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Item Ships From: Palm Springs
Antique Chinese Honey Quartz Dragon Snuff Bottle
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Chinese Honey Quartz Dragon Snuff Bottle, a flat rectangular form with rounded shoulders and footed base of a golden coloured translucent material with horizontal striations ...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Quartz
Large Betel Nut Box, Maranao, Southern Philippines (Mindanao)
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Large Betel Nut Box, Maranao, Southern Philippines (Mindanao).
Bronze with bordered silver inlay design overall of a symmetrical floral tendril vine pattern referred to as “the okir ...
Category
19th Century Philippine Tribal Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Silver, Bronze
Antique Japanese Seto Abura-Zara (oil plate)
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Japanese Abura-zara (oil plate), Seto ceramic plate used to catch oil drippings from lanterns, simple flat, round dish with slightly raised edge, one half...
Category
1850s Japanese Edo Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Japanese Merchant’s chest (choba-dansu), Toyama
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Japanese Merchant’s chest (choba-dansu), Toyama, the front entirely constructed of keyaki (Zelkova serrata), original fuki-urushi lacquer fini...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Hardwood
Chinese Brass and Lacquered Wood Box
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Chinese Brass and Lacquered Wood Box, simple wood box with a brass edgings and front lock plate, wood section covered in a dark lacquer, hinged top lid, front with large rectangular ...
Category
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Brass
Antique Burmese Silver Offering Bowl
Located in Point Richmond, CA
A SILVER OFFERING BOWL WITH SCENES FROM THE VIDHURA-PANDITA JATAKA, LOWER BURMA (MYANMAR), DATED 1901.
A hammered repoussé Buddhist beggar’s bowl form with high relief design depicting scenes from the Vidhura-Pandita Jataka on the upper row of cartouches and beneath neat rows of semicircular lappets each depicting various auspicious human and animal forms with scrolling acanthus leaf backgrounds. The overall concept is similar to the layered effect of a Burmese court costume. The circular etched design on the base is of Punnaka astride his magical horse mid-stride holding the white umbrella and Vidhura pleading behind. All surrounded by an inscription, translated as, "Mr Saw Marn's silver bowl. Year 1263 [1901 CE]".
Excellent condition.
11 3/4 in. (30 cm) diameter x 5 7/8 in. (15 cm) high.
38 troy oz., 2lbs. 10 oz. (1175 grams).
Provenance:
The Noble Silver Collection.
Bonhams New York, 24 March 2022, The Noble Silver Collection Treasures from the Burmese Silver Age, lot 942.
Published:
David Owens, Burmese Silver Art: Masterpieces Illuminating Buddhist, Hindu and Mythological Stories of Purpose and Wisdom, 2020, p. 76, no. S81, fig. 3.57.
Bonham’s Footnotes:
In the Vidhura-Pandita Jataka, the bodhisattva that will later become Gautama Buddha perfects the virtue of truthfulness (sacca), at once a keen perception of the true reality of things and an unwavering commitment to imparting this truth. Reborn as a renowned advisor to a virtuous king, the bodhisattva uses undivided speech throughout the story—even when it puts him in harm's way—thereby preventing disputes among rulers, offering amnesty, and ultimately saving the antagonists who initially conspired to kill him.
Burmese Silver Ceremonial Offering Bowls were produced in great numbers, the finely decorated ceremonial offering bowl is the quintessential Burmese silver artwork...
Category
Early 1900s Burmese Other Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Silver
Antique Burmese Carved Wood Panel of a Court Scribe.
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Burmese Carved Wood Panel of a Court Scribe. The standing heavenly being holds a manuscript with a brush in the right hand writing scriptur...
Category
Late 19th Century Burmese Folk Art Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Thai ceramic covered box from the Sawankhalok kilns
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Thai ceramic covered box from the Sawankhalok kilns of globular fruit form with pinched foliate rim and sepal stem finial on top decorated in brown...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Thai Folk Art Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage Indonesian Kain Batik Tulis, Solo (Surakarta), Java, 1960.
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Vintage Indonesian Kain Batik Tulis, Solo (Surakarta), Java, 1960.
A traditional meticulously hand drawn wax resist painting by canting on cotton of a Udan Liris pattern of diagonal ...
