Attractive China Plate from early Qing Dynasty

Decorative Chinese Plate Qing Dynasty

 

China, late Ming – early Qing Dynasty: Very attractive porcelain plate with floral design at the center and stroke-pattern along the borders.

Diameter 26,3 cm (10 ½ inches), good condition.

More Chinese Antiques: HERE

Complete Set Chinese Zodiac Seals made of Porcelain

Chinese Zodiac Seal Set Porcelain

 

Complete set of 12 Chinese zodiacs as seals. Porcelain, green glaze. Size: 44 x 44 mm x c. 85 mm (1 ¾ x 1 ¾ x c. 3 ½ inches). They are in good condition with no nicks. They are from the Republic period.

More Chinese Seals: HERE

Decorative Chinese Jade Box for Seal Paste

Old Chinese Jade Box for Seal Paste

 
click image to open

Decorative old Chinese seal box made of white-greenish Jade (Hetain yu 和田玉). Bird and plum blossoms as decoration at the lid. Well carved.


Diameter: 52 mm, height: 17 mm, good condition.

More antique Chinese Objects: HERE

Greetings from Liezen 1898 Postcard Austria

Greetings from Liezen Styria Vintage Postcard 1898

 

 

click image to open

Austria Styria province: b/w lithographed vintage postcard with 3 views at Liezen, Panorama view, Grafenegg castle and Lower Marketplace. Sent Liezen to Ischl in 1898. Good condition.

More Austrian Postcards: HERE

Old Japanese Frog Netsuke, Hard-wood

Old Japanese hard-wood Netsuke in Shape of a Frog

 

click image to open

Old Japanese hard-wood netsuke in shape of a frog/toad. Delicately carved. 

Artist signed: 夻利 Height: 51 mm Very good condition.

More vintage and antique: HERE

Lina von Schauroth Postcard Art Nouveau Frankfurt

German Art Nouveau Postcard by Lina von Schauroth

 

Exciting Art Nouveau postcard promoting the import-exhibition in Frankfurt in 1919.

Lithographed using the colors blue, green gold and black only. Very powerful design. Used as postcard in Germany in 1919. Good condition. Lina von Schauroth, b. Holzmann (1874 - 1970 ) was an artist and artisan from Frankfurt. She became famous for her designs of glass-windows and mosaics used in public buildings. During the 2 wars she engaged in social-politic welfare, later she engaged in animal welfare.

More old Psotcards: HERE and HERE

Alexandra of Denmark Queen Alexandra of England Autograph CoA

Queen Alexandra of England Carte de Visite with Autograph CoA

 

click image to open

Queen Alexandra of England born Princess of Denmark carte de visit. Hand signed by Queen Alexandra.

The Autograph comes with a Certificte of Authenticity.

Alexandra of Denmark (Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia; 1 December 1844 – 20 November 1925) was Queen consort of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress consort of India as the wife of King-Emperor Edward VII.

Her family had been relatively obscure until her father, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, was chosen with the consent of the great powers to succeed his distant cousin, Frederick VII, to the Danish throne. At the age of sixteen, she was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, the heir apparent of Queen Victoria.

They married eighteen months later in 1863, the same year her father became king of Denmark as Christian IX and her brother was appointed to the vacant Greek throne as George I. She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women.

More at our: CURIOSHOP

The Summer Palace in Peking Photo from 1902

The Summer Palace in Peking. Old large Photo from 1902

 

China, Bejing: Authentic old photograph depicting the old Summer Palace in Peking. The photo is from 1902. from a German counsel. 

Hand writing at the back „ Sommerpalast Peking Mittel-Pagode“.

Size: ca. 10 x 7 inches (25,1 x 18,4 cm), good condition.

The Summer Palace has a long history. The origins of the Summer Palace date back to the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty in 1153. In 1860, the British and French destroyed parts of the Summer Palace at the end of the Second Opium War while looting and burning down the nearby Old Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan).

The destruction of the palaces was ordered by Lord Elgin, the British High Commissioner to China, and was undertaken in response to the torture and killing of two British envoys, a journalist for The Times, and their escorts.

The destruction of large parts of the Summer Palace still evokes strong emotions among some people in China. Between 1884–95, during the reign of the Guangxu Emperor (r. 1875–1908), Empress Dowager Cixi ordered three million silver taels, originally designated for upgrading the Qing navy (the Beiyang Fleet), to be used for reconstructing and enlarging the Summer Palace to celebrate her 60th birthday.

In 1900, towards the end of the Boxer Rebellion, the Summer Palace suffered damage again when the forces of the Eight-Nation Alliance destroyed the imperial gardens and seized many artifacts stored in the palace. The palace was restored two years later.

More old Chinese Photos: HERE