Chinese Red Pottery Lotus Jar, Five Dynasties, 10th Century, China

Chinese pottery lotus jar. Age: China, Five Dynasties, A.D.907 - 960 Size: Height 27.5 C.M. / Width 17.8 C.M. Condition: Well-preserved old burial condition...

Chinese pottery lotus jar. Age: China, Five Dynasties, A.D.907 - 960 Size: Height 24.8 cm. / width 18.2 cm. Condition: Well-preserved old burial condition o...

A pair of Antique Chinese pottery lion panel with stand. Age: China, Song Dynasty, 10th - 12th Century Size excluding stand: Height 23.6 - 24.3 C.M. / Width 18.8 - 20.5 C.M. / Thick...

Antique Chinese painted pottery panel with figures, with original pigments remaining. Age: China, Song Dynasty, 10th - 12th Century Size of panel only: Height 24.2 C.M. / Width 28.2...

Antique Chinese pottery Hu jar decorated with bands of raised lines and a pair of monster masks on the shoulder. Age: China, Han Dynasty, 206 B.C. - A.D.220 Size: Height 46.6 C.M. /...

The vessel is thickly potted, with an ovoid body divided into five horizontal lobes that gently taper toward the top. It is finely carved with rows of upright lotus petals beneath a ...

Presenting a stunning piece of southeast Asian antiquity, namely, a 10th century red sandstone relief of a mithuna couple. This piece has impeccable Provenance! It was purchase...

This jar features a carved design, which is typical of Cizhou ware. It has a creamy white and brown color scheme, and the prominent decoration of lotus flower, which is a common motif in Chinese art and culture, symbolizing purity and enlightenment. The carving technique involves coating the vessel with a layer of white slip (liquid clay), then carving away parts of it to create the design, revealing the darker clay body beneath. This technique allows for a strong contrast between the background and the carved motif. Period : Song-Yuan Dynasty Type : Jar Medium : Cizhou Ware Size : 21.5 cm(Height), 11cm(Mouth Diameter) Provenance : Acquired in 1999, Hongkong * Cizhou Ware Cizhou is the name given to a number of stonewares, grey or buff, of varying degrees of hardness, with painted, incised or carved decoration on a clay slip. These stonewares were not only made in the region of Cizhou, Hebei Province, but in several provinces of China during the Song, Yuan and Ming periods. The great centres of production were in the north of China in the provinces of Hebei, Henan and Shanxi. Cizhou wares seem to have been very popular, made for a clientèle of rich merchants, at a period when the paintings of famous...

The globular body is supported on three claw feet and is covered in a splashed-glaze of amber, green and cream color, which stops short of the unglazed base. Date : Tang Dynasty(61...

The jar is of globular shape and is decorated to the body with a geometric design band of lozenge-shaped motifs in blue, green, ochre and cream below a plain ochre everted mouth rim,...