Antique Japanese Bronze sculpture extremely well modeled and superbly executed with stunning details depicting a young Japanese philosopher Kinjiro Ninomiya Sontoku carrying a bundle of firewood on his back and an axe through the back of his belt. The interior of the base is entirely inscribed in Japanese characters.
CONDITION: Very good quality workmanship with excellent natural dark patina, the right hand, carved of bone, is possibly a later replacement...
Japanese antique couch, elaborately carved with coiling dragons, curving arms are carved in the form of two dragons, the seat is fitted with a cushion covered in silk brocade with a Chinese design, Meiji Period.
Size: 41 1/4" high x 49" wide x 22" deep. (the seat is 42" wide x 16/17" deep.)
Pair small Japanese blue and white porcelain dishes. Hawthorne style decoration of prunus branches in bloom. Verso with three prunus branches. Blue underglaze mark centered within the foot rim. Fair to decent condition with a few frit like flea bites to the glaze along the rims. No cracks and no hairlines. Diameter each about 7 1/8 inches (18.1 cm)
Japanese Genroku era Imari bowl with blue underglaze and red and gold overglaze enamel decoration. The octagonal form with alternating panels on both interior and exterior of flowers and of boat in garden landscape. The cavetto with vase and flowers decoration. Flowers and vine decoration around the foot. Flower head decoration in red enamel inside blue ring within ring foot. The white glaze around the buff colored foot rim burned to a thin dark iron colored ring before the unglazed rim...
Japanese Lg Sterling Silver Teapot Signed
Description & Size: 22.86 x 25.4 x 12.7 cm (9" x 10" x 5") height & wide with & without handle & spout
Weight: 629 gram (22.18 oz)
Age: Early 20th Century
Production: Handcrafted
This is a large size Japanese Sterling silver teapot constructed with good sterling silver guage. It's nicely handcrafted with a bamboo design handle & spout...
The size of Plate: 7 3/16" Dia x 1 1/4" High. Japanese Antique Porcelain Kutani Plate. Plate has four windows of design. One with two male seating at the table, detail gold works. Other with one female poet and two male poet. Two windows with Chrysanthemum desing with fence. Very fine detail works. Nice gold works which photo relly does not cature the whole details gold works. The condition of plate is Excellent, no chip, no crack and no hairline from outside force...
Antique tasteful Satsuma Chawan made and marked by Gyozan, one of the most famous Japanese Satsuma artists, circa 1905, during the Meiji Period.
It presents a wonderful hand painting on it with strong and shiny colours.
The typical Satsuma ware we most come into contact with is a yellowish earthenware usually decorated with a minute decoration with Japanese figures, expressive faces or detailed oriental landscapes, or sometimes embellished with vivid dragons in relief...
A banner made of different brocaded silk "nishiki" fabrics, figured yellow textile and dyed cotton lining. Leather loop. Dimension: 135 cm x 26.2 cm. Condition: slightly faded, partial little wear.
This is a first class Kashiki of old Shino ware. It is 200 years old ( Edo Period ), beautiful distorted and has a tasteful painting.
Kashiki is the general term for bowls or plates to present biscuits and sweets for the tea ceremony.
It is an indispensable item for the authentic tea ceremony.
There is potter's mark. The name of the artist is Sozan. Nice antique condition with aesthetic inborn kiln cracks and with no repairs...
Beautiful Japanese antique scroll painting depicting a scene of two large koi fish jumping up a waterfall, the traditional image symbolizes perseverance and aspiration, painted in ink and very light color on silk, Edo Period.
Size of image: 52" high x 29 1/4" wide. Total size of scroll: 76" high x 35 1/4" wide (38 1/4" wide including ends)
Fine Japanese carved wood Lotus Pod,
having articulated, moving seeds which protrude from the pod, the wrapped stem forming the cord hole, from 18th century era.
Size; Width at widest 1 3/4 inches. Provenance; Property from the Collection of Dr. J. Don Nelson, Fargo, North Dakota
Japanese Tsuikoku Tea Caddy Natsume
Description & Size: 6.98 x 6.6 cm (2.75" x 2.6") height & wide; Weight: 106 gram (3.73 oz)
Age: Meiji Period c19th; Production: Handcrafted & Carved; Material: Lacquers
This is a very unique & intricately design & carved Japanese tsuikoku tea caddy NATSUME...
Japanese Silver Bowl Chrysanthemum Marked & Signed
Description & Size: 8.63 x 15.87 cm (3.4" x 6.25") height & wide; Weight: 354 gram (12.48 oz)
Age: Meiji Period; Production: Handcrafted & Hammered
This Japanese silver chrysanthemum bowl is wonderfully handcrafted by a master during the classical Meiji Period c1910'. The silver bowl is constructed on a double walls design & crafted with raised rim in a form of a chrysanthemum flower petals...
A elegant and luxurious cigarette set by Ikkakusai, Nagata Tomijiro. The work is a combination of silver, woven strips of wood, and lacquer. The exterior section of the lid has two fan shaped silver plates insets with traditional motifs of bamboo, lingzhi (reishi), and the sage jurojin. The box has a metal and glass ash tray, a compartment for a lighter, and below a drawer for extra cigarettes. Cigarettes became popular in Japan during the Taisho and early Showa Periods...
Eight lobed inlayed Japanese lacquered dish. Each lobe is decorated in makie, the flora and fauna of the four seasons with archaic designs set in between. The central area of the dish is depicting a female figure holding a lotus with a child attendant holding a bouquet of lotuses. The bottom is crafted in the nashiji style with a signature set in a medallion motif reading: Kaneko Zo, or Produced by Kaneko. Age: Meiji Period Size: Diameter 8.25" Height 1.5"
A splendid and refined Satsuma rectangular incense censer. Each painted panel is minutely painted with traditional motifs with images of a phoenix and Shi Shi Lion in raised detail. The bottom of the container contains a signature which reads, Dai Nippon Tokyo, Matsuura Yuzan Zo. Lovely condition
Age: Meiji Period Size: length 3.5" width 2.75" height 2.15"
Height: 4.9 cm (1.9 in)
Width: 6.3 cm (2.5 in)
Japanese miniature Satsuma lidded pot with floral and figural decoration; signed Sozan; circa Meiji Period
Hinagata (sample book of hanten (short jacket) design which is wood-block print. Hinagata is a sample design book and it was for customers when they make orders. The designs are stencil-dyed in the back of hantens which were worn by workers such as shop clerks, fish market workers, firemen and so on. This book is a remake of the original book as the ground paper had many damages so that the original design hantens were cut out and pasted on Japanese paper and newly bound...