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Japanese Carved Boxwood Lotus Leaf Tea Tray
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Pre 1900 item# 766912 (stock#11-350)
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203-929-7312
$595
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This wonderfully detailed boxwood tray has been realistically carved in the form of a curled lotus leaf holding a lotus flower seed pod. Meiji period (1868-1912). The close-grained hardwood has a rich brown color and a soft dark patina reflecting many years of careful use and care. The front depicts the top of an open lotus leaf with curled outer edges. A lotus seed pod, on a stem that curls around the left edge, sits on the lower left corner of the tray. A smaller curled lotus leaf, with a stem ...click for details
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Fine High Relief Meiji Japanese Tetsubin, Signed
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Pre 1900 item# 628775 (stock#6A-416)
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203-929-7312
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This wonderful Japanese “ornamental” tetsubin (iron kettle) is strongly cast and decorated in high relief with a wandering figure in a rugged mountain landscape. Ca.1900. The iron body is signed in relief just below the spout with the four-character seal of “Ueda zo,” a mark which appears only on tetsubin of the highest quality. The beautifully patinated bronze lid bears the engraved shop name signature “Ryubundo zo,” a famous Japanese family of tetsubin makers and bronze workers from Kyoto. (Fo ...click for details
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Natural Burled Carved Keyaki Wood Tea Tray
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Pre 1920 item# 537307 (stock#11-333)
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203-929-7312
$565
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This unusual Japanese wooden tea tray, carved from the burled trunk of a keyaki (zelkova) tree, was made for use in the tea ceremony. Meiji period (1868-1912). Trays of this type were important accessories in senchado (“the way of sencha”) -- the tea ceremony developed in the Edo period using sencha tea. The short thick exterior wall of the tray is crafted from the densely grained wavy burl, which has a sheen that almost glows. The base on the interior is finished with reddish brown lacquer and ...click for details
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Signed Oribe Pottery Chawan or Tea Bowl
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Pre 1920 item# 37599 (stock#2B-524)
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203-929-7312
$275
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Japanese Oribe ware ceramic tea bowl (“chawan”) decorated with a stylized brown iron oxide floral pattern on a cream ground with a thick mottled copper green drip glaze on the upper rim. We believe it to be an early 20th century piece, most likely Meiji. This almost cylindrical bowl has a subtle indentation on the edge of its lip. It is thickly potted, curving to a slightly raised circular foot ring, with an impressed unidentified two-character mark or signature on the base where the bowl meets ...click for details
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