All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1412521 (stock #RAJ-2)
Gallery Rex
$389.00
The blue and white porcelain made in ARITA erea Japan had been exported to Europe and much prized among the people, instead of Chinese porcelain. They are called as IMARI from the name of shipping port. We call the works produced in the EDO period as Ko-Imari meaning old Imari. This piece is supposed to be produced on the mid EDO period. The simple stroke in this piece is very favorable. No repairs or damages. Fine iron grains from the clay are appeared as black points...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Netsuke and Related : Pre 1800 item #1457644
18th century netsuke of a cat resting on a large abalone shell. It is uncommon to see cats in netsuke. Finely carved, great expression on its face, beautiful flow to the bumps on abalone, superb wear to the surface, warm yellow patina (darker on the bottom where netsuke was touching the silk of kimono). Differently sized himotoshi typical for 18th century netsuke, with larger one being able to accommodate a knot. Old age lines, overall in great condition. Excellent early piece...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1800 item #1319951 (stock #2912)
An attractive Arita dish made for export to Europe decorated with conventionalised panels of Hoo birds and Paulonia flowers and stylised Peony flowers inset within an underglaze blue brocade ground to the cavetto, and a central motif of Chrysanthemum. The presence of gilt outlined enamels and colloidal pink in the palette indicate that the plate is from the Kyoho period or slightly later. The plate measures 21 cm or 8.25 inches in diameter and stand 3.3cm, or 1.25 inches high at the rim...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1800 item #497778 (stock #10415)
Japanese Buddhist scroll painting with the image of Amida raigo, the descent of Amida Buddha from the Western Paradise to earth. He comes down to transport the newly deceased devotee to the Western Paradise. In the middle Amida, to his right the bodhisattva Seishi, hands folded in prayer, to his left Kannon holding the lotus throne for transporting the deceased to Paradise. Rays of light surround Amida’s head...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Metalwork : Pre 1800 item #1470510 (stock #354)
Cast Bronze Candlestick. Edo Japan Lost wax cast bronze candlestick. Beautiful cast iron and scraper finish. Decoration of Buddhist lions in relief. The candle receptacle is made of 4 hammered bronze lotus petals, these petals, thin enough, have a flexibility allowing the candles to be held perfectly. The two removable handles have the shape of Buddhist lions. Excellent bronze patina. Japanese work from the beginning of the Edo period, difficult to date with accuracy, 18th century or before...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Stoneware : Pre 1800 item #684293 (stock #J111)
This is a charming stoneware Japanese bowl censor from 1750. It fits perfectly into the hand carved wooden stand which was probably made for the incense burner around 1900. There are no makers marks on either the bowl on the stand for identification. Covered with a thick matte gray white glaze with iron flecks and decorated solely with 3 button tabs below the rim, the censor is a wonderful early example of Japanese mingei stoneware ceramics.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Furniture : Pre 1800 item #1454777
Zentner Collection
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A rare antique Sado Island Funa Tansu (captain's chest) made of Keyaki (Zelkova) and Kirinoki (Paulownia) woods. All original Urushi lacquer and hand forged hand made iron hardware including the Kakute style handles. Featuring various good luck motifs including the treasure bag, the radish, the pine tree, the bamboo, the plum blossom and the Chrysanthemum. The front has a top drawer, a hinged door and a secret sliding door...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1336427 (stock #EW 2955)
A pair of Imari tea bowls and saucers made for export to Europe decorated with a pattern of Hydrangea plants framed by a reserves bordered with brocade drapery tied with ribbons. The tea bowls are in good condition with no cracks, chips or restoration. They measure approximately 7.3 cm in diameter and are 4.2 cm in height. The saucers are also in good condition with no cracks, chips or restoration. However both have some glazing flaws, glaze skip, to the reverse, and one has some random crazing...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1800 item #1488421 (stock #11093)
Welcome To Another Century
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A long horizontal handscroll with ten individual hand-painted shunga scenes, of couples in the act of lovemaking. The focus is on the couples and their actions; there is no background. One couple uses a dildo. For as far as anyone wears a garment, those are decorated in fine details.

