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$175.00
This elegantly shaped small teapot has finely painted cobalt blue chrysanthemum and bindweed designs in the center and upper registers and plantain leaf designs at the bottom, popular underglaze design elements were widely used in late 19th century in domestic and export wares. Below the short neck is a chain of roundels with nineteen spirals, and the lid is covered with bindweed and wave designs, the latter indicating a sea or lake. The lid is topped by a ball handle topped with a four-line star and the bottom has an abstract plantain leaf design. It is in very good condition with two small chips on the lid and a small chip on the end of the spout. The inside has been stained by more than a century of tea brewing.
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$85.00
Tobacco smoking has been an integral part of Southeast Asian Hill Tribe culture for centuries. Although a single mold-made piece, it is in two distinct parts: a rounded two-part bowl on a flat-footed base and an extended stem. The top of the bowl has articulated pointed spurs on the side and there is an indentation above the lower part decorated with smaller spurs. The stem is decorated with complex traditional molded adornments within parallel sections: double-meander designs, thick lines in relief, and rounded raised ridges ending in a smooth undecorated surface. Its black color is from being fired in a high carbon reduction atmosphere with a lack of oxygen. A bamboo or metal stem was often inserted at the end through which smoke was drawn. There are small chips on the bowl lip and body and a loss on the end of its stem. Otherwise, it is in very good condition. This is a wonderful collectible item the reflects the best of Hill Tribe cultural traditions and would be a unique gift for any pipe smoker, but like all antiques, it is recommended only for decoration.
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$105.00
Antique and vintage ceramic pipes are part of the cultural tradition Burmese and Thai Hill Tribes made by a complex process adorned with intricate designs. A bamboo or metal stem was often inserted at the end through which smoke was drawn. This highly collectible item reflects the Hill Tribe artistic talents in creating function objects and is a unique gift for any pipe smoker, but, like all old items, is recommended only for decoration.
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$105.00
Antique and vintage ceramic pipes are part of the cultural tradition Burmese and Thai Hill Tribes made by a complex process adorned with intricate designs. A bamboo or metal stem was often inserted at the end through which smoke was drawn. This highly collectible item reflects the Hill Tribe artistic talents in creating function objects and is a unique gift for any pipe smoker, but, like all old items, is recommended only for decoration.
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$790.00
Known as the Laughing, Happy, or Fat Buddha, Budai is regarded as a deity of contentment and plenty. Like most Early Chinese Republic porcelains this piece is hand decorated in famille rose enamels with vivid blue, red, and green pigments portrayed as a stout, smiling, bald monk in robes with a large, exposed pot belly surrounded by five children. Since the stomach is considered the seat of the soul in Chinese beliefs, it demonstrates his open heartedness. His wide smile attracts the children surrounding his body indicating his regard for them and his joy when they encircle him and well as the belief he can bequeath families with children.
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$375.00
This 14/15th century round lidded Sawankhalok stoneware bowl rests on a brown glazed foot and is intricately decorated with green and beige glazes. A brown lotus bud handle tops the lid surrounded by hand-painted decorative circles of alternating narrow and wide brown lines. It is elegantly decorated with underglaze black vines and vegetal scrolls on the lid and body atop circular bands on which small amounts of grey-green glaze have dripped.
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$990.00
Yixing stoneware teapots are praised as the best in the world for tea infusion.This gorgeous antique round teapot with a metal handle, tight fitting indented lid and elegant spout is finely decorated with a brown wash and hand applied bright green, blue, yellow and pink enamel designs of mythical figural and floral images symbolizing a wish for a long and healthy life, perfect metaphors for those in the past who used it to share a fresh pot of tea with those they loved. Kiln seals are impressed in the body, bottom and lid.
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$115.00
This charmingly plump white porcelain figurine is a cat teapot/creamer with a raised paw. Unlike others in this genre, it is a single piece without a removable head and, instead, has a large opening on the back below the neck for pouring liquid into the vessel. Its long sinuously curved tail acts as a handle for pouring liquid from the opening at the end of the cat’s paw. It is whimsically and colorfully hand-painted with a thin ribbon-like gold collar with dangling ornamental tassels and red, brown, gold, orange and black accents defining the face, ears, head and paws. Its condition is excellent with minor normal dark dot-like firing imperfections, discoloration and scratches demonstrating its age and use.
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