Ceramics by Era
A White Glazed Kundika, Late Tang/Five Dynasties Period (618 - 960)
The globular body supported on a slightly spreading foot, rising to a tall waisted neck collared by a flange and surmounted by a long tapering tubular mouth.
A Changsha Straw Glazed Pottery Ewer, Tang Dynasty (618 - 907)
A Tang Dynasty brownish green glazed pottery cover Ewer, of globular form set on a short foot; with moulded handle and sprout.
Large Sancai Gazed Peony Plate, Liao Dynasty (916-1125)
The Thickly potted sancai plate is a superb example of Liao Dynasty pottery. The plate interior is decorated with a chrysanthemum flower.
A Rare Bottom Filling Water Olive Green Glazed Teapot, Five Dynasties of the Period (907 - 960)
The globular body mounted with an arched fish-head handle terminating with a domed floral bloom on top, the other shoulder set with a spout.
A Large Painted Pottery Figure of a Pranking Horse, Tang Dynasty (618 - 917)
Horses in Tang-dynasty China were admired for their speed, with strength and intelligence, and not only were they important in the realms of travel and war.
A Stem Wine/Tea Lotus Flower-Shaped Cup, Qingbai Ware, Song Dynasty (960 – 1279)
Qingbai cup stands with pierced trefoil motifs first appeared in the eleventh century.
A Song Blue-White Glaze Of The Archaic Bronze Hu Form, Song Dynasty (960-1279)
A well potted Guan-type stoneware vase of archaic bronze Hu form with rectangular body, the narrow neck is franked with two cloud-like ears.
A Rare Jun Purple-Splashed Carved Dragon Bottle Vase, Song Dynasty (960 - 1279)
The well potted pear-shaped vase rises to a tall slender neck entrenched with a molded dragon, flanked by two tubular ears, gently flaring to the mouth rim.
Song Jun-Style Tripod Wine Vessel, Song Dynasty (960 – 1279)
Crafted on Archaic bronze form with two mushroom-capped supports, with a dragon like handle at one side.
A Rare Bottom Filling Water Olive Green Glazed Carved Yaozhou Ewer, Northern Song And Period (960 - 1127)
Boldly carved with three large peony blossoms surrounded by clusters of leaves on curling stems filling the rounded sides of the upright ovoid body.
A Guan Ware Cracked Glaze Bamboo Joint Neck Vase, Northern Song And Period (960 – 1127)
A compressed globular body with a cylindrical neck and flanged mouth, decorated with five raised rings: three around the neck.
A Guan Type Twin-Handle Censer, Southern Song And Period (1127 - 1176)
A well potted Ge-ware censer of archaistic Gui form with twin side handles, and flared lip, with a circular pattern of small raised glaze-breaks interior.
A Rare Guan Ware Brown Glazed Double Ear Vase, Song Dynasty (960 - 1127)
A thickly potted Vase has an oval shaped body, overall in opage brown glaze thinning at the everted rim with dark brown colour.
A Rare Pale Blue Ru Ware Foliated Rim Vase, Northern Song and Period (960 - 1127)
Well potted long cylindrical body, supported on a short slight tapered foot, the waisted neck sweeping up to the everted rim.
A Superb Sky Green Glaze Ru Ware Double Ears Vase, Northern Song (960-1279)
A well-propositioned and potted vase with poem by Song Hui Zong and seal, supported on splay foot and a waisted neck franked by two cloud-like ears.
A Ru Ware Sky Cyan Glaze Gilt Gold Lotus Petal Shaped Brush Washer, Southern Song (1127-1279)
The shallow rounded sides subtly divided into ten lotus petal shaped lobe rising to a foliate rim covered overall in sky cyan glaze.
A Purple-Splashed Peach-Shaped Jun Yao Dish, Song Dynasty And Period (960 - 1279)
Finely potted with shallow sides rising from a carefully cut foot ring to a slightly inverted rim, applied overall save for the foot ring.
An Extremely Rare Ru ‘Sky-Blue’ Tea Bowl, Northern Song Dynasty (960 - 1279)
The bowl is exquisitely potted with rounded sides supported on a short foot. It is covered overall in a bluish-green glaze.
