Antique Chinese Blue underglaze Qing dish. 18th-19th century with no chips, cracks, or restorations. 6.75" Great early piece of Chinese porcelain from an old collection of predominantly Ming porcelain. isshelf

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Antique Chinese Blue underglaze Qing dish. 18th-19th century with no cracks, chips, or restorations. 6.25" Great early piece of chinese porcelain from an old collection of predominantly Ming porcelain. isshelf

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Antique Chinese Blue underglaze shallow bowl. 7" wide with no cracks, chips, or restorations, good early piece of Chinese porcelain fresh to the market. chinadrawer

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Antique Chinese Bowl Famille Rose Cobalt Blue Bats. Nice piece late Quing<br>Dynasty 19th century very small flake on footrim no other cracks, chips, or<br>restorations. 6" wide x 3" tall.<br>B49

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Antique Chinese Bowl with polychrome enamel. 6" wide x 2 5/8" tall with no<br>chips, cracks, or restorations, wear to enamel as shown in first pic.<br>chinashelf

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Antique Chinese brass ink box with carrying net. 3" wide x 1.75" tall without the net with no damage, I acquired it with this net around it which seems plausible.

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Antique Chinese Bronze Archaistic Mirror. 3.75" wide, solid bronze, from a very<br>nice collection of Chinese Antiques. Appears Excavated, collected in the third<br>quarter of the 20th century. I'm unsure of exact age.<br><br>The Chinese magic mirror (simplified Chinese: 透光镜; traditional Chinese: 透光鏡;<br>pinyin: tòu guāng jìng) traces back to at least the 5th century, although their<br>existence during the Han dynasty (206 BC – 24 AD) has been claimed. The mirrors<br>were made out of solid bronze. The front was polished and could be used as a<br>mirror, while the back has a design cast in the bronze, or other decoration.<br>When sunlight or other bright light shines onto the mirror, the mirror appears<br>to become transparent. If that light is reflected from the mirror onto a wall,<br>the pattern on the back of the mirror is then projected onto the wall.<br><br><br>The back of the same mirror<br>Bronze mirrors were the standard in many Eurasian cultures, for example ancient<br>Rome, but most lacked this characteristic, as did most Chinese bronze mirrors.<br><br>Robert Temple describes their construction: "The basic mirror shape, with the<br>design on the back, was cast flat, and the convexity of the surface produced<br>afterwards by elaborate scraping and scratching. The surface was then polished<br>to become shiny. The stresses set up by these processes caused the thinner parts<br>of the surface to bulge outwards and become more convex than the thicker<br>portions. Finally, a mercury amalgam was laid over the surface; this created<br>further stresses and preferential buckling. The result was that imperfections of<br>the mirror surface matched the patterns on the back, although they were too<br>minute to be seen by the eye. But when the mirror reflected bright sunlight<br>against a wall, with the resultant magnification of the whole image, the effect<br>was to reproduce the patterns as if they were passing through the solid bronze<br>by way of light beams."<br><br>History<br>China<br>In about 800 AD, during the Tang dynasty (618–907), a book entitled Record of<br>Ancient Mirrors described the method of crafting solid bronze mirrors with<br>decorations, written characters, or patterns on the reverse side that could cast<br>these in a reflection on a nearby surface as light struck the front, polished<br>side of the mirror; due to this seemingly transparent effect, they were called<br>"light-penetration mirrors" by the Chinese.<br><br>This Tang era book was lost over the centuries, but magic mirrors were described<br>in the Dream Pool Essays by Shen Kuo (1031–1095), who owned three of them as a<br>family heirloom. Perplexed as to how solid metal could be transparent, Shen<br>guessed that some sort of quenching technique was used to produce tiny wrinkles<br>on the face of the mirror too small to be observed by the eye. Although his<br>explanation of different cooling rates was incorrect, he was right to suggest<br>the surface contained minute variations which the eye could not detect; these<br>mirrors also had no transparent quality at all, as discovered by the British<br>scientist William Bragg in 1932 (after an entire century of their confounding<br>Western scientists). Bragg noted that "Only the magnifying effect of reflection<br>makes them [the designs] plain".<br><br>Japan<br>As the manufacture of mirrors in China increased, it expanded to Korea and<br>Japan. In fact, Emperor Cao Rui and the Wei Kingdom of China gave numerous<br>bronze mirrors (known as Shinju-kyo in Japan) to Queen Himiko of Wa (Japan),<br>where they were received as rare and mysterious objects. They were described as<br>"sources of honesty" as they were said to reflect all good and evil without<br>error. That is why Japan considers a sacred mirror called Yata-no-Kagami to be<br>one of the three great imperial treasures.<br><br>Today, Yamamoto Akihisa is said to be the last manufacturer of magic mirrors in<br>Japan. The Kyoto Journal [6] interviewed the craftsman and he explained a small<br>portion of the technique, that he learned from his father.

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Antique Chinese Bronze Buddha. 6" tall x 3.5" wide at base. Traces of gilding<br>and lacquer. Very old estate fresh from a collection of mostly Chinese antiques<br>which had been in the family for multiple generations.

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Antique Chinese Bronze Horse Censer Ornament. 10" tall x 8.5" wide, very early piece one leg has been restored long ago and one hoof is missing. It's been more recently mounted to a very old piece of bronze with some cracks in it. I'm not sure if the two pieces were originally together or not. B31

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Antique Chinese Carp Bowl Blue and red underglaze. Nice early bowl from the 18th to 19th century8 5/8" wide with no cracks, chips, or restorations, wear to glaze on face and rim. TW176

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Antique Chinese carved Hubei Turquoise Boy harvesting fruit figure on silver<br>wire inlaid wood stand. Late Qing to early republic, Late 19th to early 20th<br>century. With stand 2 7/8" tall x 2.25" wide. No damage or restorations, natural<br>turquoise.

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Antique Chinese carved Hubei Turquoise fisherman figure on silver wire inlaid<br>wood stand. Late Qing to early republic, Late 19th to early 20th century. With<br>stand 3" tall x 2.75" wide. No damage or restorations, natural turquoise.

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Antique Chinese carved jade leaf pendant in silver. Antique carved jade leaf later mounted as pendant on much later sterling necklace. Selling everything shown, measurements in pics. 30" long necklace.

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Antique Chinese carved rock crystal pin, mount marked sterling. Measurements in pics, no significant issues. Does seem to have a pink tint, so possibly light pink rose quartz.As per Margaret Duda's research, these donkey amulets should be hung upside down with hooves in the air to represent the white donkey of Zhang Guolao, one of the Eight Daoist Immortals. A symbol of endurance and perseverance. this mythic beast could carry Zhang Guolao one thousand miles without resting.

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Antique Chinese Carved wood Buddha. 19th century Chinese Buddha later mounted on lucite stand. 13" tall x 8" wide base. I didn't remove it from stand but appears to have a collection or museum inventory number on base. isshelf

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Antique Chinese Carved Wood Buddha and Guanyin Bodhisattva. Guanyin is 19th century, Buddha is late 19th to early 20th century. Both from the same estate, both with nice carving and nice natural patina. Guanyin missing hand, missing one glass eye, and chip off hair 10.5" tall, Buddha 6.25" tall. Both with expected stable cracks from wood losing moisture over time. Selling both. Tw131

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Antique Chinese Carved Wood Panel with gild decoration. 8" x 4" with no<br>significant damage or repairs. Late 19th century.<br>B39

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Antique Chinese Ceramic Embossed dragon bowl. From an old collection, unsure of<br>exact age. Wonderful complex glaze and crisp design. 7 3/8" wide x 2 1/8" tall,<br>some expected wear, minor wear to foot-rim, no cracks, chips, or restorations.<br>chinadrawer

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Antique Chinese Champleve vase. 8 3/8" tall x 7" handle to handle x 7" opening.<br>Slight loss or repair below each handle and separation on part of the base<br>preventing it from holding water. Easy fix with solder, displays very well from<br>all sides.<br>isshelf

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Antique Chinese cinnabar plaque 3 3/8" x 2 5/8". Nice early hand carved cinnabar<br>plaque, not resin. Some wear to edges, metal frame loose on two sides. Likely<br>once mounted in a table screen<br><br>isshelf

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Antique Chinese Cloisonne Bottle Form Vase with Foo lions. 9.25" tall x 5.5" wide, late 19th to early 20th. One dent shown in the third pic on the right side of the Champleve design. No other cracks, damage, or loss. b60

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Antique Chinese Condiment Dish and Miniature Planter Lot. Selling both pieces<br>from the last half of the 19th century. The famille rose piece is 8 1/8" wide.<br>It has slight wear on rim and two very short, tight, and stable hairlines shown<br>in fifth pic, No damage or wear to planter, no restorations or what I would<br>consider considerable damage to either. The planter is 3 7/8" wide x 1.75" tall.<br>tw89

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Antique Chinese Copper Red Glazed Foo lion with pup Figure. Nice antique piece<br>circa late 19th to early 20th century. This is heavy high fired porcelain,<br>guaranteed old piece packed up since 1960 from a guy that had an antique shop in<br>the second quarter of the 20th century. 8.5" long x 9" tall marked on base.<br>tight hairline on upper right lip with glaze flake on same cheek. No other<br>cracks, chips, or restorations. Appears to be completely handmade.<br>tw104

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Antique Chinese Dragon Cloisonne Cup set. Selling the three cups shown from late<br>19th to first quarter of the 20th century. 2.5" tall x 2 7/8" wide at rim. One<br>with ding to enamel in interior, no other detectable issues.<br>tw153

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Antique Chinese Dragon Cloisonne Cup set. Selling the two cups shown. One never<br>had a handle, one with handle. 1 15/16" tall and 2 5/16" tall. One without<br>handle is 2.75" wide, one with handle is 2 5/8" wide without handle. No damage<br>or issues.<br>tw153

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Antique Chinese Engraved brass Cabinet/trunk lock. Very nice, well made with quality engraving functional antique Chinese lock from the 19th century. The lock is 5" wide and comes with the original key. You push the key in to unlock the lock. Estate fresh, I personally removed this from a 19th century Chinese Chicken coop cabinet. isshelf

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Antique Chinese Export Silver and Jade Demitasse Spoon Set Hong Kong. 4.25" long. These were wrapped in very old cloth, estate fresh. I don't believe they've ever been used. They are from the first half of the 20th century. Marked and tested silver over 90%. tw94

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Antique Chinese Export Silver and Jade Mint Julep/iced tea spoon set. Measurements in pics, sturdy spoons with no issues, about 100 years old.

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Antique Chinese Export silver pin cushion. Late 19th to very early 20th century.<br>2.75" wide x 1.5" tall. No damage, some expected wear to pin cushion which is<br>removable. High content pure silver.

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Antique Chinese Export silver Teapot with amazing repousse work. Built in<br>strainer in teapot, I was only allowed 10 pics. No dents, bends, scratches or<br>other issues. Late 19th century, Chinese, solid 90%+ silver. 10.5" handle to<br>spout x 6.5" tall with finial. 618 grams.

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Antique Chinese Famille Rose Figure holding cup and Tablet. Circa mid to late<br>19th century. 5.5" tall x 4.5" wide with no cracks, chips, or restorations. An<br>unusual and charming figure over 100 years old and Chinese.<br>B37

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Antique Chinese Famille Rose Mandarin Famille rose Miniature teapot. I feel a little strange calling this little thing a teapot but it has a vented lid so obviously it was intended for hot water and it's way too small for coffee. 4.5" tall x 4" wide with handle. Late 18th to early 19th century. Small flake on spout and sharp point of handle, also old repair to finial of lid. No other damage.TW207

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Very clean for over 150 years old, guaranteed that old. No cracks, chips, or<br>restorations guaranteed. Wear to Gilding on rim.  10.25" x 1 7/8" deep

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Antique Chinese Famille Rose Medallion Teapot Creamer and Sugar. This is an assembled set, the teapot is mid to late 19th century, Sugar about 1900 and creamer about 1920. They look good together all three with good painting and no damage.. Some wear to gilding and glaze flake on teapot handle shown when spout is facing right. Sugar is 5" tall, teapot is 7" tall. Selling the pieces shown with no cracks, chips, or restorations. Underglaze factory chips on bottom rim of sugar lid. TW226

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Antique Chinese Famille Rose Porcelain Happy Buddha Statue 10.5" tall x 11.25"<br>wide x 7.5"deep late Qing to Early Republic period. Made by and marked Zhu Mao<br>Ji Zao. No cracks, chips or restorations guaranteed.

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Antique Chinese Famille Rose Rice Bowl/Tea Cup set. Selling the 4 bowls/cups<br>shown. I'm sure they've been used for both in the past 100 years. They are late<br>19th to early 20th century. One has a tight hairline about 1" long shown top<br>left of first pic. some where to gilding. Three match, one is different, all<br>have some wear to gilding. Just over 4" wide x 1.75" tall.<br>TW253

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Antique Chinese Famille Rose Rouge Box. 3" wide x 2" tall with a chip and tight<br>hairline on the rim of the lid.<br>TW130

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Antique Chinese famille rose Vase. 11" tall nice 19th century famille rose vase.<br>They did a very good job and they did it long ago, but I believe the top was cut<br>off of this piece long ago, they did a good job disguising it.<br>B33

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Antique Chinese Famille Rose Vases pair 14" tall x 7" wide, selling both vases<br>very well painted, unusual shape and form. 19th century Chinese vases, both with<br>very good professional restorations to necks detectable under UV light. Not<br>detectable to most by looking at the exterior of the vase with the eye. Selling<br>both the vases shown.

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Antique Chinese Filigree Silver Enamel Turquoise and Coral Fingernail Brooch. 3 3/8" long x 5/8" wide with no damage.

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Antique Chinese Filigree Silver Vermeil Enamel Earrings. Nice antique Chinese earrings from the first half of the 20th century with no damage or issues. I did replace one back. Measure Just over 1" both marked silver.

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Antique Chinese foo lion silver repousse necklace with carved Quartz, turquoise,<br>and coral beads. Hallmarks on reverse side pof large pendant, clasp marked<br>silver, all the metal is solid silver of a fairly high content. Pendant is 3<br>3/8" wide x 4.5" tall with tassles, necklace is approx 22" long 146 gram total<br>weight.

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Antique Chinese Gilt Silver Kylin Necklace with lapis and carved coral beads.<br>Tested sterling or high content silver in multiple places, it will clean up very<br>nicely if that's your preference I left it as found but am sure it's silver.<br>Faint marks on back of pendant and the two hooks that hold the pendant. Necklace<br>approx 18" 39.5 grams total weight

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Antique Chinese Ginger Jar Famille Rose/Calligraphy 5" tall x 4" wide with no<br>damage, wear to gilding.

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Antique Chinese Guangxu mark carved ginger jar 3.75" tall x 3.5" wide with no<br>damage or restorations.

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Antique Chinese Handled Box with Mica Inset Wood Carvings. If I had to guess I think maybe the carvings are Qing dynasty from a larger piece or architectural element and the box was possibly made in the mid 20th century using those three carvings. The carvings are nice with natural mica stone in the background, painting and carving is nice on the box. 12" tall x 13" wide x 8.25" deep. No significant issues. B36

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Antique Chinese Ink cake set. 12" x 8.25" box. Remarkable set of eight ink cakes<br>inset in original fitted box. Ink cakes decorated with mythical creatures,<br>themes from nature, auspicious symbols and calligraphic inscriptions and often<br>embellished with colors and gilding. The set was stored away from view for<br>decades and has rarely been handled, helping preserve good condition. See four<br>character inscription and red seal mark on cover of the box. They are dusty with<br>caked up ink, etc from years of storage. They would clean up nicely with little<br>effort, just a little water.<br><br>https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/van-daalen-collection-chinese-art/set-eight-gilt-decorated-ink-cakes-53/75481<br>This link shows the same set in slightly different box bringing 2500 GBP in<br>2019.

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Antique Chinese Ink Stone in fitted box. 19th to early 20th century with no damage.

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Antique Chinese Jade Button collection. Selling the collection shown, most if not all 19th century or earlier. All had carved, some with chips and losses. 105.7 grams total, these would be great in jewelry. Average 1"-2" at longest point, hand shown for scale in last pic.

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Antique Chinese lotus form bowl 4.75" wide x 1.5" tall, one very small chip on<br>rim, no other damage.<br>chinashelf

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Antique Chinese Ming Dynasty Kendi. One chip on inside rim and very slight roughness on spout. From a very old collection put together in the 1950's and 60's by a woman who is now 96. I'm helping liquidate some of her collection.7.75" tall x 6.5" wide with spout. tw129

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Antique Chinese Miniature compote and brass match/toothpick holder. Both great and hand decorated, compote late 19th, brass early 20th century. Compote 4: wide x 3.5" tall. Strong and stable with no chips or restorations. A few lines top and bottom that appear to be more crazing than cracks or hairlines as they are in different places top/bottom. Selling both. Chinashelf

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3 7/8" tall x 2.5" Wide. Nice antique guaranteed over 100 year old piece with no<br>cracks, chips, or restorations.<br>tw134

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Antique Chinese Nephrite/Agate snuff bottles. Selling both the bottles shown, from an old estate collection, I believe they are antiques. Both approx 2 7/8" tall. Both with natural fissures, the agate bottle with tiny nicks and wear to sides and rims of top and bottom. The nephrite bottle with loose fitting lid. Selling both.

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Antique Chinese Peking glass bowl. Amazing piece, amazing color. This would<br>likely be a 10-20k piece but a large section has been broken and restored<br>including several smaller pieces. You have to look close to see it, it's still<br>amazing to imagine how they came up with a color like this and how they carved<br>it with no modern tools. It's a very large 12.75" wide. Selling as it but it<br>will be packed very well to assure intact arrival.

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Antique Chinese Polychrome Enamel Ginger jar. 9" tall x 7.25" wide with no<br>cracks, chips, or restorations.<br>chinashelf

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Antique Chinese Porcelain Buddha Figures. Selling both figures shown both from<br>the late 19th to first quarter of 20th century. One 5" tall and one 6" tall. No<br>chips, cracks, or restorations, some wear to enamel shown.<br>TW252

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Antique Chinese Porcelain Shard pendant in sterling mount. 2 3/8" wide x 2 1/8" tall. 16.7 grams. 19th century or earlier shard later mounted in sterling mount shown.

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Antique Chinese porcelain spoon collection. Selling the lot all from 19th century to about 1900. The two 5.5" long blue canton ones are stamped China, the 3 Famille rose are 5 1/8" to 5 5/8" are are unmarked late 19th to early 20th. The larger serving spoons are 7.75" with 3.5" bowls and are 19th century. No cracks, chips, or restorations, selling the lot. TW248

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Antique Chinese Qing Dynasty Silver Chatelaine Scent Bottle/ Needle case. Nice antique over 100 year old Chinese silver piece. Signed in several places, pulls down to refill with a solid perfume, needles, or whatever you want to put in it. 7" long x 1.5" wide. It's tested silver but I'm unsure of content.

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Antique Chinese Qing Dynasty Silver Dragon Belt Buckle later converted to Brooch. You can see the three repair spots on the back where the buckle was removed to be later converted into a brooch probably in the mid 20th century. Nice large quality piece 3.25" x 2.5"

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Antique Chinese Qing Jade Buttons/Ornaments Hair pin Lot. Selling the lot, all<br>18th/19th century largest 4.5", no apparent damage, but possibly some small<br>nicks on edges.<br>chinadrawer

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Antique Chinese Repousse Silver/Lapis Dragon Belt buckle. Great buckle, late 19th to early 20th century, Chinese, unmarked silver tested to be at least 80% silver guaranteed. It was likely a different type of buckle at one point and the hardware on the back was added later to make it functional for today's fashion 3" wide 66.9 grams. tw208

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Antique Chinese Republic Period Cloisonne Box 5" x 3" x 2.5" with no damage,<br>over 100 years old. Marked in Enamel "ANIHC" which of course is China backwards.

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Antique Chinese Republic Period Silver Dollar mounted as sterling trinket dish. 70 grams, 3.5" wide.chinadrawer

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Antique Chinese Republic period silver enamel coral beads dragon bangle bracelet. Solid sterling silver from the first quarter of the 20th century, minor wear to enamel, nice quality natural coral. No significant issues. Please examine pictures.

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Antique Chinese Republic Period Silver lined porcelain Master salt dips in box. Great old set, porcelain with no damage with removable solid silver (tested) liners. In the original box. One pin missing from catch on box. Salts are 2.25" wide x 1.25" tall. These are rare and collectible, a single one can be found with much effort, a boxed pair is very uncommon. A single one of these is shown as item number 2023 in the book "5,000 Open Salts" by H&J.chinadrawer

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Antique Chinese Shiwan Buddha Figure with Flambe Cloak. Late 19th to early 20th<br>century. 9.5" tall x 7 7/8" wide. Firing flaw in base. No cracks, chips, or<br>restorations.<br>B35

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Antique Chinese Soapstone Monkeys Brush Washer or small vase. Very nice piece<br>with high quality carving and no damage. Nice natural patina from handling<br>throughout the years. This is an old piece circa late 19th century. 7" wide x 3<br>5/8" tall.<br>B35

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Antique Chinese Silver Adjustable bangle. The two bottom curly pieces can be<br>pushed together to make the bracelet larger to take on or off. Tests sterling<br>76.3 grams, unmarked. hand engraved, entirely handmade piece. 7.5" inside<br>diameter. Very unusual early piece of Chinese silver, unmarked.

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Antique Chinese silver Cinnabar ring. High content silver ring from the first quarter of the 20th century with no issues.

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Antique Chinese Silver Enamel Malachite bangle bracelet. Marked silver tested<br>high content silver, high quality filigree and enamel work with genuine<br>malachite stones. approx 7.5"

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Antique Chinese silver filigree adjustable ring. Nice old early 20th century Chinese silver ring with no issues, adjustable.

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Antique Chinese silver Later beaded necklace. Necklaced last purchased in the<br>last quarter of the 20th century composed of some 19th century Chinese silver<br>pieces, bottom pendant and most of the silver beads are antique, later restrung<br>with contemporary mixed semi-precious gemstone beads. Wonderful work of art one<br>of kind necklace. Necklace 28" long, bottom pendant 5" tall x 2" wide.

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Antique Chinese silver lock pendant. Great piece from the 19th to early 20th century 1 11/16" wide 13.5 grams, tests silver over 80%. a few dents.

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Antique Chinese Silver Sugar Spoons in presentation box. Great set c1900 wood box covered in original black covering. The spoons are 5.3" and 5.5" long both with illegible to me Chinese hallmarks. TW 154

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Antique Chinese silver Trumpet vases on wood stands. Selling the pair 8.5" tall<br>x 3" wide at rim x 260 grams total weight. Stands are original to the vases,<br>both circa last quarter of 19th century, no damage to stands or vases, no bends,<br>dents, no monograms. Amazing pair, each marked under the bases covered by the<br>wood stands.<br><br>I'll follow with more pictures later, this is the best I can do without changing<br>setups.

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Antique Chinese Swatow Bowl 10.75" wide with no cracks, chips, or restorations.

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Antique Chinese Swatow Bowl 10.75" wide with no cracks, chips, or restorations.

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Antique Chinese Trinket Box collection. Selling the three boxes from the last half of the 19th century. The two heart shaped boxes are really great, each with different overlay figures, each having one bronze bird, they have no significant issues and are 1 7/8" wide, the larger box is 2.5" wide, not quite as good of quality and it has a few dents and the pin for the hinge is broken. Selling the three for one price. chinashelf

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Antique Chinese white donkey of Zhang Guolao silver and coral necklace. Antique necklace from the late 19th century, Chinese. Silver content unknown, fantasic piece with no significant issues. As seen in the reference text Four Centuries of Silver by Margaret Duda, p. 88. As per Margaret Duda's research, these donkey amulets should be hung upside down with hooves in the air to represent the white donkey of Zhang Guolao, one of the Eight Daoist Immortals. A symbol of endurance and perseverance. this mythic beast could carry Zhang Guolao one thousand miles without resting.

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Antique Chinese Wooden Water Bucket with Puzzle Lid. 11" tall x 10.25" wide at the widest point of the top. Nice solid over 100 year old bucket that will hold water. The Mechanism that holds on the lid is very interesting and precise with the handle being a lever that slides back and forth. tw69

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Antique Chinese Wucai Famille rose ink stand 5" wide x 2.25" tall, a few very<br>small nicks to inside of top rim, no other chips, cracks, or restorations.<br>chinadrawer

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Antique Yixing Zisha Teapot Hand Built Bamboo spout Decoration. 7 3/8" handle to spout x 5.75" tall. Looks to have small amount of applied decoration missing on plum branch after it curves around the handle. No other cracks, chips, or restorations. I know this is an antique, but I'm not 100% sure how to date it. It's estate fresh and was with some 19th century Chinese Ceramics.

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Antique Chinese Yixing Zisha Teapot Pewter Mounted Hand Enameled Decoration.<br>Incredible piece untouched mid to late 19th century. It should clean up nicely<br>but it just looked so cool like this I didn't want to mess with it. 6.5" tall x<br>9" wide with spout. I has four very old and very tight short hairlines right on<br>the baserim. It's still structurally sound, still holds water. This is a really<br>tough piece that I guarantee has made a lot of tea over the years. No other<br>cracks, chips, or restorations.<br>tw95

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Antique Chinese Zee Sung Silver Card case. Great item with no significant issues, closes tight, snaps shut with functional catch, no dents. Has a door that swings out and snaps in place, looks like it is made to hold a small photo. The silver behind where the photo would go is damaged as shown but wouldn't affect it's functionality and would be covered by the photo. The inside diameter of the entire case is about 2 1/8" x 1 13/16" It would hold cards or something just smaller than that. outside is 2.5" x 1 7/8" weighs 53.6 grams b3

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Antique Chinese or Japanese 18K white gold Carved Coral Watermill with Peony<br>Flowers. Acid tested by me to be at least 18K gold but less than 22K, Only<br>marking is SPM indicating it was made for or retailed by J. Schnelwar & Sons,<br>fine New York jewelers of yesteryear (est. 1905). Fantastic work of art right<br>around 100 years old estate fresh. 22.3 grams, 2" x 1 3/16" and very 3<br>dimensional. The Pins are not gold, the reticulated back part is guaranteed. No<br>chips, cracks, or other issues.

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Total weight 10.6 pounds. 19.5" total height, the flawless tray is 10.75" wide.<br>The cameo glass vase has one small chip on the inside rim that's not at all<br>noticeable when displayed. A few chips on prisms. The holder is immaculate, no<br>scratches, no bends, appears unused even though it's over 100 years old.

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Antique Civil War Battle Rattle American Folk Art Naval. Great piece I've seen these bring over $1k when attributed to certain ships. It's civil war era. 8" x 7", makes lots of noise, works well.Piece of wood missing from end of handle long ago with great patina over loss. B3

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Antique Clay Snake Form Ceremonial Pipe. I honestly have no idea on this pipe<br>other than it's really well made and has an inventory number on the base that<br>looks to have been applied in the mid 20th century. It's estate fresh from a<br>good honest collection of multicultural artifacts, it's tough to say where it<br>came from before that but it was collected long ago. Looks to have been longer<br>at one point and broken at the top. Other than a few small chips shown, no other<br>breaks, no restorations or cracks. 13" long x 5.5" wide at the widest part.<br>TW117

