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Decorative, antique Chinese scholar’s porcelain brush pot from the Qing Dynasty. Scene with ladies and children. Famille rose porcelain, Jia Qing period bottom mark (大清嘉庆年制) but probably later made, before ca 1875.
Diameter: 8 cm, height: 11,5 cm. Good condition, well painted.
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Most attractive, semi-transparent Lizhi-dong stone (荔枝洞). It has its name because it almost looks like the Lizhi-fruit.
It is similar to the Kangtoujing-Stone抗頭晶 or Kangtou shui-dong-stone (炕頭水洞) but of warmer white.
Very good carving with strong expression of the Buddha Maitreya (Mi-Lo-Fo).
46 x 25 mm. The string is rather new.
Warm, pleasant tone of the stone.
This kind of stone belongs to the Shou-Shan specis. The Lizhidong stones are quite expensive, especially when nearly transparent.
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China, Qing Dynasty: Gilded wood carving with a rider (immortal) on a mythical creature, a Qilin, holding a big piece of gold.
Hand carved wood that has been gilded over red lacquer. Detailed work, strong facial expression of the rider.
40 x 80 x 120 mm, good condition.
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Most decorative Chinese overlaid snuff bottle. It depicts the famous vanquisher of ghosts, Zhong Kui (Chinese: 钟馗). Three layers of colours ( red, black and brown) have been well carved to depict this scene with Zhong Kui, his pupil with Lingzhi (mushroom) and bats.
Liuli stopper with metal spoon. Size: 46 x 22 x 44 mm
Artist signed, small carved seals. Very good condition.
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Chinese snuff bottle, brown agate with darker spots. Depicted are a dancer, rocks and a house. Coral top with metal-spoon.
51 x 28 x 62 mm, very good condition.
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Old Chinese Leisure Seal by Luo Zhenyu. Old Chinese leisure seal, marbled stone, by the artist 罗振玉 Luo Zhenyu (? – 1940).
4 characters as actual seal: xiu wu zhi shi 修武之事 (embellish military matters).Side engraving with his artist name: 陆庵 Lu An.
9 x 9 x 59 mm, good condition.
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Attractive old Chinese boxwood carving from begin of last century (Netsuke, Toggle) in shape of a lotus leaf next a lotus calyx Form.
The leaf forms a river with a fish which can be moved back and forth.
By moving the fish one can conjure prosperity. The lotus seeds can be moved too.
2,4 x 2,4 x 1,1 inches (5,9 x 5,8 x 3,1 cm). Good condition.
Minor surface irritation at upper part, left of the calyx but no crack.
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Chinese seal, greenish Shou shan stone, engraved by the important seal carver 顾沅 Gu Yuan.
4 characters as actual seal: 虚而不屈 xu er bu qu (void but not wrong).
Side engraving with details.20 x 20 x 43 mm, good condition.
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A pair of ocher-brown stone seals, carved by the important seal carver 谢磊明 Xie Leiming (1884 – 1963).
As seal engraved are the characters: 江山为助笔纵横 笔补造化天无功 jiang shan wei zhu bi zhongheng, bi bu zaohua tian wu gong. (Rivers and mountains halp the brush to weave [landscapes], the brush corrects what heaven failed to create).
It is a line from a Tang-Dynasty poem.
Side engraving with details and each signed: Xie Leiming.
謝磊明Xie Leiming was an early member of the famous Xiling Seal-society, 西泠印社.Each one is 29 x 30 x 42 mm, good condition.
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Antique Chinese snuff bottle. Transparent glass with an overlay of ruby-red glass, carved in relief, with motives of scholars under pine trees, playing chess and reading a scroll.
Rather large object: 3,5 x 4,4 x 1,5 inches (88 x 110 x 35 mm). Very fine condition.
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