All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1900 item #1448493 (stock #11038)
Unusual porcelain bowl in the shape of a double gourd with two separate compartments. The large section is for washing brushes; the small section may be used as a brush holder.
The outside of the large bowl is decorated in underglaze blue with pavilions in a landscape with mountains and a river. The edge is faceted and painted with cloud-like shapes. The outside of the smaller extension is decorated with stylized flowers. Ribbed knob on top (19-petaled chrysanthemum)...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Furniture : Pre 1900 item #1448437
Zentner Collection
$2,200.00
An antique Japanese Kotansu (organizer storage chest) made entirely of Kirinoki (Paulwonia) wood. Hand forged iron hardware with Warabite handles. 9 drawers used for organizing artist supplies, Japanese carpenter hardware or store supplies. Constructed using straight dovetail Japanese joinery and hardened wooden nails. A very utilitarian chest that would work well in any home decor.

Age: Meiji Period (1880-1890)

Dimensions: 33 3/8" Wide by 13 5/8" High by 16 1/2" Deep
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1920 item #1448378 (stock #3A70)
Pair Japanese Nabeshima Porcelain Dishes, Meiji 1920, impressed mark Kotobuki(Longevity) on the bottom, 8 1/4" diameter, 2" high, Basket weave interlocked between red and blue color for entire surface, with underglaze blue combed design on high rim, underneath has multiple coin shape design in three(3) areas in underglaze blue. Hand painted details of exact lines is superb, high quality work. The condition is good, no damages.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Earthenware : Pre 1900 item #1448371 (stock #J625)
Haruko Watanabe
$150.00
Raku-yaki tea bowl for tea ceremony. Raku-yaki is hand-shaped with pallet but not with the potter's wheel. This bowl has pinkish glaze and nice grey glaze in the bottom inside. 18th or 19th century. In good condition. Diameter:13cm Height:9cm
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1900 item #1448351 (stock #03152)
SANAI FINE ART & ANTIQUES
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The size of Makie Kobako: 3 3/4" Long x 3" Wide x 3" High. This is Amazingly Fine Japanese 19 th Century Japanese Antiques Makie Kobako(small box). The Kobako has Roiro(black) background Makie with Hira Makie gold design of Japanese trees as well as Japanese Kamon(family crest). One tree looks like Magnolia tree with flowers. It is finely done. The Kobako came with inside tray as well. The side of Kobako with Red Makie finish over cloth texture finish as photo showing...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1837 VR item #1448349 (stock #03152)
SANAI FINE ART & ANTIQUES
Please see the price at item #1448351
Additional Photos for Amazingly Fine Japanese Makie Kobako w/Box, Please see the price at item #1448351.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1900 item #1448348 (stock #11037)
Square dish with straight rims, with elegant indentation on each corner. In the center two cranes (or similar birds) walking on rocks underneath a pine tree near the sea. On the inside of the rims a continuous border of heart-shaped flowers, on the outside a border with diamond pattern, broken by one cartouche on each side, containing a house. The top of the rim decorated with a karakusa-border.

White porcelain with underglaze cobalt blue decoration...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1920 item #1448278
Zentner Collection
$3,500.00
Antique Chinese large porcelain vase. Decorated all over with a basket texture and a pair of dragons with a flaming pearl and cloud-like mist. The body of the vase is glazed a celadon green while the dragons remain a very pale bluish white. The dragons represent the endless cycle of transformation and the flaming wish-granting pearl is one of the Eight Treasures and represents pure intention.

Age: Republic Period (1912-1949)

Dimensions: 22 1/2" high x 13" wide
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Devotional Objects : Pre 1900 item #1448276
Zentner Collection
$3,000.00
Antique Japanese zushi shrine for travelers. Doors open to reveal Aizen-Myōō, one of the Wisdom Kings. Venerated in Japanese Esoteric and Vajrayana Buddhism, Aizen-Myōō is known for transforming worldly lust into spiritual awakening. In his six hands he hold attributes including a bell which calls awareness and a vajra which represents the diamond that cuts through illusion...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1448243 (stock #4641)
An Arita porcelain whistle in the form of a reclining Chinese boy. Decorated in Kakiemon-type underglaze 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 7.4 cm long...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1900 item #1448242 (stock #4640)
A rare Japanese Sometsuke Mukozuke dish, the design of a partially folded fan taken directly from Chinese porcelain made especially for export to Japan during the late Ming Dynasty, Tianqi Period, 1621-1627.