A Song Ding-Style Dark Brown Glaze Wine/Tea Bowl & Saucer, Song Dynasty (960 - 1127)
Song Dynasty Dark Brown Glazed Porcelain Wine or Tea Bowl, the footed wine bowl with glazed mouth rim, the body shaped like lotus leaf.
A Ru-Style Blue Glaze Wine Warmer, Song Dynasty and Period (960 to 1279)
Pale blue/green glazed Song Dynasty Ceramic Wine Warmer with carved Qing Qianlong poems around the fluted lotus shaped petals.
A ‘Guan’-Type Lotus Flower-Shaped Brush Washer, Southern Song Dynasty (1127 - 1279)
Robustly potted in the form of a large two layers lotus flower with shallow rounded sides, the base with tiny spur marks characteristic of Song dynasty.
A Rare Ge-Type Lobed Bowl, Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279)
The shallow rounded sides subtly divided into nine lotus petal shaped lobe rising to a foliate rim is covered overall in a crackled dark green glaze.
A Ru Style Lobed Brush Washer, Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279)
The mallow flower shape washer is superbly potted with shallow rounded sides subtly divided into six fluted lobes and rising to a foliate rim.
A Fine Blue Glaze Ru-ware Mallow-Shaped Brush Washer, Northern Song Dynasty (960 - 1127)
The Ru mallow-shaped brush washer is covered with a beautiful soft and translucent greyish blue glaze suffused with a matrix of iron wire crackles.
A Rare ‘Oilflow’ Blue-White Glazed Conical Bowl, Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279)
The rounded body covered on the interior with a lustrous blue-white glaze radiating pattern of ‘flowing’ blue-white glaze.
Song Ru Ware Greyish Blue Celadon Glaze Narcissus Pot, Song Dynasty (960 - 1279)
Floral-shaped narcissus basin with celadon glaze, Ru ware. The sides of the basin are evenly moulded into ten petal lobes rising up to an everted, conforming lobed mouth rim.
A rare Ru Ware Lavender Grey Glaze Celadon ‘double-fish’ vase, Song Dynasty (960 - 1279)
Modelled as two conjoined fish with tails forming the foot, covered overall in a lavender grey glaze with fresh pink colour on the eyes, handles and fins.
Pale Green Celadon Glaze Imperial Guan-Ware Vase, Song Dynasty (960 - 1279)
Well potted with two cloud-shaped ears at the side of its three-ringed neck rising from a pear shape body to a trumpet-shaped rim
A Rare ’YingQing‘ Moulded Double Phoenix Bowl, Southern Song Dynasty (1127 - 1279)
Thinly potted, deep bowl with gently sloping sides rising from a short straight foot to an unglazed rim (was previously coated with silver).
An Elegant Guan Ware Octagonal Vase, Song Dynasty (960 - 1279)
Elegantly potted, of pear shape and octagonal section, resting on a straight foot of similar octagonal shape, rising from a swelling body and tapering to a gently everted mouth.
An Exceptional Celadon ‘Zun’ Vessel With Moulded Lotus Petal, Northern Dynasty (960 - 1127)
Celadon zun (a kind of wine vessel) in lotus shape from the Northern Dynasty with gorgeous pattern and well-rounded shape, a representative work of northern celadon.
A Rare Reverse Decorated Powder Blue Glazed "Monk's cap” Ewer, Yuan Dynasty and Period (1271-1368)
Sapphire-Blue-Glazed ewer with the cover and the shape of a monk’s cap, decorated with a white dragon on each side of the bulbous body.
An Elegant Longquan Celadon Vase with Floral Decoration, Yuan Dynasty (1271 – 1368)
A well-potted Longquan celadon bulbous vase with incised floral decoration, over an elaborate petal lappet at the bottom.
A Rare Copper Red Under Glaze Vase, Yuhuchunping, Yuan Dynasty and Period (1271-1368)
The elegantly potted pear-shaped body rising from a short foot ring to a generously rounded body and an elegant waisted neck.
A Very Rare Copper-Red Underglaze Octagonal Ewer. Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368)
The elegant ewer of octagonal section, the lozenge-shaped panels on the body is decorated with two sinuous white dragon typical of the Yuan.
A Celadon Glaze Longquan Ware Ewer With Cap, Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368)
A rare celadon glazed slander ewer, Yuan period, the wine ewer decorated with dragon and phoenix surrounding the Chinese word of longevity.
