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Japanese Meiji Silk Fukusa
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Pre 1910 item# 810848 (stock#57-97)
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$250--ON HOLD
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The fukusa, a square piece of cloth with a unique and often exquisite design, became an essential element in the elaborate ceremony prescribed for the formal presentation of a gift during the Meiji era in Japan. Sometimes confused with the furoshki, a larger, single layer of cloth used to wrap and transport an informal gift, the fukusa is seldom larger than 15 inches square, lined and made of fine silk. These pieces often were commissioned by a family, designed to their specifications, and then ...click for details
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Meiji Blue and White Fukizima Charger
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Pre 1900 item# 807056 (stock#37-98)
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$495
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The striking underglaze blue and white design of this late 19th century Japanese fukizima charger combines both vivid and muted cobalt in misty blossoms and leaves that float within sharply defined stems. The fukizima technique, employing a stencil and sprayed pigment, created the white flowers that hover above a soft blue background. The igezara fluted trim is in perfect condition; there is a small firing flaw to the lower right of the design. The diameter is 15" (38 cm).
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Framed Finely Embroidered Buddhist Lion Silk Panel
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Pre 1837 VR item# 806432 (stock#10-60)
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$800
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A mid-Qing Dynasty red silk temple wall hanging has magnificent embroidery in gold and the traditional colors of Tibet. The early 19th century panel, now framed and protected under glass, is from a period of friendship and interaction between China’s Manchu leaders and the Buddhist lamas of Tibet, which would account for the merging of Chinese design elements with those more typically Tibetan Buddhist elements such as the lion’s tail, eight colored jewels riding in the waves and the ball under t ...click for details
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Japanese Meiji Blue and White Ceramic Benki
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Pre 1900 item# 805132 (stock#18-46)
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$890
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Salvaged from a Japanese ryokan (inn), this late Meiji blue and white ceramic benki moves easily to a second life as a handsome plant holder or fountain. Western expatriates in the Far East, particularly in Japan, have a long history of adapting utilitarian items with appealing Asian design to inventive new uses, and this is one of the most unusual items to be adapted. This benki, with its cobalt blue patterns, is recognizable as Japanese at first glance but its original use as a urinal is not a ...click for details
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Chinese Lunch Pail with Bent Willow Handle
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Pre 1920 item# 800706 (stock#58-47)
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$175
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Among the many varieties of red lacquered containers used during China's Qing and early Republic years, none has a more striking form than the humble lunch pail. An elegantly designed everyday item, it is constructed of shaped wood staves, a tall bent willow handle and a notched lid that snaps securely in place around the handle. Pails in this design also are referred to as berry pails. The recessed bottom on this one is decorated with two drawings of flowers, perhaps done by the maker of th ...click for details
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Gold Brocade Japanese Han Haba Obi
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Pre 1920 item# 800005 (stock#18-31)
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$320
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An obi with a vivid tulip-like design of green, yellow, red, black and white is further sparked with lots of metallic gold thread. This han haba (half width) kimono belt is from early 20th century Japan. The brocade pattern runs the full length--nearly 12 feet--on both sides of the piece, similar in construction to the wider maru obi worn by Japanese women for more formal occasions. Narrow obi generally were worn more casually but this one, with its rich gold brocade and strong, bright design, p ...click for details
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Marble in Carved Wood Frame Late Qing
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Pre 1900 item# 799708 (stock#58-30)
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$135
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Excellent pierced carving of leaves and scrolling surrounds a circular piece of marble in this late 19th century Chinese piece. Marble gazing was somewhat like cloud gazing in Qing Dynasty China, when pieces of "pictorial" marble were set into furniture and hung on walls as art. Patterns in the marble veins were said to resemble mountains, water scenes, or auspicious flowers and birds. This piece, with its beautifully carved hardwood frame, looks quite Victorian and is in very good con ...click for details
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