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All Items : Vintage Arts : Decorative Art : Jewelry : Pre 1980 item #1490828 (stock #2036)
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$350.00
This ring has been in my collection for decades, since 1980 in fact. It’s called Serenity but I’ve always called it my flattened egg ring. According to Georg Jensen archives, the ring was designed by Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe in 1974 (sometimes people accredit it to other designers). It is no longer in production.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Decorative Art : Jewelry : Pre 1960 item #1490827 (stock #2034)
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This wonderful sleek brooch, designed by Henning Koppel for the Georg Jensen silversmithy 70 years ago, continues to attract attention in 2024. Produced in 1954, I bought it in the 1960s. It is no longer in production.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1488956 (stock #975)
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Haku Maki loved the kanji (Chinese character) for dragon—and he did it more than once. Both of the above—Work 73-14 A on the left and Work 73-12A—were done in 1973. Read about them in more detail below at stock numbers 1005 and 1039. NOTE: Those born in the Dragon year were born in 1928, 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012, 2024.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1488521 (stock #977)
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$475.00
This print is Haku Maki’s 78-6 水Water, number 108 in an edition of 151. Earlier that year,1978, he had already produced dramatic single-kanji large black and white prints. The first two, 78-1 Mountain and 78-2 Water, both horizontal prints, were 17in W x 9.25in H. They were followed soon after by 78-6, also horizontal. But this depiction of the kanji for water is nearly twice the size of the previous two: his 78-6 is 32.5 inches wide and 17 inches high (83cm W X 43.5cm H). Hence, the drama of his black-and-white calligraphy is here even more pronounced. The print is embossed and carries some calligraphy in the upper right quadrant of the print that he applied by hand, after drawing the prints.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1990 item #1483697 (stock #979)
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$500.00
Haku Maki did some purely white prints—some had a small splash of color, others had none. This one, 81-3, offers three white plump persimmons. Persimmons were an oft-used subject, sometimes a single depiction of the fruit, sometimes two, but very rarely three persimmons and even more rarely done only in white. The print measures 9.5in W x 10.75in H and is in excellent condition. An edition of 130, this one is number 90.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1990 item #1483696 (stock #981)
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$550.00
Figure 1 is one of a large group of prints that were themselves usually large in size and in subject—one Chinese character in red on a black background. Daniel Tretiak called these prints Big Reds. Maki tended to insert one or more of such prints in the Figure, Poem and Work series. This Figure is number 8 of an edition of 50. It measures 14in wide X 21.75in high. There is tape residue on all four sides of the back—it has no impact on the front. Like virtually all of his Big Reds, this Maki print is striking, attention-getting in any room.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 2000 item #1483695 (stock #983)
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$375.00
This print Z-446B was one of a small number of creations that he put on hard, gold-edged board. Daniel Tretiak wrote that these prints “were printed first on very thin paper, which was then ‘wrapped’ around heavy shikishi board. They are lithographs not done from wood blocks. Done in 1999, this work measures 7.25in x 8.25in, is in excellent condition, and one of an edition of 77.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 2000 item #1483694 (stock #985)
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$225.00
This silkscreen offering is said by some to depict Kabuki make-up. It is 8sq inches and in excellent condition. See picture 4, the title, where Maki seems to have written Kuma 92/--his numeral 1 was usually a straightforward vertical 1.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1473342 (stock #987)
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$875.00
Poem 70-10 is the kanji for day 日. It is a striking, simply executed print. Created in 1970, it is now over a half-century old. The print is 17.5in W x 24.5in H, large (but not huge). As Daniel Tretiak has said: In 1970 quite suddenly Haku Maki started producing truly large prints. He tells us that this one was large but Maki was destined to do even larger ones, that year and in 1973.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 2000 item #1473341 (stock #989)
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$300.00
J-10 is an exciting example not only of Haku Maki’s depiction of Chinese characters but also his use of a hard gold-edged board (instead of simple single or multiple sheets of paper). In the last year of Maki’s life, Daniel Tretiak tells us, he was ill but continued to work. He did lithographs on shikishi board, which was a hard board covered in white rice paper. The back was yellow with a small design in gold and the whole board is gold-edged. These words apply to J-10 as well. J-10 measures 7.25in W x 8.25in H. It is in excellent condition.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1473340 (stock #991)
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$300.00
Collection 30 is one of the many striking prints of ceramics that fascinated Maki from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. Maki’s ceramic prints conveyed the “feel” of the bowls or cups or wine vessels—a sense of how it would feel if touched was imparted to the viewer through his ability to suggest texture in his prints. In this case, a black bowl has red places showing through the black, suggesting that the potter fired it first with a red glaze, then decided to cover it by coating it with black paint. Collection 30 is 9.5in W x 10.75in H. Created in 1979 (the date is in the Maki signature), the print is in great condition with only slight toning suggesting it was at some point framed.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1473339 (stock #993)
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$375.00
What fun this print is—a swirl of kanji virtually unreadable but a delight to the eye. 79-9 was done in 1979 and measures 9.25in W x 10.75in H. The print is in excellent condition.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1473338 (stock #995)
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$275.00
Poem 70-19 is one of the fairly small group of deep blue prints that Maki made. This one is 5.75 in W x 8.5in H and created in 1970. It is in good condition, with some toning due to its once having been framed.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1970 item #1471655 (stock #997)
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$700.00
Haku Maki in 1968 did a group of prints depicting animals from Asia’s Zodiac, which has an animal for each year in a 12-year cycle. Maki called this series of prints Animal Song. This one is Animal Song 申, the character for the Year of the Monkey. The print is square, measuring 17 1/8 in W x 17 1/8in H, and is in excellent condition.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1970 item #1471654 (stock #999)
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An interesting and rather unusual part of the Emanation series that Haku Maki began to produce in the mid-1960s, Emanation 73 measures 8.3inW x 11.3inH and is the fourth of a small run of 50.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Woodcuts : Pre 1980 item #1471653 (stock #1001)
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Poem 71-71 is a Maki depiction of 子 Child and is one of those large red kanji on a black background that Daniel Tretiak valled a Big Red. This one measures 12in W by 17.5in H and is no.13 of an edition of 153. It is in excellent condition.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1471652 (stock #1003)
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$280.00
Over the course of his print-making life, Haku Maki often depicted the kanji for Man, Woman, and Child. This is a “man” from 1979; it measures 9.5in W x 10.75in H and numbers 42 of a total edition of 204.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1471651 (stock #1005)
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$395.00
Dragons—or at least the kanji for them—featured often in Haku Maki’s work. Work 73-12A –black kanji on white—came out first in 1973 and was followed quickly by a black dragon on red (which follows this one on this site). It measures 11.5inW x 15.25inH, is 16 of an edition of 103, and is in good condition