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Tripodic Bronze and Multi-Metal Incense Burner

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Metalwork: Pre 1920   item# 945638 (stock# 01-309 )

Tripodic Bronze and Multi-Metal Incense Burner
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A tripodic bronze and multi-metal incense burner of compressed, globular form, its silver lid detailed with maple and ginkgo leaves, pierced and incised. Along the body, the ginkgo and maple leaf motif continues with wind-blown leaves and pods worked in high relief shakudo, silver and gold.(The incense burner has a long history in Japan as an integral part of Buddhist rituals and tea ceremony.) This incense burner is in excellent condition and has its own original, fitted wooden stand. D ...click for details


Bronze Vase with Dragon

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Metalwork: Pre 1920   item# 945606 (stock# 0-427 )

Bronze Vase with Dragon
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An elegant dark-bronze vase of flared form modeled with scalloped rim, foliate base and brilliantly reticulated band of kiku and foliage around its center. A beautifully sculpt dragon mounted to this band clasps a glass tama in its talons. Worked in high relief with meticulously carved details, the dragon is joined by raised, turbulent waves rendered close by the tail. (The tama is the tide-controlling jewel of the sea). This bronze okimono is in excellent condition with no restorati ...click for details


Foliated Silver and Multi-Metal Covered Box

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Metalwork: Pre 1920   item# 943378 (stock# 06-124)

Foliated Silver and Multi-Metal Covered Box
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This is a foliated silver and multi-metal covered box with polished silver interiors. On its lid, a scene from the fairy tale "Saru Kani Kassen" ("The Feud between the Monkey and the Crab") is portrayed in takazogan (high relief) with silver, shakudo, gold and copper inlays. The fairy tale tells of a monkey who deceives a crab, slightly injuring it. But the crab decides upon revenge seeking the aid of an army of crabs and the help of a few friends. (The mo ...click for details


Iron and Damascene Moon Flask Vase

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Metalwork: Pre 1920   item# 943108 (stock# FC-330 )

Iron and Damascene Moon Flask Vase
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This is a fabulous iron moon flask with precious metals of gold and silver worked in the nunome zogan technique (damascene) upon its surfaces. On one side, two large rondels depict in extraordinary detail a writhing dragon flying mid clouds, the borders designed with turbulent waves and glorious butterflies wired with spread wings. On reverse, a landscape scene of a serpentine stream lined with pine, sakura and houses is executed in high relief. A delicate design of t-fret and k ...click for details


Bronze and Multi-Metal Vase

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Metalwork: Pre 1920   item# 939584 (stock# 06-229 )

Bronze and Multi-Metal Vase
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An elegant polished bronze vase of ovoid form. Executed in relief in shakudo and gilt with a boat in waters among reeds and lotus, a regal crane perches on its thatched roof, another seen in mid-flight above the still waters. This serene imagery is brilliantly rendered with finely chiseled and incised details. This bronze and multi-metal vase is in excellent condition, its incised artist signature found on the vase's side. Perfect condition with no restoration. Height: 11 ...click for details


Silver Okimono Of A Wave With Tama

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Metalwork: Pre 1920   item# 939574 (stock# 06-247 )

Silver Okimono Of A Wave With Tama
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Here is a silver okimono wonderfully sculpted in fluid form as a giant wave with a rare smoked rock crystal globe, the latter symbolizing tama (a tide-controlling jewel of the sea). In Japanese art, the tama is associated as one of the attributes of Ryugin, the Dragon King of the Sea, while the thrashing wave relates to Japan's affinity to the ocean and sea life. This lovely silver sculpture is in excellent condition, with no problems. Length: 8" Meiji Period, Japan


Bronze and Multi-Metal Kogo

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Metalwork: Pre 1920   item# 937972 (stock# FC-471c)

Bronze and Multi-Metal Kogo
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This is a brilliant copper-patinated, multi-metal box of round form executed in relief with gold, shakudo, silver and copper. The lid, surrounded by gilt leaves, portrays a dynamic Shoki, the Demon Queller, portrayed as a puppeteer using strings to control the activities of a mischievous oni. Diameter: 5.25" Meiji Period, Japan


Lobed Bronze Vase

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Metalwork: Pre 1920   item# 937970 (stock# 06-141)

Lobed Bronze Vase
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A marvelous tall-necked bronze vase of lobed form. 19th century Japanese metalworkers are greatly renowned for their advances in metalurgy and the development of new, sophisticated alloys. On this vase, the artist created a copper-splashed patination on the bronze surface without inlays or carving techniques. The artist achieved a wondrous effect through the uncanny use of the metal, relying on the beauty of its traditional and very Japanese form. Signature on the base by Seikoku. This vase is i ...click for details


Bronze Meiji Period Vase

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Metalwork: Pre 1920   item# 937969 (stock# 8-384)

Bronze Meiji Period Vase
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This is a striking bronze vase of flattened form and flared neck on self stand. Its two panels illustrate scenes-from-nature in high relief showing the superb chiseling and use of metals that define the best of Meiji metalwork. On one, a long-tailed bird perches upon a flowering spray of leaves and buds; on the other, a kingfisher eyes a small frog from his perch on a lotus leaf. The artist creates magnificent sprays of leaves, flowers and berries at the neck, front and back. The meticulous use ...click for details


Bronze Okimono of Rabbits

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Metalwork: Pre 1920   item# 937962 (stock# FC-470)

Bronze Okimono of Rabbits
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Here is a spectacular okimono of a pair of bronze rabbits, one recumbent, the other, seated. These charming creatures exhibit rich patination and delicate incised and chiseled detailing on the fur, face and paws, so that, together, they appear to be very real and engaged with each other. Each rabbit is signed: the recumbent rabbit signed HISAMITSU and the standing rabbit signed KOKE. The okimono is in excellent condition with no dents, scratches or restoration. Standing rabbit measures 9.5" ...click for details

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