AUCTIONS (3)
 | Elegant Bamboo Ikebana Basket, Hanakago by Suzuki Gengesai |
 | Chinese Album Leaf Scholar Painting, Dated 1860 |
 | A Meiji Period Maki-e Gold Painted Five-tiered Jubako Set |
 | Signed Japanese Cloisonne Tray |
SALE PRICED
 | Keisai Eisen Japanese Woodblock Print- Carp Ascending Waterfall 1830s |
 | A Late Edo Collaboration Scroll by Reizei Tamenori and Hara Zaichū |
Zentner Collection
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Antique Japanese round hibachi made of kiri (paulownia) wood and lacquered with highly raised maki-e design of irises and hydrangeas. Exuberant blossoms in gold and black lacquer with shell inlay. With a copper insert. This hibachi was originally used as a household brazier.
Age: Meiji Period (1868-1912)
Dimensions: 9" high x 15" wide
Age: Meiji Period (1868-1912)
Dimensions: 9" high x 15" wide
Zentner Collection
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Antique Japanese lacquer tebako (accessories box), made of lacquered wood with dense gold nishiji and a gold maki-e lacquer design of flowers, possibly clematis, on a vine. The rim is made of pewter and the interior is lacquered with a spars nishiji on a black lacquer ground. Comes with kiri wood tomobako.
Age: Tokogawa Era, early 18th century
Dimensions: 2" high x 2 7/8" wide x 2 7/8" wide
Age: Tokogawa Era, early 18th century
Dimensions: 2" high x 2 7/8" wide x 2 7/8" wide
Zentner Collection
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Antique Japanese black lacquer jingasa (samurai helmet), gold lacquer Maeda mon (crest), the edges are also lacquered gold, red lacquer on the underside, metal chrysanthemum form finial on top, Meiji Period.
Size: 14" long
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1900
item #1478156
(stock #455)
Conservatoire Sakura
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Sake cup in wood lacquered with gold, silver and cinnabar powder. On the outside on a rich thick kinji background, decorated with flowers in gold and silver leafs around the perimeter and in the center 2 stylized Chinese characters in thick lumpy cinnabar lacquer with the most beautiful aesthetic effect, probably the mark of the artist. The exterior is decorated with maple leaves in gold, red, green and brown lacquer on a black background. Note that polychrome lacquers are very rare...
The Kura
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A very unusual lacquered Jubako stacking box in the shape of a water cauldron made for serving food at events and celebrations. It is finshed with metallic textured silver-black lacquer simulating old iron. The lid and base are shiny black lacquer, the interior coated in festive red. Cranes and turtles, symbols of longevity, populate the inside in gold. It is 20.5 cm (8 inches) diameter and comes enclosed in an age darkened period wood box titled Kamagata Kashiki...
Zentner Collection
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Antique Japanese jingasa, a special protective hat worn by samurai. It is covered in a special lacquer called "tatake nuri" and is decorated with a star shaped like blades, and delicate carvings around the finial. The underside is lacquered in red with old cloth and string. Edo period (1615-1868)
Size: 2.75" height, 16.5" diameter
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...
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...
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 #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...
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.
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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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...
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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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
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 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
