Chinese antiquities, Ming Dynasty 1368?1644 - price guide and values

Ming Horse Terracotta Figure

Chinese Ming terracotta figure of a horse

Longquan Celadon Dish with Fish Relief

Small Chinese Longquan celadon dish, Yuan/Ming dynasty, with two fish carved in relief to the centre. Diameter 13 cm. Provenance: Graeme and Jacquie Storm Collection

Chinese Celadon Barbed Vase with Handles (Chenghua Mark)

A Chinese Celadon-glazed Barbed vase with two handles (Da Ming Chenghua Nian Zhi mark), height 14 cm, diameter 8 cm

Chinese Blue and White Phoenix Swatow Dish

A Chinese blue and white Swatow dish, Ming (1368-1644) or Qing (1644-1912) Dynasty, 17th century, decorated with a phoenix and flowers, kiln grit adhering to the foot. 5.7 cm high, 27.5 cm diameter. One chipt to the rim, no other visible faults.…

Ming/Qing Dynasty Pale Celadon Jade Buckle

A Chinese pale celadon jade buckle, Ming (1368-1644) or Qing Dynasty (1644-1912), circa 17th century, of even-toned pale celadon jade, consisting of two square arched buckle components, with a hook in the form of a qilong head and a loop. Provenance: the…

Ming Dynasty Celadon Charger with Peony Design

A Chinese Longquan celadon charger, Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), circa late 14th century, a barbed foliate-rimmed charger decorated to the centre with an impressed peony design. Provenance: the de Voogd collection, 6 cm high, 33.5 cm diameter. Broken and…

Ming Dynasty Blue and White Vase Collection

A collection of six Chinese underglaze blue and white porcelain and earthenware vases, with decorations in various naturalistic designs. Late Ming Dynasty, Wanli period (1573-1620). Various sizes

Ming Dynasty Glazed Earthenware Miniature Tomb Furnishings

Two miniature Tomb models of Domestic Furnishings in glazed earthenware, Ming Dynasty, modelled as a quanyi chair and offering table, table 16 cm width chair 20 cm high, (2)

Ming-Style Blue and White Chinese Bottle Vase

A Chinese blue and white bottle vase, decorated all over in the Ming manner with figures in a pavilion and auspicious landscape setting; bearing four character Ming marks underside. Height 20.5 cm

Ming Dynasty Cast-Iron Infant Buddha

A Chinese cast-iron infant Buddha, Ming dynasty, height 16 cm. Provenance: Private collection, Sydney

Ming and Yuan Dynasty White Glazed Ceramics

A Chinese white glazed barbed dish, Yuan Dynasty, 14th/15th century, 19 cm diameter and two other Ming dynasty white glazed bowls, 18.5 and 12 cm diameter

Ming Dynasty Blue and White Bowl

A Chinese blue and white bowl, Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), 15th century, decorated to the interior with visvajra motif to the centre, to the exterior with tortoiseshell design. Diameter 15 cm, height 7 cm. Provenance: The Estate of Professor Bill and Ngaere…

Ming Dynasty Gilt-Bronze Attendant Figure

A small Chinese gilt-bronze figure of an attendant, Ming Dynasty 1368-1644, modelled as an attendant boy holding an offering with incised details, and remnant gilding, housed on perspex stand. A private collection, Caulfield. 8.5 cm high, 3.5 cm wide

Ming Dynasty Blue Glass Trade Beads with Applique Roundels

Three Chinese glass trade beads, Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) or earlier, each of blue glass with applique white and blue roundels. The largest bead approximately 2 cm diameter.

Ming Dynasty Blue and White Deer Dish

A Chinese blue and white deer dish, Ming Dynasty, Wanli period (1572-1620), with a barbed foliate rim, decorated with two deer in a landscape to the interior, and ducks and foliage to the rim. 3 cm high, 20.5 cm diameter.

