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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1920 item #1487515
Dmitry Levit Asian Art
$195.00
Late Meiji (1890s - 1910s) Japanese ivory chashaku (tea scoop used for powdered tea during tea ceremony) of elegant slender shape. Comes in original chazutsu (inscribed bamboo case). Delicately carved, in great condition, beautiful patina, very pleasant to the touch. Chashaku length 7.25 inches, case length 9.25 inches.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1930 item #1485263
Dmitry Levit Asian Art
$85.00
Taisho (1920s) lacquered wood kogo (box for incense during tea ceremony) in a shape of a drum . Elegant object in Japanese taste, wonderful lacquer work, two parts fit perfectly, in great condition, a couple of scrathes on the top. Diameter 1.86 inches.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1930 item #1483624
Dmitry Levit Asian Art
$100.00
Taisho period (1920s) lacquered wood kogo (box for incense during tea ceremony), its top decorated with two roundels, one containing bamboo and the other cherry flowers. Elegant object in Japanese taste, the body is made out of kiri (Paulownia tree) wood, perfect lacquer work, two parts fit perfectly, beautiful surfaces, in excellent condition. Diameter 1.82 inches.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1900 item #1482332
Dmitry Levit Asian Art
$250.00
Rare 19th century Japanese stoneware Kuro Oribe chaire (tea caddy for storing powdered green tea used in tea ceremony) of cylindrical shape with rounded shoulders. Comes with very well made shifuku (silk brocade storage bag). Beautiful free potting, typical elliptical lines on the foot left by a string used to cut off the piece from potter’s wheel...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1920 item #1482245
Dmitry Levit Asian Art
$125.00
Late Meiji to early Taisho (1910s) Japanese wooden round kogo (box for incense during tea ceremony), its top with a silver plaque engraved with bamboo stalks and leaves. The wood is ichii (Japanese yew) with clever use of wood patterns to add to the charm of the piece, Simple classic design, in excellent condition. Diameter 2.73 inches, height 1.14 inches. Part of a small East Coast kogo collection.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1920 item #1481176
Dmitry Levit Asian Art
$150.00
Late 19th to early 20th century Japanese tea ceremony short hibashi (metal chopsticks for handling charcoal in hibachi brazier) with brass working part and bronze handle inlaid with shakudo and silver keyfret design, and with flower finials. These hibashi are for use in the summer time (winter ones have handle parts covered in wood). Finely made, wonderful quality inlays. Beautiful patina, seem to have never been used, very pleasant to hold. Come with original holder made out of banana leaf...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1920 item #1481175
Dmitry Levit Asian Art
$120.00
Late 19th to early 20th century Japanese tea ceremony short hibashi (metal chopsticks for handling charcoal in hibachi brazier) with ribbed handle parts and flower finials. These hibashi are for use in the summer time (winter ones have handle parts covered in wood). Finely made, wonderful quality bronze with high copper contents. Beautiful wear and patina attesting to their age, pleasant to hold. Length 7 inches.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1900 item #1481115
Dmitry Levit Asian Art
$150.00
19th century Japanese bronze tea ceremony hibashi (long metal chopsticks for handling charcoal in hibachi brazier) with finials in a form of heads of the Fungus of Immortality. These hibashi are for use in the summer time (winter ones have top half covered in wood). Finely made of bronze, beautiful casting and chiseling of the fungus, embossed areas at the working end for better handling of charcoals...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1900 item #1481113
Dmitry Levit Asian Art
$165.00
19th century Japanese iron tea ceremony hibashi (long metal chopsticks for handling charcoal in hibachi brazier), each inlaid with 3 multimetal flowers with leaves. These hibashi are for use in the summer time (winter ones have handle parts covered in wood)...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1910 item #1481110
Dmitry Levit Asian Art
$125.00
Meiji / Taisho (1910s) lacquered wood kogo (box for incense during tea ceremony), its top decorated with low relief depiction of an elephant, its trunk raised. Very nice object in Japanese taste, multilayered differently colored lacquer, two parts fit perfectly, beautiful surfaces, in excellent condition. Diameter 2.2 inches.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1930 item #1481109
Dmitry Levit Asian Art
$110.00
Taisho (1920s) lacquered wood kogo (box for incense during tea ceremony), its top decorated with gold lacquer pine cones and needles. Elegant object in Japanese taste, perfect lacquer work, two parts fit perfectly, beautiful surfaces, in excellent condition. Diameter 1.88 inches.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1930 item #1481108
Dmitry Levit Asian Art
$90.00
Taisho period (1920s) lacquered wood kogo (box for incense during tea ceremony), its top decorated with two cherry flowers. Elegant object in Japanese taste, beautiful lacquer work, two parts fit perfectly, in great condition. Diameter 2.18 inches.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1900 item #1479022
Dmitry Levit Asian Art
$195.00
Unusual 19th century Japanese ceramic Kuro Oribe guinomi - a sake cup, can be used as a small yunomi - a tea cup. Comes with very well made shifuku (silk brocade storage bag). Superb free potting, the foot shows grey stoneware body, beautiful patina. Characteristic kuro Oribe (“black Oribe”) beautiful dark brown to black glaze enveloping most of the sides with one open area painted with underglaze black flower and a distant mountain, great patina...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1930 item #1478571
Dmitry Levit Asian Art
$120.00
Rather unusual late Taisho - early Showa (1920s) Japanese boxwood scoop for loose tea, its handle carved as the head of angry Daruma, Patriarch of Zen Buddhism. Beautifully carved, nice patina, signed on the front with 3 characters that appear to read CHUKOBI. It is very unusual to see signed tea scoop. Length 3 inches.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1900 item #1478294
Dmitry Levit Asian Art
$250.00
Rare 19th century Japanese stoneware Kuro Oribe chaire (tea caddy for storing powdered green tea used in tea ceremony) of cylindrical shape with square shoulders. Comes with very well made shifuku (silk brocade storage bag). Beautiful free potting, typical elliptical lines on the foot left by a string used to cut off the piece from potter’s wheel...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1920 item #1477082
Dmitry Levit Asian Art
$180.00
Late Meiji - early Taisho (1910s) Japanese pottery Bizen ware chaire (tea caddy for storing powdered green tea used in tea ceremony). Wonderful potting, buff color clay with beautiful orange streaks, pleasant patina, impressed mark of the potter on the bottom. Later turned dark hardwood lid lined with gold paper on the inside. Comes with very well made shifuku (silk brocade storage bag). Great piece in excellent condition. Height with cover 3 1/8 inches, maximum body diameter 2 3/16 inches.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1900 item #1476767
Dmitry Levit Asian Art
$295.00
19th century Japanese chaire (tea caddy for storing powdered green tea used in tea ceremony) in a shape of a storage jar with narrow waist and wider shoulders, and 2 mock ring handles. Old Bizen ware with characteristic dark brown clay bearing the marks of potter’s fingers as he was turning the piece on a wheel. Typical Japanese elliptical lines on the bottom left by a string used to cut the item off the turning wheel. Possibly marked by the bottom - see the detail on Enlargement 1...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1920 item #1476766
Dmitry Levit Asian Art
$275.00
Late Meiji (1890s to 1912) Japanese chaire (tea caddy for storing powdered green tea used in tea ceremony) in a shape of a storage jar with 4 mock lug handles. Buff colored stoneware body with free bulbous body bearing the marks of potter’s fingers as he was turning the piece on a wheel. Beautiful glaze turning from brown to off-white towards the bottom of the piece. Comes with very well made shifuku (silk brocade storage bag). Old bone lid lined with gold leaf paper on the inside...