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 | Antique NYOI scepter (ruyi); natural rekishi shape. Late Edo |
 | Chinese Album Leaf Scholar Painting, Dated 1860 |
 | Japanese Meiji to Showa Bamboo Gnarled Wood Ikebana Basket Hanakago |
 | Rare Japanese Imari Vase on Stand |
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 | A Large Bizen Vase from Mid-Edo with Researcher Certification |
 | Seven Character Sutra of Longevity by Gyōshū Sōkan (1717–1787) |
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Textiles : Pre 1900
item #1456404
(stock #13544)
Haruko Watanabe
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A fragment of cotton cloth with tsutsugaki turtle and crane design which is an auspicious motif. The cloth is hand-spun cotton and natural dye. It is probably a fragment of nobori (banner). It has calligraphy in one of the hems, but not readable. In good condition. The first half of the 19th century. 32cm x 74.5cm
Japanese Meiji period Imari porcelain 7 1/4” diameter x 3” deep bowl. The center of the bowl holds a central circular medallion with a stylized floral pattern pattern in underglaze blue (sometsuke). The interior and exterior sides are decorated in underglaze blue and overglaze polychrome enamel with gilt highlights and features three cartouches with flying phoenix birds on a white ground separated by rust-red and gilt medallions holding an animal motif set against a cobalt ground...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1438059
(stock #20210125-01)
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Offered is a lovely 18th Century (circa 1770-1800) Japanese blue and white Arita porcelain nagazara (which translates roughly as "long dish") of squeezed rectangular form, painted entirely by hand with a marine view. This is entirely appropriate, as the purpose of such nagazara was to serve fish...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Textiles : Pre 1900
item #1430200
(stock #13003)
Haruko Watanabe
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Two pieces of asa kaya cloth (hemp mosquito net. Warps and wefts are hand-plied and vegetable indigo dyed. Faded
indigo blue and good condition. Late 19th century. 34cm x 2m80cm
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Textiles : Pre 1900
item #1403935
(stock #13142)
Haruko Watanabe
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Oshi-e, litterally "pressed picture" which is made of fragments of antique European prints and the motif is a young woman in Edo period. The history of Oshi-e date back to Heian period, found in Shosoin Treasures (around 10th century) It was very popular toy in Edo period with motif of Kabuki Theatre actors. The ground paper is "Itame-gami" which is ten layers of washi and has thin cotton lining so that it looks like a shallow relief...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1403195
(stock #EW3131)
EastWest Gallery
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An Arita dish decorated entirely with a dense arabesque of trailing bush clover vine and leaf with flowers, lotuses. This design belongs to a class of designs called hosoge which ultimately derive from Chinese patterns of the Tang period. This particular form, popular from the seventeenth century, features Bush Clover, Hagi one of the auspicious akikusa-de, and is known as Hagi Karakusa, where karakusa means Chinese (literally Tang) grasses...
Zentner Collection
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Antique Japanese pair of medium sized slider pulls in the shape of chrysanthemums, open work petals radiating from oval center inset, made of bronze with dark patina, Meiji Period.
Total size:3 1/4" high x 2 7/8" wide.
Size of center inset: 2" high x 1 5/8" wide.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1900
item #1492176
(stock #MC487)
Japanese 19th Century Blue & White Porcelain Dish (with mark)
This porcelain dish is heavily-potted and attractively decorated in underglaze blue. The central design features a bird standing on a rock overlooking a mountainous landscape. Surrounding this, and to the underside, are village buildings within a mountainous landscape, viewed from a "bird's eye" perspective...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1251214
(stock #2706)
EastWest Gallery
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An Arita bowl decorated with a design of Azami, Thistles, a motif emblematic of Spring painted in a refined pencilled style called senbeki. The bowl measures just over 15cm or 6 inches in diameter, and stands 53mm or just over 2 inches high. The bowl is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks or restoration. Shipping at Cost.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1283377
(stock #2792)
EastWest Gallery
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A rice bowl, chawan, and cover cum sauce dish, mamezara, decorated with a pattern of trailing grapes and a flying beetle in gilt outlined enamels and underglaze cobalt blue. The grapes, budo, typically orientated upside down with a flying beetle, kabutobushi.
