Antique Chinese Brush Washer and Spoon. Porcelain

Lovely old, white porcelain brush washer, actually a water dipper with spoon to add water on the ink stone for grinding the ink. It is in shape of a toad.



There is a red wax seal at the bottom, stating that it is antique. It has been certified by a Chinese authority in the 1970s.

Size; 2,5 x 1,4 x 1 inches.

China, Agate Snuff Bottle, attractive Structure.

Beautiful, Chinese Agate snuff-bottle with Jade stopper and spoon.



2,2 x 4 x 1,2 inches. 224 gram.

The snuff-bottle is app. 100 years old, the stopper has been added later

Nice structure of the stone, somehow resembling a landscape. Very fine condition.

Emil Scaria CdV. Photo by Luckhardt.

Austrian bass Emil Scaria (1838 - 1886) made his début (1860) in Budapest as Saint-Bris (Les Huguenots). He made appearances in Dessau, Leipzig, and Dresden.





In 1863 he appeared with the Leipzig Opera; in 1864 he was working in Dresden. He was engaged by the Vienna State Opera in 1872.

From 1873 until his death Scaria was engaged at the Vienna Hofoper. While in London performing a Ring Cycle he suffered a mental breakdown. He continued to sing but in 1886 he again suffered a mental breakdown and soon after died insane.

Old China. 2 small wooden Figurines. Qing Dynasty

Qing Dynasty, 2 wooden figural pendants Guan Yin and Lu Tongpin. ( holes for jointing at head and base-parts ).


55 and 60 mm, Fine condition. Nice, antique carvings.

Antique Chinese Seal of Scarce Stone. 2 Characters

Antique Chinese Siegel made of Gui Hua Shi (siliceous sinter, silicea sinter). Attractive designed seal with flower/stone motif decoration as side carving. Engraved as seal are 2 characters „overtake oneself".




Diameter: 10 mm, Height: 50 mm. Very fine condition. App. 19th century.

Seals made of siliceous sinter are scarce and expensive.

Knowels Hare signed Litho Postcard. Girl with huge Hat.

Attractive, lithographed Art Nouveau postcard, depicting a pretty girl with huge hat, entitled Eloise.




Uses as postcard in Graz in 1914. Fine condition.

John Knowles Hare was born in 1884. He was a member of the Society of Illustrators in New York. In the early 1900s he designed many magazine covers like "Sympathy", "The Saturday Evening Post" oder "The Country Gentleman".

Hare died in 1947 in Montclair, New Jersey.

Austro Hungarian Empire: Decorative Emperor Francis Joseph Postcard - col-5269

Austro Hungarian Empire: Decorative Emperor Francis Joseph Postcard - col-5269

Continental Art Nouveau Postcard with Plane from 1917

Very decorative, Germen advertising postcard for Continenatal company "Continental-Aeroplanstoff". The image shows a small plane and scared watchers.

Text at reverse, fine condition. MORE such Postcards