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Hasui Woodblock Print: May Rain at Arakawa River Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Woodblock Prints: Pre 1980 item# 95113 (stock# 7A-072)
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Japanese woodblock print by Hasui Kawase (1883-1957) entitled “May Rain at Arakawa River,” originally published in 1932. This print is a later impression printed posthumously from Hasui’s original blocks. These later editions are identical to the earlier editions except for the publisher’s seal. Hasui is regarded as the foremost landscape print artist of the 20th century. He was renown for his scenes of everyday life, which he executed in a sophisticated yet simple manner. His work is disting ...click for details

Japanese Keyaki Wood Tabako-Bon Smoking Box Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Furniture: Pre 1900 item# 170324 (stock# 11A-101)
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This handsome Japanese tobacco box, made from finely grained keyaki wood, is crafted in miniature naga-hibachi (long firebox) form. Late 19th century. An inner wood lip encloses the original copper liner, and the bamboo cylinder ash receptacle is also original. There is one tiny drawer which has been cut from the same piece of hardwood as the body, so the grain across the drawer front is perfectly matched with the box. Fourteen large copper studs decorated the top rim, and the ring drawer pull i ...click for details

Kutani Porcelain Footed Sake Cup Washing Bowl Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1920 item# 50080 (stock# 2B-525)
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Lovely Japanese Kutani porcelain footed sake cup washing bowl (“haisen’) decorated with birds and flowers. Meiji/Taisho period. On the base are two red seal script characters for “Kutani” (signifying “nine valleys”). The delicately scalloped lip rim is subtly decorated in brown enamel with gold scroll designs and hundreds of minute raised dots carefully painted with a brush tip in turquoise enamel. In the interior of the bowl is a pink peony. The exterior continues the peony theme with two mauve ...click for details

Large Japanese Gosho Ningyo Doll with Hobby Horse Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Pre 1940 item# 1097022 (stock# 4A-081)
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This large vintage costumed gosho doll stands with one foot raised while he rides a poled hobby horse. Taisho/early Showa period, ca. 1920/1930. His right foot is affixed to a black lacquer base and which fits into a lacquer and glass vitrine with hinged door and mirrored back. His shoulder length hair is tied with a classic top knot. The doll’s body is finished in white gofun (crushed oyster shell), and the expressive facial features are well modeled and delicately hand painted in wonderful det ...click for details

Japanese Mingei Koishiwara Folk Ceramics Lidded Jar Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1970 item# 1103201 (stock# 2A-817)
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This handsome small lidded stoneware jar, typical of Koishiwara ware (“koishiwara-yaki”) pottery, is an excellent example of Japanese ceramic folk art. Dating from the mid-to-late 20th century, this jar was made by “Kumao Ota,” a famous potter in Japan. The gray clay body of the pot was first covered with a coat of white clay slip and then decorated with “chatter-marking” before being coated with clear glaze and random splashes of green and brown glaze. The cover is decorated in the same fashion ...click for details

Chinese Copper Bronze Bo Mountain Censers Ca. 1800 Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Metalwork: Pre 1800 item# 1079933 (stock# 6B-184A8)
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This exceptional pair of copper bronze ritual incense burners, relief cast in the form of Chinese bronze hill censers common in the Han Dynasty, date to ca. 1800. Each censer has a lozenge-shaped pedestal base from which emerges a stem supporting the incense cup. Surrounding the pedestal stem are patterns of Chinese lappets, scrolls and key designs. The cup which holds the incense is covered all around with low relief decoration of waves, rock formations and a lush peach orchard. (In Chinese le ...click for details

Early Imari Sometsuke Ozara Charger With Mt. Fuji, Edo Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1837 VR item# 828082 (stock# 2-850)
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This heavily potted Japanese “sometsuke ozara” (blue and white porcelain charger) is hand painted with an underglaze blue design of an open fan depicting Mount Fuji rising into the clouds above a village landscape scene. It was made in the Edo period, dating to early 1800’s. Behind the fan, the dish is painted with a “cracked ice” motif (“hyochikumon”) background decoration. The painting on the front is bold and freely executed. On the reverse are more simply drawn scrolling designs and blue lin ...click for details

Japanese Blue and White Porcelain Bowl, Seto Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1920 item# 51853 (stock# 2B-381)
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Lovely Japanese porcelain bowl, likely Seto ware, which may also be a scaled-down hibachi or handwarmer known as “te-aburi.” Meiji period. The clear underglaze cobalt blue decoration is beautifully hand-painted in great detail with freely drawn designs of peonies and weeping willows. A double underglaze blue ring encircles the foot. Seto porcelain glazes are more glassy than those of Imari, and the paste is somewhat coarser. In 1807 Kato Tamikichi, who had spent years studying the various kilns ...click for details

Japanese Imari Kraak Style Porcelain Dishes, 18th C. Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1800 item# 972656 (stock# 2-821)
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Three circular Japanese Arita somestuke (blue and white porcelain) plates with a fluted brown rim has been decorated in Kraak style and dates to the Edo period, ca. 1800. The back is marked with a distinctive underglaze blue two character archaic style mark which appeared on Arita porcelains ca. 1790 to 1810. (See “Shibata Collection, Part IV, The Kyushu Ceramic Museum” page 274.) The design follows a classic Kraak pattern of the early seventeenth century. The interior is hand painted in bright ...click for details

Large Wakasa-Nuri Lacquer Footed Display Stand Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Lacquer: Pre 1950 item# 979985 (stock# 11E-148)
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This fine vintage Japanese wakasa-nuri stand with rolled legs has a mosaic-like surface that shimmers with gold foil and tiny inlaid pieces of iridescent mother-of-pearl. Early to mid-20th century. The base of the lacquer is wood which was finished with brown, black and red colors, and the layers of these colors are revealed by polishing the lacquer finish to create this unique and complex pattern. Small pieces of mother of pearl are mixed into the finish creating a lovely overall effect. The b ...click for details

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