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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1400428
(stock #EW3120)
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An interesting Japanese Arita saucer form dish decorated in a transitional style incorporating elements of the Kakiemon style, notably the asymmetric elements within the reserves to the outer rim of the dish, with Katamono style motifs dating to the late 17th century or early 18th century and made for the domestic market. For a more sophisticated version of this type of design in Katamono style dated 1680-1700 see Shibata Volume II no 422...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1400427
(stock #EW3119)
EastWest Gallery
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An interesting Japanese Arita saucer form dish decorated in a transitional style incorporating elements of the Kakiemon style, notably the asymmetric elements within the reserves to the outer rim of the dish, with Katamono style motifs dating to the late 17th century or early 18th century and made for the domestic market. For a more sophisticated version of this type of design in Katamono style dated 1680-1700 see Shibata Volume II no 422...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700
item #1400203
(stock #EW3118)
EastWest Gallery
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A moulded rinka-gata form dish decorated in underglaze blue with additional enamels in the so-called Kakiemon palette. The outer register painted in underglaze blue with repeating pattern of a landscape with small weathered rocks from which grow auspicious Pomegranates and Peonies. The centre painted with a Chrysanthemum spray. The reverse painted with a simple Karakusa scroll and a six character mark for the Ming Emperor Chenghua...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1400202
(stock #EW3117)
EastWest Gallery
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A good quality large Japanese porcelain mug or tankard decorated in under-glaze blue with iron red, green and yellow enamels with Peonies and Chrysanthemums. It weighs 444 grams and has a capacity of over a Pint. It stands 15.5cm high and has a mouth diameter of 7.8cm, foot-ring diameter of 7cm and a body diameter of approximately 10cm...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1837 VR
item #1400201
(stock #EW3116)
EastWest Gallery
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A Japanese porcelain wine ewer or Chosi of cylindrical form decorated in underglaze blue with alternating horizontal bands of flowers (auspicious gobenka)and pinnate leaves (resembling Asters). The design perhaps influenced by the Chinese Aster pattern of the Kangxi period and the later, Mid Qing, provincial Chrysanthemum pattern (see the Desaru Wreck). The ewer dates to the first half of the 19th Century.
The Chosi measures 10.5cm in diameter and stands 15cm high. The foot-ring measures 7cm...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1396946
(stock #EW3111)
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A substantial large Japanese Imari covered bowl with a tear drop finial decorated principally in underglaze blue with a Chrysanthemum vine arabesque overlaid with poem card, shikishi, shaped reserves of peach and rectangular form. The peach shaped reserves containing leaping Karashishi and rock Peonies and the rectangular shaped reserves a red ground with stylised Chrysanthemums.
These rather striking bolder designs, which reflect Japanese contemporary taste, date to the period 1720-50...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1396179
(stock #EW3110)
EastWest Gallery
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An abalone shaped dish decorated in underglaze blue with trailing Clematis vine, Tessen. The dish is in “Ko Sometsuke” style based on porcelain specifically produced in China for the Japanese market in the first half of the seventeenth century made to Japanese specifications. The abalone form was considered especially auspicious, as noshi, dried awabi strips, were formally presented with gifts...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1396178
(stock #EW3109)
EastWest Gallery
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An abalone shaped dish decorated in underglaze blue with trailing Clematis vine, Tessen. The dish is in “Ko Sometsuke” style based on porcelain specifically produced in China for the Japanese market in the first half of the seventeenth century and made to Japanese specifications. The abalone form was considered especially auspicious, as noshi, dried awabi strips, were formally presented with gifts...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1395989
(stock #EW3107)
EastWest Gallery
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A hexagonal moulded small bowl or mukuzuke decorated with alternating panels of Buddhist Lions and Peonies painted in a limited three colour palette of iron red, green and yellow enamels and a Camelia flower to the interior of the bowl based on a Chinese wucai pattern of the late Ming period. A cheerful auspicious pattern celebrating the season of spring. The Buddhist lions rendered as playful characters rather than as fierce guardians...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1395986
