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Antique Japanese Textile Banner Nobori
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Pre 1920 item# 121704
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84" long, 13.2" wide, very good condition with slight water stains, visible in photos, normal wear but no significant damage. Probably dating from the Meiji Era, possibly earlier. Appears to be decorated in the tsutsugaki paste resist method. This banner is unusual, it appears to have a family crest and some abstract designs that may relate to what are known as the "precious symbols" in Japanese art, however the bottom motif appears to be coral! What this was used for specifically is unclear, these types of banners were common for military related use and later for Boy's day.
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Korean Celadon Chawan Tea Ceremony
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Pre 1700 item# 121701
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5" wide x 2.8" tall. Good condition with small repairs in gold, with normal kiln irregularities, crazing and two hairlines (see photos). Accompanied by a wood tomobako. Dating between the 16th and 17th century. This elegant and simple tea bowl was long ago brought and adapted for use in Japan for tea ceremony; the famous tea master Sen no Rikkyu was largely responsible for promoting the use of Korean ceramics in chanoyu. One of a variety of Korean celadon types so admired and sought after by tea devotees and collectors, and a beautiful unusual example uncommon to see outside of Japan.
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Japanese Edo Screen Pair Painting Kyoto
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Pre 1700 item# 121234
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Screen panels measure individually 54.5" tall x 17.5 - 18" across. Each screen has six panels, with a total of two screens. Paintings each measure around 14.5" x 37" tall, with some variance individually. They are believed to date to the 17c, circa the Genroku era. The paintings are mounted on a gold foil background, and do show age with small tears and wear, visible in photos. The paintings show various Kyoto locations, and are genre scenes showing daily life. Please inquire for more photos or other questions.
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Edo Japanese Shino Chaire Tea
Ceremony Jar
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Pre 1900 item# 113860
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Jar 3.5" tall, x 2.2" wide. 19c, Edo to Meiji Eras. Excellent condition, no damage, accompanied by a fitted antique silk shifuku and marked kiriwood tomobako (marked Shino Chaire). Greatly esteemed by tea ceremony practitioners, Shino ceramics were first made during the Momoyama era (1568-1603), probably in the 1580s at kilns in Mino. This piece was probably made during the late Edo period when Momoyama ceramics types had a revival, after having fallen out of fashion in the 18th century. Formally it fits to Momoyama revival taste in its relatively toned down sculptural form. Shino chaire are unsusual to see. The form of the tea jar is slightly modeled, with a single strike on the side that mimics earlier pottery styles. Of the three types of containers for tea ceremony (chatsubo, chaire and chaki), chaire are categorized as ceramic caddies used for the thick powdered tea known as "matcha". Chaire traditionally have ivory lids made to fit a caddy individually, and often have fitted silk storage bags (shifuku), as well as storage boxes (tomobako). Historically tea caddies have been some of the most prized and beloved of Japanese ceramics, and were sometimes used as rewards for military success.
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Japanese Chawan Raku Tea Ceremony
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Pre 1920 item# 113857
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4" wide x 3.5" tall. Excellent condition, dating 19th to the early 20th century. Mark is probably "Shimpo", but the potter is unknown. This marvelous Japanese Raku tea bowl is decorated with a tea house garden scene, a wabi sabi setting for chanoyu. The bowl is tea stained from use and is typical for a raku form. Raku pottery has a long history in Japan and is best known as a pottery favored by tea ceremony devotees. Raku is a soft, lightweight and thickly glazed pottery fired at a relatively low temperature. Tea bowls are generally free formed by hand as to fit in the hands comfortably, with the top edge's soft and uneven shape formed to suit to one's mouth for drinking.
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Japanese Neguro Lacquer Kogo Incense
Box
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Pre 1900 item# 113855
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2.5" x 1", excellent condition with normal wear. Edo Era, 19th century, possibly considerably earlier. Kogo have a long history in Japan, predating the Edo era, they are used in the preparation of a setting for tea ceremony. Kogo can be made of a variety of materials. The name “Negoro” originated from a temple complex in Wakayama established in the 13th century where for the next two hundred years as many as 6000 monks worked at one time making the austere styled lacquer wares which would become known as Negoro (see Ford, East Asian Lacquer, p160). Using either a wood base of keyaki or hinoki woods objects would be carved or lathe turned and enameled with either domestic or imported cinnabar and black enamel coatings. Pieces showing the wear of use and time are particularly valued by collectors, in the spirit and aesthetic of Japanese Tea Ceremony.
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Japanese Pottery Chawan Tea Bowl
Soma
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Pre 1910 item# 98678
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6” x 3” tall, excellent condition with no damage. Marked, dating from the late 19th to early 20th century. This bowl from the Tohoku northern region of Japan is a good example out of the Soma Koma line of potters—one of a number of Soma kilns in Fukushima Prefecture. The bowl has two separate marks, one familiar as the mark of “Tashiro”, the other, unidentified. Soma Koma was one of a number of Soma kilns in Fukushima Prefecture which developed out of traditions transplanted from Kyoto in the 17th century, when the potter Gengoemon Tashiro was sent by the Soma Feudal Lord to study with the famed potter Ninsei. The style known as Soma Koma ware, (the “Koma” being the horse motif), likely originated from the 17c artist Kano Naonobu who was commissioned for the initial development of a horse motif for the Soma family. Early pieces were made and used exclusively by the Soma Daimyo and his associates, until the Meiji Era when the domains were eliminated, and the wares could be sold on the open market. We’ve handled a lot of Soma pieces, and my article on Tohoku pottery appeared two years ago in the Japanese magazine “Daruma.” This is certainly one of the potters given the Tashiro title, if not a generation of the Tashiro family himself. For more information on this regional pottery or about the bowl, please let us know.
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