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 | Chinese Album Leaf Scholar Painting, Dated 1860 |
 | Antique NYOI scepter (ruyi); natural rekishi shape. Late Edo |
 | Lacquer Named Kabuki Actor Portrait Box, Daihachi Role |
 | CHINESE BRONZE CENSER |
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 | Okuhara Seiko Japanese Woodblock Print -Sandpipers on Beach - 1900 1st |
 | Antique Japanese Ukiyo-e Woodblock by Toyokuni |
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Antique Tibetan Buddhist ritualistic bone flute, or kangling. The kangling produces a wailing sound, meant to create a mystical atmosphere during tantric rituals. It is played as a gesture of fearlessness and as a way of cutting off the ego. With silver mounts intricately decorated with floral motifs and dragons, inlaid with turquoise. Provenance Ashby Collection.
Dates from 19th century Dimensions: 8 1/2" l x 2 1/2" w
Dates from 19th century Dimensions: 8 1/2" l x 2 1/2" w
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Japanese gusoku bitsu (carrying box for samurai armor). Made of kiri (paulownia) wood and lacquered red and black. Iron hardware and side handles for carrying. Top lifts off. Decorated with the mon (family crest) of the Asano Clan.
Dimensions: 15 1/2" w x 21" h
Dimensions: 15 1/2" w x 21" h
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A large, heavy Japanese bronze temple bell or bonsho, with a handle of dragon heads called a ryuzu, protrusions called chi chi or nyu to improve resonance of sound, the tsuki-za striking panels, and the mei-bun inscription of the bell's history...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1403696
(stock #4545)
Hawkes, Asian Art
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A heavily potted Arita porcelain dish featuring a rural pavilion beside a waterfall, the moulded cavetto with a celadon glaze. The blue and white landscape with touches of iron-red and gold enamel.
Arita, circa 1750 ~ 1780.
Approximately 22.5cm diameter...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1403695
(stock #4544)
Hawkes, Asian Art
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An attractive Japanese porcelain dish, the blue & white decoration depicting the King of Beasts and the Queen of Flowers. The Lion-Dog and the Peony, shi-shi and botan in Japan, represent bravery and elegance . A popular motif.
Arita, circa 1790.
Approximately 29 cm diameter. Perfect condition...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700
item #1403692
(stock #4541)
Hawkes, Asian Art
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An Arita porcelain plate (#2) decorated with a leaping carp within a moulded border based upon Chinese Ming export porcelain, ‘Kraak’ style. The dishes have faux chattering in imitation of Wanli Kraak dishes.
Arita, 1750 - 1780.
Approximately 21.5cm diameter...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Korean : Metalwork : Pre 1492
item #1403653
(stock #1720)
Harubang Antiques
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A Very Fine Korean Goryo Bronze Mirror with a Sailing Ship-14th C.:
Korea, Goryo dynasty, 13th -14th century.
The design is cast in high relief on the obverse of this Mirror depicts a ship sailing
on a stormy sea. A large dragon arises from the upper left and right with clouds of
spray cap the surging waves...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1920
item #1403651
(stock #TRC1934)
This extraordinary cha-ire (powdered tea container) displays an excellent glaze that appears to have only grown more intricate and rich with time. Contrasting against a reddish brown background are flows and pools of darker glaze along with lighter textured speckles...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pottery : Pre 1920
item #1403648
(stock #TRC210811)
Occasionally while browsing through the temple markets of Kyoto or perusing backstreets tea-ware shops, an attractive piece will catch my eye for no particular reason. When this happens, I typically buy it immediately without hesitation, trusting that I will be able to place it to a specific period or kiln given enough time and research...
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Japanese two section mizuya (kitchen tansu for storage). Constructed of Hinoki (cypress) wood frame with Sugi (cedar) wood, original dark finish. The top section holds a compartment behind pair of sliding panels with Keyaki (zelkova) wood details, open work carving and wire for ventilation. Next to this is a larger compartment with sliding panels with vertical iron studded slats and Keyaki hardwood insert...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1900
item #1403621
(stock #EW3139)
EastWest Gallery
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An oak leaf shaped moulded dish of six-sun size in “Ko Sometsuke” style decorated in underglaze blue with three seated figures sitting around a low table with a typical Chinese style landscape of mountainous islets in a costal setting with a Ting, small pavilion in the foreground. The reverse decorated with prunus blossom sprigs and a seal for the Kameyama kiln in the centre of the foot-ring. Dating late Edo, Tenpo era...
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Unusual Japanese single section isho tansu from the Sendai region, made of solid Keyaki (zelkova) hardwood with burl front panels. The iron hardware and mounts have floral motifs throughout. The corner plates have scalloped edges, the drawer pulls are mokko (melon) shaped with chrysanthemums mounts, the round lock plates are incised with Kiri leaf mon and two are outlined with scrolling vine motifs. The safe door opens to reveal three inner drawers for small valuables...