(stock #EW3104)
EastWest Gallery
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A pair of rice bowls with their accompanying covers cum sauce dishes dating from the late 18th century to the early 19th century decorated entirely in enamels with gilding. Their exterior is decorated with a turquoise green brocade ground intended to simulate a Chinese enamelled scrafitto pattern of the period...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1395565
(stock #EW3102)
EastWest Gallery
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An interesting pair of Japanese Arita saucer form dishes decorated in a transitional style incorporating elements of the Kakiemon style, notably the asymmetric elements within the reserves to the outer rim of the dish, with Katamono style motifs dating to the late 17th century or early 18th century made for the domestic market. For a more sophisticated version of this type of design in Katamono style dated 1680-1700 see Shibata Volume II no 422...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1395564
(stock #EW3101)
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A rice bowl and its accompanying cover cum small sauce dish dating from the late 18th century to the early 19th century decorated entirely in enamels with gilding. The exterior of the bowl and cover are decorated with a turquoise green brocade ground which is intended to simulate a Chinese enamelled scrafitto pattern of the period...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1920
item #1395498
(stock #1174)
A rare, attractively enamelled, figure of the Bodhisattva and Japanese "Goddess of Mercy", Kannon....
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1394447
(stock #EW3099)
EastWest Gallery
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A Japanese tea-bowl and saucer of small “cha-sen” proportions decorated with a pair of Doves, symbols both in Europe and Japan, of marital fidelity, and a pair of small beakers with barbed lotus form rims decorated in a similar palette with reserves containing brocade patterns and a small boat set against a shore, as well as flowering prunus and other plants. The beakers have auspicious four character fukichosun marks to the base.
The beakers measure approximately in 7.7cm in diameter and s...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1394446
(stock #EW3098)
EastWest Gallery
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A good quality deep bowl on a relatively high foot-ring decorated in a full Imari pallette, sans aubergine enamels, and decorated with a curiously constructed set of three reserves in underglaze blue with a central stylised Chrysanthemum (or possibly a Lotus, or fusion of the two) with assymetric stylised vine like scrolls surrounding a light iron red wash with gilt karakusa vine ground. Between which “naturalistic” seasonal motifs kakitsuba, rabbit eared, Irises, Botan, tree peonies, and Ch...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1394445
(stock #EW3097)
EastWest Gallery
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A good pair of Kenjo Imari dishes decorated with a central auspicious “botan-mon” ringed by a wave border with gobenka. The outer register decorated with an iron red and gilt ground of scrolling vine, aka-e kinrande style, with bud shaped reserves containing a seeded green ground and further stylised Peony motifs, and stylised leaf and scroll reserves in underglaze blue with auspicious precious objects, jewelled cash and rhinoceros horn (the comma like motif very similar in appearance to a ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1837 VR
item #1391784
(stock #EW3095A)
EastWest Gallery
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A large sometsuke style bowl of auspicious Yuanbao form imitating the form of a boat shaped gold ingot decorated in underglaze blue with an elaborate lappet border to the base incorporating Pomegranate and Lotus motifs and a variety of geometric and contrasting karakusa patterns to the narrow border to the rim, repeated both to the interior and the exterior. The interior decorated with a series of roundels, marumon, containing a variety of auspicious geometric and painted motifs, pine, prunus an...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1390110
(stock #EW3093A)
EastWest Gallery
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A dish of moulded octagonal form with vertical raised edges decorated with a Peony leaf scrolling arabesque ground inset with shaped reserves containing auspicious Dragons and Chinese lions. The rim decorated with a stylised wave border with alternating pairs of claw waves and, gobenka, five petal flowers placed in the corners both to the interior and the exterior of the rim. Further karakusa style motifs of leaf buds to the underside of the rim and a thunder-fret border pattern to the foot of t...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1837 VR
item #1390108
(stock #EW3091)