A Rare Large Reverse-Decorated Powder-Blue Sinuous Dragon Dish, Yuan Dynasty (1271 - 1368)
Well potted with shallow rounded sides resting on a short foot, the interior is decorated with a sinuous white dragon typical of Yuan Dynasty.
A Rare Molded Blue and White Barbed Rim Disk, Yuan Dynasty (1271 -1368)
The intricate web of this ravishing pattern is a tour-de-force of porcelain decoration and a showpiece of the adaptability of Yuan Dynasty’s painters.
A Very Rare Blue And Copper Red Octagonal Jar, Guan, Yuan Dynasty (1271 - 1368)
Very sophisticatedly potted and of octagonal baluster form, with rounded faceted sides rising from a slightly waisted base to a shoulder collar and a short neck
A Very Unique and Rare Large Yuan Cobalt Blue and Copper Red Charger, Yuan Dynasty (1271 - 1368)
Of a shallow dish body with a flora petal-barbed rim. The central medallion well-painted in copper red crane among lingzhi clouds, encircled by six cobalt blue panels of various designs and in a radiating pattern, another six copper read ruyi clouds each containing the same design of crane.
A Very Rare Cobalt Blue and Copper Red ‘Fish Pond’ Charger, Yuan Dynasty (1271 - 1368)
Sturdily potted with rounded sides rising from a short foot to an everted barbed rim, painted with vivid shades of cobalt-blue and copper red to the interior with two fishes swimming amongst waterweeds and other aquatic plants.
A Rare Large Blue And White 'Dragon' Charger, Yuan Dynasty (1271 - 1368)
The large well-potted body with rounded sides resting on a short slightly tapering foot to an everted barbed rim.
A Unique Blue And White Dish, Yuan Dynasty (1271 - 1368)
The intricate web of this ravishing pattern is a tour-de-force of porcelain decoration and a showpiece of the adaptability of Jingdezhen’s porcelain painters.
Blue Underglaze Dragon Vase, MeiPing, Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368)
Baluster form with short neck with flared rim with narrow opening over wide tapered shoulders; hand painted in underglaze blue depicting Yuan style three-clawed dragon.
A Rare Blue And White Barbed 'Lotus Pond' Charger, Yuan Dynasty (1279-1366)
Sturdily potted with shallow rounded sides rising from a short tapered foot to a wide everted bracket-lobed rim, the interior centred with a medallion densely decorated with clumps of flowering lotus.
A Very Rare Yuan Blue And White Pear-Shaped 'Dragon' Vase, Yuhuchunping, Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368)
The full, pear-shaped body raised straight from the flat base, rising to a slender neck and everted trumpet mouth, freely painted in vivid tones of purplish-blue cobaltwith a powerful striding three-clawed dragon among ruyi-shaped clouds.
A Rare Blue and White Dragon Octagonal Ewer, Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)
The octagonal ever is finely decorated in varied tones of rich cobalt blue on the body with lozenge-shaped panels with a dragon across them.
A Copper Red Under Glaze Dragon Design Stem Cup, Ming Dynasty, Hong Wu Period (1368-1398)
The cup is of deep rounded form flaring to a slightly everted rim, supported by a hollow cylindrical tapering stem foot.
A Rare Copper Red Under Glazed Flora Decorated Plate, Ming Dynasty, Hong Wu Period (1368-1398)
A very rare example of early Ming Hongwu period, with shallow and conical form, rising to an everted ribbed rim, decorated in the interior.
A Rare Ming Blue And White Under Glazed Porcelain, Ming Dynasty, Yongle Period (1402-1424)
The form of this Ewer is based on a near eastern metal shape. It sits on four short feet and has two pointed ends the central stem has a garlic shape.
A Superb Blue and White 'Garden Landscape' Charger, Ming Dynasty, Yongle period (1403-1425)
Finely potted with rounded sides rising from a short tapered foot to a wide everted rim, superbly painted in rich inky tone of cobalt-blue.
A Blue and White Glaze Garlic-Mouth Vase, Ming Dynasty, Xuande Period (1425-1435)
The blue glazed sculpted dragon sweeping upwards from the neck to the garlic head. On the bulbous body, shrubs and bird superbly painted.
