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Miniature Bamboo Japanese Tea House and Garden Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Wood: Pre 1940 item# 1194473 (stock# 11-375)
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This delightful little house and garden tableau contains an incredibly detailed miniature Japanese tea house surrounded by a twig fence adjoined at the corner by a bamboo garden gate. Early to mid-20th century. The house has movable sliding shoji screen doors and windows and a large removable overhanging hipped roof. Next to the house is a separate little outhouse, complete with miniature fixtures. Crafted almost entirely of beautifully grained bamboo pieces which all fit together snugly, the le ...click for details

Signed Japanese Iga Ceramic Kogo in Farm House Form Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1940 item# 1191739 (stock# 2A-803)
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This well-modeled Iga ware pottery incense storage container (�kogo�) was made in the shape of a Japanese farm house (�minka�). Dating to circa to 1930, it is marked with an engraved two-character signature that reads Taizan. The large overlapping thatched roof comprises the top of the box, with the lower portion of the house forming the bottom. Heavily potted in buff stoneware clay, the exterior, interior, and base sections are covered in a thick ochre colored glaze with small pooled segments o ...click for details

Antique Pure Silver Japanese Ginbin Tea Kettle Meiji Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Metalwork: Pre 1920 item# 1184023 (stock# 6A-455)
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This beautiful Japanese pure silver (�jungin�) teakettle (�ginbin�) is finely crafted and decorated with an engraved floral design. Meiji period, ca. 1900-1920. The base is stamped with the impressed four character mark �jungin� or �jyun-gin� (pure silver). This mark was used primarily during the Meiji period and for a short time thereafter, and the usual standard for it was 950. The front side is dominated by the engraved design of various flower blossoms, including prunus, as well as a bird a ...click for details

Meiji Japanese Burled Wood Naga Hibachi Edo Style Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Furniture: Pre 1900 item# 1173142 (stock# 11A-026)
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This strikingly handsome Edo (Tokyo) style �naga hibachi� (long firebox) is made from wonderfully grained burled keyaki (zelkova) wood. Meiji period, late 19th century. The mortise-and-tenon, dove-tail and mitre joinery is indicative of very fine craftsmanship, and the keyaki wood has a rich mellow patina resulting from years of exposure to heat and smoke. Keyaki, the most expensive of Japanese hardwoods, has a beautiful dense grain and is sturdy and long-lasting, requiring little maintenance. P ...click for details

Japanese Keyaki Kettle Hook Hanger Jizai Gake Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Wood: Pre 1900 item# 1152348 (stock# 11-372)
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This fine heavy wooden pothook or kettle-hook hanger (�jizai-gake�), hand carved from a large block of densely-grained zelkova (keyaki) wood, was once suspended by a heavy rope from the high roof beams of a Japanese home or shop. Edo/Meiji period, 19th century. This is a wonderful example of the Daikoku type of kettle-hook hanger, distinguished by the integral, inverted V-shaped roof-like upper part of the hook, which reminds the Japanese of Daikoku�s floppy cap. Daikoku was one of the Seven God ...click for details

Japanese Carved Wood Tea Tray in Lotus Leaf Form Catalogue: Archives: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Pre 1920 item# 1150187 (stock# 11-371A23)
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This unusual tea tray has been realistically hand carved from a single piece of wood in the form of a curled lotus leaf. Meiji/Taisho period (early 20th century). The front depicts the top of an open lotus leaf with curled outer edges, including the upper and lower edges which are completely folded over the top. The lightly chiseled top surface is covered with incised leaf veins which radiate from the center, and a separately carved stem peaks out from beneath the leaf. The reverse side is also ...click for details

Signed Bunjin Tetsubin with Relief Orchids and Waves Catalogue: Archives: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Pre 1900 item# 1124937 (stock# 6A-446P)
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Cast using the lost-wax method, this unusual low relief ornamental Japanese iron teapot (�tetsubin�) has a unique design in Chinese scholar taste (�bungin�). Meiji period (1868-1912). The heavy patinated bronze lid bears an engraved signature that reads �Shouun-do, Zo" (Shouun-do made). The subtle simplicity of the relief casting on this kettle is superb. The background design is composed of three panel segments covered with an overall low relief cast flower and stylized waves design. Thes ...click for details

