All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1920 item #1444732 (stock #TRC210325)
One of only five Imperial Court Artists of Meiji, ceramic pieces by Kōzan are highly prized by collectors and are ever more difficult to find on the market these days. Here we have a fantastic example of a guardian shishi from the Kōzan kiln crafted in fine celadon...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1443322 (stock #4636)
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An Arita small dish in ai-Kutani style decorated with a bird beneath a tree, all within a dog-tooth border. The plain back with an apocryphal four-character Ming Wanli reign mark. Circa 1700.

Approximately 16.9 cm diameter...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1443319 (stock #4635)
A shaped Arita blue & white porcelain dish in the form of Mt. Fuji, circa 1680 - 1700.

A similar but smaller example is illustrated in The Complete Catalogue of the Shibata Collection, item 2276.

Approximately 16.5 cm wide...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1443318 (stock #4634)
An Arita porcelain whistle in the form of a reclining Chinese boy. Decorated in Kakiemon-type overglaze blue, green and iron-red enamels. Circa 1680 ~ 1700.

A similar whistle is illustrated in Christiaan J. A. Jorg’s ‘Fine & Curious, Japanese Export Porcelain in Dutch Collections.’

Approximately 7.6 cm long...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1900 item #1442602 (stock #2015-243)
Large hollow porcelain bowl with polychrome decoration of flowers, landscapes, and a samurai on horseback.

The village of Kutani, located in the province of Kaga, is a famous place for the production of ceramics, characterized by a particular decoration. The first pottery kilns were built around 1640 at the instigation of the lord of the province, eager to encourage the nascent industry...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1441502 (stock #4633)
A fine Japanese porcelain plate, the centre painted with a pair of Ho-o birds perched on rocks amongst flowers. There are several versions of this design featuring different borders. This border is unusual, it features three Ming-style elephant headed dragons and a profusion of blooms. The back has a particularly delicate depiction of trailing blooms and an inner border of clouds. The mark is associated with the Old Kakiemon kiln, 1680’s.

Approximately 20.7cm diameter...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1920 item #1440246 (stock #TRC210107)
In Asian folklore, the peach is said to represent long-life for mortals and immortality for the gods. According to legend, the moon goddess—a powerful alchemist—can make an elixir from peaches that grow in the garden of the western paradise with miraculous revitalizing properties. Here we have an exceptionally rare set of sake cups by Suwa Sozan, one of only 5 Imperial Court Artists from Meiji...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1439944 (stock #4630)
A 17th century Japanese porcelain plate plate for the domestic market. Arita 1670 - 1690. A goose on a promontory next to a crashing wave.

d = 19.4 cm...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1439885 (stock #4625)
A Japanese Arita lobed dish decorated with a dragon descending from clouds, grasping the pearl of wisdom. The back with a fuku mark. The dish dates from 1750~1790. A similar design to Chinese examples of the Yongzheng period.

Approximately 14.4 cm diameter. Perfect condition.

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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1438113 (stock #4620)
An early Japanese blue & white plate produced in Arita at the end of the seventeenth century. The centre features a roundel carefully painted with a vase of flowers on a verandah...
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.

The reverse is decorated to the sides with small vignettes or glimpses of some of the same scener...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1437975 (stock #4614)
A Japanese molded dish with a barbed rim. The centre with a dragon coiled around a tablet of calligraphy. The back has an apocryphal Ming reign mark for Chenghua. 4 spur mars. Circa 1780.

Approximately 22 cm diameter. There is a filled flake to the front edge at roughly 12 o’clock, otherwise fine.

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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1437974 (stock #4613)
An unusual 18th century Japanese porcelain dish with chidori and waves drawn in thick outline, the centre with a Tibetan Buddhist symbol. The V & A Museum, London, has an identical dish, FE.113-2006. Arita1770-1780.

21.7 cm. Diameter, perfect condition.

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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1437973 (stock #4612)
A Japanese porcelain plate decorated with a dignitary beneath a parasol, attended by his servant, in a garden. The cavetto is unusually decorated with a continuous landscape, a device not often encountered on Arita porcelain. The use of linear shading is reminiscent of Chinese “Master of the Rocks” style. Arita, circa 1680~1700.

The back is entirely plain with four spur marks within the foot-rim.

This is the remaining plate from a set of three.

Approximately 21...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1900 item #1436116
Antique Japanese porcelain brush washer and brush rest in the form of Daruma. Derived from BodhiDharma, the monk founder of Zen Buddhism, this is a whimsical and utilitarian object for the scholar's table. After a long meditation, Daruma opens his mouth in a wide yawn, creating the water container portion of the brush washer. He stretches his arms up over his head, his hands together, making a perfect brush rest. Painted wearing his signature red robes, details in black and green.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1920 item #1434875 (stock #tiger1016)
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Japanese Studio Vase with Flower Marked Makuzu Kozan, circa 1920

It is 7.7 inches (19.6 cm) tall by 3.3 inches (8.6 cm) wide. It is 0.8 Lb.

It is in good condition with no repairs, or cracks.

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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1434175 (stock #4610)
An unusual Arita blue & white porcelain plate, circa 1700 - 1750. A smaller dish with similar moulded and gadrooned edge and border of spiky foliage is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. FE.66-1970. An identical dish, dated from the first half of the 18th century is kept at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

The base with an apocryphal Chinese Ming Chenghua reign mark and 5 spur marks.

Approximately 21.2 cm diameter. Perfect condition.

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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1434172 (stock #4607)
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An Arita Export porcelain plate in Dutch ‘Kraak’ style. A plate with the same border is illustrated in the Impey Collection “Japanese Export Porcelain, Catalogue of the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Hotei Publishing, Amsterdam, 2002”, item 12. The border pattern shows a striking similarity to that used for V.O.C. orders produced at the Hikeoba and Sarugawa kilns. Circa 1680.

Approximately 21.7 cm diameter. Perfect condition.

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