A Wooden Figure of Shō Kannon
with Polychrome Pigments & Gold Leaf
聖観音加色鍍金木像
Height: 47.1 cm. (18 1/2 in.)
Heian period
12th century
Provenance: Kōfukuji, Nara
Recently: A Japanese private collection
Height: 47.1 cm. (18 1/2 in.)
Heian period
12th century
Provenance: Kōfukuji, Nara
Recently: A Japanese private collection
Height: 32.5 cm. (12.8 in.)
Diameter: 32.7 cm. (12.9 in.)
Ming dynasty
Late-15th century
Provenance: A Japanese collection
A Black Raku-style Teabowl with Crane Décor
黒楽焼白鶴紋茶碗
Diameter: 10.2 cm. (4 in.)
Height: 8.9 cm. (3 1/2 in.)
Late Edo period
Late 18th-early 19th century
Provenance: A Japanese collection
Axe: length: 12.5 cm. (4 15/16 in.)
Spearhead: length: 11.8 cm. (4 5/8 in.)
Hoe: length: 9.5 cm. (3 3/4 in.)
Dongson culture,
1st century BC–AD 1st century.
Published: Jochen May and Stephan Graf von der Schulenburg, Die Nachbarn im Suden Fruhe Keramic und Bronze aus Vietnam, Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, 1998, no. 82a, illustrated on p. 112; bronze stone container, no 82, illustrated on p. 111.
Heights: approx. 6.3 cm. (2 1/2 in.)
Widths: approx. 6.3 cm. (2 1/2 in.)
Late Han to Six Dynasties period
3rd-4th century
Heights: 16.0 cm. (6 1/4 in.)
Western Han dynasty
2nd-1st century BC
Lengths: 29.7 cm. (11 5/8 in.)
& 28.0 cm. (11 in.)
Western Han dynasty
2nd-1st century BC
Height of each: 44.4 cm. (17 1/2 in.)
Six Dynasties period
6th century