Category
1960s Indonesian Folk Art Vintage Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Cotton
Vintage Sumba Slendang Shoulder Cloth/Scarf/Wall Hanging with Animal Design
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Vintage Sumba Slendang Shoulder Cloth/Scarf with Animal Design. Indigo and morinda root dyed cotton warp handwoven in a mirror image design depicting an ark of animal pairs including...
Category
1980s Indonesian Tribal Vintage Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Cotton
Antique Large Burmese Hsun-ok
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Large Burmese Hsun-ok, a ceremonial food offering box to present to a monastery, a covered cylindrical stupa box form decorated in Mandalay style with mirrored glass, raised ...
Category
19th Century Burmese Other Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Vietnamese Three-colour Ware Ceramic Lime Pot, Chu Dao Kiln
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Vietnamese Three-colour Ware Ceramic Lime Pot, Chu Dao Kiln, 17th century. Created for slaked lime, a component for the social practice of chewing “Betelnut”, globular form resembling an areca nut with round aperture at the shoulder and decorative overhead handle stylized in such a way that it could be interpreted as a dragon with tablets with four legs and feet adhering to the shoulder or a stem branch with tendrils terminating in raised short spikes and molded oblong shapes resembling bunches of areca nut, all covered in a crackled transparent glaze with copper green on the handle, sturdy foot rim decorated by a band of iron oxide brown where the body meets the foot, the base is unglazed. Lime residue, otherwise excellent condition. 6-1/4 in. high x 4 in. in diameter. (159 x 101mm)
2 lbs. (900g.)
17th century.
For similar example see:
Ha Thuc Can and Nguyen Bich, “Discovery of the Chu Dau...
Category
17th Century Vietnamese Tribal Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Large Japanese Imari Porcelain Charger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Hand painted porcelain Japanese Imari charger plate with birds, tree branches and floral motif.
Category
1890s Japanese Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Japanese bronze incense burner, in the form of a bird
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Japanese bronze incense burner, in the form of a bird perched on one foot on a tall rocky outcropping, the bird’s head l...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Annamese Blue and White Ceramic Dish
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Annamese Blue and White Ceramic Dish, Bird Design, Hoi An Hoard, Chu Dau kiln, Vietnam, circa 1500. The sturdily potted form has a raised rim decorated in unde...
Category
16th Century Vietnamese Other Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Large Antique Thai Bencharong Stem Plate
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Large Antique Thai Bencharong Stem Plate. A stoneware tazza having a domed pedestal base under a foliate rim dish. Traditionally enameled in a green an...
Category
19th Century Thai Qing Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Cambodian Silver Elephant Box
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Cambodian Silver Elephant Box. A traditional sturdy crouching elephant form with front legs tucked beneath him and the hind kneeling underneath. The ha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cambodian Other Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Silver
Medium Betel Nut Box, Maranao, Southern Philippines (Mindanao)
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Medium Betel Nut Box, Maranao, Southern Philippines (Mindanao).
Bronze/Brass with bordered silver inlay design overall of a symmetrical floral tendril vine pattern referred to as “th...
Category
Early 20th Century Philippine Tribal Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Silver, Brass
Large Annamese Blue and Enameled Ceramic Box, Chu Dau kiln, Vietnam
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Large Annamese Blue and Enameled Ceramic Box, Chu Dau kiln, Vietnam, circa 1500. The
cover with a flat top decorated with landscape design of mountains and tre...
Category
16th Century Vietnamese Folk Art Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Palembang Man's Songket and Ikat Ceremonial Head Cloth (iket kepala).
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Palembang Man's Songket and Ikat Ceremonial Head Cloth (iket kepala).
A woven silk textile with natural dyes, weft ikat pattern, gold thread supplementary weft weave as the b...
Category
1880s Indonesian Islamic Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Metallic Thread
Reika Iwami, Contemporary Japanese woodblock print
By Reika Iwami
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Contemporary Japanese woodblock print (Sosaku hanga) by the female artist Reika Iwami (b. 1927, Tokyo) titled “Water Fantasy A”of a setting full moon on th...