Modeled in the form of a partially unfolded fan and decorated with a figure on a riverbank, the river and a solitary boat before him. The naturalistically modeled back is plain and has three thickly potted circular feet...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1910 item #1448193 (stock #2020-806)
Set of bundai, ryōshibako and fudebako in wakasa lacquer with an old rose background and black traditional Japanese patterns.

The saya pattern (or sayagata) is composed by Chinese svastikas. This symbol linked to Buddhism, mean intelligence, power and peace. It is a good omen sign. The kanoko pattern reminds stains on fawn back. The sakura (cherry blossom) pattern is emblematic of Japan...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1920 item #1448191 (stock #2020-855)
GALERIE TIAGO
€1,700.00
Kobako in dark brown lacquer. In imitation of bamboo, the inner part is made of bamboo and the outer part of the box is made of kaki wood. It represents the cross section of a bamboo cane node with its light brown diaphragm slightly bulging in the center of the lid and stand. External layer of the bamboo cane representing the cellulosic fibers.
Bamboo, strong, flexible and fast growing, symbolizes strength, flexibility and prosperity...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1920 item #1448173 (stock #08262)
t a t a m i
$300.00


MUDRA OF ESOTERIC BUDDHISM

10 pieces of the practitioner’s manuscript of various hand-signs called ‘tein’ (also ‘inso’, ‘ketsuin’) as the mudra (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudra) of ‘mikkyo’ (Japanese Esoteric Buddhism), as the symbolic or ritual gesture or pose performed with the hands and fingers for marking each secret of various buddhas, bodhisattvas, deities, etc...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Furniture : Pre 1900 item #1448157
Zentner Collection
$1,750.00
An antique Japanese Yonezawa Kasane Kimono Tansu (stacked chest on chest) made of Kirinoki (Paulownia) wood. Beautiful Ume (Plum Blossom) motif on lock plates with a nickel rim. Four large drawers with a hinged door that hides two small drawers. Constructed using straight dovetail Japanese joinery and hardened wooden nails. Hand forged iron hardware with Mokko handles.

Can be separated and used as bedside nightstands or used as a daily dresser drawer or accent piece in any room decor...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Devotional Objects : Pre 1900 item #1448153 (stock #10379)
Very small portable shrine, zushi. The figure of Amida Nyorai is standing on a lotus base with intricately carved curled lotus petals. His slender body covered in a finely, gold ornamented garment, his left hand pointing down in mudra, his now missing right hand would be held up in mudra, as well.

Soft wood stained dark brown, with gold painted decoration and some red.
The insides of the doors decorated in reddish brown with meandering flowers over gold foil on black lacquer.

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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1900 item #1448147 (stock #10416)
Hanging scroll. Portrait of probably Sugawara no Michizane, sitting in court dress - a black garment with a long white sash - holding a wooden mace. The black garment, with red liner, is delicately decorated with flowers between waving lines. The sash also decorated with stylized flower shapes.

Tosa style. Signature at bottom: Yuho Issho ga. Red seal: Issho no in.

Colors on silk.

Japan, early 19th century.

Painted area: 23 5/16 x 10 13/16 in. (39.7 x 27.9 cm).
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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1837 VR item #1448138 (stock #2016-327)
GALERIE TIAGO
€2,500.00
Tebako (cosmetic box) with black and nashiji background, decorated with several mon (family crest). Each side of this rectangular box is divided into two registers, separated by a diagonal golden maki-e flash. The black lacquer interior features a tray.

Among the mon is that of the Mizuno clan, which is said to be descended from the Seiwa Genji branch of the Minamoto clan. During the Edo period it counted several vassals (fudai daimyo) serving the Tokugawa shogunate. The mon...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1970 item #1448103 (stock #11036)
Kogo, container for storing incense during the tea ceremony, in the shape of the bud of a lotus flower.
The bottom half decorated on the outside with classic lotus sepals, as used to image a Buddhist lotus dais, in relief. The top half also decorated in low relief in a much more stylized manner. The closed lotus bud, crowned by a 16-petal chrysanthemum and topped by a knob, which is probably a stylized rendering of the chrysanthemum heart.

