Catalog: Vintage Arts (352)

This is part of the Chinese zodiac--a ram.

This is a tiny cat reclining.

This finely carved wooden toggle is a monkey sitting on a barrel 桶.

These are three hand-carved wooden stands for small objects.

Tiny frog. This tiny toggle has the same carving on both sides.

Here is a monkey 候 with an interesting face on an un-carved seal.

This porcelain snuff bottle has a painted peacock 孔雀 on each side.

1970 010 Poem Maki 17 April 2003 RL CAM ''Poem 70-10''; 22.625'' x 15.875''; Ed of 155; yellow spots; Y5000, $13.88 On the Big Prints of 1970 In 1970 quite suddenly Haku Maki started producing truly large prints. These were dramatic and somewhat unexpected., they were all at lease 24 x 24 and extended in size to 35 x 35 with huge woman extended to 36 x 72 all in 1970 Then no Big ones unease until Big Mu done in 1973 Then no more huge ones...

Wooden plaque with different carved scenes on two sides.

Japan Haku Maki 1965 or so Cell B This is a very early Maki print . He did it no later than 1966 it depicts many cells of a human all done very explicitly and clearly Cell was an early Maki theme He used it less than a dozen times the cells must have been busy re-creating themselves But here they seem calm and static Embossed z

Wooden plaque with shou夀

Wooden plaque with the same scene carved on both sides

Wooden plaque with people carved differently on both sides.

Well-carved horse.

This toggle is a nicely carved dog.

Pig on uncarved seal.

Haku Maki (1924 to 2000) was an important late 20th Century Japanese printmaker. He created images often using kanji (originally: Chinese characters) as the theme for his prints. He created about 2000 different images. Many are known. Here I present a number of images which I had never seen until this year even as I have gathered many...

This is a black hard-wood, tall (4cm) ink box.