A Rare Chinese Blue And White 'Flower And Wave' Censer And Cover, Ming Dynasty, Xuande Period (1425-1435)
Of globe form, raised on a spreading foot, the cover surmounted with a garlic-head finial, pierced with four trefoil vents.
A Rare Blue And White With Sanskrit Script Ewer, Ming Dynasty, Xuande Period (1425-1435)
Modelled after the metal prototype, elegantly potted with a broad cylindrical body decorated with Sanskrit script, rising to a rounded shoulder.
A Rare Blue and White ‘Dragon’ Glaze Stem Bowl, Ming Dynasty and Period (1425-1435)
The bowl is supported on a cylindrical hollow slightly splay foot surrounded with band of banana petal motifs, exterior with two dragons.
A Rare Copper Red Blue White Under Glaze Teapot, Ming Xuande and Period (1427-1437)
Elegantly potted copper red, blue white underglaze teapot with a bamboo-shaped handle. The Bell-shaped body is decorated with ruyi in blue glaze.
A Blue and White Under Glaze ‘Grape’ Bowl, Ming Dynasty, Chenghua and Period (1464-1487)
Elegantly potted with a wide and deep well, walls tapering sharply inward above the tall foot and painted with fruiting grape vines and sugar canes.
A Blue and White Bowl with Phoenix and Dragon Design, Ming Dynasty, Chenghua Mark and Period (1465-1487)
The Mallow-shaped bowl is tapering inwards sharply and above a short foot, the bowl is paper-thin, decorated with alternate Dragon and Phoenix.
A Finely Enamelled Wucai “Dragon” Jar Mark, Ming Dynasty, Period of Jiajing (1522-1566)
The vessel is well proportioned with a short straight neck and a low foot ring, vividly painted in intense tones of the wucai palette.
A Very Rare Ming Doucai Dragon Bowl, Ming Dynasty, Longqing and Period (1567-1572)
Well-proportioned and finely potted bowl with a wide and deep well, decorated with green and red dragons chasing after a flaming pearl at the exterior.
An Important Large Early Ming Copper-Red Decorated Lobed Charger, Ming Dynasty, HongWu Period (1368-1398)
The charger is painted in copper-red of varying shades of raspberry-red tones, the central medallion designed with peony blooms growing from three leafy stems within a double line border.
A Rare And Beautiful WuCai Monk's Cap Ewer, Ming Dynasty, ChengHua Period (1464 - 1487)
The ewer is potted with a globular body with flora decoration around the neck, the mid-section comprising two dragons each chasing after a flaming ball, all above thrashing sea waves.
A Fine Outstanding Cobalt Blue White Dragon Moon Flash, Ming Dynasty, Yongle Period (1402 - 1424)
Modelled after a Middle Eastern metal prototype, elegantly potted with a flattened spherical body set, rising to a slightly waisted neck.
A Massive Doucai Octagonal Lidded Jar, Ming Dynasty, Jiajing Period (1522 - 1566)
Exceptionally potted doucai lidded jar and of octagonal baluster form, with rounded faceted sides rising from a slightly waisted base to a shoulder collar and a short neck
A Very Rare Fahua Jar, Jia Qing, Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644)
Robustly potted of bulbous form, the rounded shoulder tapering off to the bottom, surmounted by a short neck with short rim, finely moulded and incised around the exterior.
A Rare Copper-Red Decorated Dragon Moon Flask, Ming Dynasty, Xuande Period (1426-1435)
The oval shaped body of this moon flask is delightfully painted in copper red of vivid strawberry tones on bothsides with a powerful striking three-clawed dragon.
A Fine And Rare Blue And White Barbed 'Floral Scroll' Dish, Ming Dynasty, Xuande Period (1403-1425).
Very finely potted with shallow rounded sides, rising from a upright short foot to a barbed everted rim, beautifully and richly painted in shades of cobalt accented with the 'heaped and piled' effect.
An Exceptional Blue and White Floral Twin Bird Charger, Ming Dynasty, Xuande Period (1403-1425)
The large charger finely and confidently painted on the interior medallion with two bird perched on fruiting camellia branches, the birds' arched bodies leaning towards each other.
An Exceptional Cobalt Blue ‘Parrot’ Peach Charger, Ming Dynasty, Xuande Period (1425 - 1435)
Very finely potted with shallow rounded sides divided into twelve bracket foliations, rising from a short tapered foot to a barbed everted rim.
