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ICHIBAN STARTING TO CLOSE DOWN. We are starting to close down our business, a process that will take us a couple of years - age and health issues tell us it is time.. We still have over 1,500 items either currently listed on our website catalog or still to be posted onto it. So, starting now, Oct.1, 2008, ALL ITEMS IN THE CATALOG MAY BE PURCHASED AT 40 % OFF THE LISTED PRICE. At these low prices, we do ask that you pay shipping and insurance charges for all items purchased. With thanks for your years of patronage, we look forward to serving you until the last items are sold. Cheers ~ Ichiban Antiques.

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Chinese Scholars Wrist Rest - 19th C. Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Porcelain: Pre 1900   item# 823631 (stock#ICHI 1615)  click for details Ichiban Japanese & Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $595.00  An extremely charming and detailed painting of five young Chinese children at play decorates this finely potted porcelain wrist wrest for the scholar's desk. One of the children even appears to be playfully pulling on his friend’s pigtail. Painted in the Famille Rose palette, this exquisite accessory to a scholars desk would make a fine accompaniment to any modern desk. We date the wrist rest to the early to late 19th century, Qing Dynasty. The piece measures 7 3/4" (19.69 cm)long x 2 ...click for details A Chinese Boxwood Brushwasher - Damo - Qing Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Scholar Art: Pre 1910   item# 823364 (stock#ICHI 3750)  click for details Ichiban Japanese & Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $695.00  This is a beautifully carved boxwood brushwasher for the scholars desk – used to rinse off the brushes used in calligraphy and painting. This fine example is a very detailed carving in boxwood with a scene of a lohan – probably Damo - resting in a clump of low lying evergreen trees or bushes. A stylized crane looks on from one of the branches. < ...click for details A Copper Bronze Alloy Stand - late Qing Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Metalwork: Pre 1920   item# 823169  click for details Ichiban Japanese & Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $135.00  It is quite easy to find small stands in this shape in wood - they are used to stabilize and hold up small vases and round bottomed objects. On the other hand, this is one of the few metal stands we have come across. This one is Chinese in origin and is made of an alloy of copper and bronze. There is a mark inlaid in silver on the top - the mark stands for Double Happiness. The stand measures 1" high and is 3 1/4" diameter. The base has cut outs in the shape of clouds. It would make a ...click for details A Yoshitoshi Print - 100 Moons Series – “Jade Rabbit" Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Woodblock Prints: Pre 1900   item# 822529 (stock#ICHI 3382)  click for details Ichiban Japanese & Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $795.00  This is one of the most popular prints from the series “One Hundred Aspects of the Moon”(1885-1892) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi. First printed in November of 1886, the print portrays Jun Wukong (Songoku in Japanese) is the immortal monkey who accompanied the priest Tripitaka on his journey from China to India in the 7th century to collect Buddhist scriptures. Songoku achieved immortality by breaking into the garden of Heaven and eating the peaches of longevity. Here he dances with the jade rabbit ...click for details A Pretty Little Sake Bottle - Marked - Showa Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1980   item# 821918 (stock#ICHI 1963)  click for details Ichiban Japanese & Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $95.00  This is a pretty little sake bottle done in a tan glaze with an overglaze of turquoise in a drip pattern. The bottle measures 5" tall and is 2 2/2" at its widest. We date it to the mid Showa period, circa 1950-1970s. It is in excellent condition. There is a two character mark on the base that has been translated as "Kotobuki" also as "Ju" - both of which mean Happiness and Long Life. A Japanese Arita Dish- Landscape Design-Edo/Meiji Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1837 VR   item# 821573 (stock#ICHI 1028)  click for details Ichiban Japanese & Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $235.00  A small early Japanese Arita dish with a fairly complex design in underglaze light blue cobalt. On the right side of the dish we find a three story house or temple nestled against a tall cliff. In the center of the dish is a willow tree on the bank of a small lake. A bridge spans an inlet in the lake and two people can be seen walking across the bridge. Out on the lake can be seen two small fishing boats. At the upper right we see a distant pagoda half hidden by some foothills. Overhead are two ...click for details A Kutani Leaf or Pear Shaped Blue and White Dish Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1950   item# 821386 (stock#ICHI 1688)  click for details Ichiban Japanese & Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $135.00  This is an interesting shape for a Mokuzuke dish - (Mokuzuke were used to serve food during a formal tea gathering) - in a shape reminiscent of a pear or a leaf. This Kutani dish is decorated in an underglaze blue with a three-petal flower and a large leaf with gradually smaller sizes. On the right side of the dish is a geometric design in low relief with a white on white motif. The rim of the dish is lightly scalloped and is painted with an overglaze golden brown enamel line. The underside has ...click for details A Modern Japanese Studio Vase, Celadon Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1980   item# 821015 (stock#ICHI 1325)  click for details Ichiban Japanese & Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $275.00  This is a handsome modern Japanese globular shaped bud vase with a tiny top. It is glazed in a soft celadon glaze in the finest tradition of Japanese simplicity. The vase measures 4 ½” high by 5” diameter at the waist and the flared top is ¾” in diameter. It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, or restorations. We date it to the second half of the last century, circa 1950-1975. There is a two character mark in cobalt blue on the base. I have had the mark read by two different people ...click for details A Large Dynamic Imari Carp Platter – Edo/ Meiji Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1900   item# 820725 (stock#ICHI 1101)  click for details Ichiban Japanese & Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $725.00  This is a superb rectangular platter by the Imari potters with a very unusual design of a large Golden Carp in a curled position. A border of geometric designs in green, reds and pale yellow or tan surrounds the fish. The carp itself has slightly raised fins in a low relief. On the back of the platter is a blue underglaze design on the fou ...click for details A Fine Kutani Hexagonal Dish - Late Meiji-Early Showa Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1940   item# 820433 (stock#ICHI 2069)  click for details Ichiban Japanese & Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $225.00  A very vividly painted Kutani dish in a hexagonal shape with vertical sides. The dish is decorated in over the glaze enamels in the traditional Kutani colors of green, brownish purple, red, blue and yellow. The design is of a fisherman in a partly covered boat that is floating near the shoreline. In the distance is an island - or part of the ...click for details Return To Top View Next 10 Items PAGE: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  10  20  30  40  50  88