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Japanese Carved Kamakura Bori Lacquer Kiku Mon Bowl Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Lacquer: Pre 1940 item# 633694 (stock# 11E-139A2)
click for details		B & C ANTIQUES 203-929-7312 $280
This large red and black lacquer deep dish in chrysanthemum form with relief hand carving was crafted in a technique known as kamakura-bori and dates to the early 20th century. The carved edges of the bowl represent the sixteen petals of a chrysanthemum blossom. This design originated in the late 17th century and was based on the "kiku-mon," the imperial crest derived from the chrysanthemum. The central medallion is carved in relief with three overlapping chrysanthemum leaves. The reve ...click for details

Arita Sometsuke Meijin Karakusa Ozara Charger, Edo Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1900 item# 805923 (stock# 2-572)
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This deep oversized Japanese Imari blue and white porcelain charger (“sometsuke ozara”) is decorated with a hand painted “meijin karakusa” design around a central medallion of shochikubai (pine, plum and bamboo). Edo period, early 19th century. The classic meijin karakusa design, 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 market blue and whi ...click for details

Kenzan Style Dish in Molded Square Form Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Earthenware: Pre 1900 item# 196244 (stock# SB-30)
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This square earthenware Kyo-yaki (Kyoto ware) dish in Kenzan style has been freely decorated with an iron brown enamel tree branch and green enamel bamboo leaves on a buff crackle-glazed ground beneath a glossy transparent glaze. Edo period, early 19th century. The transparent glazed base is signed “Kenzan.” The short sides of the dish, which are glazed in a cobalt blue design on the exterior, have an iron oxide brown lip rim and foot rim. This square form dish is called a “kakuzara”. Ogata Kenz ...click for details

Japanese Candle-Shaped Ceramic Sake Bottle Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1920 item# 60069 (stock# 2C-229)
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This unusual candle-shaped sake bottle or “rosoku-tokkuri,” which is covered with a deep dark brown glaze, is an example of Tachikui/Tamba ware. Meiji/Taisho period. Unglazed calligraphic symbols, drawn with a wax resist, surround the square-shouldered body of the bottle. The village of Tachikui, located in an isolated mountain region of northern Hyogo Prefecture, is the last pottery village in Tamba. The dominant color of the Tachikui wares is a rich deep brown. (Our enlargement photos 6 and 7 ...click for details

Lacquer Comb with Silver and Shell Inlay Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Lacquer: Pre 1920 item# 161754 (stock# 11E-036)
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Lovely Japanese hair comb (“kushi”) decorated with bright silver and iridescent “aogai” (abalone shell) inlay on a rich black roiro-nuri lacquer ground highlighted with gold lacquer details. Early 20th century. Roiro is a technique using the highest quality black urushi lacquer, applied and polished in several layers. It is only used on the highest quality lacquer items. To Japanese women, hair ornaments were much more than mere accessories to feminine hair-do and attire. The comb progressed fro ...click for details

Vintage Japanese Crawling Gosho Doll: HaiHai Ningyo Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Dolls: Pre 1930 item# 816919 (stock# 4A-272A11)
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This charming Japanese gosho ningyo (“palace doll”), with chubby arms and legs outstretched, holds a rattle-type toy in his right hand while he crawls on his stomach. Early 20th century. His one-piece clay body is finished in white gofun (crushed oyster shell), and his facial features are well modeled and delicately hand painted in wonderful detail. He is scantily clad with a red and gold silk bib or stomach cloth (“haragake”) glued on and tied around his waist with light pink silk crepe cords. ...click for details

Art Deco Hammered Copper Ikebana Flower Basket Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Metalwork: Pre 1940 item# 720358 (stock# 6-432)
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This simple and elegant Japanese hand hammered copper vase in basket form with a double entwined relief work handle is an unusual representation in Art Deco style of a “hanakago” or bamboo flower basket. Early 20th century. The four sides flow in a softly rounded shape from a square base and culminate in a square lip. Each copper strip of the double handle has been pressed repeatedly with little rivet-like bumps and then twisted together, giving it a wonderful tactile appeal in addition to its ...click for details

Kyoto Studio Celadon Figure of Mt. Fuji by Tozan I Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1940 item# 573166 (stock# 2B-806)
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Fine molded Kyoto-studio porcelain okimono (standing figure) of snow-clad Mt. Fuji, the exterior and the base covered with fine celadon glaze (“seiji”) and the top decorated in pale underglaze white to replicate the snow at the summit of the mountain. Early 20th century. There is a two-character seal mark of Miyanaga Tozan I (1868-1941) impressed in the biscuit of the base which is surrounded by an unglazed foot rim. Of all styles of Japanese pottery, celadon is one of the most difficult to mas ...click for details

Pair of 19th C Bronze Chrysanthemum Base Candle Stands Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Metalwork: Pre 1900 item# 677764 (stock# 6-429)
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This rare elegant pair of Japanese chrysanthemum-base candlestands (“kikuza-shokudai”) were hand crafted of solid bronze and date to the Edo period, early to mid-19th century. The tall upright shaft rests on a heavy eighteen-petal chrysanthemum base and culminates in a chrysanthemum-shaped candle dish with an upright pricket on which to position the candle within a circular support. The bases and holder dishes are shaped like “kiku” (chrysanthemum), the auspicious symbol of the Japanese emperor ...click for details

THE BEST BOOK ON SATSUMA: OVER 300 MARKS Catalogue: Traditional Collectibles: Books: References: Antiques: Contemporary item# 850726 (stock# TK-1)
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“The Best Book on Satsuma: Over 300 Marks and Signatures” is a newly published (October 2008), exquisitely-illustrated book by Thomas S. Kiernan, 236 pages, 12” x 8 ½”, hard cover, dust jacket. Written by an avid and passionate collector, this impressive book contains hundreds of illustrations of stunning Satsuma wares in full color and more than 300 illustrated and translated signatures. Beautifully laid out and pho ...click for details

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