Camels - WU Zuoren Horse - XU Beihong Fish - QI Baishi Bird - LU Ji (if eyes are not tricking me) Flower - PAN Tianshou Old man - QI Baishi Can't...
Stunning piece! Love it! Appeals to my love of the macabre. Took me back to when I was a kid and used to watch Tales from the Crypt....
Indonesia, yes, and I doubt they were bought in Africa. I have a couple of similar decorative pieces, a couple, about 5'4" (The male with a huge...
Yes, the lacquer seal meant it could be exported, if you had the original receipt with you. Lacquer wooden box from the 60s, priced at 40 yuan...
景泰兰 (兰 or 蓝) / jing tai lan, or cloisonne, read in this case left to right.
Love the whopper! :)
From the pics, looks like the support is paper, not silk. It's a decorative painting, in the gongbi (meticulous/detailed) style, as opposed to the...
Cute! I was gonna say I want in, but... Better not... Eight cats is enough cats and we just got three new kittens 45 days ago. white mama cat,...
The characters are jiu gu / 九谷, for 九谷瓷器 or Kutani porcelain. This is however bizarre, as Kutani Ware is Japanese, and none of it looks Chinese....
People here do their best to help. All questions asked help answer requests for help. No one is trying to show off anything. You are beyond rude,...
Love them! If you wanna pass them along, let me know. :) I'd buy them from you.
That belonged to Jean Valjean. He hid that after immigrating to the USA. Victor Hugo was part of the cover up, and pretending that Valjean dies,...
Love brutalist anything... NICE find!!!
Thank you SO MUCH for sharing this! It was like a masterclass in restoration. A pleasure to watch!
VERY NICE! Love it. You going to put that up for sale on eBay or elsewhere? :nailbiting:
The characters read Made in the Qing Dinasty, Tong Zhi years. (大清同治年制) Rather coarse and crude.
I'm with AJ: V L Amado makes sense.
Not the kind of thing I usually buy, don't know anything about cutlery other than Grandma had a set and polished it all the time. It was a...
I'm afraid I can't be of much help. Not something I know much about. Jade is tricky. There are too many factors at play, and taste is one of them,...
The inscription reads, 鸟语花香 / niao yu hua xiang, "The singing of birds, the scent of flowers." The chop is not very clear, but the artist's name...
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