The lid measures 10.13 cm in diameter and stands 2.6cm high, and the bowl measures 5.6cm high and is 11.13cm in diameter...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1283383
(stock #2793)
EastWest Gallery
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A rice bowl, chawan, and cover cum sauce dish, mamezara, decorated with a pattern of trailing grapes and a flying beetle in gilt outlined enamels and underglaze cobalt blue. The grapes, budo, typically orientated upside down with a flying beetle, kabutobushi.
The lid measures 10.13 cm in diameter and stands 2.6cm high, and the bowl measures 5.6cm high and is 11.13cm in diameter...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1237767
(stock #2673)
EastWest Gallery
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A finely painted sometsuke bowls decorated with alternating reserves of three leaping koi divided by a criss-cross ground or “nets” and a central motif of a Chinese landscape featuring a figure collecting fire wood with his head looking skyward. This is probably a representation of Ceng Shen (So Shin) collecting fire wood, a disciple of Confucius , who whilst looking at the moon suddenly became aware that his mother needed him, a popular Confucian parable of filial piety...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Metalwork : Pre 1910
item #1267342
(stock #2760)
EastWest Gallery
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A small beaker form vase of square section with vertical barbed halberd shaped vertical flanges dating to the Meji period. The decoration rather than cast has been cold chiselled in “Chinese style”. The upper register contains four seasonal vignettes, Spring Ume ni Egisu, Bush warbler and Plum blosson, Summer, Botan ni Kiji, Autumn Maple and Deer, Shika Momiji-zu, and Winter, Pine and Cranes, Matsu ni Tsuru...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Textiles : Pre 1920
item #1486638
(stock #13869)
Haruko Watanabe
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Maekake (apron) made of Ohmi jofu which is hand-woven of hemp with kasuri pattern. Weft kasuri yarns are clamp-board dye, so that it has bar-code like white lines in both selvedges. In excellent condition except for both white cotton belts have dirt. Late 19th to early 20th century. W:66cm, L73cm
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Textiles : Pre 1900
item #1489631
(stock #13881)
Haruko Watanabe
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A piece of hand-spun cotton cloth with katazome (stencil-resist dye) mum pattern on both sides. The ground cloth is vegetable indigo dye and flowers are benibana (safflower) dye. The first half of the 19th century. In excellent condition, except for a mending patch. W:29.5cm, L:60cm
Authentic Japanese Meiji period woodblock printed "mitate banzuke" dating from the late 19th century. Banzuke prints were designed to compare or rank virtually any subject, ranging from popular actors and sumo wrestlers to the best spas and restaurants...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1900
item #1473052
(stock #20230127-01)
This is a really nicely painted antique Japanese Arita porcelain covered bowl, sometimes called a chawan, dating to the Meiji era, circa 1870s-90s. It measures about 13.2 cm across the lid, and about 8.5 cm high including the lid. It is entirely hand painted, with garden scenes and a pair of plovers. The mark on the inside of the foot of the lid is a kakutomi mark, associated with one or more of the kilns of the Meiji era...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1837 VR
item #1362896
(stock #4441)
Hawkes, Asian Art
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A JAPANESE ARITA PORCELAIN SQUARE DISH, EDO PERIOD.
An attractive Japanese Arita porcelain square dish with canted corners, decorated with an oversized sage lost in reverie by a lake. The unusual borders completely painted with figures in a landscape. Late 18th ~ early 19th century.
By repute once part of the Bigelow Collection and disposed by auction in New England a few years ago.
