Chinese Song Dynasty Green Glazed Buddhist Funerary Jar and Cover - TL Tested

The vase features a ribbed body, subtly enhancing its graceful contours, and is topped with a uniquely sculpted lid adorned with figurative elements. Period : Song Dynasty Type : Ce...

A wonderful Han Dyansty (206 BC-200 AD) storage vessel. The circular body set upon three legs and fitted with a lid. The entirety covered in heavy leaded green glaze, imitating bronz...

A fine and unusual Chinese Tang Sancai glazed model of a horse and rider, Tang Dynasty (618 to 906 CE), early 8th century, China. This fantastic sculpture portrays a male figures se...

Antique Chinese green glazed pottery watch tower with Oxford TL test. Lead glaze with copper is the main colorant used in Han period to produce green glaze. Greenware became popular...

Extremely rare Chinese model of a countryside villa for the royal courtiers and ministries of the Ming Dynasty -1368-1644 AD- showing three guest houses and one main entry. The villa is surrounded by a cuadrangular wall painted with bucolic scenes of garden, mountains, and bamboo forests. The roof tiles are glazed in green enamel with yellow finials – as the ones in the forbidden city – typical from the Ming epoch. Truly a museum piece. The doors swivel and are painted in ochre. State of preservation: impeccable mint condition with original paintings, all of the original parts are complete, except for one house which is missing part of the plinth (broken during transport). Each part has been tested for authenticity, consisting of eight separate TL tests...

Lustrous blackish-brown glaze decorated on the exterior with lines of splashes of russet color. This jar features a rounded and voluminous body, with its shoulders gently curving upward to meet the lid. The lid is topped with a small knob-like handle at the center, creating a harmonious and well-balanced overall proportion. Under microscopic magnification, the brown-glazed...

A Tang dynasty sancai (three color) glazed pottery model of a Taoist official, TL tested by Ralf Kotalla - worldwide oldest private laboratory specialized for genuine thermoluminesce...

Tombs of the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) were typically furnished with model figures and other objects believed to be necessary for a safe journey to the afterlife. Historical records indicate that when important military officials died, the imperial Han court would give them elaborate funerals, including a full military cortege. It is likely that this figure of a horse and rider was originally part of a model funerary retinue comprised of soldiers and cavalrymen that would have been placed in such a tomb. Beautifully proportioned Han dynasty polychrome painted terracotta horse and rider. The warrior is decorated with a painted orange and black tunic. A quiver is visible attached to his back. He would have originally held a wooden bow in between his hands that has rotted away over the centuries. He is riding a beautifully sculpted white horse. TL tested...

The vessel is of well-proportioned elegance, its ovoid body crisply divided into lobed segments that rise from a neatly cut, short ring foot to a tall, slender trumpet neck. A gracef...

The oviform body molded with floral and leaf pattern reminiscent of waves, all covered with an olive-brown glaze. The glaze drips and irregular streaks of brown-glazed pottery from that period are distinctive aesthetic elements of Song-Yuan Dynasty brown glazed ceramics, with glaze colors ranging from deep chocolate to light amber or honey tones. Date : Song-Yuan Dynasty(960~1368) Type : Olive-Brown-glazed pottery Provenance : Acquired in late 1990s from Hongkong Reference : 1) Bonhams London 13 May 2024 - The John E. Bodie OBE (1930-2023) Collection of Chinese Art - Lot 12 (Price realised : 2,432 GBP / Type : Related) 2) Christies Mar 2015 - The Collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth...