Chinese Antique Book

Antique unique Qing dynasty very large 20” pair of shell inlaid black lacquer big Chinese book boxes with bail handles two sides, with keys, each with hinged lid reversing to a mothe...

With an open shelf above and a closed compartment below, this early 20th century Chinese book cabinet is the perfect mix of storage and display.

This deliberate chromatic subtlety, combined with the resilient hooked wool pile, results in a monumental floor covering that seamlessly bridges 17th-century Persian regal vocabulary...

Chinese Herbal Book is a Rare book with beautiful oriental herbal wood prints realized in the 19th century.

This lacquered display cabinet from Shanxi province was crafted in the mid-19th century using traditional mortise-and-tenon joinery methods. The enclosed lower half was used for gene...

A pillow book was meant to teach a young bride about the art of lovemaking.

China, Qing period 1750-1780.

Very nice set of book ends . Embossed Brass frames , decorated with Gem stones , Oval shaped Family Rose Porcelain plaques . representing Oriental Women .

A Chinese blue and white and famille rose enameled porcelain jardinière in the form of a book, Republic Period, circa 1930s.

Chinese Lacquered book reading or book stool early 19th century.

Many years research, notably by this book's three main authors, have made it possible to present this comprehensive monograph on the Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm. 327 pages. 198...

19th century large lift-lid gilt-decorated golden black lacquer Chinese table book box, crazing to lacquer overall, general marks nicks scratches, rubbing and wear overall.

Beurdeley, Cecile and Michel 320 pages with 111 pasted-on colour images, more than 300 drawings and black and white images, 12 chronological plates and 7 maps. The aim of this book ...

All of which are photographed and illustrated in colour. At the end of the book there is a useful A-Z Index/Glossary of terms.

Four Antique Chinese Engraved White Metal Scroll/Book Weights C1900 Measures - 1 - 3 1/2" x 2" x 1/8" 2,3 - 3 7/8" x 2 3/16" x 1/8" A set of four Chinese scroll or book weights, c...

This book stand is all original without any replacement pieces. The piece has very clean lines and a simple form typical of the Ming style which emphasizes purity of form. The two ...

Antique frontispiece of the 1st volume of 'Hedendaegsche historie of tegenwoordige staat van allen volkeren (..)' by Thomas Salmon. This volume describes Japan, China and the Philipp...

Our Stock # 18.9940 This is a pair of antique carved lion bookends. An Oriental, ebonised ironwood book rest with animal figure interest, dating to the late Victorian period, circa ...

The piece is unmarked but for similar pieces see the superb book: Chinese Ceramics by He Li published by Thames & Hudson, 1996; pages 164 to 184.

Similar Teapots are discussed and illustrated on pages 194 and 195 of the book: Chinese Export Porcelain, written by Herbert, Peter and Nancy Schiffer.

Paperback cover with some signs of acidity. Interesting book about Chinese customs in the 19th century.

The pair of vases and their marks are very similar to examples in a good book on Chinese porcelain from the 19th and 20th centuries entitled From the Dragon's Treasure, where on page...

A Kangxi plate of similar date and hand painted style is shown in the book Chinese Ceramics by He Li published by Thames & Hudson, Plate 625, Page 299.

We have for sale this wonderful and highly decorative Chinese hand-carved solid wood and gesso figure, which is raised on a moulded plinth, depicting a Chinese nobleman.

A very similar Kangxi period, Imari decorated charger plate, with the same base mark, is illustrated on Page 298, colour plate N0. 625, in the book Chinese Ceramics by He Li, publish...

Reference Book Chinese Japanese and European Porcelain and Antique -The Colour Treasury of 18th Century PorcelaiN Siegfried Ducret The Colour Treasury of 18th Century PorcelaiN Sieg...

Unglazed parts fire to a terracotta brown colour as with the base section The piece is unmarked but for similar pieces see the superb book: Chinese Ceramics by He Li published by ...

This exact vase shape is illustrated on page 212 in the book: Mason's China and the Ironstone wares by Geoffrey Godden, published by the Antique Collectors' Club.

Rare KPM porcelain figural inkwell depicting a Chinaman in a wonderfully ornate traditional robe of pale apricot decorated in a flowing floral pattern of garlands of peonies, Chinese...

Plate 73 of the 1911 book Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, an original color plate of Chinese porcelain, illustrates a seated figure of Wen-chu, god of wisdom.

