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Item Ships From: Illinois
Chinese Wooden Headrest, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Made of Chinese northern elmwood, this smooth block of wood was once used by an upper-class woman as a headrest. The soft curve and height of the block not only supported her head an...
Category

Early 20th Century Chinese Rustic Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Elm

Chinese Red Crackle Headrest
Located in Chicago, IL
This low, four-leg stool is actually a headrest used atop a daybed or mat to support the head while sleeping, reclining, or smoking opium. As an opium accessory, rigid headrests such...
Category

Late 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Wood

Chinese Eternal Love Offering Box, c. 1800
Located in Chicago, IL
This ornately carved 19th-century offering box would have been presented as a gift filled with popular Chinese snacks, including roasted melon seeds, dried fruit, and soybeans toaste...
Category

Early 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Lacquer, Paint, Wood

Provincial Chinese Four Leg Stool, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This rustic wooden stool from China's Shanxi province charms with its compact scale and timeworn texture. Crafted with mortise-and-tenon joinery methods, the stool features a round s...
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Late 19th Century Chinese Rustic Antique Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Elm

Chinese Full Moon Chopping Stool, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
This 19th-century tri-leg stool from China's Shanxi province charms with its top-heavy form and timeworn texture. Crafted of elm with mortise-and-tenon joinery, the robust stool stan...
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Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Elm

Chinese Marigold Yellow Storage Coffer, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
While most Chinese lacquered furniture is black or red in color, this 19th-century storage coffer is colored by a marigold-yellow lacquer finish with a wonderful crackled texture. Th...
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Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Brass

Chinese Peking Glass Bok Choy Charm, c. 1920
Located in Chicago, IL
Although practiced for centuries, Chinese glass-making gained prominence during the Qing-dynasty with the introduction of Peking glass. Adapting European technologies, workshops in the Imperial Palace began creating layered and intricately-carved glass pieces that mimicked the translucency of jade, semiprecious stones, and rare jewels. This Peking glass charm is sculpted as a tiny bok choy...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Glass

Chinese Twisted Rootwood Brush Pot, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Set alongside the four treasures of the study - the calligraphy brush, ink, paper, and inkstone - a brush pot was a fixture of every traditional scholars' desk. This small wooden bru...
Category

Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Burl

Large Chinese Blue and White Baluster Jar with Shizi
Located in Chicago, IL
Images of shizi, a lion-dog symbol of power and strength of character, cavort among the stylized clouds of heaven on this hand-painted covered jar. Original...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Porcelain

Framed Vintage Chinese East West Advertisement, circa 1920
Located in Chicago, IL
Mixing Western and traditional pictorial styles, this vintage ad depicts a young family on a garden stroll. A cheongsam-clad woman nods to tradition in cont...
Category

Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Paper

Chinese Charm Token Shoe with Compartment, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Originally tucked in a pocket as a charm, this tiny shoe was kept close at hand as a talisman for marital happiness. Meticulously carved from wood, the shoe is decorated with a double happiness symbol, the traditional symbol for conjugal bliss. A lovely Valentine’s Day or anniversary gift, the charm has a compartment ready to be filled with a note or small gift...
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Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Pine

Chinese Travel Opium Lamp, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
By the 18th century, opium use had become as central to Chinese social life as taking tea or smoking tobacco, fostering a subculture rich with its own customs, traditions, and exquis...
Category

Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Brass

Chinese Printed Blue and White Headrest
Located in Chicago, IL
This square ceramic block is actually a form of Chinese headrest or neck pillow. Popular during the Qing dynasty, rigid headrests such as this were used by upper-class women to protect their elaborate hairstyles by elevating the head during slumber. This decorative example dates to the mid-20th century and is printed with an idyllic scene in the style of Chinese propaganda illustrations. Two young girls pause their farm work to read beneath a pine tree, with farm land...
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Porcelain

Petite Famille Rose Canton Vase, c. 1920
Located in Chicago, IL
Dated to the 1920s during China's Republic Period, this petite vase is decorated in a style known as Canton enamel, so named for the long-standing industry of export enamels based in...
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1920s Chinese Chinese Export Vintage Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Copper

Pair of Chinese Chrysanthemum Lady s Chair, c. 1800
Located in Chicago, IL
This charming lady's chair dates to the early 19th century and is an armless variation on the classic Chinese 'southern official's hat chair.' The side chair is crafted of elm (yumu)...
Category

