A Japanese Gold Splashed Bronze GU Form Vase. Taisho Period (circa 1910-20). Inspired by the distant rather than recent past, this strikingly modernist Japanese bronze embodies a rejection of European-influenced and over-decorated bronzes of the previous Meiji period. The base bears a three-character studio mark, written in stylized archaistic Chinese characters much in vogue with the literati class of China and Japan during the Early Republic and Taisho periods...

FROM A SAN FRANCISCO ESTATE, A FINE JAPANESE GILT AND BLACK LACQUER WRITING AND DOCUMENT BOX. LATE MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY. The exterior decorated with scrolling vines, flowers and foliage surrounding a repeat motif of the three-leaf Yamanouchi family kamon. The unattached lid lifts to reveal a removable gilt-edged tray covering a document storage compartment beneath...

A FINE TAKATORI TEBACHI FOR TEA CEREMONY CIRCA 1800. Here is a perfect and beautiful tebachi (handled dish) from the Takatori kiln on Kyushu Island. Presentation pieces for tea ceremony were required to carry the marutaka or domain mark after 1823. Accordingly, this tebachi probably dates from the late 1700s to very early 1800s. It comes with a fitted sugi-wood presentation box and is in perfect condition...

TWO FINE JAPANESE MINGEI KEYAKI WOOD SERVING TRAYS (Japanese Arts & Crafts). These two wooden servings which probably saw use during tea ceremony are obviously related yet quite different in size and decoration...

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...

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...

An inscribed Japanese display stand with integrated c-form scrolling legs (fashioned from a single piece of wood) and decorated in a very refined Wakasa-nuri lacquer of characteristic and highly variegated hues ranging from deep burgundy-red to orange-persimmon colored splotches edged in gold and further embellished with pale bluish flecks of mother-of-pearl...

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...

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...

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)...

A pair of Japanese avant-garde, circa 1955-60, bag-shaped, infinity knot vases. Bulging outward from a rounded base, the narrow sides determined by the figure-eight mouth-rim which has been pinched at center with a short ceramic strap around which a black rope segment has been braided. Each vase is pierced on one side with an oval-shaped hole towards the upper center...

Mushiake Ware. Meiji Period, Circa 1880-90. A Mushiake ware Ho-Bin and Yusamashi for Sencha with Three Cups, two with Kintsugi (gold lacquer) repairs. Mushiake wares were begun by the potter Imayoshi Kichizo from Obayama Prefecture beginning in 1818 and are prized for their soft and subtle color which blends well with tea ceremony items. Mushiake ware is made of reddish-brown clay, visible on the underside of both vessels and the cups, each of which is stamped with the Mushiake kiln mark. Th...

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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. The insi...

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. The two mirrors are stylistically diverse and depict entirely different subject matter: the smaller of the two (see, Trocadero item 1190064) i...