Approximately 15.5cm square...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Metalwork : Pre 1800
item #1320227
(stock #2915)
EastWest Gallery
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A small bronze mirror with a diameter of 6.88cm (2.71 inches) and a total length of 12.1cm (4.8 inches) weighing a mere 42gm. Decorated with a Kano school asymmetric composition of a prancing Tiger and Bamboo probably having a common source to similar compositions found on Kakiemon porcelain. The mirror is signed Fujiwara. Dating probably second half of the 17th century. For condition see photos. some wear and minor corrosion. Worldwide shipping at Cost.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Swords and Related : Pre 1800
item #1390221
Zentner Collection
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An original 18th century Japanese Namban armor with momonari type kabuto. The wisteria meadate and other occurrences of variations of the Fuji mon belongs to the Fujiwara Clans...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1837 VR
item #1439041
(stock #2018-617)
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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1837 VR
item #1460297
(stock #2021-995)
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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. The inside of the lid shows a lake landscape with very sinuous pines in takamaki-e and kirigane on a hirameji background.
Removable part, to...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1837 VR
item #1447844
(stock #2017-478)
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An amazing japanese table composed of two beautifully decorated shelves.
The upper shelf depicts a waterfall, high waves and pine trees in gold and brown takamaki-e, hirakami-e lacquer and kirigane on a base of nashi-ji. It lies on two openwork side panels.
The lower shelf is more sparsely decorated but still finely executed. It depicts a cottage surrounded by hills and trees in gold and brown takamaki-e and hiramaki-e lacquer, kirigane and nashi-ji.
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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1920
item #1473317
(stock #2022-1068)
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Dark brown natural wood suzuribako (writing set) with polychrome takamaki-e lacquer decoration of toys, with a rabbit on its cushion and a horse head to ride with its cover.
Interior in negoro-nuri lacquer. This is an ancient technique, developed in the Kamakura period (1185-1333) at the Negoro temple in the ancient province of Kii (now Wakayama prefecture). It is characterized by its vermilion color, made from cinnabar and showing natural brush marks. These irregular patterns are t...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1900
item #1461422
(stock #2022-1034)
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Polylobed lacquer box (kobako) with chrysanthemum decoration. On the lid, maki-e lacquer decoration, a slight relief in the center of the two flowers. Sides in fundame and base in nashi-ji.
Inside, two decorations of vegetal landscapes with flowers (campanulas, pampas, pampers) and butterflies in maki-e on a nashi-ji background. Very fine mother-of-pearl inlays (raden) give light highlights of blue and red colors.
The chrysanthemum (kik...
Zentner Collection
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Rare Japanese Sado Island Funa Tansu, also known as a captains ship safe. Made of solid quarter sawn Keyaki (Zelkova wood) burl construction with heavy hand-forged iron plates and mounts. The front of the piece with a drawer above a pull-out panel, opened by Kakute handles. The bottom panels pulls away to reveal four interior drawers surrounding a second pull-out panel, all with Hirute handles. The middle panel opens to a safe keeping box with heavy iron lock and hardware. The smallest drawer o...
The Kura
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An exquisite lacquered box covered in gold powder prominently bearing the imperial crest given as a gift to Baron Nakamura Satoru in Meiji 44 (1911). According to the inside of the lid this box was created for the Meiji emperor and given in gratitude to the Baron for his support in creating the Keanfu memorial for fallen soldiers of the Russo-Japanese war. The box is an exquisite example of Imperial splendor featuring leaves tinged with kiri-gane gold inlay over powdered gold on a surface dust...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1920
item #1469368
(stock #L006)
The Kura
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An exceedingly rare (in fact the only one I have ever seen) Tenmoku-Dai stand for a Tenmoku Chawan by Suwa Sozan I enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Kuruwa Tenmoku Dai (Curved Circular Tea Bowl Stand). It is made of layer upon layer of lacquer, carved with scrolling designs revealing the depth of the lacquer in a style known as Guri. The artist has carved his seal into the inside of the base. It is 15 cm (6 inches) diameter7.5 cm (3 inches) tall and in excellent condition.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Ivory : Pre 1900
item #1452751
(stock #2021-921)
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Ivory netsuke of a human skull.