Signature at the end of the scroll, on the far-left side: Yamato-e Miyagawa Choshun zu...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Sculpture : Pre 1800 item #1463193
Zentner Collection
$2,500.00
Antique Japanese sarugaku performance mask in the form of a monkey. Sarugaku, which literally means "monkey music" was one of the oldest Japanese theatre arts and consisted of many different types of performance including comedy, dancing, mime, singing and various acrobatics. The performers wore masks usually portraying human characters but this one is distinctly primate...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Textiles : Pre 1800 item #1038701
This is Patchwork komebukuro of kinran damask nishiki in Edo period(1800-1867). It is a bag that did fabric of wonderful Nishijin textile in the patchwork. The lining is red silk. All are original. There is little damage. However, the state is very good. It recommends it for your collection. size:40cm x 28cm (15.7" x 11")
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1800 item #1299503
A fine KANO SCHOOL Painting, Japan, 17/18th Century. This album silk painting mounted on heavy gold paper depicts a mountainous landscape with trees and is dramatically rendered with a flying bird of prey (Hawk?), it's hunting instinct drawn to a flying bird. Overall good condition. Size 9.75" x 8.25" framed (25 cm. x 21 cm.)
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1800 item #1486759 (stock #129)
Dragon's Pearl
$1,450.00
A very good and large scroll painting in ink and colours on paper, depicting the Immortal Gama Sennin (Chinese: Liuhai ) the “Toad Hermit”, with the three-legged toad...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1492425 (stock #EW3243)
A fine rectangular vase or incense stick holder of slab construction with applied leonine taotie style handles to its narrow sides. The front and back sides of the vase decorated with contrasting triangular blocks of diaper brocade in underglaze blue with iron red and gold highlighting the gobenka and pine motifs in the cells and an aka-e kinrande pattern with budo-karakusa (grape vine) in underglaze blue with gilt outlining. The sides decorated with Chinese style sansui landscapes wit...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1344316
Spoils of Time
$1,175.00
A fine little octagonal blue and white porcelain kakiemon style deep dish. Chocolate brown glazed rim, white body and clear glaze over cobalt blue decoration of a primitive, raised teahouse with loose thatch roof and slung entrance screen all under a large willow tree and, conspicuously, a spiderweb (perhaps to emphasize closeness to nature) in the foreground. The interior wall and rim decorated with repeating pattern and karakusa (scrolling vine and leaf). Karakusa also appearing on the exterio...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Furniture : Pre 1800 item #1453060
Zentner Collection
$2,450.00
An antique Japanese Sakata Bo Tansu made entirely of Kirinoki (Paulownia) wood. All original natural Urushi lacquer and hand forged iron hardware. Locking bar secures three Kimono drawers. The main lock features a stylized Chrysanthemum with leaves design. A hinged security door hides two small drawers where valuables were kept. Constructed using straight dovetail Japanese joinery and wooden nails. Very thick wood case construction and thick iron fittings that is a testament to its Edo Per...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Furniture : Pre 1800 item #1454387
Zentner Collection
$3,500.00
An antique Choba Tansu (merchant chest) made entirely of Kirinoki (Paulownia) wood. All original hand forged iron hardware including the Kakute handles. Lock plates feature the original owner's family crest with fine stimple work decorating the design. Matching handle Atari (backstops) design to the lock plates. Leaf style corners on the drawers.

