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 | Fine quality Ohi Ware Macha bowl by Yoshio Iwamura |
 | Antique Tibetan painted wood image of Green Tara Bodhisattva |
 | Excellent Japanese Satsuma Vase with relief Bats - Shizan |
 | Yogi, Kimono Shaped Futon Bed Cover with Plum, pine and Bamboo |
SALE PRICED
 | A White Porcelain Vase by Miura Chikusen (1854 – 1915) |
 | A ko-Seto Mizusashi with Black Lacquer Lid (Tea Master Item) |
Spoils of Time
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Distressed Japanese Iki mask with crystal eyes. Gofun finish over dry lacquer composition. Details including veins, wrinkles and furrows. The surface is in a distressed state with significant losses and some 'alligatored' texture possibly from exposure to elements. Would make a worthy conservation project for someone with the patience to recoat and touch up losses (the missing left ear being most challenging.) Length, about 9 1/4 inches (23.49 cm)
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1900
item #1262200
(stock #0336)
William-Cozart, Inc.
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Ca. 1800s
This round turned wooden dish is lacquered a rich red on the face and black on the back, and set on a turned wood pedestal that is lacquered black on the exterior and interior. This was an item made for frequent use, perhaps for serving food, or also for displaying festival paraphernalia on certain occasions. There is wear from use – losses to the red lacquer, as well as some abrasions to the surface. The top is slightly out of round from typical shrinkage...
Zentner Collection
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Beautiful Japanese antique lacquer suzuribako (calligraphy box for writing), decorated with gold maki-e lacquer scene of pine tree saplings and roses growing near a stream, the shore is made of up of a dense gold nishiji and some leaves and petals of the rose are inlaid with mother of pearl, the interior of the box is entirely covered in a dense gold nishiji with flowers on the inside of the lid, the box has two small interior trays and it's original ink stone and copper gourd-shaped water d...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1900
item #1263722
(stock #0338)
William-Cozart, Inc.
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Ca. early 1800s
These bowls with matching inset lids are crafted from turn wood, and are lacquered black and red in the folk art tradition. They are intended for everyday use for soup and rice. Each has a kanji character painted in red lacquer on the lid and centers of the base. There is minor lacquer flaking here and there and usual evidence of use, but overall the condition is good. The sizes, though similar, are not exactly the same...
Tora Tori Gallery
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Globular in shape, on a nashiji gold lacquer base, the decoration represents pines and bamboo in gold and black hira maki-e, hedatsu and kirigane of vegetation at the edge of a watercourse and stylized medallions of chrysanthemums. The interior is also in nashiji. Origin: Japan. Period: Edo (1603-1868) 19th century. Height: 5.5 cm.
Zentner Collection
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Wonderful Japanese antique incense case, made of bamboo with very highly raised lacquer in the form of a blossoming wisteria branch, beautiful color and details including a tiny wasp, signed: Shizan, Edo/Meiji Period.
12 1/2" long x 2/3" wide.
Zentner Collection
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Antique Japanese fubako, box for holding letters. Made of lacquered wood with a design of young pine and blossoming plum branches. Both box and lid are decorated in maki-e gold and silver lacquer over a delicate nashiji on a black lacquer ground. The interior has clouds of dense gold nashiji and two mon on the underside of the lid.
Age: Edo Period (18th/19th century)
Dimensions: 10 1/4" long x 3 1/2" wide x 2 3/4" deep
Age: Edo Period (18th/19th century)
Dimensions: 10 1/4" long x 3 1/2" wide x 2 3/4" deep
Zentner Collection
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Beautiful antique Japanese fubako (letterbox), black lacquer ground with roses in raised gold and silver, lidded box , interior with clouds of dense nishiji, tiny squares of gold, Meiji Period (1868-1912).
Size: 23" long x 6 3/4" wide x 4 1/2" high
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1900
item #697775
(stock #R112)
Japanese Art Site
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Important pair of very large Late Edo Period (19th Century) Japanese Carved Lacquered Panels. This work of art is of the highest museum quality. Works like these are usefully found in only in major museums and prominent private art collections. We are proud to offer this spectacular masterpiece. They feature four mythological and historical figures in relief, lacquered in the most amazing techniques. Framed with beautiful red lacquer that is part of the panel...
Zentner Collection
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Japanese lacquer kogo incense container in Korin-style with rabbits gazing at the moon. One rabbit made of quail egg mosaic and the other of silvered lacquer sitting in the reeds. Square shaped container with mitered corners. Top with silvered moon. Tomobako with typed old labeling.
Meiji Period (1868-1912)
Size: 2 1/4"H x 1 5/8"W x 1 5/8"D
Meiji Period (1868-1912)
Size: 2 1/4"H x 1 5/8"W x 1 5/8"D
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1900
item #1440850
(stock #2019-685)
GALERIE TIAGO
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Round kobako forming a drum (taiko 太鼓) decorated with gold and silver lacquer pampres with mother of pearl inlay. Inside in nashi-ji lacquer.
Mon is composed of three tomoe.
Japan – Meiji (1868-1912)
Height : 5cm – Diameter : 11 cm
The Kura
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A rare stacking Bento (picnic) box in the shape of a tea leaf storage jar decorated in a realistic fashion with black, silver and gold maki-e lacquer. It consists of four pieces, stacked they are 28 cm (11 inches) tall, and all are in excellent condition.
Zentner Collection
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Dramatic and large Japanese antique shodana display tansu, lacquered all over with beautiful scenes of birds, flowers, butterflies, and fans, inlaid scenes of flowers and butterflies and a scroll of a figure by a waterfall, 3 sections, Meiji Period.
Size: 87 1/2" high x 50 1/2" wide x 20" deep.
Zentner Collection
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Antique Japanese lacquer Tebako, cosmetic box. Made of lacquered wood and decorated all over with scenes of flying geese in gold lacquer with raised details on a black lacquer ground, Silver lacquer bull rushes with golden leaves bend in the wind. The interior is lined with very old silk brocade. Meiji Period (1868-1912) . Size : 9 1/4" high x 11 1/2" long x 9" wide.
Zentner Collection
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Antique Japanese gilt lacquer three-case inro, in the shape of a large sake jar decorated with two karako (children) surprised by their companion tumbling in a cascade of sake to the opposite side, expertly rendered in gold and silver hiramakie, takamakie, togidashi and usu-nashiji on a kinji ground, the interior's fundame and nashiji (silver oxidized), signed Koryu-saku, Edo Period.
together with a lacquered wood bead ojime fashioned as a brocade ball with minute inlay...
Zentner Collection
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Beautiful antique Japanese 5 piece inro (3 compartments), made of lacquered wood, raised gold lacquer with miniature scene of temples and pavilions in a mountain setting with rivers and lakes and Mt...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1900
item #1474911
(stock #0584)
Momoyama Gallery
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Up for sale is this magnificent and high class set of a tea pot and a tea container made of wood and covered in lacquer with elaborate maki-e, applied with gold designs. Both pieces of art have perfectly fitting maki-e wooden stands...
Zentner Collection
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Antique Japanese fine lacquered kogo box for holding incense. Comprised of 3 stacking compartments, the lower of which has a gilt copper lining. The overall shape is that of a textile knot (musubi) with ornate patterns in gold takamaki-e on black and nashiji lacquer. The sides of the box are further decorated with a landscape of trees on a rocky outcropping, a village of thatched roof huts, and low hills near a lake, all on a fine nashiji ground. With signed kiri wood tomobako...
