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Chawan, Egaratsu, stoneware, Japan, Edo period
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Pre 1900 item# 891796 (stock# 10563)
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Tea bowl of somewhat irregular shape. Dark brown clay covered in a gray glaze that leaves the lower ¼ of the piece uncovered, the rim and inside covered with a brownish-green glaze. On the outer side a image like a looped line in brownish green covers the gray glaze. A small patch at the inside of the bowl left uncovered. Karatsu ware, Japan, Edo period.
Comes with inscribed tomobako (Egaratsu; chawan, ichiko)and cotton pouch.
H 2.75 inches, diameter 5 inches (6.9 x 12.6 cm).
Small chip in rim repaired in red lacquer.
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Tea chest chadansu, mulberry wood, Japan, Taisho era
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Pre 1930 item# 883502 (stock# 10467)
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Beautiful and elegant chest for keeping tea utensils. From top to bottom: shelf behind four sliding doors, one curved, wave shaped display shelf and one straight shelf, one curved drawer, two shelf behind two sliding doors each. Doors and drawer fronts made of beautiful mulberry veneer. On the insides and backs of doors and drawers there are left and right marks and numbers in black ink, to indicate the right place for each door. The sides of a wood with coarser grain. Japan, Taisho period.
Height 38 in., width 48 ¼ in., depth 11 ¼ inches.
Some damage (dent, scratches) at sides, due to moving/transport, minor wear shelf edges, one crack in the veneer of one of the doors (stabilized by the back-wood). Overall very good condition and splendid piece.
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Water jar, karako with bag, Kato Shuntai, Japan 19 c
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Pre 1900 item# 668423 (stock# 10471)
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Mizusashi in the shape of a Chinese boy, holding Hotei’s large bag. Over brownish beige very fine stoneware a layer of mottled brown glaze, over which a blue-green finely crackled flambé dripping glaze. The inside with brown mottled glaze, the bottom left free. In the bottom the impressed mark in an oval cartouche of Kato Shuntai. Japan, 19th century.
Height: 3 ¼ in.; diameter: 6 in. (8.3; 15.2 cm)
Excellent condition.
Box, inside of cover inscribed with authentication of piece as a mizusashi in the shape of a karako in ao-Oribe, made by Kato Shuntai from Seto. Authentication signed by Matsumori An.....
Kato Shuntai (1802-1877) worked in many ceramic styles. The splashes of flambé crackled glaze are very typical for his works (Shuntai-yaki). His works and the works of his ancestors can be found in museums around Japan and the US.
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Ten cups / bowls, porcelain, Tozan, 18/19th century
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Pre 1837 VR item# 568814 (stock# C/P 056)
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Set of ten small white porcelain condiment bowls (cups) for kaiseki-style dinner. Each miniature bowl individually shaped with slightly compressed sides and a small spout. With overall white glaze and brown rim, each painted with flowering plants and vegetables in underglaze blue, brown, and black, and with gold lacquer details. Each bowl with seal imprint TÔZAN at the bottom. Japan, 18th/19th century.
Circular base 1 inch diameter (2.5 cm), 1 ½ in. high (4 cm), 2 1/8 x 2 3/8 in. at the rim (5.3 x 6 cm).
Perfect condition.
In fitted wooden box (tomobako), 6.5 (H) x 15 (W) x 36.5 (L) cm.
Inscribed, sealed and signed on the lid (TÔZAN tsukuru = made by) with red seal imprint. Each wrapping cloth stamped with 4 x 2.8 cm red seal imprint TÔZAN.
Items located in Europe.
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Hexagonal stoneware jar, Asakura Sansho, Edo/Meiji era
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Pre 1910 item# 562901 (stock# 10458)
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Storage jar of hexagonal shape with a dripping tea dust glaze over a fine dark brown clay. In the side the name of Asakura Sansho (or Yamaki) has been stamped, partly covered under the glaze. Bottom impressed with a leaf, which burnt during firing. Japan, late Edo, early Meiji period.
Measurements approximately: height 8 ½ in. (21.5 cm), diameter at widest point 10 in. (25.5 cm), diameter at bottom 6 ½ in. (16.7 cm).
Mint condition.
