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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...

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...

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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...

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...

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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...

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...

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...

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