Blue & White Ming Bird Dish with Floral Panels

Ming late 17th century blue & white bird dish with a central bird medallion, with ten panels of flowers & a scalloped edge. Condition good to fair, crack to the base. Diameter 21 cm

Ming-style dragon and bat blue and white jar

A large Ming style blue and white jar, shouldered shape, decorated with two sinuous five clawed dragons on a background of fiery clouds, five bats decorate the shoulder beneath a stiff leaf band at the short neck. Height 34 cm

Provincial Ming Blue and White Dishes

Three provincial Ming blue and white shallow dishes, one decorated with a fish (Cordy's label 1994), one decorated with bamboo (Webb's label 2001), another with floral design. Largest diameter 20 cm

Ming-style Blue and White Deity Vase

A Chinese porcelain rouleau vase, decorated in underglaze blue in the Ming manner with a deity riding a deer accosted by a demon. Height 32 cm

Blue and White Dragon Bowl by Takahashi Dohachi III

A Japanese studio blue and white dragon bowl, by Takahashi Dohachi III (1811-1879), decorated in late Ming Imperial style with two five-clawed dragons chasing flaming pearls amidst stylised clouds to the exterior, and a flaming pearl to the interior. Six…

Chinese Ming Fish Plates - Todd Barlin Collection

Eight Chinese Ming export ware porcelain plates, [8], all are finely painted, fish illustrations in blue, Ming Era 1368-1644. Provenance: Todd Barlin collection, diameter 13.5 cm to 15 cm

Chinese Ming Dynasty Blue and White Immortal Vase

A Chinese blue and white vase, decorated with figures of immortals to body sides and phoenixes to top shoulder, possibly Ming Dynasty, four character marks to base. Private collection, Perth. Purchased V.M Antiques, Ermita. Height 37 cm

Ming Dynasty Celadon Vase with Amber Glaze

A Chinese pottery vase, Ming Dynasty or earlier, dark celadon and amber glaze with six small lug handles to shoulder. Private collection, Perth. Purchased V.M Antiques, Ermita. Height 25 cm

Ming Dynasty Dragon Martaban Jar

A Chinese Martaban jar, Ming Dynasty, light amber glaze, decorated with two dragons chasing the flaming pearl in high relief and incised designs, four lug handles to shoulder with impressed floral design. Private collection, Perth. Purchased V.M Antiques,…

Ming Dynasty Amber Glazed Dragon Jar

A Chinese Martaban jar, Ming Dynasty, amber glazed, decorated with four dragons and two lotus in high relief, incised border, six lug handles to shoulder. Private collection, Perth. Purchased V.M Antiques, Ermita. Height 30 cm. Diameter 21 cm (at top)

Ming Buddha Head with Black Pigment Remnants

A carved marble Buddha head, with Remnants of black pigment on the hair Whorls, possibly Ming, the characteristics of a broad flattened nose and plump earlobes framing the full face beneath pronounced topknot, height 17 cm. Provenance: Important Private…

Ming Dynasty Blue and White Bowls

A Chinese blue and white circular bowl, Ming dynasty, 17th century, 15.2 cm diameter and a blue and white tea-bowl Mind dynasty, 9.5 cm diameter

Chinese Ivory Chess Set with Ming and Qing Empires

An old Chinese red and plain finely carved ivory chess set, complete with 32 pieces, the emperor and warrior figures carved in costumes representing the empire of the Ming and Qing, the bishops as elephants, the knights on horseback, minor damage.…

Ming Celadon Bowl with Rim Chips

Large antique Chinese celadon bowl, Late Ming, 33 cm diameter. Chips to rim.

