All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1900 item #1479972
Zentner Collection
$7,500.00
Antique Japanese rectangular box decorated with gold and silver dragonflies on a black lacquer ground. The lid is fastened on by a green chord. Inside is a removable tray lacquered with gold and silver crickets in wisps of golden grass. This box comes in a cedar tomobako.

Age: Meiji Period (1868-1912)

Dimensions: 5 1/8" high x 7 3/4" long x 5 1/2" wide
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre 1900 item #1479971
E & M Perez
$325.00
Large bright sampler, Latin American, likely Mexico or Guatemala, in wool yarn over loosely woven white backing, dated 1890, alphabets, numbers, multiple images, very densely embroidered. Measures 22 1/4" x 16 3/4" x 3/4" framed, fabric is roughly 15" x 20 1/4". Sampler is behind glass in a gilded wood frame, and is backed with a teal colored board, framing appears to be modern. The entire surface of the sampler is covered in design, with multiple examples of the alphabet, geometric bands, Gr...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Earthenware : Pre 1920 item #1479969
E & M Perez
$775.00
Matched pair of Satsuma vases with cobalt ground, each depicting two large panels with Japanese women and children in a landscape with a lakeside village and mountains in the background, flowering trees on outcroppings, gilding highlights over clothing of women and children, both signed with Shimazu crest and Kinkozan mark. Measure 12" high, 7" wide at shoulder, and 4 3/8" at base. Well painted and detailed vignettes of lovely women and children in an idyllic landscape, the images very similar...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Trade Arts : Pre 1920 item #1479966 (stock #BNJtortIvBox)
June Hastings
$395.00
Antique Chinese tortoise shell box with inset carved ivory plaque. Measures 3" x 2.5" and 1.75" high.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Metalwork : Pre 1900 item #1479954 (stock #2023-1120)
Japanese bronze representing two mice, one of them pulling a treasure bag.

The mouse or the rat (both called nezumi in Japanese), one of the zodiac signs, is a symbol of fortune. This bag can be compared to the treasure bag of Hotei, one of the seven gods of Happiness. A figure of prosperity, he is also the god of joy, abundance and the guardian of children...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Netsuke and Related : Pre 1920 item #1479949
Late Meiji to early Taisho (1910s)) netsuke of himono (dried fish, this one appears to be salmon) on top of a woven bamboo basket. Well captured essence of the objects, beautifully realistic desiccated texture of the fish. Cursively signed on the bottom - possibly reads KAWAYUKI. Excellent sense of volume, wonderful patina. Length 2.3 inches.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Netsuke and Related : Pre 1837 VR item #1479946
Late 18th to early 19th century glass ojime (slide bead for tightening the cord going from netsuke to inro) in ball shape with multicolored streaks. Beautifully made, wonderful feel of age, very pleasant patina. Diameter 0.75 Inches.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1479942 (stock #MC187)
Fine Tall Chinese Western Han Dynasty Painted Pottery "Stick" Girl

This fine and rare painted pottery figure of a nude girl was made during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 8), more specifically, the 2nd century BC. It is one of a variety of Han Dynasty "stick" figures. The vast majority of "stick" figures represent males; female figures are particularly rare...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1479937
Interesting black stone cylinder seal, Western Mesopotamia, Hittite / Provincial Assyrian style of the mid 2nd. millenium BC.

The seal is carved with a large bird and the Tree Of Life...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Textiles : Pre 1930 item #1479936 (stock #2020)
t a t a m i
$500.00


DECORATIVE HORSE ROPE

Tied-up rope made of twisting white and organic indigo dyed cotton once used for ritual horse-decoration, early 20th century, Japan. Tied as seen: approx. 30 x 90 x D 18 cm (11.81 x 35.43 x 7.08 in), Untied: approx. 1000 cm (393.70in)...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1900 item #1479922
Zentner Collection
Price on Request
Antique Japanese makie lacquer suzuri bako (writing box) and matching large stationary box signed with bold signatures on the bottom reading: 光琳 青々Kо̄rin Seisei, an artist name used by Ogata Kōrin (1658 – 1716).
Both boxes have domed lids and are decorated entirely in gold lacquer with highly raised designs of flowers and silver pine branches. The flowers are further embellished with inlaid shell...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Metalwork : Pre 1837 VR item #1479921 (stock #469)
Pair of cast bronze cranes. The birds are fixed on rectangular bases, they carry a vase on their back and a ball in their beak. Sometimes these birds hold in their beak a flowering stem which ends in a candle holder, but here, examination with a magnifying glass reveals neither fracture nor grinding, it would seem that they are simply balls.Is this related to the funerary practice of placing a ball in the mouth of the deceased? A scholar must surely know what it is...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Scholar Art : Pre 1900 item #1479919
Very unusual 19th century Chinese wooden scholar’s rock / object resembling a mountain surrounded by violent waves, and with an eery skull at its base. Probably meant to represent Mount Meru surrounded by a cosmic ocean: the mountain is considered to be the center of all physical, metaphysical and spiritual universe...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Scholar Art : Pre 1900 item #1479918
19th century Chinese scholar’s brush rest in a shape of a violently swirling tree root. Works as abstract sculpture as well. Beautiful and unusual black inky finish, wonderful patina, very pleasing shape. Excellent piece in scholar’s taste. Length 7 3/4 inches.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Devotional Objects : Pre 1900 item #1479917
19th century Japanese wooden nyoi - a Buddhist scepter - in a form of a branch with bulbous head. Nyoi, or Ruyi scepter is a traditional symbol of scholarship and transmission of knowledge. Natural tree branch with a growth forming the head of the scepter, no carving as such, wonderful patina to the surface from being handled, very pleasant to hold...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Devotional Objects : Pre 1900 item #1479914
19th century Japanese bronze for an altar of a Buddha seated in lotus position with his hands in anjali mudra - a gesture of greeting, prayer and adoration - in front of him. Very nicely cast, beautiful patina, good devotional object. Height 2.72 inches.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1479902
A fine cylinder seal carved in an attractive beige-orange stone, probably jasper or coral, Mesopotamia under the Achaemenid Empire, c. 7th.-5th. century BC.

High relief provincial depiction of the Great King wrestling with stags.

Size: c. 23-24 mm. tall.

Condition: Nice VF or better, the seal dirty and will improve when cleaned.

Ex. Danish Private Collection, this seal aquired in the early 1990s.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Egyptian : Pre AD 1000 item #1479884
JFF Ancient Art
€780.00

Nice ancient Egyptian cartonnage fragments with column of hieroglyphic text. These three cartonnage fragments have an interesting and old provenance. They come from the Commandeur Marius Cazeneuve (1839-1913, he was a French stage magician,
who became a close friend of the queen of Madagascar, Ranavalona III) collection;
he got a lot of antiquities from his friend, the noted Egyptologist and Director of the
Cairo Museum, Gaston Maspero...