Antique Japanese Ginbin Silver Tetsubin, Meiji Catalogue: Archives: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Pre 1920 item# 1113924 (stock# 6A-453)
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Lovely Japanese silver teapot in unusual persimmon (�kaki�) form; globular body with a domed cover; swing strap handle. The base is stamped with the impressed �jungin� or �jyun-gin� (pure silver mark which signifies 950 parts silver) above a four character impressed seal mark which reads �Miyamoto Kinsei" (made by Miyamoto). Meiji period, ca. 1900-1920. The spectacle of deep-orange persimmon heavy on the bough i ...click for details

High Relief Meiji Cast Iron Tetsubin Signed Seijudo Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Tea Articles: Pre 1900 item# 1103771 (stock# 6A-437A12)
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This Japanese �ornamental� tetsubin (iron kettle) is wonderfully decorated on both sides in very high relief with extremely unusual motifs. Late 19th century, Meiji period. The patinated brown and red mottled bronze lid bears the engraved signature �Seijudo zo.� There appears to be a cast square seal mark on the bottom of the body, but it is unrecognizable. On one side, there is a lotus root and pea pods cast in high relief, with the pea pods represented both in open and closed form. Even the u ...click for details

High Relief Antique Japanese Iron Tetsubin with Crab Catalogue: Archives: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Pre 1900 item# 1095458 (stock# 6A-452)
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This heavy Japanese �ornamental� tetsubin (iron kettle) is strongly cast and wonderfully decorated in high relief with an aquatic motif. Meiji period, ca.1900. The iron body bears the four-character seal mark of �Ueda Zo� cast in relief beneath the spout -- a mark which appears only on tetsubin of the highest quality. The patinated bronze lid bears the engraved shop name signature �Ryubundo zo,� a famous Japanese family of tetsubin makers and bronze workers from Kyoto. ...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-448A19)
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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

ELEGANCE IN IRON: The Art of the Japanese Tetsubin Catalogue: Archives: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Contemporary item# 1041416 (stock# 9-500)
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This beautifully illustrated exhibition catalog on the subject of Japanese cast iron tea kettles (�tetsubin�) was published by the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, Delray Beach, Florida, in 2009. Softcover; 64 pages include color photos and descriptions for 80 objects; bibliography; glossary. Tetsubin are cast iron water kettles which were popular in Japan as everyday household utensils and for informal and semi ...click for details

Meiji Gold and Silver Inlaid Iron Tetsubin Kinryudo Catalogue: Archives: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Pre 1900 item# 922622 (stock# 6A-426)
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This exceptionally fine ornamental tetsubin (cast iron kettle) in squat form is decorated in Komai style with extensive gold and silver hira-zogan and nunome-zogan inlays. Meiji period, 19th century. The heavy patinated cast bronze lid bears the engraved signature �Kinryudo zo,� the shop name of a renowned tetsubin specialist in Kyoto (see signature illustrations 154 to159 in TETSUBIN P.L.W. Arts). The body is unsigned. The bronze lid is topped with �tachibana� (mandarin orange) flower bud finia ...click for details

High Relief Tetsubin Dragons and Lions, Kibundo Catalogue: Archives: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Pre 1900 item# 913781 (stock# 6A-435)
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This wonderfully textured 19th century Japanese cast iron tea kettle, made by noted Kyoto-school tetsubin craftsman Kibundo (1812-1892), is cast in high relief with the figures of lions and writhing dragons. This fine kettle bears the body-mark �Kibundo zo� cast beneath one of the handle mounts and a remnant of the square seal mark of Kibundo on the bottom. There is also a two-character signature cast on the side of the spout. Cast in high relief of the textured ground is a large writhing dragon ...click for details

Large Japanese Carved Kamakura Bori Lacquer Tea Tray Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Lacquer: Pre 1940 item# 806212 (stock# 11E-143A16)
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This lovely round red and black lacquer tray with hand carved peony blossoms and leaves was crafted in a technique known as kamakura-bori and dates to the early 20th century. The alternating layers of color create a rich effect on the low relief carving, adding to its three dimensional quality. There is a wonderful depth and patina to the richly textured finish of this tray, which was very likely a tea ceremony presentation tray. The reverse is simply finished with red lacquer. With its large cr ...click for details

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