£350.00
Approximately 31.7 cm high. The vase and box are both perfect.
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The Yoshidaya kiln was a short-lived venture, situated in Yamashiro, intended to revive earlier Kutani-style wares. The founding investor was Toyota Denuemon IV (aka Sekio, lived 1751-1827), a businessman who used the professional name Yoshidaya. He chose not to situate his kiln in Kutani because of the site's remote location, but his wares emulate the earlier Kutani wares in a variety of ways.
Approximately 15...
£135.00
Approximately 6.5 cm high.7.5 cm maximum width.
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The attractive dish with a misty village and waterfall scene within a moulded celadon border. The back celadon glazed to the foot-rim which contains a six-character Chenghua mark and five neat spur marks.
Approximately 29.3 cm diameter. Perfect condition.
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£330.00
Just a tad under 41 cm diameter. No cracks, chips or restoration. Some light wear from use.
Stand not included.
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The Yoshidaya kiln was a short-lived venture, situated in Yamashiro, intended to revive earlier Kutani-style wares. The founding investor was Toyota Denuemon IV (aka Sekio, lived 1751-1827), a businessman who used the professional name Yoshidaya. He chose not to situate his kiln in Kutani because of the ...
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The twelve sided dish with brown-dressed rim is decorated in enamels that appear to be an attempt to reproduce doucai wares. The decoration features a bee, a monkey, a bird and a deer in a landscape.This forms a rebus on the auspicious line ‘feng hou jue li’, “enfeoffment and emolument”.
A dish of the same design and size is included in the catalogue of the exhibition “Transitional Wares and Their Forerunners”, The Oriental...
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Approximately 15.5 cm diameter. No cracks or restoration, just some inevitable mushikui, “worm eaten edg...
£110.00
A 20th century production but hand carved.
Approximately 12.5 cm high. In fine condition
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Approximately 21.2cm diameter. P...
£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.
Please study the p...
£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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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 has a small edge chip, otherwise in perfect condition...
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The border pattern shows a striking similarity to that used for V.O.C. orders produced at the Hikeoba and Sarugawa kilns. Circa 1680.
Approximately 21.3 cm diameter. Perfect condition.
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£250.00
The border pattern shows a striking similarity to that used for V.O.C. orders produced at the Hikeoba and Sarugawa kilns. Circa 1680.
Approximately 21.3 cm diameter. Perfect condition.
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For a similar plate see ‘Ko-Imari Porcelain from the Collection of Oliver Impey, Barry Davies Oriental Art, 1997’ where it is noted that sherds of similar examples have been found at the Kakiemon kil...
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A similar whistle is illustrated in Christiaan J. A. Jorg’s ‘Fine & Curious, Japanese Export Porcelain in Dutch Collections.’
Approximately 7.6 cm long. Perfect condition.
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£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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Approximately 16.9 cm diameter. Perfect condition.
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The centre of the dish with a table display of bonsai-like foliage. The curved cavetto with plant-filled lozenges against a blue ground.
The mark within the foot-rim was used at the Chokichidani kiln and the Old Kakiemon kiln in the period 1655 ~ 1670’s.
Dishes with similar designs are to found in the catalogue of the Shibata Collection, Kyushu Ceramic Museum.
Approximately 21...
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Provenance: R&G McPherson Antiques, London W8.
Approximately 18.7 cm diameter. A tiny piece of kiln dross on the front, otherwise perfect.
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£195.00
Approximately 10.4cm diameter. Many signs of wear and polishi...
£180.00
Approximately 20.3 cm diameter. Perfect condition.
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£580.00
Approximately 9.2 cm high. In very good condition with only a little chipping to the back of the collar, noted in the photographs. A few age cracks as normal with this material and light wear from handling.
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Monju Bosatsu - Manjushri Bodhisattva of Wisdom. The painting appears to have great age and even though not in the best of condition it still has a compelling presence. It is painted on a composite sheet of thin paper, the joins can be seen as angled lines across the sheet and mounted as a kakemono. The painting is signed with a single seal impression in gold.
The painted area is approximately 106cm by 40.5cm. The painting has ho...
£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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£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 ...
£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...
