£225.00
A beautiful and skilled painting of a flowering stem , painted in opaque water colour on a deep blue-grey ground. The paper is burnished on the back. India, 19th century or earlier.
Approximately 30.5 cm x 17.5 cm. Good condition but a short tear on the edge repaired with tape on the back. Slight age wear as expected.
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£225.00
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Approximately 22 cm diameter. Perfect condition.
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£220.00
A miniature Chinese cloisonne meiping vase, late 18th ~ early 19th century. Bright colours and good gilding. It is apparent that the wires are soldered which is a technique associated often with earlier wares.
Approximately 7.7 cm high. Small bruise on side with missing enamel. Tiny areas within the foot-rim where enamel is missing, manufacturing fault.
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£220.00
Each is approximately 6.5cm high, 6cm long. The first is in fine condition with some firing lines as issued. The second has a largish chip to the tail and leans slightly.
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£220.00
The Shibata Museum compendium has a pot of similar shape and cartouche, no nail head texture or iron dressing but with additional cobalt decoration, item#3782. 1780~1820.
This example is approximately 17.5 cm high. The handle has a very obvious stress crack but no other problem. Fine ...
£210.00
A Chinese paper fan with bamboo sticks, the paper centre is varnished in order to stiffen the paper. The bamboo sticks are decorated with a hot point, a technique known in the West as pyrography. There is a worn out silk tassel with a large amethyst bead.
Approximately 30 cm long. The fan is in fine condition overall but one or two on the bamboo inner sticks have short splits. These could be easily strengthened with glue.
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£195.00
Approximately 10.4cm diameter. Many signs of wear and polishi...
£195.00
Approximately 14.8cm width. The dish has light wear to the enamels from use. There is a shallow flake to the rim, noted in the photographs.
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£195.00
Arita porcelain, circa 1750 ~ 1780.
Approximately 18.7 cm diameter. Fine condition with only slight wear to the gold.
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Arita porcelain, circa 1750 ~ 1780.
Approximately 18.7 cm diameter. Fine condition with only slight wear to the gold.
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Constructed from steel it is a very strong weapon. The chiseled blade widens in thickness towards the tip to strengthen it when used against chain mail or armour.
This example has a chiseled decoration of fighting elephants on the blade and scrolling foliage on the arm protectors.
Just under 40cm length, the bl...
£185.00
Approximately 14.5 cm diameter, 5 cm high. Fine condition with only one shallow frit to the rim noted.
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£185.00
This is one of the most popular subjects and was probably produced as a souvenir (jatri pati) for pilgrims for whom the painting would become a personal family shrine. The paint...
£185.00
£185.00
A similar whistle is illustrated in Christiaan J. A. Jorg’s ‘Fine & Curious, Japanese Export Porcelain in Dutch Collections.’
Approximately 7.4 cm long. Perfect condition.
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£185.00
The delicate porcelain bowl decorated with breaking waves, autumnal maple leaves and chrysanthemum flowers. Within the foot-rim is a coloured ‘clove’ mark. The lid, of similar design, sports a splendid flowerhead knop.
Approximately 15.2 cm diameter. Generally in good state but with some stained crazing. The rim of the bowl has small flakes filled with white. The lid has a little roughness on one part of the ...
£180.00
There is the remains of a collectors mark on the back
Approximately 20 cm diameter. Perfect condition.
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£180.00
There is the remains of a collectors mark on the back
Approximately 20 cm diameter. Perfect condition.
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Approximately 20.3 cm diameter. Perfect condition.
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£165.00
Approximately 12.8 cm diameter, 6.5cm high. Perfect condition.
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Approximately 7.8 cm high. Perfect condition.
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£165.00
Constructed from steel in one piece it is a very strong weapon. The deeply fullered blade widens in depth towards the tip to strengthen it when used against chain mail or armour.
Just over 40cm length, the blade is 24cm (and sharp!) Good condition. It has an old armourer’s brazed repair to one arm. This might have be...
£165.00
Approximately 19.4 cm diameter. Perfect condition.
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£145.00
Frederick Starr was a professor of anthropology at Chicago University who first visited Japan in 1904 and made many subsequent visits. He wrote many papers on Japanese subjects but is probably best known in Japan for his interest in pilgrimage, he dressed in traditional pilgrim’s clothing and performed the Shikoku pilgrimage in 1917 and 1921. He became fascinated with the tradition of nailing name slips (nosatu) to te...
£145.00
An identical dish is illustrated in the Shibata Collection Vol.4, #303 where it is dated to 1770~1800.
Approximately 17.8 cm diameter. The dish has some light wear from normal use but is otherwise in fine condition.
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£145.00
An identical dish is illustrated in the Shibata Collection Vol.4, #303 where it is dated to 1770~1800.
Approximately 17.8 cm diameter. The dish has some light wear from normal use but is otherwise in fine condition.
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£145.00
An identical dish is illustrated in the Shibata Collection Vol.4, #303 where it is dated to 1770~1800.
Approximately 17.8 cm diameter. The dish has some light wear from normal use but is otherwise in fine condition.
