Catalog: Antiques: Regional Art (8)

This is an exquisite bronze vase in a baluster form, inlaid with silver, copper, shakudo and gold accents, as in the elaborately detailed leaves of a fruit tree with gold fruit and partial branches that are in gold, some leaves are depicting where they have been eaten by insects, and near the bottom is a pair of quail and a bird perched on a branch, and one bird and an insect in flight...

SC43 SOLD This beautiful censor is superb in its craftsmanship, with an ovoid body that is decorated various scenes around the body, (that tell a story about the history of that time), that are inlaid with copper and silver, of a man seated in a throne near a man seated behind a desk and someone standing behind holding a banner, and on the reverse side is a man in a horse-drawn carriage with another man falling off a horse with his legs in the air, and a person holding a banner, above is a wide...

This magnificent woven cut silk and silver (metal) tapestry various floral arrangements in bronze containers, a Ding, Gui, Censor and a small Jue without flowers, with two books wrapped in ribbon, tea pot and cup, a bowl with grapes, and in the foreground various fruit, pomegranate, citron, ginseng, peach, pears, persimmon, and pumpkins all in beautiful soft colors of gray, light pale blue, and pale green with accent colors of a soft orange and brown accented with silver threads...

This marvelous Japanese large ceramic palace floor vase was made for the World Expositions in the West 1855-1900 Paris, Vienna, and Chicago during the Victoria era. It is a tall vase with a long-flared neck and fluted rim and is finely painted with a floral and bird motif in various shaped panels with a stripped design. Age: Late Meiji Period (1868-1912) Condition: Excellent Size: 49 ¼” high (125. cm)

This finely painted screen with a fall festive scene with men, women and children. A raised platform with red hanging lanterns with male and female figures. In the background are buildings and mountains. The background is 22 kt. gold squares. The black lacquer wood frame with sings of age. Condition: is excellent, on the backside the paper backing has a small tear toward the bottom...

Finely decorated censor with a round full body and narrow neck, the lid with scrolled openings and temple lion shishi finial, on a tripod curved feet of heads of creatures with beards, body decorated with a undulating dragon with a raised white dotted glaze and religious personages with gold halos. An inscription on the base in gold lettering on a reddish-brown glaze. It has the Shimazu mon. Age: 1868-1912 Condition: good condition Size: 11” high 9” wide (28 x 22 cm)

This finely detailed Tibetan thank of a seated Buddha sitting on a lotus pedestal holding a blue bowl that is emblematic of healing powers, and he is surrounded by the various jatakas, displaying the tales of the various stages of the Buddha's life starting with his birth, with white elephants and stylized lions, It is superbly painted in great detail with minerals and pigments on cloth, and beautifully framed with silk mat and gilt frame...

This impressive finely painted ancestral painting is on paper and of a civil official and his wife, dressed in formal robes, seated on elaborate chairs that are draped with animal skin with whiskers. The gentleman is wearing a dark blue robe with a rank badge of a white bird designating his rank and facing the sun which an emblem for the emperor and he has long nails to show that he does not do any physical work...