Bronze Guan Yin: Goddess of Compassion

Bronze Guan Yin Bodhisattua, goddess of compassion, pre Ming Dynasty

17th Century Chinese Wucai Jarlets

Two Chinese wucai jarlets, late Ming, 17th century, 11 cm and 10 cm high. Provenance: One purchased from Andrew Stuart-Robertson, 1999, The second one from Sanctuary Cove Antiques

Ming Blue and White Vase and Jarlets with Floral Motifs

A small Ming provincial style blue and white vase and two jarlets, lotus flowers to the vases and floral tendrils to the jars. Tallest 10.5 cm

Ming-marked Chinese dragon jar with lid

A Chinese blue and white lidded porcelain dragon jar with Ming mark to the shoulder, 20th century, 37 cm high

Blue and White Kraak Porcelain Saucers from Ming Dynasty

A pair of blue and white Kraak porselein saucer dishes late Ming dynasty, Wanli period, each thinly potted and painted with flowering peonies within a frieze of ribboned objects, flower and fruit sprays, 14 cm diameter,. Provenance: Guest & Gray, London,…

Ming Dynasty Blue and White Kendi Pot

A Chinese blue and white kendi pot, Ming Dynasty, with flower and duck decoration and crayfish in high relief to shoulder. Private collection, Perth. Purchased V.M Antiques, Ermita. Height 16 cm

Ming Dynasty Blue and White Phoenix Dishes

A pair of Chinese blue and white Swatow dishes, Ming Dynasty, with double phoenix decoration. Private collection, Perth. Purchased V.M Antiques, Ermita. Diameter 27 cm (each)

17th Century Chinese Red and Green Porcelain Bowl

A 17th century large Chinese Zhangzhou Fujian red and green porcelain bowl, Ming Dynasty, height 13.5 cm, depth 27.5 cm

Ming Zhangzhou Blue & White Porcelain Plate, 16th Century

A Chinese blue and white porcelain plate, 'Zhangzhou' ware, late Ming dynasty, probably 16th century. 21.5 cm diameter

Ming Dynasty White Glaze Jar, 20 cm Height

Chinese Ming Dynasty white glaze jar, of ovoid form with a short slightly flared neck, with light crackle to glaze, height 20 cm

Ming Dynasty Blue and White Porcelain Tiles

Pair of Chinese Ming Dynasty porcelain tiles, in blue and white, of square form, decorated with central peony, surrounded by scrolling foliate border, evidence of gilt, 20 cm x 20 cm, (2). Provenance: J L Smith collection, Far south coast NSW

Ming Dynasty Blue & White Porcelain Jar with Buddhist Lions

Chinese Ming Dynasty blue and white porcelain jar, of tapering baluster form, the shoulders decorated with Buddhist lions, above a border of floral, duck and insect motifs, height 22.5 cm. Provenance: Private Collection Northern NSW

Chinese Celadon Incised Foliate Dish, Yuan/Ming Dynasty

A Chinese celadon foliate dish with incised decoration, Yuan/ Ming Dynasty Tradition, the body with an even celadon glaze, central design with a clear band then incised decoration around the cavetto, diameter 33 cm

Ming Dynasty Jade Qilin Pendant

Chinese jade Qilin pendant possibly, Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644), in pale celadon tone with brown inclusions, depicting a qilin curled up with one leg in mouth. Height 4.2 cm

Chinese Dragon Vase on Mustard Yellow Ground

A Chinese yellow ground vase, probably 20th century, the compressed oviform vase on a small foot with a broad flared neck and rim, a sgraffito design throughout depicting dragons chasing flaming pearls amidst ruyi clouds, upon a bright mustard yellow…

Ming Dynasty Phoenix Dish

A Chinese Ming Dynasty Binh Thuan shipwreck dish, circa 1608, Wanli period, the Swatow low form bowl with underglaze blue decoration featuring a double phoenix in a garden setting to the centre, the cavetto embellished with scale like patterns…

Blue and White Ming Dynasty Wine Pot

A Chinese blue and white porcelain wine pot possibly late Ming Dynasty decorated with painted blue enamel with two hole bird spout pourer. Height 8.8 cm

