ALREADY SOLD
Satsuma hibi-yaki tea bowl from the late Edo, early Meiji Period with its antique wood box.
The bowl has a narrow meshed net of fine cracks and a tasteful gold lacquer. Great work.
Size: 7,6 cm height x 12 cm diameter.
Shipping included
Sold
We offer today a wonderful Chinese Longquan Celadon Porcelain Guanyin (Kwan Yin) dating from the Ming Dynasty. This Guan Yin has been acquired from the world famous collector of Chinese ceramics, Dr. Nearing and his Dragon's Lair Collection some years ago.
The Buddha is sitting in the double lotus position. The right hand is in the Karana mudra position, which expels negative energy or wards off evil.
It is about 10 1/4 inches tall.
It weighs about 1.949 kg...
$2,500.00
Wan shaped tea bowl made of fine, unrefined clay with a small content of iron oxide. The clay shows few impurities and stones. The inside has been stamped with flower patterns (hanamishima) between circular lines both were filled with a fine, white engobe before a transparent ash glaze haze was applied. The bowl has a beautiful shape and is well balanced and has been used for many years as the stain inside and around the rim indicates...
Sold out
We like to offer you a rare Japanese Hagi Chawan called 'Gohon Chawan', made in the old Korean style from ancient times and dating from the mid Edo period.
Colour and glaze are equally rare and wonderful. We offer this fantastic chawan together with its Edo period wooden storage box and its cloth pouch called 'Shifuku'.
This Hagi Gohon Chawan has a split cross footring called 'warekodai'. Tea bowls of this style were favored by busho chajin (warrior tea men)...
sold
Wonderful Mishima chawan with irregular form, made around the end of Edo, surely during the early Meiji period.
The first mention of the Mishima style comes in Eiroku 8 (1565) in a tea diary...
Already sold
We present a real rare item. A fantastic tea bowl by legendary potter Nin'ami Dohachi made about 180 years ago, during Japanese Edo Period. Take your chance to get it.
Nin’ami Dohachi (born as Takahashi Mitsutoki; 1783-1855) worked in Awata until he set up a kiln in Fushimi, near Kyoto, in 1842. Dohachi was specialized in tea ceramics and was famous for his recreations of other styles in stoneware and porcelain, especially his efforts to revive the Ninsei and Kenzan styles...
Sold
We like to present you a 150 year old tea bowl made of Shino ware. It was made around the late Edo/early Meiji period.
White pottery is coated with white and light grey glaze. Very tasteful. It comes with a Japanese wood box (kiribako).
As you can check on the pictures, it is in good antique condition with no chips, cracks or repairs.
Size: 7,7cm height x 11,4cm in diameter.
Shipping included
$395.00
This is a wonderful Japanese covered tea cup of Kutani Ware. It was made 150 years ago.
It has a vivid and strong granular hand painting called 'ao chibu'.
The cup has painted kanji letters on the inside. No chips, cracks or repairs.
The tea cup will be sold together with its antique wood box.
Size: 3,8'' height x 3,2'' width.
Shipping included
already sold
This gorgeous grey Shino-Oribe Chawan was made around 1620, the late Momoyama and early Edo Period.
The cylinder shaped (hanzutsu) chawan is made of light, fine, unrefined Mino clay. Shape and style (flaring mouth) make it contemporary with the late Oribe bowls. The expertly thrown body is covered with the typical black oniita engobe inside and outside - with the exception of the bottom - over which a white, feldspatic Shino glaze has been poured...
sold
Up on offer is this white and wonderful large Qing Dynasty Porcelain Guanyin. Wearing a long robe, leaning left hand on a beast stand, marked on the back the master's name He Chaozong.
It is in good condition with only some traces of its age. No chips, no cracks.
Size: 12,5'' in height!! weight 2,6 kg
Shipping included
$1,000.00
Extraordinary and more than one hundred year old water jar Mizusashi. It is signed by an unknown artist on the bottom.
This Bizen ware Mizusashi has a breathtaking shape and very good yellowish natural glaze called Goma. Great!
Mizusashi are containers of fresh water for replenishing the pot and rinsing bowls in the tea ceremony.
No chips or cracks, heavy weight 2,2 kg. Size: 5.5'' height, 7.92'' width.
Shipping included
sold
Meiji Era (around 1910) Samurai Tea Bowl with fantastic painting, marked on the bottom 'Heian'.
White porcelain from Kyo ware is coated with vivid silver glaze and a handpainting of ocean, clouds and a kabuto (a Japanese amor samurai helmet).
Kabuto is a type of helmet first used by ancient Japanese warriors, and in later periods, they became an important part of the traditional Japanese armour worn by the samurai class and their retainers in feudal Japan...
$250.00
A rare and vivid Imari ware porcelain tea pot, made around 1850 in the famous Hichozan Kiln. Hichozan was a trade name used by the group of Arita kilns & makers mainly for export during the late Edo to the Meiji period in the 19th century. Their works are hold in museums and from collectors worldwide.
A Fu lion is hand-painted on the body. The signatures of "Hichozan" and the potters name are written on the bottom.
No chips, no cracks, just great...
sold
Are you tired of so many unspectacular items on the antique market? Here we present a real spectacular one - only one of a kind, an EARLY Momoyama Bizen hisago vase.
The very heavy body appears to be built from clay coils and then was thrown on a hand wheel, this and the combed decoration point to the Muromachi Period...
sold
We like to present you today an early Edo Period Karatsu Yaki Guinomi (Sake cup) with aesthetic silver repair (kintsugi) made around 1700.
The Guinomi has a hira-gata shape, refering to the Kamakura Period. Fantastic item!
It comes with a tailor made wood box.
Size: 3,8 cm height x 6,1 cm width.
$250.00
Strong, vivid and colorful Ukiyo-e woodblock print of famous Toyohara Kunichika.
It is titled Nishike-e, Oban tate-e, and it shows an Kabuki theatre actor portrait...
sold
Are you looking for something delicate and special - than feel free to enjoy this unique flower vase with a poem of Japans most famous poet Otagaki Rengetsu written on it.
This is a 120 year old vase made of Tanba ware. It is signed on the bottom by the artist. I was unable to identify his name.
For a Meiji Period piece of art the vase has a distinctive form and a brilliant atmosphere.
Otagaki Rengetsu (1791 – 1875) was a Buddhist nun who is widely regarded ...
sold
Tasteful and very fine Japanese Tea Pot of Kutani Yaki with painted lyrics written on it of the No (aka Noh or Nogaku) theatre.
Although it has already an age of more than 100 years its in great condition with no cracks or repairs. You can get a rare and delicate ceramic of the Meiji Period.
A tasteful gift for passionate lovers of the Japanese Culture - ready to use it for a tea ceremony. Don't miss out.
A historical note: together with the closely related ky...