Plate 31 of the 1911 book Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, an original color plate of Chinese porcelain, illustrates a baluster vase on a brilliant apple green ground with plum tre...

Plate 115 of the 1911 book Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, an original color plate of Chinese porcelain, illustrates a cylindro-ovoid vase and a baluster vase in famille verte ena...

An original color plate of 1911 from Gorer and Blacker's book of Chinese ceramic art, this sheet is given over to a pair of oviform famille verte porcelain lanterns on silver stands.

The plate belongs to Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, London, Bernard Quaritch, 1911, the book in which the dealer Edgar Gorer and the writer J.

The plate belongs to Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, London, Bernard Quaritch, 1911, the book in which the dealer Edgar Gorer and the writer J.

Similar example in the book 'Paktong: The Chinese Alloy in Europe 1680-1820' by Keith Pinn.

Plate 19 of the 1911 book Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, an original color plate of Chinese porcelain, illustrates a square famille noire beaker of bronze shape with a raised cen...

An original color plate of 1911 from Gorer and Blacker's book of Chinese ceramic art, this sheet is given over to a quadrangular beaker with a raised square central band, painted in ...

Plate 103 of the 1911 book Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, an original color plate of Chinese porcelain, illustrates a jar and cover with delicate san ts'ai decoration on a rare w...

Plate 61 of the 1911 book Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, an original color plate of Chinese porcelain, illustrates a large saucer-shaped dish on a brilliant imperial yellow ground.

Plate 67 of the 1911 book Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, an original color plate of Chinese porcelain, illustrates a large figure of Vajrapani as protector of Buddha, with a parr...

Plate 37 of the 1911 book Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, an original color plate of Chinese porcelain, illustrates a pair of square vases tapering toward the base, with trumpet n...

Plate 1 of the 1911 book Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, an original color plate of Chinese porcelain, illustrates a tall cylindrical famille noire jar or vase, one of a set of fo...

Plate 13 of the 1911 book Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, an original color plate of Chinese porcelain, illustrates a quadrangular famille noire vase on a pyramidal base, enameled...

Plate 43 of the 1911 book Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, an original color plate of Chinese porcelain, illustrates a group of two hexagonal vases with covers and a square beaker ...

Plate 97 of the 1911 book Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, an original color plate of Chinese porcelain, illustrates a magnificent pair of feng huang, the mythical phoenix, standin...

Plate 133 of the 1911 book Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, an original color plate of Chinese porcelain, illustrates a famille verte saucer dish of extraordinary size with concent...

Plate 127 of the 1911 book Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, an original color plate of Chinese porcelain, illustrates a large famille verte vase with a beaker neck painted with the...

Plate 121 of the 1911 book Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, an original color plate of Chinese porcelain, illustrates two long-necked famille verte bottles decorated with lambrequi...

Plate 7 of the 1911 book Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, an original color plate of Chinese porcelain, illustrates a cylindrical famille noire vase with a leaf shaped symbol under...

Plate 109 of the 1911 book Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, an original color plate of Chinese porcelain, illustrates a very tall cylindrical famille verte vase painted with a rece...

Plate 25 of the 1911 book Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, an original color plate of Chinese porcelain, illustrates a pair of famille noire jars and covers (No. 1) with a beaker (...

One piece is dark red; the long-necked bottle on the right has much smaller crackles, the upper rim nearly white changing into deep red upon the neck and shoulder, with a curious whi...

An original color plate of 1911 from Gorer and Blacker's book of Chinese ceramic art, this sheet is given over to a standing figure of Shou Lao holding a peach in his left hand.

Plate 55 of the 1911 book Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, an original color plate of Chinese porcelain, illustrates a yellow ground baluster vase of archaic bronze form.

Plate 85 of the 1911 book Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, an original color plate of Chinese porcelain, illustrates a group of three seated figures: one carrying a lotus bowl that...

Plate 91 of the 1911 book Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, an original color plate of Chinese porcelain, illustrates a figure of Kuan Yin seated on lotus petals with a child and tw...

Plate 79 of the 1911 book Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, an original color plate of Chinese porcelain, illustrates a figure of Koueï Hsien, the Taoist star god of letters, on a d...

Plate 49 of the 1911 book Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, an original color plate of Chinese porcelain, illustrates a garniture of five hexagonal pieces, three vases with covers a...

An original color plate of 1911 from Gorer and Blacker's book of Chinese ceramic art, this sheet is given over to a figure of Kuan Ti, god of war, mounted on an aubergine horse.