Ming Dynasty Longquan Celadon Buddhist Lion Pair

Rare pair of Chinese Longquan celadon Buddhist lions, Ming Dynasty

16th Century Ming Blue & White Chinese Kitchen Bowl

Chinese kitchen Ming blue and white bowl, 16th century, diameter 22.5 cm

Ming Dynasty Celadon Foliate Dish with Crackled Glaze

A Chinese celadon foliate dish, Ming Dynasty, the barbed foliate rimmed dish covered in a thick crackled bluish celadon glaze with an unglazed foot, 4 cm high, 16 cm diameter,

Floral Swatow Ceramic Bowl, Late Ming

Swatow Chinese ceramic bowl with floral decoration, late Ming, 9.5 cm high, 19.5 cm diameter

Ming Dynasty Blue and White Round Boxes

Six Chinese blue and white round boxes, Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), 17th century, decorated with flowers and repeating motifs including one with a rabbit, the largest 6.5 cm high, 7.5 cm diameter.

Chinese Blue and White Ming-Qing Dynasty Dishes

Two Chinese blue and white small dishes, Ming (1368-1644) and Qing Dynasty (1644-1912), one dish decorated with a rabbit surrounded by foliage, dating to Wanli period (1572-1620). The other dish decorated with a landscape, dating to Kangxi period…

Blue and White Ming Kylin and Stork Dish

A large blue and white Ming 'Swatow' dish, uncommonly decorated with kylin and stork within a landscape, repeat floral motif and fish scale border. Minor faults. Diameter 7.5 cm.

Ming Longquan Celadon Dish with Floral Carvings

A Longquan celadon dish Ming dynasty, thickly potted with shallow sides and barbed everted rim, the interior carved with floral sprays around a central peony flower, all beneath the crackled sea-green glaze, 21.5 cm diameter

Ming Dynasty Blanc-de-Chine Scholar Figure

A blanc-de-chine figure of a scholar holding the head of a domestic animal, Ming dynasty 17th century, 22 cm high. Provenance: The Collection of Mrs Lillian Whiteman, South Yarra, Melbourne

Ming Xuande Blue and White Floral Bowl

Old Chinese blue and white. Floral bowl, with Ming Xuande marking to base. Diameter 16 cm

Dark Bronze Guanyin on Lotus Throne, 19th Century

A fine Chinese Tibetan dark bronze alloy of Guanyin, seated on a triple leaf lotus throne, Traces of gilt, Ming style, 19th century a serene rounded full face, hands in lap, height 37 cm

Ming Dynasty Iron Red Scholar's Water Pourer

An antique Chinese iron red underglazed porcelain scholar's water pourer, late Ming Dynasty, 16th/17th century, 4 cm high, 17 cm wide

Ming Style Blue Porcelain Beaker Vase - 18th Century

Beaker vase, a mid 18th century Chinese porcelain vase, Ming style underglaze blue, height 22 cm

Mythical Dragon Jar with Blue and White Panels

Ming blue & white dragon jar having two mythical beast head handles & painted with various panels. The body decorated with a band of three clawed dragons & fireballs.

White Cat and Butterfly

Chinese Qing Dynasty painting of a white cat watching a butterfly, ink & colour on silk, after Ming Dynasty court painter Bian Jing Zhao, hand gilded frame and silk mount. Ex: Raymond Tregaskis Antiques 1999 (ex John Hilliard Collection), 122 cm x 63 cm…

Chinese Aubergine-Glazed Washer with Wooden Base (Yongle Mark)

A Chinese aubergine-glazed washer with wooden base (Da Ming Yongle Nian Zhi mark), height 70, 195×10.5 cm

Ming Dynasty Lotus Wine Cup with Xuande Mark

A Chinese blue and white wine cup, Ming Dynasty, 16th century, Finely decorated with lotus flowers, Xuande mark, 4 cm high, 6.5 cm diameter. Provenance: Sotheby's New York, 1981, ex Collection of Mr and Mrs Eugene Bernat

