A good 19th century Japanese carved bamboo incense holder, the long thin cylindrical bamboo tube finely carved in shallow-relief with a continuous scene of Samurais in battle, the bamboo has aged to an attractive golden color, with fitted ivory cap and end.
DATE : Japanese, Meiji period, late 19th Century. ...click for details
A superb 19th century Meiji period Japanese shibayama ivory and wood folding fan, the two ivory guard sticks delicately inlaid with five different insects each in mother-of-pearl and other semi-precious stones, the twenty-eight inside sticks thinly cut in sandle-wood and mounted with silk-like paper leaves finely painted in bright color to both sides with a pair of exotic birds beside a lake amongst water plants and fl ...click for details
A fine large and good quality 18th century antique Japanese Imari porcelain jar, attractively decorated with three large shaped cartouches containing flowering branches painted in red, blue, orange and gold, surrounded by orange and white circular flowers with gold leaves against blue-ground, the glaze finely crackled allover. Later wooden cover and stand included.
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A good and decorative 19th century antique Japanese Imari porcelain covered jar, attractively painted with compartmentalized of flowers and huts, in typical Imari palette of blue, red and gilt, the cover with similar decoration and mounted with a large gilded 'shi-shi' dog finial.
A very rare 17th century antique Japanese Arita blue and white porcelain ewer, the ovoid body surmounted by an everted neck and loop handle, painted in strong underglaze-blue with three panels of flowering branches on a ground of scrolling flower heads, the neck and handle similarly decorated.