Alternatively the shape could refer to the s...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Stoneware : Pre 1900 item #1448080 (stock #10691)
Midsize storage jar, tsubo. Greyish brown stoneware, with the typical white stone inclusions, partially bursting out through the surface. The ashes in the wood burning kiln settled during the firing onto the surface of the pot and melted, creating the beautiful brownish yellow ash glaze. This is a natural process that cannot be controlled by the potter beyond the decision of placement within the kiln.

Japan, Edo period, 19th century or a bit earlier

H 11.25 inches

Very good ...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1900 item #1448073 (stock ##0420)
Large mingei negoro tray. Edo period. Made of a rought piece of sugi (japanese cedar). The inner part has been lacquered with a fine negoro. The borders, following the natural lines of the wood, have been sculpted in a very unusual and interesting form. 34 x 30 x 7 cm.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1900 item #1448004 (stock #RAJ-8)
Gallery Rex
$1,320.00
This polychrome piece was made in Imari with Kakiemon-style in last 18th century. It has been transmitted from generation to generation in Japan with wooden box. The small handle on the rid has repaired at the base Size: 11.5cm(D) 14.0(H) Accessary: traditional wooden box YouTube movie:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz23dGVUEss&list=PLcPjV3Xf0-WPWoVxtqux54Unn8C1bQ7YJ&index=43&t=4s
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1448001 (stock #20210627-01)

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Offered is a set of three gorgeous 18th Century Japanese porcelain bowls with molded decoration to the inner sidewalls, and underglaze blue decoration inside the base and outside on the sides. A very similar bowl with nearly the same moldings (Object 254) appears in Volume IV of the Shibata Collection of the Kyushu Ceramic Museum in Saga Prefecture, Japan. That bowl has the same mark as appears on t...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Enamel : Pre 1920 item #1447981 (stock #gy6361)
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1920's Japanese Aquamarine Color Silver Wires Cloisonne Vase with Iris Flowers Unsigned but Attributed to Hayashi Hachizaemon

It is 6 inches (15.2 cm) tall by 2 inches (5 cm) wide. It weighs 170.4 gram.

The metal rims and bottom are tarnished and have surface wears and scratches. It has surface wears and scratches, missing enamels at the bubbles, pitting, bubbles, and oxidized and tarnished wires (as seen in the photos).


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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Furniture : Pre 1900 item #1447902
Zentner Collection
$1,650.00
An antique Japanese Kasane Kimono Tansu (stacking chest on chest) made entirely of Kirinoki (Paulownia) wood. Constructed using straight dovetail joinery and hardened wooden nails. Hand forged iron hardware.

Originally used for the storage of Japanese Kimono, it functions well in today's home as a pair of nightstands, a daily dresser drawer or a beautiful accent piece in any room decor.

Age: Meiji Period (1880-1890)

36 1/2" Wide by 40 1/2" High by 17" Deep ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Baskets : Pre 1920 item #1447901
Antique Japanese ikebana basket. Woven of split bamboo in a round, footed form. The handle is made of a piece of bamboo that has been carefully curved to give the whole basket a lovely hourglass shape.

Age: Meiji Period (1868-1912)

