Ceramics and Pottery

Ceramics and pottery are generalized terms for clay objects shaped and fired into a hard, inelastic, non-eroding and heat-resistant objects. There are 3 pottery types: earthenware, stoneware and porcelain which differ because of the temperatures at which they are fired and ingredients that are mixed in the clay before firing. Earthenware and terracotta are synonymous pottery forms that are fired at low temperatures, while stoneware and porcelain are made with added ingredients mixed with the clay and by increasing the firing temperatures. Ceramics in our collection include pieces from China, ancient Rome and the Holy Land, India, Japan and Southeast Asia.

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    Antique Blue and White Porcelain Miniature Teapot, China (4056A-ZOK) $175

    Original price was: $175.00.Current price is: $148.75.
    H: 5.25”  W: 4.75”  D: 2.375” | FREE SHIPPING!

    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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    Antique Ceramic Hill Tribe Pipe, Burma/Myanmar (3474A-WKE) $85

    Original price was: $85.00.Current price is: $72.25.
    H: 2”  W: 1.75”  D: 4” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    Antique and vintage ceramic tobacco pipes are part of a long cultural tradition of Burmese/Myanmar and Thai hill tribes. Mould made and adorned with intricate designs, a bamboo or metal stem was often inserted at the end through which smoke was drawn. This highly collectible antique item reflects hill-tribe skills creating decorative functional objects and would be a unique gift for any pipe smoker, but, like all antique items, we recommended it be used as a decorative item.

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    Antique Ceramic Wall Pocket Double Chopsticks Holder, China, Shiwan (19325A-GHK) $185

    Original price was: $185.00.Current price is: $157.25.
    H: 7.125″ W: 8.375″ D: 3.75″  |  FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.

    This Shiwan green chopsticks holder is divided into two parts with holes on top for hanging and small holes on the bottom for drainage. Chopsticks were often wedding gifts from mothers to daughters with many auspicious wishes: phrases for sons as soon as possible, upside down bats with coins and ribbon meaning “blessings in front of your eyes,”  and border clouds and thunder symbolizing life-giving rain and abundance.

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    Antique Clay Hill Tribe Ceramic Pipe, Burma/Myanmar (3474C-WKE) $105

    Original price was: $105.00.Current price is: $89.25.
    H: 1.875”  W: 1.75”  D: 4” | FREE SHIPPING!

    Antique and vintage ceramic tobacco pipes are part of a long cultural tradition of Burmese/Myanmar and Thai hill tribes. Mould made and adorned with intricate designs, a bamboo or metal stem was often inserted at the end through which smoke was drawn. This highly collectible antique item reflects hill-tribe skills creating decorative functional objects and would be a unique gift for any pipe smoker, but, like all antique items, we recommended it be used as a decorative item.

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    Antique Clay Hill Tribe Pipe, Burma/Myanmar (3474B-WKE) $85

    Original price was: $85.00.Current price is: $72.25.
    H: 2”  W: 1.75”  D: 4” | FREE SHIPPING!

    Antique and vintage ceramic tobacco pipes are part of a long cultural tradition of Burmese/Myanmar and Thai hill tribes. Mould made and adorned with intricate designs, a bamboo or metal stem was often inserted at the end through which smoke was drawn. This highly collectible antique item reflects hill-tribe skills creating decorative functional objects and would be a unique gift for any pipe smoker, but, like all antique items, we recommended it be used as a decorative item.

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    Antique Glazed Opium Pillow, Shiwan, China (3849A-ZHK) $235

    Original price was: $235.00.Current price is: $199.75.
    H: 7.25″ W: 5″ D: 5″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    This five-sided Shiwan stoneware pillow with slanted top, open bottom, vibrant glazed surface, and etched coin and diamond design was used for smoking opium as the cool shell cradled the users’ heads and necks and offset the warmth of smoking and the hollow inside stored valuables. We have another which can be paired with it. If a candle is placed inside it emits an amazing shadowy form of a coin, which appealed to those in an opium state.

     

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    Antique Large Sawankhalok Stoneware Lidded Bowl, Thailand (3168GOM) $215

    Original price was: $215.00.Current price is: $182.75.
    H: 4.25”  Dia: 5″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    This finely designed 14/15th century globular stoneware box resting on a short foot has an olive-brown glazed lotus bud handle surrounded by radiating radiating lightly glazed petals above a band of geometric shapes. The body is lyrically ornamented with an intricate scroll of white, light glazed and incised colored branches and florals on an olive-brown glaze background. Its fine appearance is a result of the unusual lovely olive-brown surface with a glaze applied sparsely in some areas and thicker in others to offset the vegetal scrolls.

     

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    Antique Porcelain Famille Rose Laughing Buddha, China (17038LMK) $850

    Original price was: $850.00.Current price is: $722.50.
    H: 10.25” W: 9.5” D: 4.5” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.

    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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    Antique Rare 5pc Piece Stoneware Altar Set, Shiwan Kiln, China (16901BLKE) SPECIAL PRICE

    Original price was: $2,950.00.Current price is: $2,507.50.
    H: 15.25″ W: 24-30″ D: 5″ | EMAIL [email protected] OR CALL 213-568-3030 FOR SHIPPING COST

    This rare 5 piece green glazed Shiwan stoneware altar set consists of a censor at the center flanked on each side by a pair of candlestick holders and vases. Each elegant piece has a coordinated glaze and decorative and structural designs with intricate, well-proportioned features to combine as a wish for symbolic wish for the fulfillment of all of one’s wishes including the 5-blessings (longevity, health, wealth, a virtuous life, a natural death).

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    Antique Rare Set of Ming Ceramic Attendants, China (3224)

    Original price was: $4,985.00.Current price is: $4,237.25.

    Earthenware ceramics of all kinds – figures of attendants, musicians and entertainers, miniature furniture, architectural models, animals – included mould made ancestral objects used specifically for burials called mingqi (“bright…

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    Antique Sawankhalok Glazed Stoneware Lidded Bowl, Thailand (1001BLC) $295

    Original price was: $295.00.Current price is: $250.75.
    H: 4.25”  D: 4.625” | FREE SHIPPING within Continental U.S.!

    This gazed stoneware lidded bowl rests on a solid well-cut foot and has a close-fitting cover. The lid’s center has a lotus bud handle with a surrounding linear medallion on the top. Alternating panels have underglaze brown crosshatching and vegetal scrolls beginning on the lid, continuing below to the body and each pane separated by a series of vertical and circular lines.

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    Antique Sawankhalok Lidded Bowl, Fruit Stem Handle, Thailand (3170BLE) $385

    Original price was: $385.00.Current price is: $327.25.
    Ht. 3.375”  Dia 4.625″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL US!

    This stoneware Sawankhalok lidded jar was made in the famous Sukhothai kilns in Thailand in the 14-15th century. The distinctive local Thai design is unique in the history of ceramic making as seen in this elegant mangosteen shape lidded jar with curved stem handle and a round raised calyx, and stylized incised floral and geometric designs. The lid has a circle of radiating leaf-like projections that protects a developing flower and represents a mangosteen, the delicious sweet tropical fruit loved throughout Southeast Asia. This is truly a remarkable example of the power and grace of antique Thai ceramics.  A similar piece can be seen in the renowned Powerhouse Digital Archive Collection.

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