Category
1980s Japanese International Style Vintage Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Paper
Chinese Pair of Poetic Calligraphy Scrolls by Luo Er Dong Zhuang
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Chinese Pair of Calligraphy Scrolls, vertical lines of calligraphy executed in a light style, right reading: “Moon Rises and the Candle has no Effect” and the left reading: “Wind Ris...
Category
20th Century Chinese Other Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Paper
Antique Thai Makara Ceramic Roof Tile, Sukhothai, 15th century.
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Thai Architectural Ornament, Sukhothai kilns, 15th century.
A glazed hollow ceramic roof tile finial of the Naga/Makara Dragon design having a robust chest supported by front talons and his upright bearded head with open mouth bearing his pointed teeth, further decorated in iron brown under glaze painted highlights, covered in a cream white transparent glaze. From North-Central Thailand, Sukhothai Kingdom, a 15th century sculptural architectural ornament, high-fired glazed stoneware roof tile for decorating and elaborately embellishing the roof of a Thai temple, which was generally constructed of wood and therefore long perished, leaving the remains of the roof tiles, such as this finial. Later custom fitted teak rectangular base included.
Measuring: 17-3/8 in. high x 6-1/4 in. wide x 8 in. deep. (44 x 16 x 20.5cm)
Weight: 10 lb. 2 oz. (4600g.)
15th Century.
$4500.
Provenance:
with Peng Seng Antique Ltd., Bangkok 1993 (original receipt and certificate of antiquity).
William R. Appleby, New York
Doyle New York, Asian Works of Art September 21, 2020 lot #338.
For similar examples in Museum Collections see:
Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, accession no. C-1453.
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, accession no. 2001.2
Brooklyn Museum, accession no. 84.133.5
Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 2019.570.0
National Gallery of Victoria. Melbourne accession no. AS86-1984.
The Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, accession no. BATEA 1138.
Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University, accession no. EA1969.75
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, 1990.184
For similar examples in publications see:
Siamese Pottery in Indonesia, Charles Nelson Spinks, The Siam Society, Bangkok, 1959, Fig. 1.
Ceramic Art of Southeast Asia, William Willets, The Southeast Asian...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Thai Other Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Japanese Suibokuga Egrets by Kano Tokinobu, 17th century.
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Japanese Suibokuga Egrets by Kano Tokinobu, 17th century.
A sumi-e ink on paper painting illustrating two egrets in reserve with no outlines contrasting with the reeds from the marsh in the background. The painting with 3 vermillion seals of the artist in the lower left corner. Japanese dry mount paper on a wood frame with thin brocade border silver leafed surround and lacquered wood outer frame.
Condition: Lighter discoloration on the lower portion of the painting, other minor signs of age, wear, stains and repairs otherwise fine condition.
Age: Painting Edo Period, circa 1670. Mounting circa 1985.
Image: 51-1/2 in. x 20-1/2 in. (131cm x 52cm)
Frame 59-1/4 in. x 25-1/4 in. (150cm x 64cm)
Weight: 6 lbs.
Provenance:
with Honeychurch Antiques...
Category
1670s Japanese Edo Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Paper
Antique Javanese Silk Batik Slendang
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Javanese Silk Batik Slendang (Selendang). A shoulder cloth length of compact hand spun silk imported from China. The diagonal patterned stripe...
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Tribal Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Silk
Antique Thai Architectural Ornament, Sukhothai kilns, 15th century.
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Thai Architectural Ornament, Sukhothai kilns, 15th century. A glazed hollow ceramic roof tile finial of the Naga/Makara Dragon torso design supported by front talons and his ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Thai Other Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Silk Lawon Ceremonial Shawl, Palembang, Sumatra
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Silk Lawon Ceremonial Shawl, Palembang, Sumatra.
A narrow rectangular silk textile dyed in 2 colors by the tritik (stitched and gathered resist) process having a crisp delineation of a magenta diamond...
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Tribal Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Silk
Antique Japanese solid wood fruit and flower display basket
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Japanese solid wood fruit and flower display basket, carved from one piece of burl wood in an oval shape with single large overhead handle in a natural form with nodes, grottos and p...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Organic Modern Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Wood
Framed Japanese ink on paper artist's instruction for a Shunga print
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Japanese ink on paper wood block shunga artist’s color and pattern illustration with instructions for the woodblock carver and printer, depicting...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Paper
Deluxe Betel Nut Box Set, Maranao Culture, Southern Philippines (Mindanao).