An Exquisite Doucai Olive-Shape Vase, Ming Dynasty, Chenghua Period (1465 - 1487)
Exquisitely painted with two dragons amidst phoenix spray, the delicacy of the vase is further accentuated by the scrolling tendrils that cover the white ground.
A Superb Blue and White Palace Bowl, Ming Dynasty, Chenghua Period (1465 - 1487)
Cobalt-blue gently undulating meanders of day lily, a flower design that appears for the first time in early 15th century blue and white porcelain.
An exceptionally rare and important blue and white moon flask, Ming dynasty, Yongle period (1403-1424)
Elegantly potted, the full-bodied swelling flask with a flattened globular body of elongated section, surmounted by a slender cylindrical neck flanked by two scroll handles and resting on a slightly concave flat base.
An Exceptional Cobalt Blue Reverse White Dragon Charger, Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644)
This exceptional charger painted in deep cobalt blue features a central medallion of a reverse design of a carved writhing dragon against a hatched cobalt blue background.
A Fine, Outstanding And Rare Blue And White Moon Flask, Bianhu, Ming Dynasty, Yongle Period (1403 - 1425)
Modelled after a Middle Eastern metal prototype, elegantly potted with a flattened spherical body, rising to a garlic neck flanked by a pair of loop handles with ruyi-shaped terminals on the shoulders.
A Very Fine Cobalt Blue Underglaze Dragon Charger, Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644)
With shallow rounded sides rising from a short foot to a barbed rim, the medallion is superbly decorated in rich cobalt-blue tones with a five-clawed dragons dancing sinuously amidst ruyi clouds.
An Exceptional Blue And White ‘Dragon And Pheonix’ Charger, Ming Dynasty, Xuande Period (1425 - 1435)
Sturdily potted with shallow rounded sides rising from a short tapered foot to a wide everted bracket-lobed rim.
A Famille-Rose '5 Dragon' Bottle Vase, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong and Period (1735 - 1796)
Well potted with a globular body supported on a flat base, sweeping up to a waisted neck and straight rim, deftly decorated around the exterior.
A Very Rare Flambe-Glazed Faceted Cowpea Red Glazed “Bamboo Neck” Vase, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Mark and Period (1661-1722)
Vases of this form, called Xuanwenping ('string’ pattern vase) are potted with two different types of mouth rim, either a wide dish-shaped mouth.
A Small Black-Glaze Bottle Vase, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi and of Period (1661 - 1722)
The bulbous body rising to a tall, slender neck, the exterior covered overall in a black glaze, supported on a short upright foot.
A Fine White-Glaze Bottle Vase, Qing Dynasty, Seal Mark and period of Kangxi (1661 - 1722)
The pear-shaped body rising from a straight foot to a tall cylindrical neck, with a single raised ring, covered overall in a transparent glaze.
A Fine Tea-dust Glaze Bottle Vase-Tianqiuping, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Seal Mark (1736-1795)
Stoutly potted with a globular body rising form a upright foot to a tall cylindrical neck, applied overall with a mottled olive-green glaze.
A Famille Rose Purple-Ground ‘Floral’ Bowl, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong And Of Period (1735-1796)
The bowl has rounded sides with a straight foot and rising to a slightly everted rim. The exterior is enamelled with four red circled roundels.
A Yellow Ground Famille-Rose Dish, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi and Period (1661-1722)
With shallow rounded sides, beautifully decorated with west lake stones, peony, camellia, birds, etc., are vitriol red glaze on a lemon-yellow interior.
Famille Rose Red-Ground Medallion Bowl, Qing Dynasty, QianLong Period (1735 - 1796)
Bowl used exclusively in the imperial court. The traditional point of view is that the bowls were made, decorated with underglaze blue and the seal mark.
A Yellow Ground DayaZhai TianQiuPing Vase Marked Yong Qing Chang Chun, Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)
Massively potted with a globular body, surmounted with a relatively short neck flaring slightly toward the rim
An Elegant And Large Dayazhai Yellow Ground Meiping Vase, Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)
Stoutly potted, the tapering body rising from a straight foot to rounded shoulders, sweeping up to a short cylindrical neck and a wide everted rim.