Ming Dynasty Blue and White Kraak Ware Dish

A large Chinese blue and white Kraak ware foliated rimmed dish, late Ming Dynasty, 16th century, Decorated with phoenix and floral motifs, 36.5 cm diameter. Provenance: Lawsons, Sydney, 1999

Turquoise Double-Gourd Vase with Gold Lacquer Repair

A 18th century Chinese double-gourd turquoise incised vase (gold lacquer repair to the rim, Da Ming Jianjing Nian Zhi mark), height 23.5 cm, diameter 11.5 cm

17th Century Chinese Blue Glazed Ceramic Brush Pot

An antique Chinese ceramic brush pot with blue glaze, late Ming early Qing Dynasty, 17th century, 9 cm high, 20 cm diameter

Ming Erotic Porcelain Plaque, 11cm Diameter

A Chinese porcelain erotic plaque, possibly Ming, 11 cm diameter

Ming Celadon Vase with Floral Frieze

Chinese Ming Dynasty celadon vase, of baluster form, lightly incised with floral frieze, in pale green tones, collection label to base, height 11.5 cm. Provenance: Bonhams Sydney, 15 Nov 2018, lot 51

Cream-glazed Kwan Yin with child on rocky outcrop

Good Ming/Qing Dynasty figure of Kwan Yin, depicted seated on rocky outcrop, wearing headdress and robes, with child seated in lap, with one leg resting on knee, on swirling rocky outcrop, in a cream glaze, a/f, height 32 cm. Provenance: The Ivan Ban…

Ming Dynasty Celadon Floral Dish

Chinese Ming Dynasty celadon dish, of circular form with raised sides, the interior with incised floral motifs, on a circular foot, with ceramic Collectors Society exhibition label no.54, 1985, diameter 11 cm. Provenance: Dr. Merna Marie Torrington…

Ming blue and white ewer with floral decoration

Chinese Ming Dynasty blue and white ewer, with flared lip and ribbed globular body, decorated with branches, lingzhi and flowers, on a circular foot, height 15 cm. Provenance: Dr. Merna Marie Torrington collection

Yellow Ming-style Dragon Dishes

A pair of yellow ground dishes, late 19th to 20th century, in the Ming style with incised emerald dragons chasing a flaming pearl to the exterior and centre upon a saffron yellow ground, bearing apocryphal Jiaqing, characters underside, diameter 15.5 cm

Ming Dynasty Blue and White Shipwreck Bowl

A Ming Dynasty Binh Thuan blue and white shipwreck bowl, Wanli period, 1608, Christie's number 38544, the Swatow style bowl freely decorated to the interior roundel with a phoenix amidst peonies, the border with five cloud shaped reserves enclosing flora…

Blue and White Ming Ewer with Floral Sprays

Chinese Ming Dynasty blue and white porcelain ewer with spreading lip and baluster body, decorated with floral sprays, a/f, height 16 cm

Late Ming Celadon Tri-Footed Censer, 20.5cm Diameter, Incised Hatching

Chinese late Ming Tri-Footed celadon censer, of shallow form with an everted lip, the body lightly incised with cross hatching, resting on three decorative feet, a/f, diameter 20.5 cm

Chinese Bat Pierced Bronze Censer with Stand

A Chinese bronze censer with stand, the compressed ovoid bowl of tapering form with a domed lid with five bat shaped piercings and raised on a tripod stand, in a fine mottled copper finish and bearing a faux impressed Ming seal underside. Height 15 cm.…

Ming Dynasty Blue and White Figural Vase

A Chinese blue and white vase, Ming Dynasty, figural decoration. Private collection, Perth. Purchased V.M Antiques, Ermita. Height 25 cm

Ming Dynasty Bird Feeders with Xuande Mark

A Chinese matching pair of underglaze blue and white porcelain bird Feeders, late Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), with loop handles, of lobed-shape, decoration in underglaze blue, each bearing the Ming dynasty Xuande mark at rim, 4.5 cm high. Reference: a…

Ming Dynasty Lacquer Box with Bamboo Inset

A Chinese Basketry-Inset lacquer document box, Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), 17th century, with indented, rounded corners, the sides inset with bamboo basketry, the black lacquer finish further decorated with flowers in red and yellow lacquer.