Two large drawers for spacious storage and sliding doors behind which the compartment where merchant books and records were kept. Hinge do...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1375770 (stock #EW3068)
Ko Imari Shochikubai-mon and Tako Karakusa Dish mid 18C A moulded dish of lotus petal form with an upturned rim decorated in underglaze blue with a central Shochikubai mon, representing the auspicious Three Friends of Winter, framed by border of scrolling waves, uzunami, and a stylised lotus arabesque of so-called octopus scroll form. The reverse decorated with a meandering band of stylised Lotus vine, karakusa, and an auspicious four character fukichosun mark. The dish is in good condition, ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1486771
An authentic 17/18th century Japanese Edo Period sake bottle in blue and white , in good condition
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1251215 (stock #2707)
EastWest Gallery
£ 45.00
An Arita bowl decorated with a design of Azami, Thistles, a motif emblematic of Spring painted in a refined pencilled style called senbeki both to the interior and exterior. 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 : Paintings : Pre 1800 item #1274350
This is Sugido-e used in Kyoto Imperial Palace for Edo period. This was one of the collection of very famous kimono collector Shoujiro Nomura of Kyoto for the Meiji period. It is thought that this was drawn by Kano Eigaku of Edo period. He revived by a picture of the early period of Edo era in history. As for this, both sides reproduce design of the early period of Edo era together. Generally, Sugido-e has bad state. However, this is very good condition. And it is very important that the condit...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Metalwork : Pre 1800 item #791503
Zentner Collection
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A pair of exceptional and extremely rare dramatic antique 17th century Japanese bronze lanterns from a prominent Tokugawa temple courtyard. Each lantern is made of 10 individual cast bronze sections. Heavenly creatures and symbology are abundant and include: fu-dogs, apsaras (Heavenly People & Celestial Beings).
Apsaras a symbol of beauty, good fortune, fertility, heaven. A feminine shape-shifting spirits of the waters and clouds. They were created to pleasure heroes and the gods. A...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1442583 (stock #20210326-01)

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Offered is a very fine mid-18th Century Japanese porcelain oval lobed or quatrefoil-type bowl featuring molded decoration of suns and scrolls, and an underglaze blue landscape scene. This piece also has underglaze blue designs to the reverse, probably stylized bird forms, and a mark observed on pieces from the 1750-80 period within the Shibata Collection at the Kyushu Ceramic Museum (see, e.g., Shiba...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1438115 (stock #4622)
An Arita blue & white porcelain dish decorated with a pavilion and poetry, an equestrian and servant in the foreground. The dish is moulded with a shallow ‘rinka’ edge. The back is plain and has three spur marks within the foot-rim.

An identical dish is illustrated in the Shibata Collection Vol.4, #303 where it is dated to 1770~1800.

Approximately 17.8 cm diameter. The dish has some light wear from normal use but is otherwise in fine condition.

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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Devotional Objects : Pre 1800 item #492299 (stock #10403)
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Finely carved wooden figure of Gyochu Kishimojin, the hands folded together in prayer, standing on an upside down lotus leaf, positioned on a rocky base. Plain wood, carved in a slightly facetted way that gives texture to his garment and skin. The base and the lotus gilded over lacquer. Inscribed on back: Kishibojin, opening of the eyes, Nichiren. Inscribed in black ink on bottom of lotus leaf: Hirono Naomasa. Japan, Edo period, 18th century.
Height without base 7 ¼ in. (18.3 cm).
Le...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1452999 (stock #4642)
A pair of Japanese Export porcelain models of Karashishi, the fabled Buddhist lion-dogs of Japan. Arita, early 18th century. White porcelain with iron-red enamel decoration.

Each is approximately 6.5cm high, 6cm long. The first is in fine condition with some firing lines as issued. The second has a largish chip to the tail and leans slightly.

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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1800 item #1492274 (stock #K012)
The Kura
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An incredible lacquered screen decorated with a Bugaku Dancer wearing an angry devil mask opposing a snake in incredibly thick relief opposite three gentlemen heating sake over a fire under the changing leaves of a maple, their oxcart off to the side. An inlaid cartouche near the snake reads Kan. The two-sided panel is set into a frame with matt black iron texture over a raw kiri-wood panel inset with three windows. It is 45 x 16.5 x 40.5 cm (18 x 6-1/2 x 16 inches) and is in overall excellen...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Earthenware : Pre 1800 item #827664 (stock #C-P0003)
A late 18th century Ko Seto stoneware dish, 5" in diameter, decorated tastefully in a traditional horse eye and cobweb design.

Condition:There are two small rim chips as illustrated in the sixth photograph. The first and more serious is to the far left, the second is to the far right. The dish is otherwise excellent.