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Antique Korean low table, of a rounded form with raised, scalloped flower petal edges. The apron below is openwork carved with scrolling vine motifs and double happiness symbols. The table's top is highly decorative with fine inlay work of brass, shell, and shagreen, creating a depiction of a phoenix and a serpentine dragon. The edges of the table top are decorated with various scholar's objects, such as a gourd bottle, an endless knot, and a gunbai fan...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1700
item #1403584
(stock #0452)
Momoyama Gallery
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Another wonderful example of the beauty of Shino-yaki from the early Edo Period: Little deformed cylinder (hazutsu) shaped, in the style of shino ware - the bowl shows finger marks from throwing; foot ring and bottom have been cut with a potters knife. Typical for a Nezumi-Shino shino bowl, the light, unrefined Mino clay has been covered with an iron bearing engobe - with the exception of the bottom area...
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Antique Japanese 2-section isho tansu (chest on chest for clothing) from Yonezawa Area. Drawer fronts are made of kiri (paulownia) wood, frame is made of sugi (cryptomeria) wood. 4 large drawers and 2 small drawers. Iron hardware includes round lockplates with butterfly mon (family crests) of the Taira Clan.
Meiji Period (1868-1912)
Dimensions: 41 1/2" high x 35 1/2" wide x 15 3/4" deep.
Meiji Period (1868-1912)
Dimensions: 41 1/2" high x 35 1/2" wide x 15 3/4" deep.
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A Japanese copper writing box used for paper and writing supplies. The lid is engraved with grape leaves and grape clusters. The border is nail studded. The interior is beige velvet.
Date: Taisho c1920
Dimensions: 11" X 9.25" X 2.75"
Date: Taisho c1920
Dimensions: 11" X 9.25" X 2.75"
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A Nihon Matsu tansu with hinoki (cypress) wood drawers. The round lock plates on each drawer feature a bird and bamboo leaf motif. There are 4 large drawers with spacious interiors and on the right lower side is a safe box door with key with two interior drawers.
Date: Meiji c1900
Dimensions: 51" X 45" X 17.5"
Date: Meiji c1900
Dimensions: 51" X 45" X 17.5"
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Chinese blue and white porcelain planter, decorated with cobalt blue underglaze designs of scrolling vines and flowers and three round medallions depicting waterside scenes, rock formations in the background and fishermen, huts, and pine trees in the foreground. The inner and outer rim are decorated with a band of floral scrolls and flowers. The foot tapers slightly and is decorated with a band of various auspicious objects.
Dates from the 19th century Dimensions: 9 3/4" w x...
Dates from the 19th century Dimensions: 9 3/4" w x...
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A rare, large architectural Buddhist temple carving of a Dragon (Ryu), with reverse glass painted eye. The high relief carvings show the dragon's body coiled behind clouds of smoke and waves. Its serpentine body reveals his 3 appendages with classic three claw anatomy. The relief is solid keyaki "zelkova serrata" wood with the original red patina.
The dragon which symbolizes the heavenly realm has control of rain, fire, and earth. Dragons are the powerful embodiment of yin and yang and are se...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700
item #1403334
(stock #EW3136)
EastWest Gallery
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An Ai Kakiemon dish decorated with a repeating pattern of Hosoge, flowers of Precious appearance, which in this case would appear to be representations of auspicious Pomegranate fruits constructed from Ruyi, Acanthus style leaves and other disparate elements. The ring of Hosoge pierced by a circlet binding them together with a central motif of a gobenka. The reverse decorated with a lotus arabesque, karakusa, and a stylised fuku mark within a double square; a mark exclusively used by the Kaki...
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Antique Vietnamese polychromed figure of a standing Buddha, with red, black, and gold gilt lacquer traces. He stands on a lotus pedestal atop a wood platform. With small losses consistent with age.
Circa 1900
Dimensions: 7 1/2" w x 6 3/4" d x 17 3/4" h
Circa 1900
Dimensions: 7 1/2" w x 6 3/4" d x 17 3/4" h
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1900
item #1403208
(stock #EW3135)
EastWest Gallery
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A finely potted Hirado dish featuring three figures wearing capes and carrying heavy packages upon their backs descending down a high mountain trail. Inferred by the small gnarled Pine trees on the wayside. Although no particular scene is identifiable the figures are in Hokusai “style”.
The reverse is painted with a Karakusa arabesque and has a single spur mark within the base of the footring. The dish dates to the late Edo period and the middle of the 19th century. The dish measures 18...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1900
item #1403204
(stock #EW3134)
EastWest Gallery
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A finely potted six sun sized dish decorated with a traveller clutching his hat and leaning into a cold wind before a snow covered Mount Fuji. The design would appear to be derived from a print of travellers in the Mishima pass, one of the 36 views of Mount Fuji.
The reverse painted with a Karakusa arabesque with a single spur mark to the base. The dish dates to the late Edo period and the middle of the 19th century. The dish measures 18.2cm in diameter and stands 3.4cm high at the rim. It we...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1900
item #1403197
(stock #EW3133)
EastWest Gallery
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A well potted Hirado six-sun dish painted with a landscape with figures in the distance fording a river. This would appear to be a representation of the arduous crossing on the river Oi part of the Tokaido, probably derived from a topographical view, such as the Tokaide meisho ichiran, or similar.
