Even though Asia Week has ended, The Curator’s Eye (www.CuratorsEye.com) continues to offer the highest quality art, antiques, and artifacts of Asian origin currently on display on the online exhibition. The Curator’s Eye is pleased to feature thousands of highly desirable objects from dealers based all over the world, ranging from Contemporary Southeast Asian paintings to antique Japanese furniture and porcelain to rare Chinese and Persian jewelry.

Japanese Imari Porcelain Urns

These exceptional Japanese Imari porcelain vases, created circa 1860, are stunning examples of early Meiji-period artistry. Crafted in the highly desirable kinran-de style, this exquisite pair boasts a mesmerizing red and blue motif of flowers surrounded by winged dragons with hand-painted gold accents. The colorful porcelains from Japan's Imari region were in great demand during the latter half of the 19th century in Europe, especially among the style-conscious French.

Japanese Meiji-Period Cabinet

This exquisite Japanese hardwood shodana, or book cabinet, is a masterpiece of Meiji-period artistry, circa 1870. A study in depth and dimension, this amazing cabinet, almost certainly crafted of either zelkova or paulownia wood, was created as both a storage and display piece. Open spaces are framed by exceptional carving, and the entire structure is distinguished by intricate inlaid gilt bronze, ivory, and mother-of-pearl scenes in the Shibayama manner. Japanese heraldry emblems of inlaid gilt bronze complete this spectacular piece, also known as kazaridana dansu, or display cabinets.

Japanese Map of Edo or Tokyo, Japan

Also available is a hand colored Tokugawa Period woodcut map of Edo, or Tokyo, Japan that is impressive in its size and detail. Produced in the mid 19th century Japanese woodcut style, this map is a rare combination of practical and decorative. Ships and waves decorate the harbor and there is no specific directional orientation. All text seems to radiate from the palace at the center of the map.

Gold Double-Gourd Shaped Earrings

Each of these masterfully-crafted Chinese Ming Dynasty earrings is made with beaten gold folded into very fine pleats into double-gourd shapes with a small, pearled gold wire ring cinching the waist. Possibly, such earrings were commissioned for members of the Imperial family as wedding gifts with the wish for many sons, as the double gourd form was associated with abundance and fertility, largely on account of their luxuriant tendrils and many seeds. Importantly, the examples here are in better condition than those offered from the Carl Kempe Collection at Sotheby's in 2008.

Tamil Nadu Gold Marriage Necklace Pendant (Kazhutthuru or Tali)

This gold pendant from Tamil Nadu is repoussed and pierced and shows a central figure of Shiva and Parvati seated on their bull vahana, Nandi. Such pendants were worn as part of an extravagant gold necklace and used by the wealthy Nattukottai Chettiar community of Tamil Nadu in south India as gifts to their daughters on the occasion of their marriage. The necklaces were decorative and talismanic, in addition to serving as a store of wealth that was the property of the bride in order to give her a degree of financial security. The pendant dates to the late nineteenth century.

Citrine Pendant of a Qajar Prince

This citrine bow pendant from Qajar Persia, circa 1900, which can be worn either suspended from a chain, or on a ribbon, shows a large central image of a young Muslim prince, in slight profile, in very high relief hand cut and tooled from a single piece of citrine. The setting is most probably English or French, commissioned from a leading jeweller by the Qajar royal house or similar. This image is possibly of the last Qajar shah, Ahmad Shah. He came to the throne at a young age and so did not have a moustache. Indeed, portraits of senior members of the Qajar royal family incorporated into jewellery to be worn had a long tradition in Qajar Persia. Overall, this is an exceptional, extravagant piece of history in superb condition.

Chinese Jade Buddha and Zitan Ruyi Scepter

From Western China, 18th Century is a rare and striking antique Chinese russet and white jade buddha, seated in nature with pine trees, vines, leaves and grapes, carved from a substantial boulder. It is inscribed on the back, and joins with a Chinese Zitan Ruyi scepter. The scepter is rare and intricately carved. At almost two feet long, this large Imperial Zitan scepter from the 18th Century displays uncommon artisanship in its elaborate nature motif.

Extremely Rare Chinese Woodcut Fan Of The Chinese Empire

Titled “Da Qing Yitong Nian San Sheng Yudi Quan Tu,” [Map of the Empire of the Unified twenty-three provinces of the Great Qing], this extremely rare Chinese woodblock map fan, created in Shanghai, China, c. 1870, is inset with a map of the world, a distance table and a list of provincial cities on the back. The fan has a detailed Chinese map of the Qing Empire, and to the south the Island of Hainan is depicted with an inset map of the world. The Great Wall is shown snaking across China's northwestern provinces, and to the east is Taiwan, the Korean peninsula and Japan.

Unusual Calcutta, India Silver Kettle, Burner and Stand

This very fine solid silver kettle and stand set, from Calcutta, India circa 1890, is unusual as far as Indian colonial silver is concerned because the form - a kettle with a stand and burner - is almost never encountered in Indian silver but is somewhat more frequently encountered among Chinese export silver. The kettle, of flattened, spherical form, is chased all over with scenes of Indian village life against a ring-mat background. The quality of the chasing is unusually good for Calcutta work, and silversmithing in colonial Calcutta was concentrated in workshops in the suburb of Bhowanipore.

Chinese Contemporary Painter Simao Huang: Edge of Reason

Simao (Tse Mao) Huang has based his Edge of Reason series on the blind greed that dragged many Chinese into the stock market in Shanghai. In his latest work, the second painting of the second series, Simao's figure revels in the joy of his supposed wealth, just about to cheer his own success. Yet his plate is empty. Wearing sunglasses, so even more oblivious to the reality of his situation. Tse Mao is one of the most technically gifted of China's new wave of artists, and his works have been exhibited in in Beijing, San Francisco, Shanghai and Guangzhou.

Thai Artist Pairoj Karndee: Seduction

Pairoj Karndee is one of the rising stars of Asian art. His work never fails to impress. His technique involves portraying his subject as a stone sculpture, based on his fascination with the sculptures of Angkor in Cambodia, but with the more recent works moving well away from the bounds of natural colour, as is evidenced by Seduction, Paris. The eyes in all of his works immediately grab the viewer's attention. Pairoj has been exhibited in Beijing, Shanghai, Bangkok, and San Francisco and his works are in collections throughout the world.

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