Early 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Elm

Chinese Gilt Limestone Stele of Maitreya Buddha
Located in Chicago, IL
This intricate limestone stele of a standing buddha likely depicts Maitreya, the Buddha of the Future. The only Buddhist divinity revered as both a bodhisattva and a Buddha, Maitreya is prophesied to return to Earth some time in the distant future and continue the historic Buddha's teachings of the Dharma. Like the historic Shakyamuni Buddha, Maitreya is a compassionate being devoted to showing the path to enlightenment. Carved in the style of sixth century Chinese statuary...
Category

20th Century Chinese Qing Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Limestone

Chinese Ishi Sashi Ingot Weight, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Today known by the Japanese name “ishi-sashi,” meaning “awesome stone padlock,” this type of stone weight was used as part of intensive martial arts training. Hand-carved from solid ...
Category

Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Limestone

Set of Three Petite Chinese Apothecary Jars, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
These petite glazed jars from China's Shanxi province exemplify the timeless appeal of handcrafted pottery. Once used in an apothecary to hold ground herbs and oils for traditional m...
Category

Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Ceramic

Pair of Lacquered and Parcel-Gilt Carved Wood Chinese Garden Seats
Located in Chicago, IL
Carved wood Chinese garden seats with parcel gilt, cloisonné like decoration. Open interior, four sided drum shape.
Category

1960s Chinese Vintage Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Wood

Vintage Victory Cigarettes Advertisement Poster, c. 1930
Located in Chicago, IL
This poster from the 1930s melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of color lithography and a side of risque. Posters like this one, influenced by ...
Category

1930s Chinese Vintage Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Paint, Paper

Provincial Chinese Porch Stool, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Deceptively simple, this rustic stool from the early 20th century shows off the ingenious joinery methods traditionally used by Chinese carpenters. The stool's three splayed legs are...
Category

Early 20th Century Chinese Rustic Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Elm

Chinese Yuan Green Glazed Zodiac Jar, c. 1350
Located in Chicago, IL
Beautiful in its imperfection, this green glazed jar from Yunnan province is an offering vessel, or spirit jar, originally filled with ritual offerings such as coins, shells, flowers...
Category

15th Century and Earlier Chinese Primitive Antique Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Terracotta

Chinese Yuan Drip Glazed Offering Jar, c. 1350
Located in Chicago, IL
Beautiful in its imperfection, this lidded jar from Yunnan province is an offering vessel, or spirit jar, originally filled with ritual offerings such as coins, shells, flowers and g...
Category

15th Century and Earlier Chinese Primitive Antique Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Terracotta

Chinese Yuan Green Glazed Zodiac Jar, c. 1350
Located in Chicago, IL
Beautiful in its imperfection, this green glazed jar from Yunnan province is an offering vessel, or spirit jar, originally filled with ritual offerings such as coins, shells, flowers...
Category

15th Century and Earlier Chinese Primitive Antique Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Terracotta

Chinese New Year Painting, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
In celebration of the lunar New Year festival, it was traditional all over China to hang special decorations. In a city called Wuqiang, local artists made lacquer scroll paintings laden with symbolism. This framed and finely rendered early 20th century folk painting from Wuqiang features an imperial court official and his family dressed in their best silks. The young boy is dressed in a wonderfully patterned yellow robe to offer Shou Xing...
Category

Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Paper

Framed Chinese Ancestor Portrait, circa 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This intricately detailed composition is a late-Qing dynasty ancestor portrait depicting several generations of a family's male ancestry. Or...
Category

Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Silk

Chinese Courtyard Grain Container, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This rustic wooden container dates to the early 20th century and was once used to store dry goods or household items in a provincial home in Yunnan province. Hollowed from a single t...
Category

Early 20th Century Chinese Primitive Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Wood

Chinese Journey to the West Hitching Post, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Created in the mid-19th century, this charming limestone post likely once stood outside a building in China's Shanxi province as a spot to hitch livestock. Carved in reference to the Ming dynasty novel "Journey to the West," the monkey atop the post depicts Sun Wukong, the Monkey King...
Category

Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Limestone

Provincial Chinese Full Moon Stool, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Deceptively simple, this early 20th century stool from Shanxi province shows off the ingenious joinery methods used by traditional Chinese carpenters. The stool's three splayed legs ...
Category

Early 20th Century Chinese Rustic Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Elm

Framed Chinese Deco Advertisement Poster with Mirrored Back, c. 1930s
Located in Chicago, IL
Influenced by Western advertising, commercial posters featuring beautiful women in modern settings gained popularity in China in the 1920s and 1930s. Commercial companies presented posters, like this one, to their clients for Chinese New Year. This poster depicts a woman luxuriously dressed in a western style fur-trimmed coat holding a purse that also indicates Art Deco influences. This brand of Chinese advertisement draws on the classic American advertisements...
Category