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Antique copper relief plaque with cherubs. 19th century, just under 6" wide, minor loss at bottom center, three holes for hanging possibly not original. isshelf

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Measures 7.25" wide with handle x 9.75" tall. Guaranteed right around 110-130<br>years old and wonderful. No cracks or chips, or wear to enamel.<br>Tw98

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Fantastic rare set that's been together over 100 years. One tumbler has a few<br>tiny flakes on the rim that go down about a millimeter of that, maybe 1/32 of an<br>inch. The rest is perfect with no cracks, chips, or cloudiness. Tumblers are<br>3.75" tall, pitcher is 8.75" tall x 7" wide with handle. Ground pool on pitcher.

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Antique Crown Staffordshire Imari style Trinket Box 3" wide x 1.5" tall with no damage or restorations, hand painted from the first quarter of the 20th century. trinketdrawer

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Antique De Grave, Short, & Fanner Portable Gold/Apothecary Scales c.1850. Scales have no issues, box is missing one side and could use some glue. De Grave, Short and Fanner of 59 St. Martin's-le-Grand Previously De Grave, Short and Co 1845 presumably William Fanner joined and the firm became De Grave, Short and Fanner[1] By 1851 William Fanner, scale maker, was living at 59 St Martins with his family[2] 1851 De Grave, Short and Fanner exhibited at the Great Exhibition 1857 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Samuel Robinson Shortand William Fanner, lately carrying on business as Scale Makers, under the style or firm of De Grave, Short, and Fanner, at No. 59, Saint Martin's-Le-Grand, in the city of London, has this day been dissolved by mutual consent; and all debts due to or from the said late copartnership will be respectively received and paid by the said Samuel Robinson Short, by whom alone the said business will in future be carried on...'[3] 1863 Mention in bankruptcy proceedings of 'Samuel Robinson Short, of the firm of Degraves, Short, and Farmer, of St. Martin's-le-Grand, in the said city of London, Scale Manufacturers'[4] 1871 William Fanner died. From 1871 onwards the company was De Grave, Short and Co. Tw62

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Antique Delft Tiles in Mahogany Frames. Delft earthenware tiles, 19th c., in polychrome tin glazes, stylized blue border, central octagonal reserve depicting ships in canal, centered in circular mahogany frame, (one) tile with hairline, tile: approx 6"h, 6"w, overall: approx 9.75"diam; 3.75lbs total. TW140

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Antique Delft Tiles in wood frames. Selling the 4 16th/17th century Dutch delft tiles possibly cut to fit in these oval frames in the late 18th to early 19th century. Frames 5.75" x 7" some glaze loss and scratches to tiles, cracks in wood frames. Selling the 4 shown with /military scenes.

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The woman is 8 7/8" tall, the man is 8.5" tall. Tag on the base indicating they<br>were part of the "Burnap Collection" Chelsea, 1770. I believe they're from the<br>crossover period right around the time the firm changed hands in 1769. They have<br>the Patch marks on the base. I believe these are a fairly uncommon subject<br>matter. Guaranteed 18th century.<br><br>There is much damage to the applied Florals on both pieces. I believe there is a<br>very old professional restoration to his hat and her arm.<br><br>The pair is very heavy, 3.25 pounds.<br><br>The Chelsea porcelain manufactory (established around 1743-45) is the first<br>important porcelainmanufactory in England;[1] its earliest soft-paste porcelain,<br>aimed at the aristocratic market—cream jugs in the form of two seated goats—are<br>dated 1745. The entrepreneurial director was Nicholas Sprimont, a silversmith by<br>trade, but few documents survive to aid a picture of the manufactory's history.<br>Early tablewares, being produced in profusion by 1750, depend on Meissen<br>porcelain models and on silver prototypes, such as salt cellars in the form of<br>realistic shells.<br><br>Chelsea was known for its figures. From about 1760 its inspiration was drawn<br>more from Sèvres porcelainthan Meissen.<br><br>In 1769 the manufactory was purchased by William Duesbury, owner of the Derby<br>porcelain factory, and the wares are indistinguishable during the "Chelsea-Derby<br>period" that lasted until 1784, when the Chelsea factory was demolished and its<br>moulds, patterns and many of its workmen and artists transferred to Derby.