The reverse painted with a Karakusa arabesque with a single spur mark to the base. The dish dates to the late Edo period and the middle of the 19th century. The dish measures 18.2cm in diameter an...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1900
item #1403196
(stock #EW3132)
EastWest Gallery
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A finely potted six-sun dish painted with the subject of two fisherman in a boat in the style Of Hokusai. The design is probably derived from several sources, notably the prints “Fishing in Rough Water” at Takamizawa, one of the 100 views of Mount Fuji and “Long line Fishing” on the Miyato river.
The reverse painted with a Karakusa arabesque with a single spur mark to the base. The dish dates to the late Edo period and the middle of the 19th century. The dish measures 18.2cm in diameter...
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. This type of design would have required great dexteri...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1403193
(stock #EW3130)
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 These belong to a class of design 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. This type of design would have required great dexterity and skil...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1403192
(stock #EW3129)
EastWest Gallery
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A nagazara of conventional rectangular form decorated somenishikide style, a combination of underglaze blue, sometsuke, and, nishikide, enamelled decoration. Nishiki literally means brocade. In this case a dense diaper pattern made up of repeating and contrasting cells of Karahana against an iron red ground and five petal flowers, presumably, ume hana, Plum flowers against a striated green ground, usually used to suggest pine needles. Inset within the brocade ground niche shaped reserves with st...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800
item #1403191
(stock #EW3128)
EastWest Gallery
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A nagazara of conventional rectangular form decorated somenishikide style, a combination of underglaze blue, sometsuke, and, nishikide, enamelled decoration. Nishiki literally means brocade. In this case a dense diaper pattern made up of repeating and contrasting cells of Karahana against an iron red ground and five petal flowers, presumably, ume hana, Plum flowers against a striated green ground, usually used to suggest pine needles. Inset within the brocade ground niche shaped reserves with st...
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Antique Japanese large single section todana tansu. Made of hinoki (Japanese cypress) wood. This piece 4 horizontal rows with 4 drawers in each row for a total of 16 drawers. All of them are the same size. The hardware is made of iron and each drawer has a warabite shaped drawer pull.
Meiji Period (1868-1912)
Dimensions: 29" high x 65 1/2" wide x 17 1/8" deep.
Meiji Period (1868-1912)
Dimensions: 29" high x 65 1/2" wide x 17 1/8" deep.
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A genuine original copper engraved plan of the Chinese city of Quinzay (Hangchow) based upon the account given by Marco Polo in the late 12 century.
From Mathew Merian's 'Topographica' published in Frankfort in 1638.
Hand coloured. Image size 18.1 x 25 cm. Two sheets joined as published, some browning on far left border.
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Japanese women's small tansu with hardwood drawers, and charming burl front panels. The gilt copper hardware conveys floral motifs of Kiri leaves, flower petals, and fruit. The chest is configured with eight drawers of varied size and a pair of small sliding door panels opening to a roomy compartment. Each drawer has a plush black material lining.
Taisho Period - circa 1920's
Dimensions: 21 1/4" l x 11 3/4" d x 11 3/8" h
Taisho Period - circa 1920's
Dimensions: 21 1/4" l x 11 3/4" d x 11 3/8" h
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Japanese hand-forged iron jizai, used for suspending a tea kettle over a fire pit within the home. Made with a charming iron fish with incised details of scales, face, and separately attached fins.
Edo period (1603-1868)
Dimensions: 8" w x 48" - 53" long
Edo period (1603-1868)
Dimensions: 8" w x 48" - 53" long
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A stunning Chinese porcelain Dayazhai-type jar grisaille painted with yellow ground. The monochromatic imagery of black and grey peonies against a yellow enamel ground scrolls around the body under a band of ruyi heads below a band of key-fret. With descriptive tag on the base "From the Hall of Embodied Harmony". There is also a Museum Porcelain Exhibition tag. The tag has some losses but shows that the Exhibition was in the 1960's - item #238. It appears to be ...ingham, AR
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Antique Chinese vase with lid, made of green jadeite, with 8 faceted sides. Carved with scrolling floral motifs and filigree, with open carved filigree handles. The lid has a large finial over carved drapery. The base is carved with a lotus form over the tall, deeply recessed foot.
Dimensions: 4" w x 3 1/2" d x 11 3/4" h
Dimensions: 4" w x 3 1/2" d x 11 3/4" h
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Antique hand-woven bamboo basket, originating from the Jarai culture in Vietnam. Secured with wood frame, baskets of this kind were primarily used for collecting and storing rice. The lid is woven with a tall, wood finial with pierced hole for securing it down with ties. The sides of the basket are woven with alternating darker and lighter bamboo to create a pair of bands over a geometric diamond design, with remnants of red pigments.
Dimensions: 14 1/2" W x 34 1/2" H
Dimensions: 14 1/2" W x 34 1/2" H