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£145.00
An identical dish is illustrated in the Shibata Collection Vol.4, #303 where it is dated to 1770~1800.
Approximately 17.8 cm diameter. The dish has some light wear from normal use but is otherwise in fine condition.
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£145.00
An identical dish is illustrated in the Shibata Collection Vol.4, #303 where it is dated to 1770~1800.
Approximately 17.8 cm diameter. The dish has some light wear from normal use but is otherwise in fine condition.
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£135.00
Two dishes of very similar shape are illustrated in the Catalogue of the Shibata Collection, items 2604 and 2635, dated to 1690 ~ 1730.
Approximately 14cm wide. In fine condition. This dish has a fine scratch in the porcelain, benea...
£135.00
Approximately 6.5 cm high.7.5 cm maximum width.
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£125.00
Approximately 5...
£125.00
Approximately 47.3 x 23.4cm long. Laid onto backing paper. Some paper and paint losses. General wear and tear as expected with an old painting but such a good image, well worth some restoration.
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£120.00
Approximately 24 cm long. In fine condition. Noted are half a dozen insect holes in the lid, these are old and mostly filled in. Please note that the stand is not included with this item.
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£120.00
Ichieisai Yoshitsuya 1822 ~ 1866. was a pupil of Kuniyoshi.
Approximately 36 cm x 25cm. A few sewing holes in left margin. A good impression with fine fresh colour and in very good condition....
£120.00
He was a pupil of Andō Hiroshige.
A striking and decorative depiction of an European trading ship, ‘Black ship’,
Approximately 34.5cm x 23cm. Laid onto thick paper. A few stitching holes on right edge. Small damaged area on top...
£120.00
Approximately 18.5 cm diameter. Fine condition.
£120.00
Approximately 18.5 cm diameter. Fine condition. Tiny a...
£120.00
Approximately 18.5 cm diameter. Fine condition. Tiny ...
£120.00
Approximately 18.5 cm diameter. Fine condition. ...
£110.00
This print is from the celebrated set of reproductions of the best of ukiyo-e art published in 12 large vols. 240 woodblock-printed reproductions of famous ukiyo-e prints. 1914. The project was overseen by Hashiguchi Goyo, 1880-1921, who also provided text and cover designs. ...
£110.00
£110.00
Approximately 14 cm diameter. Perfect condition. A little kiln dross in the cloud.
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£110.00
A 20th century production but hand carved.
Approximately 12.5 cm high. In fine condition
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£110.00
Approximately 14.6 cm diameter. Perfect condition.
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Approximately 14.4 cm diameter. Perfect condition.
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Approximately 28.5cm high. One or two small dents from use.
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£95.00
Approximately 18.6 cm diameter. One ‘fleabite’ on t...
£85.00
Approximately 10.8 cm. Diameter. Perfect condition.
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£85.00
Approximately 10.8 cm. Diameter. Perfect condition.
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£75.00
An attractive Japanese Arita porcelain square dish with canted corners, decorated with an oversized sage lost in reverie by a lake. The unusual borders completely painted with figures in a landscape. Late 18th ~ early 19th century.
By repute once part of the Bigelow Collection and disposed by auction in New England a few years ago.
Approximately 15.5cm square. The dish is in perfect condition.
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£75.00
An attractive Japanese Arita porcelain square dish with canted corners, decorated with an oversized sage lost in reverie by a lake. The unusual borders completely painted with figures in a landscape. Late 18th ~ early 19th century.
By repute once part of the Bigelow Collection and disposed by auction in New England a few years ago.
Approximately 15.5cm square. The dish is in perfect condition.
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£75.00
An attractive Japanese Arita porcelain square dish with canted corners, decorated with an oversized sage lost in reverie by a lake. The unusual borders completely painted with figures in a landscape. Late 18th ~ early 19th century.
By repute once part of the Bigelow Collection and disposed by auction in New England a few years ago.
Approximately 15.5cm square. The dish is in perfect condition.
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£75.00
An attractive Japanese Arita porcelain square dish with canted corners, decorated with an oversized sage lost in reverie by a lake. The unusual borders completely painted with figures in a landscape. Late 18th ~ early 19th century.
By repute once part of the Bigelow Collection and disposed by auction in New England a few years ago.
Approximately 15.5cm square. The dish is in perfect condition.
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£75.00
Approximately 24 cm diameter. Perfect condition.
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£75.00
Approximately 7.2 cm high. Flea bite to one point, otherwise perfect.
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£65.00
A good impression with some gauffrage on the kimono collar. The mount is inscribed in pencil “Mafsanobu”.
Approximately 20.3 x 14.4 cm. The print is laid by the edges to thin card. It is foxed at the edges.
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A bottle of the same design from perhaps the same workshop was sold at Christie’s “The Art of China: Online Winter Sale” Dec. 2017. Lot 36. The colour comb...
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Approximately 40 cm high. In fine undamaged condition. I have shown some very shallow flakes on the inside of the neck, this appears to have occurred before the firing.
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