Small arrow vase with tubular neck and light jade tube handles. Used for "touhu" drinking games: participants attempt to throw arrows into the multiple tubular cylinders attached to the elongated neck[...]
Agate cup of a beautiful yellow and amber color. Decorated in hight relief of Chilong, Lingzhi and Fenghuang (dragon, mushrooms and Phoenix) with highly symbolic value, in fact the male principle chil[...]
CARVED SPINACH GREEN JADE SEAL :
Oval in section, it is surmounted by a grip in the shape of a Buddhist lion resting its paw on a ball.
The base bears a three-character inscription 'Tian Di Xin' (Th[...]
Statuette Qing Dynasty China 19th century in finely carved celadon and coral colored steatite depicting a presumed dignitary Zhang Guǒ dressed in a long drape. Dimensions: 16 cm high X 5 cm wide X 4.5[...]
"Element Of Buddhist Stele In Stone XVIIIth Century Or Earlier" CHINA, XVIIIth century or earlier, Element of Buddhist stele in stone Representing the Buddha in a cellar surrounded by two servants. In[...]
Very rare suit of 4 white to yellow sandstone architectural marquee, with fantastic animals / lions grimacing's corners, surrounded by plants & trees. Period late XVIIth - XVIIIth century, India (Raja[...]
Luohan, object of scholar Considered as the first disciples of the Buddha, the luohan became sixteen and then eighteen in China. Allegories of men having reached wisdom, their effigies are among the o[...]
In the complex and varied corpus of jade carvings that represent the classic theme of the water buffalo, carried out between the late Ming and Qing dynasties, a special place must be reserved for the [...]
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