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Two bronze rectangular boxes decorated with symmetrical silver inlay in the tendril vine pattern referred to as “the okir pattern”, a traditional design for the Maranao people. This...
Category
Early 20th Century Philippine Tribal Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Silver, Bronze
Antique Japanese Buddhist Lacquered Wood Temple Stand
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Japanese Lacquered Wood Temple Stand. An open panel style rectangular table with black lacquered top, lacquered and gold leafed base having chased gilt metal side fittings, ...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Wood
Thai Gilt Bronze Figure of a Seated Buddha
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Thai Gilt Bronze Figure of a Seated Buddha, depicted with legs crossed in the virasana position with the right leg resting on the left leg, soles up, the hands in the earth touching ...
Category
Late 19th Century Thai Other Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Gold Leaf
Antique Japanese Suibokuga Sage by Kano Tokinobu, 17th century.
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Japanese Suibokuga Sage Painting by Kano Tokinobu, 17th century. A sumi-e ink on paper painting illustrating an acolyte at a riverbank. The image of the standing Chinese figure with elongated earlobes (a symbol of enlightenment), hair tied back in a kerchief and long beard, holds a large fan in his left hand to his right shoulder. The long robes are windswept with water curls about the figures feet. The painting with 3 vermillion seals of the artist in the lower left corner. Japanese dry mount paper on a wood frame with thin brocade border silver leafed surround and lacquered wood outer frame.
Condition: Paper restoration on center, a quarter of an inch of the left edge of the painting is added, other minor signs of age, wear, stains and repairs overall fine condition.
Age: Painting Edo Period, circa 1670. Mounting circa 1985.
Image: 51-1/2 in. x 20-1/2 in. (131cm x 52cm)
Frame: 59-1/4 in. x 25-1/4 in. (150cm x 64cm)
Weight: 6lbs.
Provenance:
with Honeychurch Antiques...
Category
1670s Japanese Edo Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Paper
Pair of Carved Wood Elephants from "Auntie Mame" with Rosalind Russell
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A unique pair of carved wood elephants with bone tusks raised shown with front feet on an integral carved wood plinth. A similar, if not the same, pair appeared in the closing scenes of "Auntie Mame...
Category
20th Century Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bone, Wood
18th century Chinese Huanghuali Brush Pot (Bitong)
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Chinese Huanghuali Brush Pot, Bitong, an elegant simple form, well carved from one honey coloured and nicely figured limb of huanghuali (Dalbergia...
Category
18th Century Chinese Qing Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Hardwood
Antique Hand Dyed Cotton Batik Slendang (Selendang), Java
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Hand Dyed Cotton Batik Slendang (Selendang), Java. A length of cotton fabric used as a shoulder cloth, hand dyed in three colors: the base dyed golden yellow overall then a v...
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Other Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Cotton
Japanese bronze image of Tanjo no Shaka
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Japanese bronze image of Tanjo no Shaka, the infant Buddha (Shakyamuni), a standing figure with the right hand pointing towards heaven and the left hand pointing toward earth, costum...
Category
1850s Japanese Edo Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Thai Sandstone Carving of the Head of A Buddha Image
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Thai Sandstone Carving of the Head of A Buddha Image, Ayutthaya, 15th Century. This sculpture has carved features with full lips outlined with an incised line known as a “trace”, the “U” of the chin broad, long aquiline nose , protruding large and arched eye lids with the eyes narrowly open revealing the pupils, over arching brow continuing the line of the nose, short forehead, a thin raised outline as the hairline surrounding the face, 6 rows of round boss hair curls to the domed usnisa covered in 5 rows of hair curls, large ears with attenuated earlobes reaching to the break at the neck, flat top to the usnisa and a flat area to the back of the head. The facial surface gessoed lacquered and gold leafed, the rest of the head with Varied surface mottling and lacquer remnants mostly revealing the sandstone texture of the material. Mounted with a post and drilled interior hole to a large solid teak block as a contemporary stand.
