DATE : Japanese, Meiji period, late 19th Century. ...click for details

A superb 19th century Meiji period antique Japanese ivory Shibayama Okimono of a Buddha, the figure finely carved and modeled as sitting on rockwork, his robe lightly incised with floral motifs, the rosary and robes inlaid with varying sizes and shades of mother-of-pearl beads and other colored stones, the figure mounted on an ivory stand and signed in a small circle underneath. Excellent detail work and the ivory has ...click for details

DATE : Japanese, Meiji per ...click for details

DATE : Japanese, Meiji period, 19th century. ...click for details

A fine and unusual 19th century antique Japanese Imari porcelain basket / vase, the rounded cylindrical bucket attractively decorated with compartments of flowers, trees, and shi-shi medallions, all in typical Imari palette of iron-red, blue, green, and extensive gilding, the handles similarly decorated. The whole basket is covered with an extensively crackled / crazed glaze, the base signed in iron-red. ...click for details

COMMENT : At first glanc ...click for details

REFERENCE : A similar blue and white Hirado porcelain Shishi, though much bigger in size ...click for details

DATE : Japanese, Meiji period, late 19th Century. ...click for details

A very fine and large antique Japanese ivory Shibayama page turner, the long thinly cut ivory section of good creamy-yellow tone, one side of the handle finely decorated and exquisitely inlaid in semi-precious stones with a bird above a Japanese lady and child, the reverse decorated and further inlaid with a bee above flowering branches, below which a small ovoid metal plaque containing the artist signature. ...click for details

A very fine and rare large antique Japanese blue and white porcelain ginger jar, inside lid and cover, superbly decorated with prunus flowers against underglaze-blue cracked-ice pattern ground of rich tone, a band of key-fret pattern around the shoulder, the details finely picked out in gilt, the original cover similarly decorated, the base bears the artist signature. A finely carved wooden stand included. ...click for details