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Sozen-style Ikebana Basket
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Pre 1920 item# 903616 (stock# 06-240)
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Here is an example of Sozen-style ikebana basketry on a bamboo-
wrapped base, its forked handle made of bamboo stalk with looped supports.
The rounded basket's pleasing, curving body is worked with alternating
mat plaiting
and twining, its handle segmented by bands of cicada knots and insect stitches.
Chikuunsai I incised signature on the base; includes tomobako.
This basket is in very good condition.
Height: 19.5"
Taisho Period, Japan
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Double Gourd Vase
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Pre 1900 item# 887203 (stock# 8-510)
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An extremely beautiful Hirado porcelain vase of elegant double -gourd
shape with small demon-head handles on each side. On its body, executed in
underglaze blue on a white ground, a branch with large leaves and tendrils
gives way to a gourd from which various horses are released in full
gallop. This mythological motif of the horse escaping from a gourd refers to
the attribute of the Sennin Chokwaro, whose graceful horse generously provides means of transportation to the Sennin, fatigued f ...click for details
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Tabaco-ire
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Pre 1900 item# 886274 (stock# 9-432)
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This is a boxwood and ivory tabaco-ire with bats expertly carved in great
detail in high relief. On one side, its panel is filled with a mass of
flying bats. On the other, framed by auspicious clouds in high relief,
three bats clasp a plaque with gold-lacquered characters. A carved nut
ojime holds the cord in place. (Bats in East Asian art are associated
with good fortune and happiness.) This tabaco-ire is in excellent condition with no
cracks or restoration.
19th Century, Japan
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Boxwood Okimono of Carpenter
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Pre 1900 item# 850977 (stock# FC-490)
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This is a remarkable boxwood and ivory okimono of a carpenter at work. The
scene depicts the carpenter giving his tansu finishing touches with an ivory
carving knife. This okimono is carved and incised meticulously with attention to every detail - all sides of the cabinet - its doors, drawers and hardware realistically carved.
Signed SHUNKO on the base.
Height: 5"
Meiji Period, Japan
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Imari Bottle Vase
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Pre 1900 item# 798000 (stock# FC-458)
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A small, cabinet -sized Imari bottle vase enameled with soft, underglaze blue, overglaze iron red and gilt detailing. The vase is modeled with gilt ring handles and designed with floating cartouches of kiku and peony surrounding a traditional Japanese home. It is full-bodied and a charming example of traditional Imari ware. A tiny rim chip is hardly discernible on the foot, but otherwise the vase is in very good condition. There are no cracks or restoration.
Height: 6 ¼”
Circa 1850s, Japan ...click for details
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19th Century Japanese Imari Plate
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Pre 1900 item# 797101 (stock# FC-467c)
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This round Imari plate with scalloped edge has a partially fluted body decorated in typical Imari palette with an underglaze blue, textile-brocaded rim. Foliate-shaped cartouches depict songbirds flying over peony and blossoming sakura trees. Rondels of stylized butterflies against emerald-green ground enhance the surface of the plate. In very good condition with no cracks, chips or restoration.
Diameter: 9 ¼”
19th Century, Japan
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