Condition: A sculpture fragment from a large Buddhist Image, The head has been removed at the neck and the flat area at the top of the head would indicate that another mortared segment would have originally been attached possibly an undulant unalom finial, otherwise remarkably fine.
Measuring: 23-1/8 inches high overall, the sculpture is 15 inches high x 10 inches wide x 10-1/4 inches deep. The wood base is 8-1/8 inches high x 7-7/8 inches wide x 7-5/8 inches deep.
Provenance:
with Kenneth Brown Jewelers...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Thai Other Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Sandstone
Japanese Burl Display Stand
Located in Point Richmond, CA
An irregular shaped slice of Dalbergia root burl with a dark center and blonde surround, all figured with multiple “bird’s eyes” and knobby live edge, supported by four short and cur...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Organic Modern Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Burl
Large Vintage Burmese Red Lacquered Offering Tray
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Large Vintage Burmese Red Lacquered Offering Tray, referred to as a “Dang Lan” crafted of woven and assembled bamboo covered in a thick red and black lacquer, having thin strips of b...
Category
1950s Burmese Other Vintage Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bamboo, Lacquer
Antique Japanese Dai
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Japanese Dai, a display stand used in the tokonoma, a large section of root burl possibly Sugi (Cryptomeria japonica), a beautiful golden color wo...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Organic Modern Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Burl
$1,500
Vintage Burmese Kalaga, Mandalay
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Vintage Burmese Kalaga, Mandalay.
A wall hanging embroidered tapestry inspired from a scene in the Jataka Tales. The embroidery depicts a prince riding...
Category
Mid-20th Century Burmese Other Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Textile
Cambodian Silver Stag Box
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Cambodian Silver Stag Box. A traditional sturdy crouching stag form with front legs stretched out before him and the hind legs slightly splayed underne...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cambodian Other Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Silver
Chinese ink and watercolors on paper, Luis Chan (Chen Fushan)
By Luis Chan (Chen Fushan)
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Chinese ink and water colours painted on paper by the artist, Luis Chan (Chen Fushan) 1905-1995, a fantasy landscape depicting islands in a dream blue sea, o...
Category
1970s Hong Kong Post-Modern Vintage Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Paper
Pair of Antique Chinese Fu Dogs
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Chinese pair of wood carved Fu Dogs, rendered from a single block of hardwood each, with exquisite detailing in a naive style, the dogs are opposing, crouched on their haunches, each...
Category
Early 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Hardwood
Annamese Blue and White Ceramic Dish, Bird Design, Chu Dau kiln, Vietnam, 1500.
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Annamese Blue and White Ceramic Dish, Bird Design, Chu Dau kiln, Vietnam, circa 1500. A sturdily potted plate with raised rim, decorated in under glaze cobalt ...
Category
16th Century Vietnamese Other Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Set of Mid-Century Modern Gilt Metal Floral Bouquet
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Set 15 individual stylized long stem gilt metal flowers. Each intricately crafted with an oxidized gilt finish, some with patches off white paint. The bouquet is a striking addition ...
Category
1960s Chinese Vintage Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Metal
Antique Burmese Bronze Market Weight, Hintha, 1 Viss
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Burmese A-le, a zoomorphic form bronze market weight often referred to as an “opium weight”, in the form of a Hintha, a Brahmani Duck (Hamsa) emblem of the Mon kingdom with ...
Category
19th Century Burmese Other Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Vintage Thai Bencharong Lidded Jars, 20th century.
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Pair of Vintage Thai Bencharong Lidded Jars, 20th century.
Bencharong enamel decoration with Buddhist imagery on a black background. This porcelain jar and lid form having a raised foot rim and lotus bud on a disk lid finial are richly decorated in bright polychrome enamels in the style of the royal household ceramics favored by the nobility in eighteenth century Siam. This colorful style became known as “bencharong”, a term that derives from two Sanskrit words – panch (‘five’) and rong (‘colour’) and which relates to the number of colors used to decorate such porcelain. These jars and covers are decorated with typical Thai motifs. The sides are decorated with four Thepanom (Buddhist celestial beings) each wearing a broad necklace of petals and seated on a lotus within triangular cartouches that have a coral-red ground. Four Norasingh (mythical forest-dwelling semi-deity with a human head, torso, and arms but with the hind-quarters of a lion and the tail and hoofs of a deer) against black back grounds filled with flaming purple kranok motifs. This design is framed by two floral bands top and bottom. The interior is a covered in a transparent glaze with unglazed lid edge and the gallery interior edge of the lid unglazed.