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1417859 (stock #EW3177)
A finely potted large Chinese Imari three colour Charger decorated with a design of a garden with elaborate fence with Lotus finials to the posts and Mudan, flowering Peonies, Asters and various other flowers, coupled with a flowering Baicai, white cabbage (Pak Choi); traditional symbols of prosperity and wealth. The cavetto is undecorated and the rim painted with a further auspicious arabesque of entwined Peonies and Chrysanthemums, symbolising longevity and eternal youth. The reverse is pain...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Sculpture : Pre 1800 item #1216729 (stock #0011)
Momoyama Gallery
$2500.00

This is a clay figure of "Tenjin", the god of learning and a great and important figure in the history of Japanese culture.

It is obviously from the Mid Edo Period and one of the most impressing pieces of art in our collection with its mysterious and spiritual character.

We offer this Tenjin figure with a wooden stand, which was built by a former owner. As you can notice on the photos, it has some scratches and hairline cracks, which do not diminish its antique effect.

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1800 item #1451307 (stock #67)
Dragon's Pearl
$650.00
Scroll painting, black ink on paper depicting Orchids and Rock. Attributed to Ike no Taiga (1723–1776). Sealed and signed Kiuka ( one of the many “go” or style name of Ike no Taiga (1723–1776) was born and lived in Kyoto during the Edo period, he was a prolific painter, calligrapher and a literati with a strong passion for classical Chinese scholar painting technique; he is one of the representative name of the Nanga school of painting though he did many decorative paintings. His work...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Furniture : Pre 1800 item #1454780
Zentner Collection
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An extremely rare Sado Island Funa Tansu made of Keyaki Burl (Zelkova), old growth Keyaki, and old growth Kirinoki (Paulownia) woods. All original Urushi lacquer finish and hand forged handmade iron hardware including the Kakute style handles. The top drawer opens to a 4 compartment design with 2 covers. It was exterior lacquered for a smooth opening. The bottom right side hinged door opens to a small upper drawer and a bottom false drawer front that hides a wooden box for valuables. The lef...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Devotional Objects : Pre 1800 item #1482222 (stock #10611)
A small Pure Land Buddhist shrine -zushi- containing a figure of the 11-headed Kannon on a lotus, holding a flask in his left hand, standing before a full-size mandorla.
Painted in mineral colors and gold onto the gilded doors are Jizo bosatsu to his right and Kokuzo bosatsu to his left.

Carved wood (probably boxwood), decorated with gold. Jewelry gilded metal (now black).
Red lacquered shrine with fine gilded hardware. Japan, Edo period, 18th century.
Case: ca. 5.1...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1800 item #1407145
Zentner Collection
$1,500.00
An antique Japanese three-case Inro. The Inro is reddish brown cherry bark lacquered with a dragonfly hovering over a lotus leave and pond. The other side is a continuation of the lotus leaf motif with small gold leaf flowers. The interior has a continuation of the cherry bark surface. The Inro is signed by 'Zeshin" (Shibata Zeshin 1807-1891) with a cursive monogram. Fitted with an orange oval ojime bead.

Date: Meiji Period (1868-1912)

Dimensions: 2.25" tall X 1.5"
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1800 item #1217325 (stock #0030)

This Buddhist Scroll painting was drawn about 200 years ago during the Edo Period in Japan. It is hand painted on paper.

You will find a Hermit with tortoise with a Wabi-Sabi atmosphere. It is drawn very well and it is a very good composition.

Such simple touch is the soul of a Japanese painting. It leads to WABI-SABI. This style of painting is called KANO-HA painting. It is traditional from ancient times and it is the most popular style.

The Kobikicho branch of th...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Sculpture : Pre 1800 item #697419 (stock #R204)
A Superb, Rare Pristine 18th Century Japanese Noh Theater Mask of Ko-jo, an elegant old man in Noh Drama. This mask is of the highest quality carved to dramatic perfection. Finely lacquered over wood. A magnificent addition for the serious Noh mask collection. 8 inches (20.5 cm) height x 5.5 inches width. Height with beard is 14.5 inches (37 cm). From a prominent and widely exhibited collection.