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A good Nabeshima dish from the Nabeshima clan’s Okawachi kiln of oval boat shaped form, perhaps inspired by the boat shaped ingots, sychee or yuanbao, and decorated with an auspicious pattern of a pair of Goldfish swimming amongst water weeds. This particular pattern and shape belongs to a group of wares that were approved by the Shogun Ieharu in 1774 and were produced throughout the late Edo period for the consumption of the Shogunate. (See Nabeshima Porcelain for the Shogunate). The last off...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1389605
(stock #02166)
Rare form of Japanese KO IMARI Porcelain Charger Size : 12" Dia x 2 1/8" OSHIDORI(Mandarin Ducks) and GENROKU Figures design with fine gold Decoration Old Imari pieces. The quality of this charger is superb as I ever seen the combination of fine brush handpainting, the motif design with the gold as well as the shape and quality of porcelain itself. The condition of charger is very good considering the age of charger. There is no chips and cracks anywhere except noting that there are two area of ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1920
item #1387510
(stock #TRC18609)
This white porcelain statue depicts a small seated Bodhisattva deep in meditation. Bodhisattva, otherwise known as bosatsu in Japan, are enlightened beings who have postponed Buddha-hood in order to remain on earth and help others to break their cycles of karma. The base of this statue is unglazed showing the fine porcelain clay from which it is crafted. The seal of the Imperial Court Artist who fashioned it can be seen clearly impressed on the unglazed base.
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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1900
item #1383719
(stock #1170)
Intandane ltd
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A rare pair of heavy (solid) underglaze cobalt blue decorated porcelain Shishi Lions (koma inu 狛犬) made in the Hirado kilns, Mikawachi, Japan during the later years of the Edo period. Although previously thought to have been made late in the Meiji period (1868-1911) recent scholarship, by (among others) the late David Hyatt-King, is now indicating that these koma inu were made much earlier, circa 1820-1850.
Condition: the openwork brocade ball under the paws of the female (with closed...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1383411
(stock #EW3094)
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A very fine sometsuke dish of scalloped octalobed form painted with a mon form central motif of a symmetrically arranged pair of leaping carp. Framed by a continuous band of botan karakusa, Peonie lotus scroll, within which are reserves containing, dragons, Ryu, in clouds and a gilt rim, kin-beni. The reverse decorated with hagi-karakusa, vine pattern and a six character mark for the Chinese Emperor Jiajing. The quality of the painting is of the highest quality. The dish would date to the period...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1382655
(stock #1165)
Intandane ltd
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An Arita porcelain deep dish painted in shades of underglaze blue with fishermen in a boat in a river landscape. This item was made in Japan, during the Edo period, in the second half of the 18th Century.
Condition: there is a glaze imperfection (bottom left) below the boat; no damages and no repairs or restoration.
22 cm / 8.7 inches diameter
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1382046
(stock #EW3086)
EastWest Gallery
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A saucer form dish decorated in a full five colour Ko Imari “wucai”, gosai palette. The design arranged in fuyo-de Kraak style with a border of six sectional compartments each containing a panels of “Persian flowers”, precious objects, and Chinese figures standing upon a bridge in a stylised landscape. The central mikomi painted with rocks, viewing stones, and foliage and Banana plantain, basho, flanking a pair of small “Deshima style” figures, standing on a podium. The general desig...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700
item #1382040
(stock #EW3078A)
EastWest Gallery
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A fine so-called “Deshima”, or more likely a scene of Scheveningen in the Netherlands or an imaginary composition based upon it, after an unknown original by Frederik van Frytom. The bowl is decorated with four elements of the pattern, two figures in a field, a female figure with cow held upon a leash, a rider in a landscape, and a “light-house”, beacon upon a hill. There is an Arita dish in the Groingen Museum with three of the elements, clearly copying very closely a Delft original of ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1382018
(stock #4500)
Hawkes, Asian Art
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An unusual Arita enamelled wall-vase, kakehana, circa 1750. The seed-shaped hollow body is moulded with trailing vines supporting a dragonfly. The painter has used two different greens, aubergine, yellow and black. The unglazed back is pierced for suspension. It is probable that this kakehana was made for the home market.
