Day 2 Important Asian Works of Art

Late Han through Liang Dynasty, 200 BCE – 550 CE. The offered large scale stone carving is one of a number of mythical stylized lion-like winged g...

Tang Dynasty, 7th /10th. Century. CE The impressive male and female inward-facing guardian lions, poised in heraldry, and carved from blocks of gr...

Ming/Qing Dynasty. Expertly carved with a soft hand, the meditating Buddha intentionally emits a feeling of calm and tenderness, with full rounded...

Ayuthia Period, 16th Century Provenance: Christies NY September 2004. The ovoid face gracefully delineated with downcast eyes beneath arched brows...

Tang Dynasty Marble of a Lioness with Cubs. 600 to 900 A.D. The large white striated gray marble growling lioness appears to be protecting her you...

Standing female deity one arm by her side, the other banked at the elbow standing atop a lotus. Size: 1 1/2 x 4 1/3 in. ...[more]

The rectangular scroll with a center screen of a seated deity in a temple structure with secondary scenes of figures in a landscape. Surrounding t...

Chinese Archaic Bronze Tripod Covered Wine Pot. Eastern Zhou/Warring States Dynasties. The spherical body decorated with three bands of interlaced...

Chinese Archaic Bronze Animal-Form Vessel Zhou or Warring States Dynasty. Shaped as a lamb with open back, round eyes, with large backward pointin...

Chinese Archaic Bronze Ritual Covered Vessel Eastern Zhou Dynasty. The Dou with a compressed spherical body and domed lid, cast with rows of allov...

Fine Chinese Silver-Inlaid Archaic Bronze Hook Together with Three Additional Bronze Hooks, all Eastern Zhou Dynasty. The first, a silver-inlaid S...

Chinese Archaic Bronze Sword Blade Zhou Dynasty. The double edge blade with pronounced central ridge, each side above the tang with raised motifs,...

Chinese Archaic Bronze Pouring Vessel Probably Eastern Zhou Dynasty. The shallow rounded body supported on three short legs, set at one end with a...

Chinese Archaic Bronze Covered Food Vessel Zhou or Warring States Dynasty. The cylindrical vessel with a slightly domed cover, on three short, sha...

Dating from 918 through 1395 CE. The underside with a paper label with the number8477.09. The thin-walled pear-form body with a tapering cylindric...

One archaic bronze bowl with slits on the underside, possibly used for straining with a flared base and rim. The other bowl has a solid underside ...

The Gui-form circular vessel and cover cast with a band of raised elongated stylized birds, the large loop handles terminating in a bearded ram’s ...

The first spherical on three animal paw feet with upward rising handles, the cover with three looped handles. The second circular with a domed cov...

Chinese Archaic Bronze Mythical Beast Zhou or Warring States Dynasty. Cast as a horned frog-like beast, with removable cover, the patina a malachi...

Chinese Archaic Style Bronze Wine Vessel-Jue form, with tripod blade-shaped legs, a tapering spout and two raised posts. Size: 3 3/8 x 2 1/4 x 3 3...

Chinese Archaic Style Bronze Fish-Form Vase The underside incised with a two-character mark. Cast as an open mouth fish, with two small loop handl...

Chinese Archaic Style Marble Chop Seal The white marble square block headed by a loop handle, the sides with registers of raised beads, the unders...

Chinese Archaic Bronze Elements Comprising, four scoops, lacking handles, a small ritual bell and a spout to a vessel. Sizes vary. ...[more]

Chinese Archaistic Bronze Covered Food Vessel The slightly compressed spherical vessel with domed lid and tripod legs, the body decorated with a b...

Intricately carved stone bird with feathers and beak. Size: 3 3/8 x 1 3/4 x 1 5/8 in. ...[more]

Chinese Archaistic Bronze Double-Handle Vase The underside with an incised character mark. The flared bulbous body with a wide collar cast with an...

Pair of Chinese Archaistic Patinated Bronze Vases 19th Century. The baluster bodies with a wide band of Taotie masks, beneath a tall flaring neck ...

Chinese Archaistic Bronze Covered Censor. Rectangular with scrolled handles at the sides, on animal form legs headed by horned beasts, the pierced...

Two Chinese Archaistic Archers Rings. Late Qing Dynasty, Each circular opening with a squared exterior outline or with squared corners, one primar...

Chinese Archaistic Jade Reclining Boy. The boy in a reclining pose lying on his belly presenting an alms bowl, delicately incised with groups of l...

