All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Furniture : Pre 1920 item #1459864
Zentner Collection
$4,000.00
A unusual example of an antique Japanese three section Tansu chest called Ishodansu made of Toneriko (Japanese Ash) and Katsura woods. Original bronze hardware including the Warabite handles and the kissing duck handle backplates. This one-of-a-kind Tansu highlights Yosegi (Marquetry) incorporated into the beautiful Japanese Ash burl. Upper section has two horizontal rolling siding doors hiding a split level display shelf with three side by side drawers below...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Folk Art : Pre 1920 item #1459839 (stock #pc51)
Kodo Arts
$680.00
Rare pair of Taisho Period, C.1920 clay Shinto Inari foxes. One has a scroll in its mouth, the other the Hoju sacred gem. Very good condition. 13" high by 7" wide. Ask for shipping quote from CA warehouse.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Textiles : Pre 1900 item #1459803
This is a rare Japanese antique handspun & natural indigo dye cotton soft tenugi fabric in meiji period (1868-1911). It is a Swallow and plum character pattern. size: Length:80cm / 31.4" Width: 30cm / 11.8"
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Netsuke and Related : Pre 1900 item #1459710
19th century netsuke carved as a group of four seals - two of simpler shapes, one in a shape of a natural lotus flower stem (the stem serving as himotoshi), and one with shishi finial. Elegant design in Japanese taste, bottoms are carved with raised and sunken characters in seall script and stained to resemble real seals - one of them could be a signature of the carver. Possibly made for a silk merchant - the seals resemble actual chops used for stamping silks...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1837 VR item #1459678 (stock #021689)
The size of Bowl: 7 1/2" Dia x 3 1/8" High. Most unusual and attractive Japanese Ko Imari Sometsuke Porcelain Bowl. The bowl is made from fine quality porcelain as well as the fine glazing. It has pretty design of Shiranuki design and flower design outside which used blank area with nice contrast. Shiranuki Design is special work on the design with blue background where white design area has the blue underglaze knocked out...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Stoneware : Pre 1900 item #1459672 (stock #11065)
Chawan tea bowl, or perhaps a soup bowl or a mukozuke. Fairly thin stoneware modeled in the shape of a drum with 8 nails (protrusions) along the upper edge that would hold the drum skin in place. Deep green glaze. Eight vertical lines engraved and filled in with gold.

A triangular shape is cut out of the foot by way of a potter’s mark. In the center of the bottom a round Raku seal impressed...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Stoneware : Pre 1900 item #1459669 (stock #11061)
Large and rustic almost round platter, called ishizara in Japanese, used in kitchens and commoners’ households. Plain light greenish-yellow glaze that typically leaves the foot free. The many pinpoint spots where the glaze did not completely cover the stoneware has allowed dirt to penetrate, giving the surface a lively spotted face...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1900 item #1459652 (stock #021027d)
The size of Bowl: 6 3/4" Dia x 2 1/4". Japanese Ko Imari Blue and White Porcelain Bowl. The bowl was made solidly and very steady with good fine glazing. The center bowl has Hana-Mon (flower mon) design. The side wall has the design of Momo (peach) Karakusa(Chinese grass) design. Peach is lucky symbol. Outside has Karakusa design. The condition of bowl excellent, no chip, no crack and no hairline, as well as almost none scratch. The double lines inside has the section with weak underglaze...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1900 item #1459651 (stock #04294)
The size of Bowl: 6" Dia x 1 3/8" High. This is beautiful and Rare Japanese Old Kutani Bowl from early Meiji, 1870-1890. It is made of fine porcelain. It has the design of Taka (Japanese Hawk), with Fuji Mountain, Pine Tree with the decoration of Karakusa done with gold work, The pine tree are painted with fine brush works. It is not outlined work like commercial painting items. There is Sun or Moon design behind the Hawk. Outside of bowl has cherry blossom leaves with Genji Kou design...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Folk Art : Pre 1900 item #1459650 (stock #11060)
Small, sturdy platter, called ishizara, used as kitchen ware. Gray stoneware decorated with underglaze iron black and cobalt blue tama (sacred jewels) and characters, covered by a creamy, yellowish translucent and finely crackled glaze. Five spurmarks...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1900 item #1459611
Zentner Collection
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Beautiful example of an 18th Japanese suzuribako (calligraphy box) made with a gold maki-e lacquer scene of huts near a mountain stream. The interior of the box holds rests for brushes and a compartment for an ink stone as well as a small silver water dropper. The entire inside including the underside of the lid is covered in a lovely dense nashiji (fine gold flakes suspended in clear lacquer) with young pine branches in maki-e lacquer. The larger image on the underside of the lid is of a Jap...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1900 item #1459604
19th century Japanese Satsuma kogo (box for incense during tea ceremony), its top decorated with bamboo stems and leaves, and the sides with various flowers and leaves, and several flowers on the inside. Good potting, very nicely painted, typical Satsuma finely crackled glaze, in great condition with appropriate age and usage signs. Signed on the bottom in gold on black with 2 characters reading HARAZAN (alternative reading is Warayama). Excellent quality painting. Diameter 2 3/8 inches, height ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1910 item #1459600
Zentner Collection
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Antique Japanese rectangular lacquer stationary box with a large parrot sitting on a corn stock and eyeing an ear of corn. Raised maki-e lacquer in gold and various shades of dark green and brown. The sides are further decorated with more ears of corn (a grasshopper sitting on one). The lacquer work contains great details like the texture of the parrot's feather and the stringy silk of the corn. The large reserve with the parrot and smaller reserves on the sides are treated with a red/orange ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Netsuke and Related : Pre 1900 item #1459522 (stock #2974-1)
Mastromauro Japanese art
EUR €1,500.00
A Japanese boxwood netsuke depicting the poet Ono No Komachi. Excellent fineness of the details of the carving to simulate the grain of the wood on her trunk where she is sitting leaning on her cane with her long hair partially covered by her hat, next to a bamboo container. Signature engraved within Keisai reserve. Meiji period 19th century Sizes: 2,9 x 4 x 2,2 cm. Condition report: Good condition
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Netsuke and Related : Pre 1910 item #1459480 (stock #2974-1)
Mastromauro Japanese art
EUR €2,800.00
A boxwood netsuke of a toad on a wooden container. Excellent fineness of the details to simulate the grain of the wood and the toad skin. Meiji period 19th century Sizes: 3,3 x 2,5 x 2,6 cm. Condition report: Good condition
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1459463 (stock #20220227-01)

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Offered is a lovely 18th Century Japanese porcelain ovoid dish in a molded petaled form, with a central scene of a landscape painted in underglaze blue. To the reverse are cloud decorations and a mark in the form of a running fuku. This piece 22.1 cm at its widest, and weighs about 468 grams. The porcelain has a slightly celadon cast, but is more white than the photos might suggest, despite the na...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Textiles : Pre 1900 item #1459431
It is a Japanese antique Lattice pattern of indigo-dyed cotton and thick textile from the Meiji era (1848-1911). There is no dirt or damage. Recommended for materials, wall decorations and bedspreads. Three long fabrics are sewn and connected. Can be washed with water. Size:Length:168cm(66.14inch) Width::100cm(39.3inch)
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Metalwork : Pre 1900 item #1459424 (stock #gy6533)
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1900's Japanese Mixed Metal Shakudo Vase with Flower & Bird

It is 8.5 inches (21.7 cm) tall by 3.7 inches (9.5 cm) wide. It is 2.3 lb.

It is tarnished and has rust, stains, rubbing of gilding, oxidation, and surface wears and scratches (as seen in the photos).


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