Approximately 16.7cm long. Perfect condition with only a little wear to the enamels from use.
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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1381116
(stock #EW3079)
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A very fine sometsuke dish of scalloped octalobed form painted with a mon form central motif of a symmetrically arranged pair of leaping carp. Framed by a continuous band of botan karakusa, Peonie lotus scroll, within which are reserves containing, dragons, Ryu, in clouds and a gilt rim, kin-beni. The reverse decorated with hagi-karakusa, vine pattern and a six character mark for the Chinese Emperor Jiajing. The quality of the painting is of the highest standard. The dish would date to the perio...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1900
item #1379097
(stock #EW3075)
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An interesting dish of barbed, lotus petal, form with a bulls eye base, janome, decorated in Nanga style, monochrome (sumi-e) landscape paintings in the Chinese Literati tradition of Southern China, a school particularly associated with the Nagasaki area and the work of the Kameyama kiln, where it is believed artists of this school provided designs for use on their wares.
The dish is in the style of the Kameyama kiln, but is marked with a simple two character mark in seal form reading “tama-y...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1379077
(stock #EW3072)
EastWest Gallery
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A namasu or serving dish of unusual quadrilobed form with scalloped suhama style rim; a stylization of a wave washed beach. An auspicious form referencing Horai-san, the isle of the Immortals and therefore a wish for a long life.
The bowl is decorated with a central mon of a stylised Lotus motif, perhaps also containing elements of the aoi-mon, and karakusa. Surrounded by four panels containing an unusual four toed Water dragon emerging from stylised waves. Each panel separated by columns of pe...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1373338
(stock #EW3063)
EastWest Gallery
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A decorative and colourful Arita nagazara or long dish decorated with a central botan-mon, double Peony motif with alternating panels of Chrysanthemums and under-glaze blue Chrysanthemum leaf arabesques, and Shishi, lion dogs, set against an iron red Peony Petal ground.
The dish is good condition, with the exception of a small shallow flake to the top left hand corner of one of the dishes. Dating circa 1760-90, Horeki to Meiwa, late Mid Edo, a similar dish is illustrated in the Complete Catal...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700
item #1373334
(stock #EW3062)
EastWest Gallery
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A finely painted Kakiemon dish of scalloped form painted in under-glaze blue with a pair of auspicious Hoo birds amongst clouds, harbingers of good fortune, with stylised Peony branches. The reverse painted with a classic lotus scroll and a square fuku seal. Dating circa 1680-1700 and a product of the Kama-no Tsuji (Kakiemon) kiln in the Nangawara valley, note the fine pin point spurs and carefully trimmed footrim.
The dish measures approximately 21.5cm in diameter, seven suns. There is a fille...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1371217
(stock #4466)
Hawkes, Asian Art
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A Japanese Export Imari plate decorated with a pavilion amongst flowering trees. The reverse plain with four spur marks. Arita porcelain circa 1750.
Approximately 23.5 cm diameter. Perfect condition.
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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1371216
(stock #4464)
Hawkes, Asian Art
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A fine Japanese porcelain small tray-form dish with an upturned vertical rim decorated in the centre with a lake, waterfall and pavilion. The base with a fuki chosun mark. A solitary figure paddles past. Circa 1750 ~ 1780.
Approximately 10.5 cm diameter. Perfect condition.
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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1371213
(stock #4462)
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A Japanese Arita dish, in Kakiemon style, of rhomboid shape with rounded, spreading sides rising from a circular foot. The inside is decorated round the sides with a continuous 'classic scroll' boldly moulded in relief, and below with a design painted in pale blue, red, green, black and pale yellow enamels. The rim is glazed brown. The exterior is painted in enamels with sprays of camellia and pairs of flying birds. Circa 1700 ~ 1725.
An identical dish is in the collection of the V & A M...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1371077
(stock #4458)
Hawkes, Asian Art
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A large Arita celadon and Blue & White porcelain dish, 18th century.
The attractive dish with a misty village and waterfall scene within a moulded celadon border. The back celadon glazed to the foot-rim which contains a six-character Chenghua mark and five neat spur marks.
