18/19th Century, Edo (Tokugawa) period (1603-1867). A small rectangular bronze tray with a dark brown patina and very meticulous detailing, having a defined lip, indented corners, curved walls and four recessed and tiny pad feet, the exterior plain with an elaborately decorated interior. The inside walls are adorned with four rows of hachured lines or herringbone-like pattern, punctuated by eight medallions, possibly kamon or crests, placed asymmetrically, staggered horizontally and vertically...

This is the smaller of two late 19th C. Edo period (1603-1868) bronze mirrors produced at the famous Fujiwara workshop, from our extensive collection of Chinese and Japanese mirrors...

This is the larger of two late Edo period (19th century) bronze mirrors produced at the Fujiwara workshop, depicting the Tachibana (Mandarin) kamon within a double roundel above a traditional wave pattern with highly stylized wave crests bracketing the four-character maker's inscription “Fujiwara Mitsunaga,” placed just left of center below the kamon...

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...

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...

A nanga style painting, ‘Summer Landscape,’ dated 1876, by Amano Tachibana; studio name: Amano Hoko (1828-1894). Ink and light pigment on silk with signature, inscription and four seals. Inscribed box (hakogaki). Mounted with dark blue, unpatterned silk and gold-colored ichimonji with bird, bamboo and floral pattern. Chinese hard-wood (karaki) roller ends of purple sandalwood [shitan; zitan (Chinese)]...

Collapsible Makie Decorated Lacquered Stand with Bronze Mirror by Fujiwara Sadamasa. 18/19th Century; Late Edo Period. While Japanese mirrors from the Meiji and even the Muromachi periods have survived in fairly large numbers, the fragile lacquered boxes and stands which held these heavy and durable bronze mirrors are extremely rare...

Meiji Period, Bokusho (a stand to hold sumi ink sticks)...

These are seven small blue and white Ko-Imari (old Imari) bowls from the late Edo Period, very delicately potted of thin, translucent porcelain with underglaze blue color ground and fine, contrasting molded relief decoration in white. The foliate rim form, derived from classical Song Dynasty Chinese wares, corresponds to the five inside lotus lappet panels, each panel distinctly outlined in white with a dotted blue ground and white molded relief decoration of ruyi-lingzhi cloud motif...

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Meiji Period (circa 1860-1880). A smiling Kanzan is elucidating some esoteric point to a pensive Jittoku who, while resting on his broom, points to a portion of text in an open scroll which Kanzan holds before him. Sumi ink painting and color pigment on aged, brownish-gold colored silk, mounted on paper, edged at top and bottom in blue brocade mounting strips (ten and chi) with hardwood scroll ends (jikusai), depicting Kanzan and Jittoku...

After Kano Tanyu (1602-1674) in the style of Sesshu. This is a fine pair of atmospheric landscape scrolls from the late Edo (Tokugawa) period (circa 1800) of the Kano-Ha (Kano School) which exemplifies the haboku painting technique and suiboku compositional style. The highly abstract haboku (“splashed ink” or “flung ink”) method was inspired by Chinese literati painting originating in the 13th Century and was adopted by the Japanese during the late Muromachi period...