1920s Chinese Art Deco Vintage Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Paper, Mirror

Chinese Male Mingqi Spirit Attendant
Located in Chicago, IL
Molded of earthenware, this petite sculpture is a type of centuries-old burial figurine known as míngqì. Such model figures were placed in tombs of individuals with high status to ensure a safe journey to the afterlife. Meant to depict the pleasures of daily life, common burial figures...
Category

15th Century and Earlier Chinese Antique Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Ceramic

Tibetan Saddle Carpet with Scholars Objects, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This unusually-shaped carpet is known as a "makden" and was originally used by a nomadic traveler as an artful covering for his horse. Placed between the saddle and the horse, the makden cushioned the rigid saddle and kept the horse warm in cold climates. Most under-saddle carpets include two to four holes near the center, through which the girth straps of the saddle were threaded. Dated to the late 19th century, this Tibetan saddle carpet...
Category

Late 19th Century Tibetan Tibetan Antique Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Fabric, Wool

Chinese Flora and Fauna Inkstone, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Scholarly pursuits such as painting, calligraphy, and poetry were a highly respected and revered subculture in ancient China, and demanded their own set of tools that were not only f...
Category

Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Stone

Chinese Spotted Deer Painting Fragment, c. 1751
Located in Chicago, IL
Also known as spirit screens, small Chinese table screens such as this were often used to block drafts and other intrusions in a scholar's workspa...
Category

Mid-18th Century Chinese Qing Antique Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Paper, Pearwood

Chinese Woven River Basket, circa 1800
Located in Chicago, IL
Centuries ago, a woven reed fisherman’s basket such as this would have been common in rural China as an everyday item, used until it became worn through. This hand-woven example rema...
Category

Early 19th Century Chinese Rustic Antique Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Reed, Wood

Embroidered Miao Baby Carrier Textile
Located in Chicago, IL
The connection between love and embroidery is nowhere stronger than among the minority peoples of China. Hand-stitched by a mother herself or gifted by the women in her family, the t...
Category

Early 20th Century Chinese Folk Art Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Silk, Cotton

Framed Chinese Erotic Album Leaf, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Despite its explicit content, this intimate scene conveys a sense of tenderness and romantic love characteristic of Chinese erotic art. Known as “sp...
Category

Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Paper

Chinese Moss-in-Snow Jadeite Ruyi Pendant
Located in Chicago, IL
Valued for its rarity and lustrous appearance, jade (yù) has long been a symbol of excellence, longevity and purity of virtue. Worn as jewelry or as a protective charm, the stone was...
Category

20th Century Chinese Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Jade

Tibetan Saddle Carpet with Floral Medallion, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Known as an over-saddle carpet or "masho," this small rectangular carpet was once used by a nomadic traveler as an artful covering for his saddle. Placed...
Category

Late 19th Century Tibetan Tibetan Antique Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Fabric, Wool

Chinese Fu Dog Stone Snuff Bottle, circa 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
A mixture of finely powdered tobacco, herbs, and spices, snuff was introduced to China in the 17th century by Western diplomats. Initially reserved for ranking members of Qing-dynast...
Category

Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Stone

Chinese Gilt Repoussé String of Charms, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This curious Chinese jewelry chain dates to the early 20th century and is strung with an array of petite bells, charms and amulets. Worked of gilded silver alloy, the repoussé charms are laden with blessings and symbolism, including fruits for abundance, bats for happiness, and a lotus for perfection. The chain is strung with three larger charms of a horse, a donkey and a three-legged toad, the mythical creature known as the Jin Chan, or Money Toad...
Category

Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Silver

Chinese Lucky Girl Headrest, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
To keep her elaborate hairstyle intact while sleeping, a well-to-do Qing-dynasty woman would use a rigid headrest or neck pillow to keep her head elevated. Whether functional or purely decorative, such headrests were crafted from a variety of materials and were often decorated with elaborate patterns or symbolic motifs. This porcelain headrest...
Category

Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Porcelain

Chinese Double Guardian Headrest, circa 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
To keep her elaborate hairstyle intact while sleeping, a well-to-do Qing-dynasty woman would use a rigid headrest or neck pillow to keep her head elevated. Whether functional or pure...
Category

Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Porcelain

Chinese Moss-in-Snow Jadeite Pendant of Bat Citrons
Located in Chicago, IL
Valued for its rarity and lustrous appearance, jade (yù) has long been a symbol of excellence, longevity and purity of virtue. Worn as jewelry or as a protective charm, the stone was...
Category

20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Jade

Chinese Ho Ho Boy Water Dropper, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This curious object is a late 19th-century Chinese water dropper, a calligraphy accessory that would have been found upon a scholar's painting ta...
Category

Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Porcelain

Chinese Copper Coin Opium Box, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
A petite 19th century canister once used to store a smoker's personal supply of opium paste. A keepsake from a bygone era, the small box is formed of antique coins and copper and pro...
Category

Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Copper

Pair of Petite Chinese Bronze Cups, c. 1800
Located in Chicago, IL
Minimal and refined, these petite bronze cups are simply formed with gently curved sides and a short footed base. The pair dates to the 19th century or earlier and would have been us...
Category

Early 19th Century Chinese Minimalist Antique Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Bronze

Chinese Red Glass Snuff Bottle
Located in Chicago, IL
A mixture of finely powdered tobacco, herbs, and spices, snuff was introduced to China in the 17th century by Western diplomats. Initially reserved for ranking members of Qing-dynast...
Category

20th Century Chinese Qing Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Glass

Chinese Pewter Oil Jug, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
A squat pewter vessel for pouring oil fuel into a small opium lamp.
Category

19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Pewter

Chinese Blue and White Mythical Bowl with Deer
Located in Chicago, IL
Beautiful to behold yet liable to dart away at any moment, the deer is an apt symbol of wealth and prosperity. On this bowl, the artist used rapid and free-flowing brushwork to depic...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Porcelain

Chinese Bronze Opium Box, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
A petite bronze canister once used to store a smoker's personal supply of opium paste. A keepsake from a bygone era, the small box dates to the early 20th century and provided an air...
Category

Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Bronze

Chinese Gnarled Root Brush Pot, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Set alongside the four treasures of the study - the calligraphy brush, ink, paper, and inkstone - a brush pot was a fixture of every traditional scholars' desk. This wooden brush pot...
Category

Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Burl

Vintage Uzbek Suzani Silk Embroidery in Black, Ivory, Yellow, Red
Located in Barrington, IL
Bring timeless artistry and cultural elegance into your space with this Vintage Uzbek Suzani Silk Embroidery, a stunning textile handcrafted in Uzbekistan. This authentic piece featu...
Category

Mid-20th Century Uzbek Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Cotton, Silk

Red Lacquer Architectural Fragment, C. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
This antique architectural fragment beautifully exemplifies the textured wear and soft patina that only time can achieve. Given its cusp...
Category

Mid-19th Century Southeast Asian Antique Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Wood

Chinese Polychrome Harmony Fish, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Hand-crafted from reclaimed wood, this large koi sculpture is a traditional symbol of harmony and luck. For Buddhists, such a fish represents a freedom from all restraints. Much of t...
Category

20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Wood, Pine

Pair of Chinese Sandstone Column Bases, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This pair of late 19th-century column bases likely figured into the grand and imposing surroundings of a Qing-dynasty courtyard, supporting large wooden beams that flanked an entry o...
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Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Sandstone

Chinese Moss-in-Snow Jadeite Pendant of Peaches
Located in Chicago, IL
Valued for its rarity and lustrous appearance, jade (yù) has long been a symbol of excellence, longevity and purity of virtue. Worn as jewelry or as a protective charm, the stone was...
Category

20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Jade

A Han Dynasty Terracotta Figure
Located in Chicago, IL
A large Chinese terracotta tomb figure (Ni Yong) from the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 AD), likely from the area of modern-day Sichuan. It appears to depict a groom in full costume an...
Category

15th Century and Earlier Chinese Antique Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Terracotta

A Han Dynasty Terracotta Figure
A Han Dynasty Terracotta Figure
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Chinese Drum-Form Opium Measure, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This unusual, barrel-form object was originally one of the many accessories that comprised an opium smoker's kit. Formed of brass with a copper lining, the small tool is known by col...
Category

Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Brass, Copper

Chinese Gourd-Form Presentation Box, circa 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
This finely lacquered box was once presented as a gift, filled with popular snacks like roasted melon seeds, dried fruit, and cinnamon-toasted soy beans. The lightweight box is formed in the shape of a melon, a traditional symbol of perpetuity. Cloaked in layer upon layer of rich red lacquer, the box is intricately decorated with paintings of ruyi-framed lotus...
Category

Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Illinois - Asian Art and Furniture

Materials

Wood

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