All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1837 VR item #1425748 (stock #1016)
18C Chinese Export Famille Rose Floral Goose Porcelain Plate Plate is decorated with a landscape scene of peony flowers and a couple of geese, the border with four single peony flowers, the reverse with four flower patterns. Size: 23.4 cm diam. Condition: Good. Typical pigment loss.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1837 VR item #1439041 (stock #2018-617)
Pair of ryôshibako and suzuribako in black lacquer decorated with a cherry branch and flowers in a gold and silver lacquer in taka maki-e. The inside is in black lacquer. The back of the cover of the ryōshibako is decorated with three fans, one closed, one partially opened and the final one is entirely open. The back of the cover of the suzuribako is also decorated with three fans in golden and nashi-ji lacquer, two closed and one open...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Stoneware : Pre 1837 VR item #1357594 (stock #709)
A Shiwan ware vase of club form with a most beautiful glaze and with an old wooden stand. Guandong ( south China ) Shiwan ware. Qianlong period or earlier. An object from the scholar´s table. H : without stand : 21,2 cm, with stand : 23,1 cm. Condition : Perfect
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Textiles : Pre 1837 VR item #1420088
This is a Japanese edo antique indigo dye silk katazome child kimono of ise- lobster pattern.There is a light stain, but not outstanding.It has no damage. They are not disturbing, and as a whole it is in very good condition. Recommended for your materials and collections. Size:Length:63cm / 24.8inch Cuff to cuff, across the back: 62.5cm / 24.6inch
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Handiwork : Pre 1837 VR item #1398605 (stock #B100)
A pair of early 19th century beaded deer hide moccasins. Seed beads, deer skin, clear beads, silk ribbon. The moccasins are probably from Niagara Falls area. c. 1830-40 Length 9" Provenance: Owned by Thomas Wistar (1798-1876) a Quaker, who was commissioned by President Grant to arrange treaties with Indian tribes. His papers are in the collection of Haverford College. Sale 1262 Lot 167, Freeman's Auction House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 18, 2006.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Textiles : Pre 1837 VR item #1327383
This is an amazing boro futon cover made of almost countless fragments which are hand-spun and natural indigo dyed cotton(katazome and shibori (Tie-dye) From Edo to Meiji era.In this boro, patched does a piece with a thick hemp thread and indigo dyed cotton thread of the Edo era.The stain & damage & discoloration used for a long time are very charming for that.It can enjoy both sides. size:Length 146cm (57.4inch) Width 90cm (35.4inch)
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Textiles : Pre 1837 VR item #1222525
This is a hydrangea pattern and a high technique of yuzen dye, and shadow and the color of the leaf are expressed boldly. It is the gem which does not exist in other tsutsugaki. It is a painting of wonderful yuzen dye. Tsutsugaki is done by a considerably exact technology. It is a wonderful masterpiece of Edo at latter term. There is slightly a repair mark.It has several small holes.The material is hemp (superior grass cloth)and cotton. size:162cm x 140cm (63.7" x 55.1")
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Wood : Pre 1837 VR item #963231 (stock #1-0602)
Nuo theater mask representing the smiling Tudigong, the god of the soil and of cereals in ancient Chinese mythology, wearing a formal cap. Wood, with traces of lacquer, fine dark patina. China, early 19th century, maybe older. Height: 11 1/4" (28,5 cm). The mask is nicely mounted on a custom metal stand. Old local restorations from top to bottom, otherwise good condition.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1837 VR item #1201712
A Chinese polychrome fencai vase portraying a courtly scene of two women and a child set in a courtyard scene with a table and large rock formations. The view is surrounded by Chinese patterns with various auspicious objects often representing fortune or wealth. The neck of the vase contains a view of chrysanthemums and bamboo. Age 18th century. Size: height 10.5" diameter 4.25"
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Textiles : Pre 1837 VR item #1032968
This is silk tsumugi yuzen kimono textile in the edo-bakumatsu(1800-1868) age. It is very graceful and is beautiful. There are a little stain and damage. However, it is overall good. size:140cm x 124cm (55.1" x 48.8")
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1837 VR item #1460297 (stock #2021-995)
Large suzuribako showing on its cover a mountainous landscape, crossed by a river, bordered by two houses and trees such as pine trees and cherry trees in bloom. It could be Okabe, the twenty-first of the fifty-three stations of the Tôkaidô. The bottom is gilded in the fundame technique, decorated with takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, hirameji and kirigane...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Wood : Pre 1837 VR item #1117135 (stock #G0501)
Two beautiful early 19th C. Chinese wooden stand, all hand carved with dragons motif on both sides, for holding plate or jade piece, in excellent condition. 1.W:24cm H:6cm,2. W:20cm H:4cm.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Textiles : Pre 1837 VR item #939635 (stock #G0134)
A beautiful mid 19th C. Chinese silk embroidery lady's robe. With some normal wear & frays please see the photos. Overall in it's good condition. W:54"xH:35" $
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1837 VR item #1447839 (stock #2014-185)
Beautiful gold lacquer bottle decorated with pine, wisteria and bamboo. Mon (family crest) of Makino and Shinjo families.

Height 6.89 in – Diameter 3.94 in

Japan – EDO (1603-1868)
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Sculpture : Pre 1837 VR item #774941 (stock #R218)
Late 18th, Early 19th Century Edo Period Japanese Wood Horse Sculpture in a galloping pose. The horse still has a good amount of its original colors and gold gilt. It would have been offered as a gift to a Shinto shrine from someone with the means to afford more than the usual horse plaque, but not quite the means to afford to give a real horse to the shrine, a gift only the most wealthy could afford to give. A wonderfully rendered sculpture and a special image for equestrian art collectors...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Textiles : Pre 1837 VR item #1371684
Japanese antique handspun & natural indigo dyeing cotton shirakage shibori (Tie-dye)kimono meij era(1868-1912). It is rare in the pattern of kemari(japanese ball game) on willow. Kemari (Japanese: kemari) is a ball game that was popular in Japan during the Heian Period. Kemari has been revived in modern times. There are thin stains and small damage...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Textiles : Pre 1837 VR item #1302942
This is long Coat which Kagokaki wore for Edo period. This is dyed repeatedly many times by a beautiful natural indigo plant. It is an original act in this respect. Therefore an indigo plant is left densely. As for this which this is Katazome of most Tsutsugaki and some parts, and is produced, cotton spun by hand is thick. This cotton is typical cotton used in country side. For Edo period, much local cotton can watch the taste that is great Folky...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Devotional Objects : Pre 1837 VR item #1167569
A fascinating Japanese shrine bell known as, Waniguchi, or directly translated as Crocodile's mouth, which resembles the wide mouth of a crocodile. The bell is usually found in shinto shrines that enshrine deities that were imported to Japan or Shingon temples. The bell contains an inscription stating that the bell was originally donated by the ancestors of the donor in 1686 and a new bell was rededicated in 1839. The bell appears to be dedicated to Sometani Shinbei. Age: Late Edo Period, 1839...