No-Reserve AUCTION-ASIA Benefit Sale

Interesting Pair of Face-type small Stone Amulets that were sewn on clothes or worn in the hair. Yunnan province and E.Zhou to Han period. The left-

Brown Jade DRAGON from the ancient State of Zhongshan - currently part of Shanxi Province. It is nicely carved and polished, with some tomb corrosion

Western Zhou Period, this Plaque features a zigzag edge, bevel-carvings and incised line designs. Such a complex piece is usually for a magic functi

Wonderful hand-made miniature beads from Very Hard Banded Agate. What the ancients "commented" about Agate is not known, but they put a l...

About 3" long and not yet "sharpened". These were a form of Bronze Bullion Money - traded for their metal and later sharpened when a...

11-1/2" of parallel marble plaques that were used as a choker. Double holed, excellent patina: organic beads (not surviving) may have gone the...

Used as a base for Money Trees, with very high auction records. Artifact published in many important museum collections….the pottery has survived whe

PAIR of quality Manchurian White Jade Rings of the Eastern ZHOU Period. Twist design, likely attached with bronze wire that did not survive. Very ha

Western ZHOU Period, this fine cremated plaque is of Lantian Jade of Shaanxi province. Broken in the center and repaired, the seam of repair has not

Thin and well-made, the material is Pale "Yellow" Jade (actually yellow-green) with brown cloudy inclusions, and of the Hongshan Jade type...

Used as Prayer Beads by Buddhist practitioners, these may have been made during the pre-Buddhist Han period, but kept or found and later adopted for a

Of provincial manufacture and use, it may have been made for trade to a Tribal leader. The Jade is a hard and porous Manchurian material from Liaoning

A nice group of 9 Eastern Zhou ceramic beads with varying but similar "magic eyes" in compatible subdued colors. In the vicinity of 1/2&qu...

Both of the pair have nice trailing brown decoration on the Blue faience-surfaced body, and measure about 1" in size. They make a nice compari...

Fun collectible, this dark brown sky-stone fell in Northern Thailand and developed a nice fustion crust from the heat of traversing earths atmosphere

Fine form with Tao'T'ieh masks above lug handles, three bands of decoration on the upper body and a nice glazed flared mouth rim…all in a pl...

Large and important Han pottery figure, 14" tall, 9-1/4" wide and about 4" deep. He would have been made to accompany the aristocrati...

Dull-green Yueh pot, nicely formed with Tao'T'ieh Mask Handles and three concentric bands or panels of decoration around the upper body. Th...

A buff glaze sits over a tan body (base area) that fired reddish at the mouth and an area near the glaze end. The glaze shows scattered losses around

A proto-Kendi form, with glaze stopping just short of the bulbous protruding foot rim that surrounds a flat and pinkish clay base. A single green spl

This green-glazed jar from North China is late Tang to Liao period….when this style was dominant (9th-12th C.) Covered with the important "se...

Pair of standing wooden Buddhist Monks or Devotees with hands pressed together in the Namaskar Mudra (traditional gesture of Prayer and now blessing).

Northern Sung period, nicely potted with a good cover, the glaze goes down to the smooth base and the spout is perfect. A stylized Phoenix adorns eac

Likely face of a Spirit or Deity, the pacific image is prominently raised with simplified eyes, high nose and ovoid mouth. The ears are simply squaris

The rectangular panel depicts a fierce Lion-Protector (Buddhist) at the right, and a worshipful Dakini (?) with 5-emblem crown and Naga-snake protecto

Three cutout Low-Gold Figures, the largest being of the Liao Princess and the two smaller of her spiritual attendants. They seem to test to a 3 to 5 K

An elongated Copper panel with deeply embossed images of two Phoenix Birds with extremely elongated tails and holding long-stemmed Lotus Buds in their

A neat, thumb-sized carving of a Seated Bear (an important ancient symbol to the Chinese) in fine Turquoise, in the unique but totally characteristic

Early White Marble carving of a God or Spirit (ancestral?) found in a remote area of South China about 1992. Folksy and funky, his image may have com

Complete and partially working, I believe this is both the largest of the projectile-trigger type from ancient times as well as the largest known meta

Nicely designed and potted, on the model of a working brass Cooking Pot (which would have had longer legs), this Tomb container was used to house cook

…or Entertainer. He stands tall with a ball in his right hand, ready for…? Was he a Juggler? An Acrobat? An expert at knocking down Milk Cans? Or di

Made-for-the-tomb chicken that came from South China….and was purchased in Flushing, NY about 12 years ago from a Chinese dealer who brought it out.

Another example of tomb art, this neat sculpture in grey hardstone is reputed to have been uneartherd in Hunan province. Dating to the Han dynasty (2

Their form is unusual and an extension of the ancient "split Bi" types. Of very fine white Nephrite, they are 1-1/4" tall and well m...

Carved from a thick and heavy (55-60# or so) piece of Marble, he is in the dhyana asana (padmasana) position with closed or downcast eyes in meditatio

Of squat form, the Jar has most of the original "Sung Brown" glaze on its upper part, a small mouth and nice encrustation from the sea. Fo...

Found in the Sulu Sea region of Southern Mindanao, the Philippines, this pair of Guangdong "hole-in-the-bottom" ware are 17th C. or earlie...

A lovely HONEY-BROWN GLAZE is seen under the encrustation on this 5" tall by 5" across, perfect condition Chinese jar. Yuan or early Ming...

A very scarce type dated by others to the Chinese Yuan period (c. 14th C.), this pair of deeply molded design miniature plates or saucers was found of

Similar to Lot 184, the PAIR are darker color and the one has a very dark brown stain on its upper surface that I have not tried to clean. A bargain

A very scarce Chinese decalware in Blue & White, this large saucer of 6" across is from an archaeologically-dated wreck in the sea off Java...

Interesting bowl and companion to lot 185, it sports nice decal decoration on both upper and under surfaces, with light sea-staining. 4-1/8" ac...

Same shipwreck as above and possibly Singapore ware, it retains amazing lustre on its brown glaze. 5-9/16" across and perfect.

A fine Chinese Celadon with a pale green color and choice combed and incised decoration, this large rice bowl is 6-3/4" across and 2-3/4" ...

Same wreck as #188 but the glaze is amazingly lustrous and intact. 6-7/8" across by 2-7/8" tall, it is incised with fluid cloud decoratio...

Made famous by the Hoi An California auction at Butterfields in 2000, this is one of the nicest standard bowls from that recovery in Vietnam. Those b

A scarcer design, this distinctive Annamese Fish bowl is 9-5/8" across and 2-1/4" tall. The color is a bit faded and the glaze degraded w...

A folksy, desirable design combined with great color and excellent glaze place this among the top 20% conditionally of finds from the Hoi An wreck. 9

A scarce figural from the HOI AN Wreck, three can be seen in lot 1756 of the Butterfields auction catalog. Well-cleaned, on correct greyish clay, it