Approximately 29.3 cm diameter. Perfect condition.
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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1371075
(stock #4457)
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An 18th century Japanese Arita porcelain moulded dish, circa 1750 ~ 1780. The dish with a cavetto moulded with foliage and lotus flowers within a barbed rim. The centre sporting a fine underglaze blue ferocious dragon and pearl amongst coloured clouds. Within the foot-rim is an unusual six-character Yongzheng mark. A dish of this design is illustrated in Shibata, “Complete Catalogue of the Shibata Collection” The Kyushu Ceramic Museum, # 3359.
Approximately 21.2cm diameter. P...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1370940
(stock #EW3061)
EastWest Gallery
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A high quality crisply cast Japanese mirror. The reverse of the mirror decorated in high relief with a conventionalised representation of the utopian Isle of the Immortals typical of the Edo period integrating into the design the auspicious Takasago twin branched pine tree with a pair of flying cranes and a Minogame in the left hand corner. All set against a crisp granular ground. Probably late Edo period, or possibly slightly earlier.
The mirror is inscribed with four kanji characters reading...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1369282
(stock #EW3054)
EastWest Gallery
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An Imari miniature condiment set of hexagonal baluster form decorated with trailing foliage in underglaze blue, iron red and gilding. Consisting of four small ewers, three marked with A for azin, vinegar, one marked with “S” for syrup; three with plain covers, one with a perforated cover. A complete pepper pot with perforated cover, 7cm high, and a pillar form salt, 6.2cm high. The cruet or condiment stand is also of hexagonal form with a central candle stick, 16.5cm by 16.5cm and standin...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1368281
(stock #EW3045)
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A rather unusual export dish decorated with a Kraak style border of six larger panels containing respectively a pair of Peaches, symbols of Longevity, and a scroll and whisk, representative of the Eight precious objects, Baxia, with the smaller intermediate panels decorated with a combined clove and jewelled Rhinoceros horn motif. The centre is decorated with a wreath of Pomegrantes and Pomegranate leaves in iron red, green and blue enamels, partially disguising an unglazed circle, enabling stac...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1368272
(stock #EW3043)
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A large plate decorated in the three colour sancai palette with a central Peony motif with three reserves one with Peonies, emblematic of Spring, a pair of Quails beneath Millet and another with Chrysanthemums, emblematic of the months of Autumn. The partially ogee form reserves set against a blue brocade ground with stylised Chrysanthemums. The reverse decorated with three Peony sprigs. A three spur marks in a triangular arrangement to the base. Dating Kyoho era, c1710-40.
The plate measures a...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1368271
(stock #EW3042)
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A large plate decorated in the three colour sancai palette with a central Peony motif with three reserves one with Peonies, emblematic of Spring, a pair of Quails beneath Millet and another with Chrysanthemums, emblematic of the months of Autumn. The partially ogee form reserves set against a blue brocade ground with stylised Chrysanthemums. The reverse decorated with three Peony sprigs. A three spur marks in a triangular arrangement to the base. Dating Kyoho era, c1710-40.
The plate measures a...
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item #1368270
(stock #EW3041)
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A large plate decorated in the three colour sancai palette with a central Peony motif with three reserves one with Peonies, emblematic of Spring, a pair of Quails beneath Millet and another with Chrysanthemums, emblematic of the months of Autumn. The partially ogee form reserves set against a blue brocade ground with stylised Chrysanthemums. The reverse decorated with three Peony sprigs. A single spur to the base. Dating Kyoho era, c1710-40.
The plate measures approximately 24.5cm in diameter (...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1920
item #1367814
(stock #TRC1852)
This captivating bin-kake, or traditional brazier for tea ceremony, is crafted from fine celadon porcelain using methods first perfected in the southern Song Dynasty. The outside is decorated with low-relief Peony flowers which display a vivid sheen, owing mainly to the expert craftsmanship of the Meiji period Imperial Court artist Suwa Sozan who created this wonderful masterpiece. This represents one of Sozan’s finer works from late in his career when he had attained mastery over the ceramic ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1367194
(stock #EW3039)
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A tall beaker of bell form decorated in underglaze blue with a pair of auspicious Dragons each clasping a “tama” pearl above its head set against a lightening field with auspicious ruyi form clouds supporting respectively artemesin leaves on which are a pair of scrolls bound by ribbons and a flaming pearl.
