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Japanese Antique Ka-Cho Signed Shigeyoshi Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings: Pre 1920 item# 1143221 (stock# 364AOG)
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This antique Japanese Ka-Cho (flower and bird) painting is signed by Shigeyoshi, a mid-19th Century Student of Hiroshige I, famed Edo Period painter of the Utagawa School.[WA, Per.B, Per.C] Shigeyoshi uses a distinct native Japanese mode known as the "Decorative Style".[106 G] This is an original Japanese creative trend developed during the Momoyama and Tokogawa Periods(1573-1868) when the Japanese were isolated from other cultures and looked inward for a new painting style. Characteri ...click for details

Carved Genuine Jade Chinese Pendant Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Hardstones: Pre 1980 item# 1142344 (stock# 363AOG)
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Carved polished Chinese chen yu (genuine jade) is of mythical animals, lung-ma and feng-huang and lotus.[10A, 159B, 163C] It is a bi-color jadeite mineral hand carved on all sides and pierced to be a pendant.[90D] The hand carving on this chen yu was done by lapidary techniques in China using Guatemalan jadeite of gray-lavender and green-brown bi-colors according to the referenced color chart[65H] and the Mohs Scale hardness of 6-7.[33 I, 96J] Most of the front of the pendant is a deeply carved ...click for details

Chinese Embroidered Sleeve Borders Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Textiles: Pre 1920 item# 1141522 (stock# 353AOG)
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These silk Hsiu (embroidered) panels, entirely hand done, adorned Chinese women's chao fu, particularly as edging to sleeves and borders of garments.[155A] The chao fu, or audience robe, was the most formal court garment of the Qing Dynasty. Because the chao fu was also used as a burial robe, it is a rare extant Qing court costume today.[155B] Since the Qian Long reign, there were regulations for making and wearing the chao fu. However, women could apparently choose any assortment of hsiu sl ...click for details

Finely Cast Bronze Censer with Old Repair Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Metalwork: Pre 1920 item# 1140842 (stock# 362AOG)
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This finely cast bronze parcel-gilt censer with an old repair is crafted to show its age which is estimated at early Qing Dynasty.[88A] Loop handles issuing from the dragon mask were cast cire perdue on the bombe-shaped censer. Sharp, shallow abbreviated decorative motifs between the fillets are within the cavetto.[151B] Commemorative Ming Dynasty Nien Hao of Hsuan Te (1426-1435) is cast in the bottom in gilded relief against a dark background.[72C, 32D] This bronze incense burner appears to h ...click for details

Persian Raised Brass Tas with Cut Out Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Central Asian: Metalwork: Pre 1920 item# 1140640 (stock# 360AOG)
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This Persian raised brass tas (bowl) with cut out and engraved decoration is similar to Timurid Dynasty (1369-1500) style brass bowls.[161A] Notably this object has a resemblance in shape and size, within a few centimeters, to referenced 14th and 15th Century Iranian bowls of brass. These referenced examples [161A, 107B, 110C] use inlaid black composition, whereas our tas has cut out backgrounds. From these we cannot claim a definite provence to these early periods but more likely design copies ...click for details

Cast Bronze Mughal Rose Water Sprinkler Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Central Asian: Metalwork: Pre 1920 item# 1139874 (stock# 359AOG)
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This cast bronze gulabpash ( or rose water sprinkler) has exhaustive embossing in raised and punched poppy design.[160A, 147B] Gulabpash vessels were used in the Indian, Mughal and Persian Courts to sprinkle rose water upon arriving guests. This explains the extreme waisted-neck form which may be traced back to silver bottles of the Sasanians.[161 ref] The patina varies from glossy brown on the raised poppy motif to dull black from the inlaid black composition ground. Similar black composition i ...click for details

Antique Japanese Trumpeting Elephant Bronze Censer Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Metalwork: Pre 1920 item# 1139533 (stock# 358AOG)
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This Japanese bronze Buddhistic incense burner was hand cast in the Late Edo to early Meiji Period.[120AA] The antique religious artifact is a trumpeting elephant caparisoned, covered with clothing and ornamental fittings; it holds the burning incense. On the elephant's back is a bell-shaped shrine-like structure with a three-clawed dragon on its roof; it serves for releasing the fragrance and smoke of the burning incense. Nyoi heads (joui) decorate the saddle fitted to the bronze elephant&# ...click for details

Chinese Bronze Hsiang Lu, Incense Burner Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Metalwork: Pre 1920 item# 1137567 (stock# 355AOG)
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The Art and Orchid Gallery's antique bronze hsiang lu is probably a 19th Century copy of a familiar 18th Century bronze bombe censer (ornamental bulbous container for burning incense).[25B, 151C] The incense burner has twin Buddhistic lion handles. Beginning in the Shang Dynasty (1766-1027 B.C.) similar cast vessels that were functional (food vessels) and ones used for rituals as highly decorated bombes have been found.[144D] During the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) Chinese bronze workers develop ...click for details

Japanese Low Relief Bronze Vase Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Metalwork: Pre 1920 item# 1137324 (stock# 354AOG)
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This Japanese bronze vase has a low relief naturalistic cast design. These are the elements of the Japanese style that became inherent in the Western Art Nouveau 'Japanonisme' Movement.[17A, 156B] Vases similar to this one were cast in bronze by Hata Zoroku during the Meiji Era by 'cire perdue' techniques.[113C] Photos of Japanese cast bronze resembling this vase are found in Meiji Era Arts and Crafts books.[113D] The vase has a simple tapered body with flared base on a short ver ...click for details

Dendrobium on Lace and Silk Shadow Box Catalogue: Gifts & Home Decor: Flora and Fauna: New item# 1137069 (stock# 352AOG)
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This one-of-a-kind floral art is from The Art and Orchid Gallery's "Orchids and Lace" Series. It is a Dendrobium hybrid of Victoria-Reginae discovered in the late 1890's. The orchids have been dried, mounted on lace and silk in a shadow box for table or hanging display. The back of the box contains a photo of the live orchid and a signed label. Dendrobium is one of the largest orchid genera with over 1400 species and some of the showiest flowers. They generally grow on reed-lik ...click for details

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