The name of Asakura Sansho is also connected with Tanba ware. A hexagonal jar from an earlier period, signed with the same name, in typical Tanba clay and glaze was found as well. This family may have worked in a variety of styles.
Ex collection CC Wang.
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Kogo, chrysanthemums, lacquer, Japan, Edo period
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Pre 1900 item# 531511 (stock# 10442)
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Cylindrical incense box with a domed lid. Sides and top are decorated with a spray of chrysanthemums in gold and silver togidashi on a background of okibirame. Bottom and inside in dense nashiji. Unsigned. Japan, Edo period, 19th century.
Height 1 in. (2.5 cm); diameter 3 in. (7.5 cm).
Lacquer somewhat dry due to exposure, two tiny bubbles on the bottom, otherwise good condition. On the inside of cover traces of paper label and one paper label.
Inventory number in red lacquer on bottom and inside of lid: 48.110-A and –B. Ex collection Toledo Museum of Art.
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Five wooden dishes, lacquered, Japan, 20th c.
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Pre 1990 item# 498445 (stock# L 107)
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Set of 5 Japanese dishes of lacquered wood, lacquered in 5 different colours. The wood grain clearly visible on both sides of the paper-thin circular dishes. Each surface covered in a different colour: deep dark brown, deep red, light red, deep green and light brown. Each dish signed in lacquer within the foot ring with a seal reading “sa” (?). Japan, made ca. 1988.
Diameter: 5 ¾ in. (14.8 cm); height: 1 1/16 in. (2.8 cm.
In cardboard box with red label reading KanKan. Size 6 3/8 x 6 3/8 x 2 5/8 in. (16.4 x 16.4 x 6.8 cm).
Perfect condition.
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Five lacquered dishes, Zohiko, Japan, 20th c.
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Pre 1990 item# 498389 (stock# L 108)
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Set of 5 Japanese lacquered wood dishes of square lobed shape decorated with red and green narrow stripes. The cypress wood grain clearly visible on both sides of the dishes. Each dish signed at the underside in red lacquer with a seal shaped as a stylised elephant, indicating the known Kyoto lacquer workshop “Zohiko”. Made ca. 1988.
4 11/16 x 4 11/16 x 3/4 in.(12.1 x 12.1 x 2 cm).
In wooden box, inscribed on the lid “Thread pattern” (itomaki), signed inside the lid “Heian Zohiko” and with red circular seal “Zohiko”. Size 5 11/16 x 5 11/16 x 2 13/16 in. (14.7 x 14.7 x 7.2 cm).
Perfect condition.
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Basket with plate, Japan, 20th century
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Pre 1990 item# 494463 (stock# M 112)
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The basket lacquered with dark brown lacquer.
The basket, woven of natural split bamboo and vines, contains a removable hexagonal flat plate covered on one side with gold leaf and scattered with dark green, brown and black lacquer squares. The glossy gold surface is protected by transparent lacquer. For a different effect the reverse side of the hexagonal plate can be used, it being painted in a rustic style with reddish brown lacquer over a brushed wood ground. Later part of 20th century.
Basket: diameter 7 ¾ in. (19.3 cm), height 1 ½ in. (3.7 cm).
Plate: diameter 6 ¾ in. (17 cm)
Perfect condition.
Piece located in Europe.
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Kusakabe Kimbei, photo, tea house, Japan, 1880s
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Pre 1900 item# 448961 (stock# 10332)
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Albumen print, hand colored. Title: A 309 SAKURAYA, (TEA HOUSE) HONMOKU YOKOHAMA. A geisha in a rikshaw in front of the house Sakuraya. In the door opening and on the 2nd floor three more young women and a servant. Artist: Kusakabe Kimbei (1841-1943). Photograph probably from mid 1880s. Mat and frame.
Inner outline of mat: 7 7/8 x 10 5/8 inches (20.2 x 27.1 cm) (the actual photo is slightly larger, as it continues underneath mat). Frame: 18 1/4 x 20 1/8 in. (46.3 x 51.2 cm).
Some creasing in upper part, otherwise good condition. Hinged at upper edge matboard (can be undone).
Kusakabe Kimbei (1841-1943) was active in the 1880s through 1900. He was an assistant to Felix Beato until 1863. He started his own studio in 1881 in Yokohama.
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