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A Suzuribako of Hongmu and Wumu (Karaki Wood) Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Wood: Pre 1900 item# 1112267
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Circa 1880. A fine Japanese suzuribaku (writing box for storing brushes, inkstone and writing accessories) crafted from imported Chinese or “karaki” [‘foreign’] hardwoods. Scholar objects fashioned of precious woods imported from China were popular with Japanese followers of Chinese literati culture, and such objects are often characterized, in Japan as in China, by austere form and very subtle detailing so as not to distract from the beauty of the exotic hardwood. The box is elegantly shaped ...click for details

Five Blue Minpei Square Plates, Basket-Weave Decoration Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1900 item# 1112121
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19th Century. Late Edo to early Meiji Period. Five Blue Monochrome Minpei dishes with impressed basket weave and foliage decoration. The pottery of Awaji in Hyogo Prefecture was founded by Minpei, a doctor and tea master in 1831 during the late Edo period. After barely a decade in 1842, the kiln was granted official status by the regional Daimyo. The Minpei kiln is known for its finely decorated, bright monochrome wares. These five, square-shaped plates with flared sides are each raised on ...click for details

A Pierced Yellow Scholar’s Rock with Jiagnan Type Stand Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Scholar Art: Pre 1980 item# 1112111
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A small and elegant soft yellow-colored scholar’s rock with an elegant, balanced asymmetry, pierced in a manner resembling taihu (Lake Tai) stone, but with a dryer, bone-like texture with deep furrows, this is a hill rather than a lake stone, of an unidentified variety. The stone is vertically-oriented and fitted to a well-carved Jiagnan style stand which was shaped from a single section of dark colored, reddish hardwood (hongmu) with four integral and raised pad feet. The classic Jiagnan form ...click for details

A Shi-nanga Landscape with Calligraphy, Showa (1927) Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings: Pre 1930 item# 1110679
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Bearing the inscription “Painted for Hokensai,” and dedicated on “a summer day in the year of the rabbit [the second year of the Showa period or 1927], signed Gishi Sanjin and bearing his sobriquet seal “Yato” and also a tiny collector’s seal “Hokensai,” this is a fine mountain landscape fan painting with calligraphy, in the shi-nanga (literati revival) style, painted with ink and color pigment on paper and mounted as a hanging scroll. A well-placed and traditional literati poem, celebrating so ...click for details

A Seto Ware Vase in the Art Nouveau Style: Shunji Kato Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1980 item# 1109714
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Seto ware is classified as ‘Nihon Rokkoyo’or ‘Chuse Rokkoyo’—one of medieval Japan’s six traditionally recognized ceramic types, and it is the pottery associated with Aichi Prefecture. The elegant vase offered here represents a highly unusual marriage of the traditional Seto ware glaze and clay to an Art Nouveau form, an original work by the 2nd Shunji Kato (1892-1979). A native of Seto City, Shunji assumed his master’s name in 1926 and later produced wares for the Matsuo-ryu school of tea. I ...click for details

Suigetsu kiln; a Mino ware landscape dish, dated 1963 Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1970 item# 1107804
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Mino is the traditional pottery of Gifu Prefecture in Japan which is today the home of the famous Suigetsu kiln founded by the great potter Toyozo Arakawa (1894-1985) declared a 'living national treasure' in his lifetime. This fine Mino ware was produced at the Suigetsu kiln. It is a wheel-turned dish or shallow bowl with a raised foot, the glazed underside bearing an inscription indicating that it was painted during mid-July [“shichijatsu”] in the lunar year of the water rabbit [“Mizu ...click for details

Plum Blossoms & Calligraphy by Zheng Zhusan Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Pre 2000 item# 1104919
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ZHENG ZHUSAN (1943-). Ink and light pigment on paper depicting pierced Taihu-type rocks interspersed with prunus branches and bamboo, with calligraphy inscriptions and three seals of the artist. Framed and glazed. Sight Dimensions: 66.5 x 66.5cm (26-1/4 x 26-1/4”); Frame Dimensions: 93cm x 93cm (36-3/4 x 36-3/4”). Excellent condition. Included with purchase is the illustrated, 108 page Chinese publication “Zheng Zhu-Shan Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Album [translated]” 1995 (ISBN 981-0 ...click for details

A Silver-Colored Bronze Mirror, Western Han Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Metalwork: Pre AD 1000 item# 1100350
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WESTERN HAN DYNASTY (206 B.C. – A.D. 9). A crisply executed and well-designed small white bronze mirror of a well-documented type known in China as ‘riguang’ and representing the sun with eight rays pointing to a surrounding circular register bearing a related eight-character inscription. This example is nearly identical to a published example excavated at Luoyang in Henan Province (later the capital of the Eastern Han) although variations of different sizes but bearing similar inscriptions h ...click for details

A Dragon-Handled Nephrite Jade Libation Cup, 17th C. Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Hardstones: Pre 1800 item# 1098235
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A Ming to very early Ching dynasty white mutton fat jade cup. The double-handled vessel raised on a small circular foot, rendered in the archaistic style with two spiney-backed dragons grasping the mouthrim, their intertwining tails wrapped around either side of the cup in a swirling pattern executed in high relief. Mutton fat (nephrite jade) objects with their typically waxy texture predate jadeite carvings which became more available in the Ching dynasty. Small, two-handled cups, often inco ...click for details

Ming Bronze Dragon & Mountain Form Brushrest Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Scholar Art: Pre 1700 item# 1096586
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Circa 1600. A fine late Ming Dynasty (Wanli Period) bronze dragon-mountain form brush rest. Brushrests in the form of stylized three-or-five peaked mountains are well known. This exceptional example, however, gives artistic expression to the ancient and underlying belief that mountain ranges are inhabited by dragons: the sinuous and scaly body and fish-like tail of the dragon (Fei-You) embody the mountain range itself. So often reduced to a cliché or mere pattern, the dragon is here wonderf ...click for details

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