, 1662-1722, fully marked to the base with the Kangxi period Artemisia Leaf mark within a double blue ring. The plate is of dinner plate size, finely potted with a carefully cut base rim and a lovely rich glassy, white glaze with a light blue tinge. The plate is carefully hand painted in a free flowing style, characteristic of the period, in varying shades of a clear cobalt blue, iron red and gold. The central well is decorated in the Imari style with flowering peonies, asters and other flowers and grasses, with a small insect flying above the flowers, all within two sets of concentric blue circles. The outer rim is richly decorated with flower sprigs and leaves, all within an outer blue circle. The base of the plate has a recognized and documented hand painted Kangxi symbol of an Artemisia Leaf, within a double blue ring. See Page 168 of "How to Identify Old Chinese Porcelain" by Willoughby Hodgson and published by Forgotten Books. A Kangxi plate...

A very fine Chinese Qing Yixing red clay melon shape teapot and cover with integral strainer dating from the 19th century. The teapot is of rounded melon shape with vertical partitio...

A French Majolica covered tureen in the shape of a trompe l’oeil melon by Sarreguemines, circa 1900. Molded in the form of a large yellow melon with green vines and leaves. The li...

A Chinese export canton blue and white plate circa 1820 Typically painted with a riverscape showing arched bridge, willows and pagodas... ...