Yao Han character album

Yao Han character album

Chinese watercolor on paper. Featuring a sleeping fox. Signed "Meilin" in Chinese characters. Inscribed with two seals. "Yao Lan Qu" (Lullaby) is written on the right in Chinese characters. Attributed

DESCRIPTION: Wanshou (Thousand Years of Long Life) cloisonne vases featuring over 100 Han characters on sides and nearly fifty on necks. Each character is blue against a white ground background. Piece

DESCRIPTION: Wanshou (Thousand Years of Long Life) cloisonne vase featuring over 100 Han characters on its side and nearly fifty on its neck. Each character is blue against a white background. Piece i

DESCRIPTION: Two matching lacquered and cinnabar bordered panels, each emblazoned with a raised Han character and adorned with images of waterfowl and other birds among fruit, flowers, and foliage fas

DESCRIPTION: Famille jaune porcelain brush pot decorated with a garden scene populated by mandarins and courtiers socializing near a table. Marked on underside with the Han character for "lord". CIRCA

DESCRIPTION: Wooden five drawer, two door cabinet featuring gilt bat, floral, and foliage design trimmings throughout. Central foliage design on each door is embellished with a Han character, and hand

DESCRIPTION: Lot of three oriental items: one shallow bowl decorated with a scene of four figures and marked on underside with red Han character stamp, one gilt-rimmed bowl decorated with a scene of s

DESCRIPTION: Chinese tree sculpture composed of various colored carved jade and semi-precious stone leaves in a porcelain pot enameled with polychrome flower depictions throughout. Han character marks

DESCRIPTION: Antique carved wood box featuring ornately detailed mother-of-pearl insets depicting butterflies and birds perched on and flying around flowers and foliage. Finished with Han character in

DESCRIPTION: Three Qing dynasty cast brass padlocks, each in the form of a guardian lion ("foo dog") decorated with circular motifs on its body. Larger lock is marked with a Han character flanked by f

DESCRIPTION: Vintage porcelain vase decorated with Chinese Communist Party propaganda images and Han character inscriptions. CIRCA: Mid-20th Century ORIGIN: China DIMENSIONS: H: 13" D: 6.25" CONDITION

DESCRIPTION: Gilt porcelain vase featuring polychrome bird, floral, and foliage motifs. Marked on underside with Han character. CIRCA: 20th Century ORIGIN: Japan DIMENSIONS: H: 11.75" D: 7.25" Have a

DESCRIPTION: Antique blue and white glazed porcelain drum form scroll weight decorated with floral motifs surrounding four Han character medallions likely to be monograms. CIRCA: 19th Century, possibl

DESCRIPTION: (2Pc) Chinese footed ceramic statues of figures in ornate clothing with polychrome enameled details throughout and glazed finish. Marked at the undersides with Han character stamps. CIRCA

DESCRIPTION: Blanc de chine porcelain sculpture depicting Guan Yin folding her hands in her sleeves while standing among clouds. Marked on underside with impressed Han character mark and stamped "CHIN

DESCRIPTION: 900 silver bowl by Wang Ching & Company featuring open-work dragon, cloud, and flaming pearl designs and dragon form feet. Hallmarked on underside with Han characters, "90", and "WH". Tot

DESCRIPTION: Antique famille rose porcelain miniature teapot decorated with two figures - a court lady, and a warrior - surrounded by Han characters inscriptions. Finished with gilt accenting and a fl

DESCRIPTION: Porcelain sculpture from the Chinese Republic depicting Budai wearing a flower and foliage laden robe and bearing his blue cloth sack. Impressed with Han characters marks on underside. CI

DESCRIPTION: Ming dynasty bronze vase featuring a rhomboid lip, two handles, and Chinese key designs. Marked between handles on either side with Han characters for Xuande period. CIRCA: 18th Century,

DESCRIPTION: Two matching famille rose shouldered vases, each decorate with bird, floral, and foliage motifs and finished with three lines of script (possibly poetry) in Han characters. CIRCA: 19th Ce

DESCRIPTION: Scholar's dream stone in the form of a slab featuring polychrome streaks in white, grey, and tan. Piece is inscribed on verso in Han characters and is mounted in a gilt frame. Provenance:

DESCRIPTION: Two matching antique porcelain vases, each decorated with a scene of courtiers in a garden opposite an inscription in Han characters. Each piece is adorned with pierced, gilt-accented han

DESCRIPTION: Polychrome panel decorated with four large gilt Han characters flanked by several smaller gilt Han characters all against a red background framed by a black border decorated with raised g