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Two dishes of very similar shape are illustrated in the Catalogue of the Shibata Collection, items 2604 and 2635, dated to 1690 ~ 1730.
Approximately 13.8cm wide. In fine condition. In the photograph of the back the foot-rim looks a...
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In 52 years of business I have found only two of these unusual vases, this one I kept for my collection.
Approximately 16.7cm long. Perfect condition with only a little w...
£550.00
This fine dish is decorated with designs taken from Ming Chinese Wanli 'Kraak' wares and came about as a result of a disruption of Chinese production during a period of unrest. Dutch traders who found their Chinese trade stopped resorted to ordering from Japanese makers. The Japanese versions of these Kraak style pieces are usually thicker than the very thin Chinese Kraak wares and this has ensured their survival in often pristine condition. Thi...
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Approximately 21 cm diameter. Perfect condition with only a tiny piece of kiln dus...
£265.00
A pair of porcelain plates made for export to Europe at the end of the 17th century. The dishes with shallow foliate edges, the cavetto decorated with flower stems in the manner of Astor pattern porcelains. The centre of the plates feature a fine decorative flower basket. The back of each plate has a typical Kangxi lozenge mark.
Just under 22 cm and 21.5 cm diameter. The edge of the first plate has some small nibbles ...
£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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£265.00
Approximately 12cm diameter. Near perfect condition, there is a tiny fleabite to one of the points on the rim, noted in the photographs.
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£265.00
Approximately 12cm diameter. Perfect condition.
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£365.00
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£345.00
Approximately 20.6cm across, 6.4 cm high. Perfect condition with no frits, chips, cracks or rest...
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A fine and large porcelain bowl with a brown glaze draining from the mouth and leaving the rim with an attractive white line showing off the foliate edge. Within the foot-rim can be found the six-character mark shen de tang bo gu zhi, which may be translated, 'Antique made for the Hall for the Cultivation of Virtue'. The clear glaze has a distinct pale blue-green tinge. Noted is that the interior of the bowl exhibits a s...
£295.00
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. Mukozuke were used to serve the kaiseki meal, part of the for...
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Unusually, the coloured decoration appears to have been applied in Europe, not as ‘clobbering’ but in reserves left blank for just such painting. Sotheby’s sold a pair of jars and covers, perhaps from the same workshop, as “Japan, Edo period, 18th-19th century, the painted decoration, Piedmontese.” Sotheby’s, 1...
£2,250.00
The ritual vessels, bian, are made from fine strips of woven bamboo, the inner surfaces completely covered in lacquer. The earliest illustration of this form is from a Song period reproduction of a Han dynasty publication.
Bian of this exact design were used in offering ceremonies at the Qianlong Court and described and illustrated in ‘Huang chao li qi tu shi’ ( A pictorial guide to the ritual vessels of th...
£280.00
See Shibata vol II #612, for another example, dated to 1690-1710.
Approximately 17.4 cm diameter. In perfect condition.
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£165.00
Approximately 19.4 cm diameter. Perfect condition.
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d = 19.4 cm. Perfect condition
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Approximately 22 cm diameter. There is a filled flake to the front edge at roughly 12 o’clock, otherwise fine.
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Approximately 14.4 cm diameter. Perfect condition.
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£110.00
Approximately 14 cm diameter. Perfect condition. A little kiln dross in the cloud.
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£225.00
Approximately 22 cm diameter. Perfect condition.
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A spoon tray of this design was included in a Christie’s auction in 2009.
Approximately 13.2 cm long.
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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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£320.00
The cup is approximately 8cm diameter, the saucer is 14.8cm diameter. Perfect condition.
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£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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Approximately 16.7cm long. Perfect condition with only a little wear to the enamels from use.
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£265.00
Approximately 21.5cm high. The top of the neck has been damaged and pieces glued into place. The stopper is also glued into the neck. Slight loss to enamels here and there.
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£420.00
Each base has a ‘Fuki Choshun’ four-character mark in underglaze blue.
Two similar bowls are illustrated in the Catalogue of the Shibata Collection, #2673 and #2674. Dated to 1690~1730.
Approximately 9.5 cm square at the mouth and 6.8 cm high. One with a little very light age related non-stained crazing on...