Sui dynasty
Supported by a slender column with flaring foot, the circular dish with shallow concave...

Sui dynasty
Of elongated ovoid form supported by a platform base with perforated sides and a thick...

Tang dynasty, 8th/9th century
Heavily potted, the spherical vessel on three short legs with...

Tang dynasty
The pottery jar of high-shouldered form, short neck and rolled lip, covered inside and...

Sui dynasty
Each with high rounded shoulders rising from a small flat base, the short neck...

Tang dynasty
The spherical bowl thinly potted with inverted rim, covered inside and out in a thin...

Tang dynasty
The solid oblong block with flat sides and slightly canted top, the corners beveled and...

Liao dynasty
The shallow circular basin with flared flat rim supported by four feline clawed feet...

Tang dynasty
Following Central Asian prototype, the small bronze very finely cast and chased with...

Sui dynasty
Rising from the flat base to gently rounded shoulders, the vase of almost oval shape...

Song/Jin dynasty, 12th century
A young lady holds the doorway open as if waiting for someone's...

circa 5th-3rd millennium B.C.
4 1/2, 5 1/8 and 6 1/8in (11.5, 13 and 15.5cm) lengths (3...

Late Neolithic period
Of flattened oblong shape and bulging convex on the wide sides, the cutting...

Liangzhu Culture, circa 3000-2500 B.C.
The slightly tapered square tube with a thick collar on each...

Late Neolithic period - early Shang dynasty
A wide aperture at the center, notched on the outer edge...

Hongshan culture, circa 3500-2500 B.C.
The flat plaque with a circular aperture off-center below a...

Hongshan culture, circa 3500-2500 B.C.
Carved as the profile of a seagull-like bird, the eyes in the...

circa 5th-3rd millenium B.C.
8 and 7 1/8in (20.2 and 18.2cm) lengths (2...

circa 5th-3rd millennium B.C.
5 7/8 and 5 3/4in (15cm and 14.6cm) lengths (2...

Liangzhu culture, circa 3000-2500 B.C.
With thick half-round sides and gently convex inner wall, the...

Liangzhu Culture, circa 3000-2500 B.C.
The tall tapering square tube with thick collars on each end...

Warring States period
The thin plaque simply carved as the silhouette of a horned dragon looking...

Late Shang - Early Western Zhou dynasty, 12th-10th century B.C.
Of classic one-tier form, the center...

Western Zhou Dynasty
Carved on both sides of the flat plaque in simple incised lines a simian-like...

Zhou dynasty
Thinly carved with a wide central aperture, the softly polished celadon green stone...

Han dynasty
Each in pear-shaped silhouette raised on square high foot, the mouth flaring slightly...

Han Dynasty
Of highly abstract slender form with rounded sides and flat base, the legs and feet...

Han dynasty
With mouth open in a roar showing neatly lined teeth and gently curled tongue, the...

Eastern Han dynasty
Thinly cast in openwork with raised lines on both sides to depict a mythical...

Western Han dynasty
Comprised of a pair of cylindrical finials each with four projecting ribs; a...

Six Dynasties
In crouching position balanced on powerful limbs as if ready to leap, the alert head...

Eastern Han dynasty - Jin dynasty, A.D. 2nd/3rd century
Cast with a mythical beast on top of a solid...

Warring States period-Han dynasty
Following the bo bell shape with notched sides, a tab on the top...

Tang dynasty
The solid oblong block with slightly concave and canted top, the front and back sides...

Tang dynasty
The deep straight sides rising from flat rimless base, gently extended to one end for...

Eastern Jin dynasty
Depicting a crowned yu ren immortal reining in the winged dragon to a full stop...

Tang dynasty
Cast in the shape of a natural clamshell, decorated on both sides with lush flowering...

Yuan dynasty
A pair of small cups with dragon handles, a quad-lobed oval dish, and a shallow bowl...

Southern Song dynasty, 13th century
Depicting a pair of literati sitting face-to-face raising a...

Southern Song/Yuan dynasty, 13th century
The small cup with everted rim and a rolled lip on the...

Southern Song dynasty, 12th-13th century
Each bottle-vase with broad shoulder tapering down to a...

Song - Ming dynasty
Of saucer shape with lipped everted rim divided into twelve lobes, the central...

Song-Ming dynasty
Carved in the round, the deity seated in the 'lotus' position wearing a long robe...

Song dynasty
Toddler with a flat peach-shaped hair bun wearing a long jacket over a pair of loose...

Song-Ming dynasty
Following the archaic bronze hu prototype, finely carved on each side a large...

Tang - Five Dynasties
Boldly chased and incised with a winged three-claw dragon flying in mid-air...

Song-Ming dynasty
Carved in profile and following ancient prototypes, the winged dragon looking back...

Song dynasty
Finely carved in low relief, the dragon encircling the oval disc with its head...

Song-Ming dynasty
Carved in relief, two dragons above stylized clouds on the cover, the larger...

Liao/Song dynasty
Of shallow form, well-carved inside and out with packed rows imitating a woven...

Liao - Song dynasty, circa 10th-13th century
The bowl with rounded sides and gently everted rim on...

Qianlong period
The love birds cuddle with tails crossed, holding a branch of prunus blossom in...

Early Ming dynasty, 15th century
Finely carved in relief a five-claw dragon with arms and legs...

Qianlong period
Resting with the head tucked back and holding a stalk of millet in its beak, its...

late 18th/early 19th century
The bat with softly contoured wings wrapped around a large pierced...

Qing dynasty
Realistically modeled and heavily cast, the horse standing four-square looking straight...

Tang – Song dynasty
The silver cover of domed oval shape finely chased with a pair of birds in...

Song dynasty
Of slender ovoid form, the small mouth with flared rim on a short cylindrical neck, the...

Yuan dynasty
Well-modeled and hollowed at the center, the recumbent ram resting on a boulder with a...

Early 20th century
The translucent stone smoothly polished showing natural icy-green tones.
3 1/8in...

Qianlong period
Carved in the round a recumbent horse with its head turns back, the mane and tail...

Qianlong period
Carved in openwork a soft ribbon loosely wraps around a guqin Ziter, a chessboard...

19th-20th century
The flat plaque finely carved and incised on both sides, a mirror image of a pair...

19th-20th century
Carved in the style of an ancient ritual jade cong, the square tube with thick...

18th-19th century
The form and design rendered in archaic style, the bird resting with its head...

Early 20th century
Of plain annular form, with smoothly polished rounded sides, the icy stone with...

Qianlong – Jiaqing period, circa 1800
With deeply rounded sides and short ring foot, well-carved in...

Qianlong marks and of the period
Each of lobed baluster form, decorated with large and small peony...