Dimensions: 16 1/2" high x 7 1/2" wide
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1900 item #1447895
Zentner Collection
$1,450.00
Antique Japanese small zushi, traveler's shrine which opens to reveal a seated figure of the goddess, Benzaiten. She is the guardian of the people of Japan and is considered the goddess of all things that flow: water, music, time, words, eloquence, and knowledge. In Japan, she is one of the 7 Gods of Fortune (or 7 Lucky Gods). In the Shinto religion, she is a kami (a divine being) and is often depicted with the likeness of kami Ugajin on top of her head. In Sanskrit, her name is Sarasva...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Furniture : Pre 1900 item #1447889
An antique Japanese Zeni Bako (money safe) made of Keyaki (Zelkova) and Suginoki (Cryptomeria) woods. Top cover is secured with an iron lock and serves a dual purpose. When closed, a slot is apparent for dropping coins into the box. When opened, the retrieval of the coins becomes convenient as well as keeping safe and storing paper money, IOUs, and financial bonds and certificates. A bottom drawer was often used to store writing paper, writing brushes and an inkstone. All hand forged iron ha...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Devotional Objects : Pre 1800 item #1447887
Zentner Collection
$6,000.00
Antique Japanese zushi (traveler's shrine) with double panel doors which open to reveal a standing figure of Jizo Bosatsu (O-Jizo-Sama). Jizo is the protector of travelers and firefighters as well as the guardian of the souls of all children. He stands on a lotus base with a Buddhist ring staff (shakujo) in his right hand and a jewel in his left. The doors of the shrine are painted with tennin, celestial beings on either side. Made of wood with lacquer and gold gilt.

Age: Edo Per...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Textiles : Pre 1900 item #1447855
Zentner Collection
$6,000.00
Antique Japanese Buddhist temple banner made of silk and woven with gold gilt paper weft (ginran or kinren) in a dynamic design of a pair of water dragons each facing the center where a burning pearl (woven with silver leaf) floats on a golden cloud. Dragons and pearls together in Buddhist art symbolize the endless cycle of transformation. The flaming pearl is one of the Eight Treasures and represents pure intentions as well as the sacred wish-granting pearl of the Buddhist faith. The back si...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1447842 (stock #2016-347)
GALERIE TIAGO
€15,000.00
Perfume fountain in porcelain Imari kinrandé mounted in gilt bronze from the same set of porcelain. The cup and the bowl form the base, the pot covers the perfume container.
Blue under-cover decoration with gold highlights of interlacing lotus flowers. On each of the ceramic pieces, two four-lobed spaces and sides with floral motifs (pine, yellow and red lycoris, carnation, phlox moss, bamboo) and two foxes. Top of the pot with a chrysanthemum pattern. The inside of the fountain has a ban...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Baskets : Pre 1920 item #1447761
Zentner Collection
$1,450.00
An antique Japanese Ikebana basket in a Cornucopia open flared mouth design tapering to a four post square base. Finely woven using a two tone caramel colored split bamboo with binding weaves forming frogs and turtles. Each post has inset caterpillar weave and the base has a cross slatted split bamboo that was signed by the artist. The handle is comprised of three delicate bamboo branches each of differing sizes representing a child, an adolescent, and an adult. The bindings along the rim rep...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Devotional Objects : Pre 1910 item #1447759 (stock #10222)
Small and shallow (thin) shrine. Inside are the figures of Bishamonten (right) and Kongoyasha Myoo (left), both standing. Bishamon holds a pagoda and a halberd. The three-headed Kongoyasha’s two hands are empty.
Both are standing on a rock which is placed on a pedestal and both have a small mandorla behind their heads.

Soft wood carved and decorated with mineral colors. Mandorlas, attributes and helmet ornament in gilt metal.
Case is lacquered black on outside with gilt co...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Netsuke and Related : Pre 1900 item #1447705
Helen M Edwards
$630.00
Height: 2.8 cm (1.1 in)
Length: 4.7 cm (1.8 in)
Depth: 3.1 cm (1.3 in)

Japanese netsuke of a resting peasant with a basket on his back; early piece with a good honey-coloured patina; natural material; some age lines present; good condition
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1800 item #1447683 (stock ##0920)
Complete set of 4 Negoro bowls. Middle of the Edo period (late 17th to early 18th c.). Very smooth and shiny surface and a particularly deep orange-vermilion, caracteristic of the period. A damage on the border of the larger one. Signed. Diam. 14,2 cm, 13,3 cm, 12,7 cm and 12 cm
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Sculpture : Pre 1920 item #1447638 (stock #11035)
Daruma standing tall, wrapped tightly in his garment, the tips of his feet just peeping out. This pose is associated with the episode in which Daruma travels to China, crossing the river Yangzi, while standing on a reed.
The figure was molded in a cast in two halves and joined before firing. A hole in the back functions as a vent and prevents the statue from exploding while fired in the kiln.
Stoneware with gomma. Details are beautifully worked out, showing best in the expression on h...