Chinese & S. E. Asian Antiques
Azianantiques.com is an Internet-based business selling Chinese S. E. Asian Antiques and collectables, located in Brisbane, Queensland (we do not have a shopfront location).
If there is something on our website that is of interest to you we can be contacted through our email. We are happy to provide contact details to those with a genuine interest in any of our items with no obligations.
Our previous website “Golden Triangle Antiques” encompassed our collection of Buddha statues and Buddhist-related iconography, as well as our Chinese and S. E. Asian collections, we felt the name no longer suited our wide variety of antiques, collectables, and miscellaneous items and decided to split them by giving our Chinese S. E. Asian Antiques and collectable collection a new home and will be adding new items regularly.
For those interested in our collection of Buddha statues and Buddhist Iconography please visit
HAN DYNASTY (202 BC - 9 AD) - (25-220 AD)
Although offerings to the dead were practiced in China long before the Han Dynasty, it was during the Han Dynasty when this practice became more popular among the ordinary population, this resulted in a thriving industry in the production of earthenware and terracotta ming qi objects, made specifically for funerary purposes to accompany the departed into the afterlife.
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TANG DYNASTY 618-907 AD
Ming qi tomb objects manufactured during the Tang dynasty became more colorful and imaginative, most were made from low-fired earthenware intended exclusively for burial. Three northern kilns were the main producing sites for the majority of lead-glazed Sancai wares, also referred to as three-colored wares.
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SONG DYNASTY 960-1279 AD
After the collapse of the Tang dynasty, there was a period of upheaval and chaos in which a succession of dynasties and kingdoms followed. In the middle of the 10th century, a military leader and statesman known as Zhou Kuangyin founded the Song dynasty, once again reunifying China.
The Song dynasty was divided into two periods the Southern Song (1127-1279 AD) and the Northern Song (960-1126 AD).
Porcelain and Ceramics manufactured during the Song dynasty became highly sophisticated, becoming more refined with beautiful subtle glazes in a wide variety of colours exhibiting simplicity in style.
MING DYNASTY 1368-1644 AD
From the Tang dynasty and into the Ming dynasty ming qi funerary tomb wares were frequently glazed, unlike those that were produced during the Han dynasty where the majority of tomb objects were unglazed and painted with natural coloured pigments found in nature.