Ming Polychrome Bird and Dragon Bowl

17th century Ming Zhangzhou (Swatow) polychrome bowl in iron red, green and turquoise, decorated with a central bird in flight the wide border with medallions and dragons chasing the flaming pearl, 35 cm dia (one thumbnail rim chip)

Ming Dynasty Jade Twin-Handled Libation Cup

A Chinese jade Twin-Handled libation cup, probably Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), the jade of grey-green hue with black veins, relief carved with archaistic s-scrolls, with twin handles in the form of archaistic dragons. Provenance: the de Voogd collection, 3…

Ming Blue and White Floral Lidded Jar

A Chinese underglaze blue and white ceramic lidded jar, with foliate and floral decoration, the lid lobed in ten panels around a central flower motif. Ming Dynasty, Wanli period (1573-1620). 14 x 5 cm

Ming era ivory lady playing Pipa

A Chinese marine ivory figure of a lady playing the Pipa possibly Ming, modelled in robes, set on stand, 30.5 cm high. Provenance: The collection of Amina & Franco Belgiorno-Nettis AC CBE,

Ming Dynasty Blue and White Porcelain Dish

A Chinese blue and white porcelain circular dish, Ming Dynasty 16th century, painted with cranes and emblems, 20 cm diameter

17th Century Ming Blue and White Floral Meander Bowls

Two Provincial Ming blue and white floral meander bowls, 17th century, 23 cm diameter

Ming Dynasty Blue and White Shoe Brush Washer

A Chinese blue and white brush washer in the form of a shoe, Ming Dynasty. 10 cm long, 4 cm wide

Miyanaga Tozan I Celadon Vase: Ming Style, Showa Period

A Japanese studio celadon vase by Miyanaga Tozan I (1868-1941), Showa period (1926-1985), circa 1930s, of baluster form with ring and mask handles in Ming Chinese Longquan style, covered in a fine celadon glaze, marked 'Tozan' to the base. Together with…

Kyoyaki Koro by Takahashi Dohachi III

A Japanese Kyoyaki koro by Takahashi Dohachi III (1845-1897), Meiji period (1868-1912), late 19th century, of square form with four bracket feet and a pierced domed cover, decorated with alternating scenes of Chinese style landscape and phoenixes in Ming…

Ming Dynasty Enamel Decorated Fish Dish

A Chinese enamel decorated dish, Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), Zhengde or Jiajing period, decorated in red and green enamels with a fish in a lotus pond to the centre and to the rim with scrolling lotus. Diameter 15.5 cm. Provenance: The Estate of Professor…

Ming Dynasty Enamel Decorated Fish Dish

A Chinese enamel decorated large dish, Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), Zhengde or Jiajing period, decorated to the interior with fish within a lotus pond to the centre surrounded by scrolling flowers, in red, green and yellow enamels. Diameter 30 cm. Provenance…

Ming Dynasty Longquan Tripod Censer with Sea-Green Glaze

A Chinese Longquan tripod censer, Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), modelled in bamboo-segment form, covered in a fine sea-green glaze. An important Melbourne collection. 5.5 cm high, 7.75 cm diameter. Provenance: an important private collection, Melbourne.

Ming Dynasty Kosometsuke Square Dishes with Scholars

A pair of Chinese heirloom 'Kosometsuke' square dishes, Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), Tianqi period (1620-1627), each dish decorated in underglaze blue with two scholars in a garden landscape, the rim with a repeating cloud design. Together with a fitted…