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Antique Devil Pastoral Mexican Dance mask. Amazing mask with old leather repairs<br>still holding strong, Very old mask likely from the first quarter of the 20th<br>century. 17" tall x 9.5" deep x 16" horn tip to tip. . I will be offering a very<br>large collection of these that was assembled in the 60's-80's, a large<br>percentage are from the first quarter of the 20th century, some perhaps a bit<br>older. The ones that are more recent are of exceptional quality. Some have tags<br>identifying them, some of the tags are missing or have been degraded over time.<br><br>I won't have time to discuss the character of each mask, but I'll make sure to<br>take good, accurate photos, and as stated you'll get the mask shown in the<br>condition shown, with approximate age stated. They will be safely stored until<br>sold so I won't really be able answer any specific questions, I'll give the<br>measurements of each one when listing. And I apologize in advance for my lack of<br>cultural awareness if I happen to call a central/south American mask a Mexican<br>mask.<br>It's just there are a lot of masks and very little time, and while I think each<br>and every one of them is absolutely fabulous or I wouldn't waste my time<br>photographing them....I would rather spend the time I could spend learning the<br>history of each character making sure they are packaged well enough to fall off<br>the truck, get ran over a few times...and still make it to you intact.<br>isshelf

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Antique Dresden Capodimonte Style Plate Hand Painted with relief border 10.5". Hard paste porcelain with no cracks, chips, crazing, utensil marks, or wear to gilding.

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Antique Dresden Flowers Bud vase. 8.25" tall with no cracks, chips, or restorations. Faint blue underglaze crown type mark, 19th century. Hand painted high quality piece from a collection of Nymphenburg. The mark does resemble an earlier Nymphenburg mark but it's difficult to tell. TW166

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Antique Dresden Hand painted bowl. Super fancy shape with little to no wear. 7" x 7 5/8" one tiny teeny chigger bite on footrim that I attempted to show in top center of last pic. It's nothing, would never be noticed anywhere, only mentioning because it's an online sale, no other chips, cracks, restorations, or significant wear. isshelf

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Antique Dresden Ludwigsburg Figure Group 8" tall x 8" wide. Restoration to woman's thumb, no other cracks, chips, or restorations.

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Antique Dresden porclain oval bowl Measures 9 13/16" x 7" x 1 5/8" deep. All hand painted with no cracks, chips, or restorations. isshelf

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Antique Dresden Teichert Meissen Reticulated hand painted compote. All hand painted piece from late 19th to early 20th century with no damage or restorations. Solid and stable, not wobbly. 8.75" wide x 7: tall, no wear to gilding.The term "Dresden porcelain" refers more to an artistic movement than a particular line of figurines or dinnerware. Several decorating studios emerged in this Saxony capital in response to the rise of "Romanticism" during the 19th century. Dresden was an important center of this artistic, cultural and intellectual movement, which attracted painters, sculptors, poets, philosophers and porcelain decorators alike. In 1883, in response to the exciting developments happening all around them, four prominent ceramic decorators registered the famous blue crown Dresden mark, and the widely popular "Dresden style" was born.

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Antique Dutch Repousse silver tea caddy spoon. Selling the spoon shown,<br>hallmarked in bowl and tested high content silver. 4.25" long with 2 3/8" bowl.

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Antique EAPG Amber Blacksmith's Anvil toothpick holder. No damage 4" long x 2"<br>tall.<br>toothpickdrawer

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Antique EAPG Amber Bryce wall basket Toothpick holder. No damage or detectable<br>wear 3.5" tall. Functional mirron on front.<br>toothpickdrawer

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Antique EAPG Blue Bryce wall basket Toothpick holder. No damage or detectable<br>wear 3.5" tall.<br>toothpickdrawer

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Antique English Cameo glass cup and saucer with butterfly/Chinoisiere decoration. Late 19th to very early 20th century, unmarked. Saucer is 4 7/8" wide, cup 3.25" wide. No damage or restorations.Cameo glass is a luxury form of glass art produced by cameo glass engraving or etching and carving through fused layers of differently colored glass to produce designs, usually with white opaque glass figures and motifs on a dark-colored background. The technique is first seen in ancient Roman art of about 30 BC, where it was an alternative to the more luxurious engraved gem vessels in cameo style that used naturally layered semi-precious gemstones such as onyx and agate. Glass allowed consistent and predictable colored layers, even for round objects.isshelf

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Really nice early 1800's to 1860's compote set. I believe the Brown leaves on the rim are transfer printed, but am positive the flowers in the centers are hand painted. Every piece has slight variations some even have different colored roses in the same spots. The plates were made on a potters wheel. The Compote and plates are 9" wide x 2.5" tall, no cracks, chips, or restorations on any of the 5 pieces there is minor gold wear on the compote, very minor utensil marks here and there on all pieces, extremely light stains on the front and back of one plate. This is a really clean set and very early.

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Antique Engraved 14k gold Turquoise pin. Marked and tested solid 14k gold. Mark<br>is faint on catch, worn over time. Hand engraved, fantastic piece. 15/16" x 5/8"<br>x 2.5 grams.

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