The design has been adapted from a Chinese precedent of the sixteenth century but with a Japanese twist to the design. The fierce Chinese Dragons have been replaced with benign Buddh...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1367193
(stock #EW3039)
EastWest Gallery
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A tall beaker of bell form decorated in underglaze blue with a pair of auspicious Dragons each clasping a “tama” pearl above its head set against a lightening field with auspicious ruyi form clouds supporting respectively artemesin leaves on which are a pair of scrolls bound by ribbons and a flaming pearl.
The design has been adapted from a Chinese precedent of the sixteenth century but with a Japanese twist to the design. The fierce Chinese Dragons have been replaced with benign Buddhist...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1367118
(stock #EW3038)
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A similar pair of dishes to EW 3037 but without the additional gilding and iron red decoration. Designs featuring Karako were popular both in China and Japan at this period they were both symbolic of joy and a wish for children, kodakara; the treasure that is children. The more famous Hirado patterns also date from this period.
It was also a relatively common practice at this period to represent the Eight Immortals as children, so the design could also connote a wish for immortality, longevity ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1367108
(stock #EW3037)
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A pair of Arita dishes moulded in so-called suhama form; a stylised interpretation of a wave washed beach often associated with the Isles of the Immortals. Painted in underglaze blue with a group of five auspicious karako, Chinese Boys, bound together with a ribbon or rope; symbols of joy and a wish for offspring. In addition a Chinese style Fan and a Double gourd are painted in iron red and gilt to complete the design. These are symbols associated with the Taoist Immortals Zhongli Quan and Li ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1920
item #1367101
(stock #EW3036)
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A pair of a very well painted Kutani porcelain sake bottles painted in “Kenjo Imari” style painted with gilt karakusa to the neck with various marumon, a band of diaper to the shoulder, and further aka-e dama, and stylised karahasna-mon. to the body of the bottle. The vases are thinly potted and wreathing to the interior of the neck suggests that they were originally thrown in two parts. Dating probably late Meji period.
Each vase measures approximately 17 cm in height and are approximately...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1900
item #1366752
(stock #TRC1827)
Used for ceremonial purposes by the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties. Traditionally, the jue vessel was made of bronze with a pouring spout on either end and a pair of capped posts rising from the rim. This ceramic jue cup is done in fine porcelain with underglaze enamel and is described on the tomobako as being a jue-shaped incense burner (korou). One of Chikusen’s finest works, the painting shows a pastoral scene in the countryside in Japan.
Miura Chikusen (1854 - 1915) was an exc...
Miura Chikusen (1854 - 1915) was an exc...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1920
item #1365065
(stock #TRC1804)
This peach-shaped kogo (incense box) is made of fine kinuta celadon from one of the great masters of the Meiji era—Suwa Sozan. A classic design, the peach is said to represent long-life for mortals and immortality for the gods in asian folklore. According to legend, the moon goddess—a powerful alchemist—can make an elixir from peaches that grow in the garden of the western paradise with miraculous revitalizing properties.
Suwa Sozan the first (1852—1922) was born in an area...
Suwa Sozan the first (1852—1922) was born in an area...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1363467
(stock #4443)
Hawkes, Asian Art
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An Arita blue & white porcelain dish decorated with a pavilion and poetry, an equestrian and servant in the foreground. The dish is moulded with a shallow ‘rinka’ edge. The back is plain and has three spur marks within the foot-rim.
An identical dish is illustrated in the Shibata Collection Vol.4, #303 where it is dated to 1770~1800.