Chinese Archaistic Carved Stone Bat. The flattened mottled dark gray and brown stone bat, poised in flight, with ears carved in high relief, Ridge...

Chinese Archaistic Bronze Yong Each side of the hollow cast bell with a center panel of Chinese characters, flanked by rows of slightly raised fla...

Both ends carved as an open-mouthed serpent head, the body with raised stylized scrolls suggesting scales, beige to brown in color. (Cond. minor c...

Chinese Archaistic Scholar’s Brush Washer Qing Dynasty. The asymmetrical oval white marble with russet mottling having an articulated rim, the wid...

Chinese Archaistic Jade Covered Vase The baluster body incised with a band of Taotie masks, the sides with two dragon-headed handles surmounted by...

Chinese Archaistic Carved Marble Bi-Form Disc The russet and cream stone with four serrated projections. Size: 4 7/8 x 4 3/4 in. ...[more]

Pair of Chinese Archaistic Bronze Gu-Form Vases. The underside centering a raised seal, appearing to be a chimpanzee, each projecting mid-section ...

Chinese Archaistic Jade Ritual Object.Qing Dynasty. The mottled brown jade with a greenish hue, carved with rows of raised beading. Size: 1 7/8 x ...

Chinese Archaistic Bronze Circular Bowl The underside bearing a four-character Qing seal. Decorated all-around with Taotie masks on a stylized Gre...

Chinese Archaistic Gray Stone Bowl The polished oval bowl with elephant head handles at each side, carved atop each elephant heads is a left-facin...

Han Dynasty Chinese Bronze Food Warmer The boat-form hollow body with a large circular opening fitted with a removable plate with two further smal...

Probably Zhou Dynasty. Together with a bronze pointed spear head. ...[more]

Two Chinese Bronze Bird-Form Pouring Vessels. In an Archaic style, each with circular bowls, bird-head spouts, with a handle cast as feathers, all...

The base and form center section with a pierced lid, surmounted by a bird. The body with two bird handles raised on three additional birds with a ...

Chinese Celadon Jade Crested Bird Qing Dynasty, 18th Century or earlier. The resting bird with three crest feathers. Scroll carved eyes, with leaf...

Late Qing Dynasty worked in various colors, comprising, a black cat’s head, a mottled brown bat, a recumbent cat, of pale green jade with black in...

Late Qing Dynasty and 20th C. Including a crab, a mouse, a cat, and other mythical beasts. Various sizes. ...[more]

Chinese Stone & Jade Animal Studies. Most late Qing Dynasty comprising a lion headed turtle, a crawfish, a sleeping ram and a serpent devouring a ...

Chinese Translucent Pale Green Jade Buddha. Late Qing Dynasty, in a Ming style. Reclining on a lily pad, the Buddha’s right hand pointed up, the l...

Chinese Translucent Spinach Jade Cicada. Modern. The coloring transitions from a light speckled green jade to rich dark spinach green, the cicada ...

Chinese Celadon Jade Bird on a Branch. Late Qing dynasty. The exotic bird, with long tail feathers, and shaped wings, its head looking back, the t...

Chinese Yellow and Russet Jade Horse Head. In a Han Dynasty style, the elongated horses’ neck with a stylized cropped mane, continuing to its down...

Chinese Stone & Jade Animal Studies. Five calcified jade arched implements some with piercing terminating in animal heads all in archaic style the...

Large Chinese Gray-Green Jade Carp The fish surmounted by a seated male nude waving two banners. Size: 11 1/2 x 1 x 6 1/4 in. ...[more]

Three Chinese Jade Studies of Turtles The first, a pale green with lavender hues and russet inclusions, the second, a yellow and two-toned brown j...

Chinese Incised Pale Green Jade Prayer Book Qing Dynasty. Each page inset with a translucent celadon jade plaque, with two rows of incised script ...

Chinese Calcified Jade Animal Group Qing Dynasty. Brownish-beige jade depicting a chimera atop a bi surmounted by a fu-dog. Size: 3 1/8 x 2 in. ....

Chinese Calcified Brown Jade Dog Resting on its rear legs, its head turned back with a slight upward gaze Size: 6 5/8 x 4 1/8 x 5 1/2 in. ...[mor...

Chinese Tri-Color Jade Finch Qing Dynasty. The appealing bird with and pleasing color transitioning from ochre to green, with sporadic black tones...

Early 20th Century. The circular dish with deep recess and flared rim, light green with dark green inclusions. Size: 6 5/8 in. dia. ...[more]