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Antique Cobalt Blue Chinese Peking Glass Bowl
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Pre 1920 item# 994479 (stock# 9A-044A4)
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$170
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Vibrant translucent deep blue colored Chinese Peking (Beijing) glass bowl with scalloped rim and body. Qing dynasty, late 19th/early 20th century. The thin glass contains tiny air bubbles which are characteristic of glass from this period. The word “CHINA” is etched onto the bottom, indicating an export date after 1890 when it was required to mark the country of origin on any items exported into the United States. Because the bowl is simply marked CHINA, it can be determined that it was exported ...click for details
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Japanese Black Lacquer Inro
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Pre 1920 item# 149870 (stock# SB-18)
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$395
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This simple four case black lacquer inro has a leathery sharkskin-like texture which is decorated with etched designs of scrolling vines (karakusa). Meiji period (1868-1912). Plain black lacquer interior. The ojime consists of a simple mottled turquoise glass bead. Inro are small Japanese containers made in several sections which are fitted on top of each other so perfectly that the joints are hardly noticeable. They required great skill to craft. They were carried on the right hip, suspended fr ...click for details
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Japanese Indigo-Dyed Cotton Furoshiki
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Pre 1920 item# 59017 (stock# 12-029)
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$345
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This handsome indigo cotton “furoshiki” (carrying cloth) with three vertical panel construction features a flying crane descending upon the branch of a large gnarled pine tree. Meiji/Taisho period. There is an oval red seal with white characters beneath the crane’s wing. The design technique employed is hand-drawn, starch-resist dyeing (“tsutsugaki). “Tsutsu” means “tube” and “gaki” means “drawing,” the rice-paste resist being applied to the cotton with a paper cone having a tubular metal tip. ...click for details
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Japanese Cloisonne Charger, Meiji Period
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Pre 1920 item# 418080 (stock# 8-072)
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$450
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This lovely Japanese cloisonné charger with a brass rim and foot is decorated with a white heron standing on one leg in the water amid green lotus leaves with pink and white blossoms. Meiji period (1868-1912). Opaque enamels are enclosed in brass wires to create the large central medallion with a turquoise ground which is surrounded by a thick karakusa scrolling vine pattern border in red, blue and green enamels on a white enamel ground. The reverse rim is finished in opaque white enamel with sc ...click for details
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Hirado Porcelain Dish in Nabeshima Style
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Pre 1920 item# 280226 (stock# 2B-673)
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$295
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This fine quality Japanese Hirado sometsuke (blue and white porcelain) dish in Nabeshima style is beautifully decorated in various shades of underglaze blue with three sailing ships on a rolling sea against a soft pale blue ground. Meiji period, ca. 1900. The pure white exterior of the bowl is decorated with three underglaze cobalt blue flower scrolls and the classic Nabeshima style underglaze blue comb-tooth pattern on the high foot (“kushikodai”). The characteristic fine-grained milky white po ...click for details
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