Approximately 17.8 cm diameter. The dish has some light wear from normal use but is otherwise in fine condition. There is a slight glaze blem...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1363466
(stock #4442)
Hawkes, Asian Art
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An Arita blue & white porcelain dish decorated with a pavilion and poetry, an equestrian and servant in the foreground. The dish is moulded with a shallow ‘rinka’ edge. The back is plain and has three spur marks within the foot-rim.
An identical dish is illustrated in the Shibata Collection Vol.4, #303 where it is dated to 1770~1800.
Approximately 18 cm diameter. The dish has some light wear from normal use, plate stacking for example, but is otherwise in fine condition. ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1837 VR
item #1362896
(stock #4441)
Hawkes, Asian Art
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A JAPANESE ARITA PORCELAIN SQUARE DISH, EDO PERIOD.
An attractive Japanese Arita porcelain square dish with canted corners, decorated with an oversized sage lost in reverie by a lake. The unusual borders completely painted with figures in a landscape. Late 18th ~ early 19th century.
By repute once part of the Bigelow Collection and disposed by auction in New England a few years ago.
Approximately 15.5cm square. The dish has a small edge chip, otherwise in perfect condition...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1900
item #1359332
(stock #TRC1780)
The inside of the bowl is painted with cherry tree boughs laden with blossoms—done in a dazzling underglaze blue-and-white porcelain distinctive of Imari-wares. Below, the trunks of the trees can be seen grounded in a grassy field resting on an abstract ring of karakusa (arabesque). The center of the bowl displays a fashioned wreath of cherry blossoms strung together with field grasses. The outside of the bowl shows darkly pigmented cherry blossoms and berries running around the circumference ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1920
item #1358963
(stock #TRC1777)
With meticulously sculpted vines and fantastic Peony blossoms in low relief on the kinuta celadon powdery blue background, this extraordinary vase is a truly Japanese expression of classical Chinese motifs. Reminiscent of floral designs produced by legendary pottery Itaya Hazan and other Imperial Court Artists of the time such as Seifu Yohei and Ito Tozan, this vase was potted at the very beginning of an era when such works came into fashion towards the end of the Meiji period.
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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1358098
(stock #EW3022)
EastWest Gallery
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A finely enamelled Japanese export bowl decorated with Chrysanthemums and Peonies between a pair of Fan Shaped reserves of Kiku form. The petals alternating between a gilt leaf and tendril blue brocade and an unusual iron red shaded wash. The veins of the gilt leaves created by the use of a scraffito technique. The interior with a band of peony and prunus sprigs. The central well of the bowl decorated with an iron red and gilt kiku mon. A single ring to the interior of the foot-rim of the bowl. ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1900
item #1356782
(stock #TRC18102)
This Hirado-yaki brush-rest—fashioned for the scholars desk of a bygone era—features meticulously sculpted plum blossoms set in a porcelain reproduction of a knotted plum branch. Hirado wares—alternately known as Mikawachi wares in some contexts—are known throughout Japan and also abroad for their high quality and fine craftsmanship and date back at least as far as the mid-18th century when they were produced exclusively for powerful lords and their families. In the 19th century, Hirado ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1356387
(stock #EW3019)
EastWest Gallery
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A pair of Namasu or small serving bowls in revived Kakiemon style decorated with a depiction of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove in low moulded relief; here represented by just two of them. The Sages were synominous with a hedonistic lifestyle of drinking and poetry. The foliate rims of the dishes are painted with a fuchi beni, iron brown glaze. The central roundel in the well of each bowl is decorated with a Namban or Tojin style figure of a European with a two legged long tailed dog like cr...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1355939
(stock #EW 3018)
EastWest Gallery
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A large Japanese Imari dish of saucer form with slightly everted rim decorated in underglaze blue, iron red and gilding with a central motif of a vase on a verandah containing an arrangement of Peony and Chrysanthemum flowers. The cavetto of the dish decorated with an underglaze blue brocade ground inset with three lobed reserves containing Hydrangea, Ajisai, Chrysanthemums, Kiku, and Peonies, Botan. The reverse decorated with three Peony sprigs to the reverse. The dish dates to the period 1700-...
