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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