A piece with the old time of Ando store which famous for high-class cloisonne ware.
The excellent work which made full use of the technology of "Moriage-shippo"(rise enamel).

This rare Japanese antique cloisonne box is decorated with rose and any flowers on the fine old copper ground.
The material of this box is a old copper.
It copper color is a note of antiquity, taste for the quiet and simple.
The interior has silk cloth...

Beautiful pale blue color signed(maker's mark) cloisonne vase is decorated with a pair of carp.
Maker's name is "SHOBIDO Co." in Osaka.
SHOBIDO Co...

Dating from the end of Meiji period or beginning of Taisho period.

Chiseled maker's mark on the base antique cloisonne small vase.
It is decorated in wire cloisonne work(Yusen shippo)with Phoenix, Dragon, flower pattern and arabesque design.
The interior has beautiful turquoise green color.
The ground of four panel which are decorated with Phoenix and Dragon glitter on the surface of the vase.
The rim of the mouth and the base are made by copper.

The condition is in...

Antique bronze tube-shaped case with cover for Sutras,"kyo-zutsu".
Dating from mid Edo period,18C.

The case used in the temple in Japan of the Edo period.
The Buddhist scripture was kept into this.

It can be used also as a Ikebana vase.
Would make a fantastic flower vase for a table Ikebana flower arrangement.
Interior has bronze inner flower holder "otoshi".
Overall condition is very best considering old age...

Antique Japanese hibachi(brazier)woven of split smoked bamboo by Maeda Chikubosai first(1872-1950).
Dating from Taisyo 11.(inscribed on the backside of the lid of Tomobako.)
He is the Japanese famous bamboo artist who played an active part from Meiji to Showa.

The bamboo hibachi decorated in beautiful split of smoked bamboo with a bronze inner bowl.
Seen from a distance,a split of deep smoked bamboo appears to be a v-shaped pattern.

Signed with an inscribed signatu...

Japanese Kodansu(small chest with drawers for incense-wood)decorated in beautiful makie and nashiji lacquer work.

Dating from late Edo period or early Meiji, 1800-1880.
Designed of gold Makie is pine tree, Azumaya(a thatched building without walls built in the rustic style in a landscape garden as a place for a guest to sit and rest.) and Japanese traditional garden scenery.
It is so exquisite incense container, called "Kodansu" in Japanese...

Unsigned Japanese lacquered wood box is decorated in Ajiro design.
Dating from late Meiji period or early Taisho period.

The cover inset with a shibuichi panel decorated in "iroe takazogan"(colored rise inlay) and "katagiri bori"(one side cut carving)with a crane in a river, Ume and pine tree.
All the sides with a basketwork(Ajiro)ground.
It is made of thin strips of cryptomeria with diamond shaped pattern.
The liner is done in black lacquered...

Very fine Japanese Ko-Hirado(antique hirado)porcelain incense burner is in the shape of foo dog or lion.
It is gorgeous and superb.

This incense burner is separated into four parts.
The four foots are shaped Foo dog which different face from body design.
The design drawn in the cylinder can be appreciated from the hole worked into the biggest body parts.
The incense is put in this cylinder.

The Hirado is porcelain of typical Japan as well as Imari and Nabeshima...

It is a vase that is very unique shape and with elegance.

It is made of copper made in Meiji period, 19C.
It is possible to use it by hanging it from the ceiling by having the shape of the well bucket.
The design of a three-dimensional leaf that gets twisted the vine is done in the bottom of the well bucket.
A realistic design is very wonderful...

Dating from mid Edo period(1688-1764).
Japanese Imari blue and white porcelain charger("sometsuke ozara")is decorated all over with circled flower and arabesque pattern("hana karakusa")in hand painted on a white ground.

The exterior is decorated with flower and arabesque pattern too.
The fine porcelain charger decorated in the center with triangle form peony design in the arabesque circular pattern.

"Kaku Uzufuku" mark on the base.
This mark is signed frequently in mid...

Very fine Tanzaku box and Fubako done by beautiful lacquered.
Dating from Meiji(1868-1912).

The surface of both box decorated in gold, shibuichi-silver and blue color Takamakie(rise makie)on the beautiful lacquer ground with Bamboo glove, stream, small chrysanthemum and clouds.

Inside of the both lid decorated in Takamakie work on the gold makie"Nashiji"ground with Japanese garden scenery, small chrysanthemums, bushclovers, bellflowers and grass...

Very fine Tanzaku box and Fubako done by beautiful lacquered.
Dating from Meiji(1868-1912).

The surface of both box decorated in gold, shibuichi-silver and blue color Takamakie(rise makie)on the beautiful lacquer ground with Bamboo glove, stream, small chrysanthemum and clouds.

Inside of the both lid decorated in Takamakie work on the gold makie"Nashiji"ground with Japanese garden scenery, small chrysanthemums, bushclovers, bellflowers and grass...