CERAMICS

Adding even a single item of beauty to a room immediately raises everything to a new level. It creates a talking point, represents a captured moment of history, and is the perfect antidote to any boring and soulless "fast-furniture" interior.

All Early Ceramics Later Ceramics

Grouping of Female Musicians

A grouping of seated grey pottery female musicians dressed in long robes, hair pulled up in knots under high hats, traces of red and black pigment under extensive earth encrustations.

Origin: China, Han Dynasty

Size: 8 × 9 x 16 cm
Gray Pottery Ox and Cart

A painted gray pottery ox and cart, the well-muscled ox with head raised, the cart of hollow form with an entrance at the back, two large separate wheels, hollow axle cap now missing, extensive traces of red and white pigment throughout.

Origin: China, Han Dynasty

Size: 110 × 24 × 41 cm
Male and female musicians

A pair of seated musician, smiling joyfully, playing a flute and harp dressed in a flowing robes with collar details. Remnants of red and black painted details on the robes.

Origin: China, Han Dynasty

Size: 25 × 32 x 70 cm
Rectangular Earthenware Tile

A rectangular earthenware tile with relief carving of a ferocious Chi Lin, the mythical Chinese animal.

Origin: China, Tang Dynasty (618-906 AD)

Size: 7.5 × 28 x 18 cm
Glazed camel

Glazed Bactrian camels in a braying pose. Bodies covered in white slip with brown details on the heads, necks and legs.

Origin: China, Tang Dynasty

Size: 39 × 27 × 10 cm
Pottery funerary tile

Pottery funerary tile carved in relief of a man. Buff colored biscuit.

Origin: China, Tang dynasty

Size: 27 × 25 × 5 cm
Apotropaeic monsters

A pair of Apotropaeic monsters with human faces, with huge horns and high, spiraled hair. Painted buff earthenware. The swollen faces with popping eyes and the hair standing in a spiral are all signs of great anger.

Origin: China, Tang period ( with certification)

Size: 50 × 15 × 12 cm
Ancai brush washer

A pottery "sancai" brush washer in ovoid shape with a white cat lounging to one side, his long tail wrapping around the sides,the water container glazed in amber, and the sides and brush rest in green and white.

Origin: China, Tang Dynasty

Size: 10 × 17 × 22 cm
Court dancer

A pottery figurine of a court dancer dressed in a short jacket over a long flowing skirt with diagonal gathers flaring at the base, hands held at her chest, and hair drawn up in an elaborate coif, earth encrustations.

Origin: China, Tang dynasty

Size: 48 × 20 × 13 cm
Cizhou tea bowl

Cizhou tea bowl, conical shaped with countersunk base. Brown glaze of uneven tone covering interior and approximately one half of the exterior, exposed biscuit of buff color with kiln grit adhering to the interior bottom.

Origin: China, Song Dynasty

Size: 10× 5 × 5 cm
Cascading grape ceramic jar

A white glazed ceramic jar in the shape of a gourd with cascading grape tendrils down the side, covered in white slip stopping short of the buff colored foot.

Origin: China, Song to Yuan Dynasty

Size: 27 × 11 ×11 cm
Henan vase

Henan vase with flared mouth. Applied ring handles. Glazed in thick brown black glaze ending just above the foot.

Origin: China, Song Dynasty

Size: 19× 7 × 7 cm
Dripper frog

Cizhou water dripper in the form of a frog seated on a lotus pod. Vertically ribbed lower body terminating in a short slightly inverted foot, all washed in brown. Upper body with thick cream ground, underglaze brown detailing.

Origin: China, Yuan to early Ming dynasty

Size: 5 × 7 × 7 cm
Pottery trunk

A rectangular pottery trunk with handles and lock plate details, wider base, glazed in amber above and below, sides of lead green.

Origin: China, Ming Dynasty

Size: 12 × 5.5 × 13 cm
Female equestrian

A pottery figure of a female equestrian riding a saddled dromedian( single humped) camel, standing four-square on a rectangular stand, with traces of red , green, and black pigment on a buff colored biscuit.

Origin: China, Ming dynasty

Size: 17 × 12 × 7 cm
Green amber glazed pottery

A grouping of "sancai" court attendants on rectangular bases, with red and black painted details on the heads and hats, hands positioned as if holding a banner, glazed in green, amber, and white. / A green and amber glazed pottery palanquin or sedan chair, interior of reddish biscuit.

Origin: China, Ming dynasty

Size: 27×10×7cm / 8×10×10cm
Santsai glaze

Small pottery offerings in Santsai glaze / fish/ fruit /rolls.

Origin: China, Ming dynasty

Size: 10 × 8 × 3 cm
Sancai pottery

A group of "sancai" pottery uniformed equestrians, mounted on fully caparisoned horses standing foursquare on bases, hands positioned as if holding banners or reins. Glazed in yellow, green, amber, white, blue. Removeable painted heads.

Origin: China, Ming dynasty

Size: 30 × 25 × 10 cm