Chinese display stand (xiaoan) in the form of a miniature, Ming-style, ‘altar table’ or long table with recessed legs, everted flanges, and openwork panels depicting the auspicious lingzhi fungus (ruyi-cloud form). The table is well-proportioned and true to its much larger prototypes, fashioned from a beautifully grained, light-colored hardwood, and assembled with traditional Chinese joinery. The table top consists of a single floated panel held within a flush and tightly fitted frame...

This fine small “karaki” box, with its honey-toned rosewood construction, and inlaid with two gilt-etched iron plaques, likely dates to the first half of the 20th century and exhibits the highest level of craftsmanship. The slightly domed lid and the lip have finely beaded edges, the underside is recessed, and the box is raised on tiny pad feet. The corners are nicely rounded and the box is secured with traditional joinery...

This colorful and wonderfully tactile container is a very high quality Japanese lacquered tea caddy (or natsume) rendered in the colorful pattern known as “dokuraku” or ‘toy top.’ The wooden body has been very finely turned resulting in a delicate lidded vessel with gently curved sides tapering to a narrow, recessed base...

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A vintage or antique (50 to 100 years old) traditional Chinese birdcage constructed from bent bamboo, wood, metal and brass. The wooden bottom is attached to a short circular bent bamboo wall supporting forty-eight vertical posts, reinforced by horizontal supports. Three of the vertical posts are attached to a slider which operates on two adjacent fixed posts forming an integral sliding door, opposite a small circular opening, perhaps intended as a finger hole...

A fine Oribe hand-shaped vase of well-balanced, asymmetrical form with a blue-green glaze descending from the mouth and spilling over the shoulder. The exposed horizontal ribs of the body are intersected with impressed finger-shaped channels. A soft café au lait-colored glaze embellished with a delicate craquelare is the ground for a fluid and rhythmic dark brown painted decoration of orchids juxtaposed with random geometric motifs...

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Seto ware is classified as ‘Nihon Rokkoyo’or ‘Chuse Rokkoyo’—one of medieval Japan’s six traditionally recognized ceramic types, and it is the pottery associated with Aichi Prefecture. The elegant vase offered here represents a highly unusual marriage of the traditional Seto ware glaze and clay to an Art Nouveau form, an original work by the 2nd Shunji Kato (1892-1979)...

Mino is the traditional pottery of Gifu Prefecture in Japan which is today the home of the famous Suigetsu kiln founded by the great potter Toyozo Arakawa (1894-1985) declared a 'living national treasure' in his lifetime. This fine Mino ware was produced at the Suigetsu kiln...

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