All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1940 item #1489766 (stock #Shumin001A)
Ota Shumin (1884-1950, Japanese)
Boats on River (given title).
Date: 1930s.
Size: Oban. 17.25 x 12.625 inches.
Signed "Shumin" by the artist.
Medium: Japanese watercolor.
Condition: Tonal difference at edges where formerly matted. Light creasing visible in side light.
Note: Shumin participated in a painting event at the 1936 Olympics.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1940 item #1489708 (stock #pc200)
Kodo Arts
$980.00
Unusually large ca.1935 iron tea pot made for the hearth 'irori' in old japanese minka farmhouses. Stamped with the famed Nambu Iron Foundry in Tohoku Northern Japan, the inscription reads, 'Tetsubin Nambu Seido' iron teapot made at the Nambu Foundry. What makes this tea pot special besides the size is the 'arare' (hail) pattern of raised protrusions. Very art deco. 47cm tall x 43cm wide. Ask for shipping quote.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Okimono : Pre 1960 item #1489687 (stock #08428)
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$250.00


BECKONING CAT

Old Japanese folk clay doll of ‘Maneki-neko’ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneki-neko), early -mid 20th century, H 18 x W 9 x D 8 cm (7.08 x 5.54 x 3.14in)...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Indian Subcontinent : India : Pre 1980 item #1489686 (stock #15148)
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$250.00


BLACK JAR

Pottery, India. Late 20th century. approx. D 14 x H 13 cm (5.51 x 5.11in). Rustic taste but with elegance...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1980 item #1489610
David Anthony
$375.00
This large imposing Chinese porcelain vase features a landscape scene typical of those which were popular during the early Republic period. A tall pine needled tree dominates over a wide canopied tree surrounded by rock work and mountains. The surrounding waters host pagodas to which boatmen come and go...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Sculpture : Pre 1940 item #1489591 (stock #240221)
SANAI FINE ART & ANTIQUES
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The size of Male Uguisu: 4 3/4" L x 3 1/16" H, 2 3/16" H tail.
The size of Female Uguisu: 4 3/4" L x 2 5/8" H, 1 7/8" H tail,
This is Exquisite Very Rare Japanese Wooden Carved Pair of Uguisu, Nightingale
by Ueno Gyokusui who was born in Meiji 30th, 1897, worked thru Taisho and Showa.
Please review his profile as ne of finest Japanese wooden carver.
He was leading number one top artist for wood carving
specialized in smaller birds...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Sculpture : Pre 1940 item #1489589 (stock #240221)
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Additional photos #1 for Uguisu by Ueno Gyokusui w/Tomobako
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Sculpture : Pre 1940 item #1489588 (stock #240221)
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Additional photos #2 for Uguisu by Ueno Gyokusui w/Tomobako
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1960 item #1489562 (stock #gy6835)
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1960's Chinese Famille Rose Porcelain Plaque Table Screen with Mountain Scene Signed "胡邦浩"

It is 10 inches (25.5 cm) tall by 5.1 inches (13 cm) wide measured with stand. The plaque is 6.4 inches (16.3 cm) in length by 3.9 inches (10 cm) wide. It is 0.7 lb.

It has surface wears (as seen in the photos).


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All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Enamel : Pre 1940 item #1489557 (stock #dr13092)
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Old (1940's) Japanese Burgundy Color Plique a Jour Cloisonne Enamel Vase with Flowers Marked "Yamamoto Cloisonne" CPO

It is 3.54 inches (9 cm) tall by 2.36 inches (6 cm) wide. It is 101 gram.

It is painted some sort of shellac at the inside. The shellac has since cracks and faded and that is why it has a crazing and dripping look. It has tarnished metal, minor missing enamels, and surface wears and scratches (as seen in the photos)...

Glass ojime (slide bead for tightening the cord going from netsuke to inro) in a form of tombodama bead in barrel shape with 5 bunnies frolicking in the snow by spruce trees during a snowfall. Tombodama can be translated as “dragonfly ball” and the name is thought to come about because when the molten glass is applied to the core bead it resembles a dragonfly’s eye. Beautifully made, very pleasant patina. Diameter 0.69 inches.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Textiles : Pre 1980 item #1489491 (stock #13897)
Haruko Watanabe
$380.00
A cotton kimono (yukata) with bold shibori design. Handwoven and vegetable indigo dye. In excellent condition. 20th century. W:124cm, L:124cm.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Folk Art : Pre 1950 item #1489475 (stock #12539)
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$350.00


LILY SHRINE WITH WOMAN'S SECRET CASE

Assortment of an wooden 'zushi' (miniture shrine) with woodblock-printed lily pasted on and a small bakelite case used by a postwar 'yujo' (Japanese prostitute) to once put her own body hair into (so no hair now) and give it to her important customers, both coming from the collector who specializes in Japanese red-light district and sexual culture as its provenance...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Folk Art : Pre 1950 item #1489474 (stock #15147)
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$200.00


CAKE MOLDS

Two pieces set of Chinese wood carving molds for rice cake, with fish and landscape-like designs, early 20th century. approx. 24.5 x 7.5 x 2 cm (9.64 x 2.95 x 0.78in), 23 x 11.5 x 2 cm (9.05 x 4.52 x 0.78in)...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1940 item #1489473 (stock #08426)
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$280.00


CATHEDRAL

Antique Japanese oil painting on wooden board, with no title (but provably 'Notre Dame de Paris'), 1930s, 40.3 x 33.3 cm (15.86 x 13.11in), attached with a Japanese-written certificate proving that the actual grand son himself possessed this work of Tsukamoto Shigeru (1903-1983)...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Enamel : Pre 1980 item #1489384
A teal colored cloisonne enamel vase with peony and vine decoration within fine silver wire and with subtle blue on yellow hues accenting the petals and leaves. Two character signature on the silver footrim and in the box (and with printed material) accompanied when acquired. Excellent condition. Height, 8 1/2 inches
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1940 item #1489383 (stock #Koitsu753)
Tsuchiya Koitsu
Kyoto Kiyomizu Temple
Publisher: Takemura Hideo. Round Takemura seal.
Date: 1930-40s.
Size: 5.5 x 3.5 inches.
Titled and sealed by the artist.
Reference: TK-TM-140.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Stoneware : Pre 1980 item #1489357
The Kura
$450.00
A rustic platter in dark olive by Uno Sango decorated in red with a poem by Shimizu Hian extolling the beauty of a rainbow enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is 27 cm (just less than 11 inches) square and in excellent condition. Enclosed is an exhibition card dated 1965.
Amanohara Hayase no Gotoku Michigirite Nagareru Kumo ni Niji Wo Kaketari
Flowing Rapids of Heavenly clouds tear open, A rainbow spans the gap...