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Signed Black and Gold Lacquer Comb, Meiji Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Lacquer: Pre 1910 item# 167312 (stock# SB-26)
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This lovely Japanese tortoise shell comb (“kushi”) is painstakingly decorated on both sides with gold takamakie (raised lacquer) on a black lacquer ground. Signed “Gyoku Kou.” Meiji period (1868-1912). The fine repeating design of rolling gold waves is juxtaposed against two floral medallions on this simple yet elegant comb. There is even an iridescent sprinkling of inlaid agaoi (abalone shell) representing dew drops on the leaves of the flowers. To Japanese women, hair ornaments were much more ...click for details

Japanese Meiji High Relief Cast Iron Tetsubin Signed Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Tea Articles: Pre 1900 item# 1054762 (stock# 6A-448)
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This heavy antique Japanese “ornamental” tetsubin (iron kettle) is strongly cast and wonderfully decorated in high relief with grape vines and a squirrel set into deeply recessed irregular panels. Meiji period, ca.1900. The iron body is signed in relief beneath the spout with the four-character seal of “Ueda Zo,” a mark which appears only on tetsubin of the highest quality. The patinated brown and red mottled cast bronze lid bears an extensive signature inscription which reads: "Nippon” (Ja ...click for details

Edo Japanese Seto Ware Plate with Fukizumi Design Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1800 item# 1047857 (stock# 2A-814)
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This heavily potted, glazed Seto stoneware dish with “shochikubai” design is known as a “fuki-zumi” plate because of the unusual technique of sprayed glaze decoration. Edo period, ca. 1800. One of the Six Ancient Kilns of Japan, Seto produced ceramic wares in Aichi Prefecture. The unique and dramatic effect on this plate was accomplished through the use of a stencil and brown pigment sprayed through a tube to create the outline of pine, plum and bamboo which seems to float on the soft brown back ...click for details

Takeda Samurai Doll with Signed Base, Edo Period Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Dolls: Pre 1837 VR item# 507587 (stock# 4-263)
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Fine and rare early example of a Japanese Takeda ningyo (figurine) which shows all the typical characteristics of this Japanese doll genre: the extravagant pose, the dynamism, the upturned eyes and the downturned mouth. Ca. 1800. Representing a Kabuki actor playing a warrior, the figure is posed on a tree stump, carrying a pair of swords on his waist and a jingasa over his shoulder. His garments are made of embroidered chirimen (silk crepe) and brocade. Face and the hands are beautifully modeled ...click for details

Arita Porcelain Dish Meijin Karakusa 18th Century Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1837 VR item# 551671 (stock# 2B-800)
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This classic early Japanese blue and white ko Imari sometsuke (blue and white porcelain) dish with scalloped edge is decorated with a handpainted “meijin karakusa” design around a central medallion of shochikubai (pine, plum and bamboo). Late 18th /early 19th century. The meijin karakusa pattern, which is one variation of the scrolling vine pattern, is in the form of delicate denticulate leaves and little m-shaped curls. This is one of the many scrolling vine patterns which appear on domestic ma ...click for details

Japanese Mountain Suiseki Natural Viewing Stone & Stand Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Pre 1920 item# 865298 (stock# 9-053)
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This wonderful Distant Mountain View suiseki (natural viewing stone) sits on a sinuous wood stand which was custom hand carved to fit the stone’s base. Likely early 20th century or earlier. The smooth dark gray naturally-formed stone has many black and white quartz inclusions, creating a complex surface suggesting water, ravines and fissures. The mountain’s peak rises dramatically from the stone’s base with tall, triangular features, its smoothness contrasting nicely with the dynamic tension of ...click for details

Small Arita Porcelain Barrel Form Sake Cask Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1930 item# 1066280 (stock# 2C-202A7)
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This Japanese Imari porcelain sake cask in barrel form is decorated in big underglaze blue kanji characters with the name of the brewer or sake brand set against an ochre colored double gourd sake bottle and a blue wave design on a white glazed ground. Early 20th century. The reverse is simply decorated with underglaze blue kanji characters and the numbers 13 and 98 in Arabic numerals. There is a hole at the base of the cask which once held a plug, and a metal carrying handle wrapped in bamboo h ...click for details

Fine Golden Age Hexagonal Cloisonne Vase Signed Adachi Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Enamel: Pre 1920 item# 1004903 (stock# 8-058)
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This elegant example of Japanese Golden Age cloisonne is a hexagonal vase decorated with irises and cranes on a turquoise enamel body that tapers gracefully up to a long slender neck. The brass base is stamped with the mark of Adachi Kinjiro of Nagoya. Meiji period (1868-1912). Lustrous colored opaque enamels fill silver wires to depict two white cranes in a stream surrounded by a profusion of white and purple irises. The gradation of color in the many shades of purple in the irises is very skil ...click for details

Kimekomi Ningyo with Signed Wooden Box Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Dolls: Pre 1940 item# 401472 (stock# 4-248)
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This simply enchanting little Japanese doll in kimekomi style stands on a black lacquer base alongside his black and white puppy. Early Showa period, 1930-1940. The child is holding a black and gold lacquer fan and a strung paper kite. He is dressed in a blue silk kimono which has been dyed and painted to scale. Face and hands are covered with gofun (crushed oyster shell), and the hair is finished in black lacquer. The doll comes in its original wooden tomobako storage box, which is signed on th ...click for details

Vintage Japanese Wood Kamidana Shinto Home Shrine Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Devotional Objects: Pre 1960 item# 1136730 (stock# 11-370)
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Featuring expert craftsmanship and classic Japanese styling, this miniature wooden shrine is skillfully handcrafted of cedar or cypress and contains many of the detailed architectural elements found on larger Shinto shrines in Japan. It dates to the mid-20th century. These miniature architectural features include a large sloped overhanging roof with deep eves atop thick, closely spaced wooden beams; a large transverse roof ridge beam shaped like the top of a torii gate; thick round vertical colu ...click for details

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