Japon – Meiji era (1868-1912)
Height 1.2 in (3 cm) – length 1.4 in (3.5 cm) – width 1 in (2.5 cm)
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Ivory : Pre 1900
item #1454159
(stock #2021-954)
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Round ivory kôgô box with shibayama technique, inlaid with gold and pewter or silver lacquer. Lake decoration in two cartouches on the side and the top of the kôgô, surrounded by rinceaux.
It could be the representation of views of Ômi, around Lake Biwa (present Shiga prefecture). The temple on the rocky mountain is probably the Ishiyama-dera, built around 762 A.D. in Ôtsu. It is part of the Kansai Kannon pilgrimage circuit. It is said that Murasaki Shikibu started to write Th...
Zentner Collection
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An antique Japanese 3 section Kimono Biraki Isho Tansu (stacking chest on chest with hinged doors) constructed entirely of Kirinoki (Paulownia) wood. Hinged doors open to 3 removable kimono trays. Spacious storage behind the sliding doors in the top section with 3 additional side by side storage drawers. Bottom section has 2 large drawers for additional storage space.
Each section can be separated for use in different rooms of the home. Retaining its original finish, it would both be funct...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Okimono : Pre 1900
item #1455930
(stock #2021-938)
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Bronze okimono with brown patina of a mouse lying down. The coat, the tail and the legs are chiselled. The details of the head are particularly detailed, such as the moustache hairs and the long eyelashes.
In Japan, the term nezumi refers to both the mouse and the rat. They are regarded as the messenger of Daikokuten, the deity of trade and wealth. In the Chinese zodiac, taken over by Shintoism in Japan, the rat (or mouse) is the first of the twelve animals, a place that, according to the ...
Zentner Collection
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Rare high grade Japanese mounted shubuichi dragon okimono. The dragon is seen as if it is in mid flight, twisting, an thrusting forward. Overall excellent original condition
Shubuichi seen here has a Dark grey / silver tonality an has a trace of gold warm colors tones. Incredible detail seen from the fine scales to the tip of the dragons claws.
The dragon represents freedom, good luck, and balance. Moreover, it is famous for having supernatural powers and wisdom.
Although they re...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Furniture : Pre 1900
item #1458869
(stock #2019-701)
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Very beautiful Japanese table with four legs in gold, black and brown lacquer with two richly decorated tops. The upper tray presents a decoration of bats, kumori (蝙蝠), in flight in gold hiramaki-e lacquer on a brown lacquer background. The openwork side panels feature the same motif. The lower tray and the legs display a decoration of moving or lying sika deer (鹿), also in hiramaki-e gold lacquer on a black lacquer background.
This small piece of fur...
Zentner Collection
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An antique Japanese Kasane Kimono Tansu (stacking chest on chest) made entirely of Kiri (Paulownia) wood. All original hand forged iron hardware including the Gumbai drawer handles and the stylized Chrysanthemum lock plates. Each section has two full width drawers for abundant storage and each section has side handles for carrying the tansu. Constructed using Japanese joinery and hardened wooden nails.
Age: Early Meiji Era (1868-1880)
Dimensions: 39 5/8" Wide by 40 1/2" High by ...
Age: Early Meiji Era (1868-1880)
Dimensions: 39 5/8" Wide by 40 1/2" High by ...
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A rare antique Japanese Sado Kasane (stacking chest on chest) Tansu made of Kurinoki (Chestnut) and Kirinoki (Paulownia) woods. Original natural Urushi lacquer finish. Hand forged and hand made iron hardware featuring two Phoenix birds representing immortality on the upper large drawer lock plates, two sea turtles symbolizing 10,000 years of longevity and a crane meaning 1,000 years of long life on the lower drawers. Paulownia leaf family crest on the hinged door which hides two small drawers ...
