(Meiji 1868-1912) We are very proud to offer an Antique Ivory Japanese Polychrome carved realistic branch with three apples. It is exquisite! It is very detailed. The apples are just breath-takingly beautiful! It is about 12 inches long. It is in original & excellent condition. It is around 100 years old but looks brand new. It is a treasure. One apple comes loose so you have to be careful when handling it. It is not damaged , it just comes out of its socket on branch...

(1868-1912) We are very proud to offer a rare scarce polychrome Japanese ivory carved pomegranate fruit okimono. It is perfectly realistic in every way. It 2 inches by 1.75 inches & about 1.5 inches high. It is in original & excellent condition. It is too beautiful for words! It is exquisite. One very much like this one sold at Skinners auction last summer for $15,405, its estimate was $300-$500! The sale was 2549B lot 540B. I think ours is even more colorful & detailed...

We are very proud to offer a very beautiful piece of 19 C. Chinese furniture that we have owned for over 40 years. It is a large display cabinet carved with Chinese symbols and swirling dragons everywhere. The fabulous cabinet is 7 feet 10 inches high & 64 inches wide & 24 inches deep. The dragons have “four” toes, which indicates Chinese Royalty. The glass was hand-blown & shows ripples (wavy glass). The glass would date it to 1880 or earlier. The carving is just amazingly well done...

We are very proud to offer a hard- wood table screen 22 inches high x 13 inches wide. This screen has applied to surface front small shards of colorful porcelain. We were told when we bought it that those shards were from the Ming Dynasty. Many archaeological digs in China unearthed several ancient pottery factories along the Yangtze River in Hubei Province...

We are very proud to offer a fantastic chair, although chair is a misnomer, as it is really a Throne Chair made for an Emperor of Japan during the short-lived Meiji Period 1868-1912. This important magnificent Throne Chair looks red in color & might well be rose-wood or red mulberry, but I do not know for certain. The Throne is 70 inches high x 28 inches across arms. My darling husband of 41 years Dr. Curry (retired) is standing next to it, & he is just under 6 feet tall...

We are proud to offer a Chinese 19C sleeve panel “badge” that has several parts with the Chinese Forbidden stitch, see photos. This badge is very old silk that in not in perfect condition. The badge is 19 inches x 4.5 inches. It Is stitched to a border that is 21 inches x 6.5 inches. The entire piece has examples of very difficult stitches. It should be framed, but it probably needs some kind of preservation work before framing. This is why it is so inexpensive.

We are very proud to offer an Antique, heavily carved, Japanese Meiji (1868-1912) ladies dressing table & a true matching chair. The Japanese culture has a long history of fabulous wood carving. However, "carved" furniture itself was never produced in Japan until about 1865-1868. This change was a consequence of Westernization. It really began after European tourists asked for furniture that was Japanese-looking but with a European function...

We are very proud to offer a pair of rare, scarce, amazingly carved 19C Chinese ivory Bodhisatta Guanyin ( Quan Yin, Kuan- Yin). These are perfect mirror-images! Each figure is 5.75 inches & each has a fitted wooden stand that is 1.24 inches. Each Kuan -Yin is seated on a three-tiered lotus throne which is riding upon a Kirin/ Kylin ( Buddhistic lion, Fu Dog, Foo dog). A small child is suspended above upon a lotus flower...

The Kannon, Goddess of Mercy & Compassion, is among the most sacred, popular, & most revered figures in Japan. Our ivory figure is an expertly & finely detailed carving dating Meiji (1868-1912). Our ivory Kannon is 10.75 inches high & 3 inches wide. The base is 3.5 inches & it is signed. This Kannon is riding an enormous python-like heavily scaled, 3-toed Dragon, which tells a story of courage, effort, & perseverance toward marital happiness. (It must work as I have owned her for all my 41 years...

We are very proud to offer a dazzling example of a superior Chinese ornamental design: The Chinese Ivory Puzzle Ball. It should be called the “Ball of Patience”, as they took a very long time to make by hand. Our example, circa 1860, is 13.25 inches tall, circumference is 9.5 inches, & diameter is 3 inches on carved ball. The ball contains 10 or 11 inner balls. The outer-most pierced ball is a Dragon among clouds. The inner balls are VERY ornately carved into reticulated mesh-like designs. E...

We are very proud to offer a very unusual pair of Chinese Wall Plaques. Each plaque shows peaceful scenes of village life with people, houses, buildings, temples, rivers, boats, birds, bats, & sky. They have marquetry inlays of hardwood & ivory. When you think of Marquetry what comes to mind is French or Hindu-Indo inlays. Chinese inlay work is much more rare. We have not seen any other Chinese Marquetry wall plaques in over 41 years of collecting antiques. If Chinese Marquetry is found, it is o...

Japanese Ivory Okimono Daruma (Karate) Red Seal - We are very proud to offer a superb Japanese Okimono 2.75 inches by 1.25 inches of a daruma Bodhidharma warrior. The artist signature is in a red cinnabar plaque/seal. The very coveted and very sought after red cinnabar seal indicates he was a master carver and was probably commissioned by the Royal Family. Daruma was an Indian sage who lived in the fifth or sixth century AD. He is the undisputed founder of Zen Buddhism (Japan) and Chan Buddhism ...