Condition: Excellent
Each measuring: 5 in. in diameter x 6 in. high (12.7 x 15.2cm)
Each weighing: 1 lb. 5.5 oz. (610g.)
20th century.
Provenance:
Dr. Philip Gould, New York, NY.
Millea Brothers, New Jersey
For similar examples see:
William Warren & Luca Invernizzi Tettoni, Arts and Crafts of Thailand, Chronicle Books, San Francisco 1994, p.33.
Bonhams New York, Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Art, 17 Sep. 2014, lot 180 With the following notes: Bencharong porcelains...
Category
20th Century Thai Other Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Enamel
Japanese Boy's day display suit of armor
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Japanese miniature model of a suit of armor made for the Boy’s day display. Constructed of a lacquered paper cuirass, upper arm guar...
Category
1850s Japanese Edo Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Textile, Wood, Lacquer, Paper
Vintage Pernakan Kain Panjang Batik Tulis, Cirebon, Java 1950
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Vintage Pernakan Kain Panjang Batik Tulis, Cirebon, Java 1950.
A fine hand drawn wax resist painting by canting on cotton of a traditional Java north coast Pernakan zig-zag pattern w...
Category
1950s Javanese Folk Art Vintage Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Cotton
Annamese Blue and White Ceramic Jar, Chu Dau kiln, Vietnam
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Annamese Blue and White Ceramic Jar, Chu Dau kiln, Vietnam, circa 1500. A globular form with narrow neck decorated in under glaze cobalt blue of lotus petals, ...
Category
16th Century Vietnamese Folk Art Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Wood Carved Monks Painted Eyes
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A pair of 19th century, possibly earlier, wood carved monks, largely intact, with painted eyes. Some minor traces of gilt. These are incredibly well detail...
Category
19th Century Thai Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Wood
$2,880 Sale Price / set
69% Off
Vintage Javanese Kain Panjang and Matching Selendang Batik Tulis, Cirebon
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Vintage Indonesian Kain Panjang and Matching Selendang Batik Tulis, Cirebon, Java 1960.
A fine hand drawn wax resist painting by canting on cotton of a traditional flora and fauna pa...
Category
1960s Javanese Folk Art Vintage Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Cotton
Vintage Thai Howdah-style Meditation Chair
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Vintage Thai Howdah-style Meditation Chair, teak, lacquer, gold leaf, Mid-20th century. A highly decorative and ornately carved throne, evocative of the ro...
Category
Mid-20th Century Thai Other Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Gold Leaf
Annamese Blue & White Ceramic Dish, Bird Design, Chu Dau kiln, Vietnam, ca. 1500
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Annamese Blue and White Ceramic Dish, Bird Design, Chu Dau kiln, Vietnam, circa 1500. Stoneware with raised rim decorated in under glaze cobalt blue of a plump...
Category
16th Century Vietnamese Other Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Thai ceramic covered box from the Sawankhalok kilns
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Thai ceramic covered box from the Sawankhalok kilns of globular persimmon form with pinched foliate rim and sepal stem finial on top decorated in i...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Thai Folk Art Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Burmese Karaweik 20 Tical Market Weight
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Burmese 10 tical A-le, a zoomorphic form bronze market weight often referred to as an “opium weight”, in the form of a Karaweik, a Burmese crane with characteristic pointed b...
Category
19th Century Burmese Other Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Chinese Storage Jar
Located in Palm Springs, CA
An early 20th century Chinese salt glazed terracotta storage jar. It depicts figures on 4 sides, please see the detailed photographs. In age appropriate co...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Terracotta
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
Asian Wooden Painted Bell
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A wonderful old painted wood Asian bell. Likely Indonesian. It is beautifully painted in vibrant colors. There are numerous repairs and quite a bit of pain...
Category
Early 20th Century Asian Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
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16 Refined Asian-Inspired Interiors
These spaces exemplify how Eastern elements elevate a home's decor.
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