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The Kura
Sold, with thanks! A vibrant bowl in the shape of an aubergine decorated with soaring cranes and clouds by Heian Isso enclosed in the original artist signed wooden box, the inside of which is decorated with a wispy poem by friend and compatriot Otagaki Rengetsu. The bowl is large at 26 x 29.5 x 7 cm (10 x 11-1/2 x 3 inches) and is in excellent condition. This is a very interesting piece, clearly made by Isso, but the box decorated by Rengetsu, showing the depth of their friendship and artist relationship...
Zentner Collection
$1,500.00 Antique Japanese light summer kesa (Buddhist Priest's vestment). Made with a sheer layer of black silk embroidered with silver crayfish medallions and lined with white silk.
Often described as a mantel or robe, the kesa is worn draped diagonally over the left shoulder and under the right armpit. Meant as a reminder of the Buddha's own simple patched garment, kesa are formed from many fragments of cloth...
Zentner Collection
SOLD An antique Japanese Nagoya Mizuya Tansu (kitchen chest) made of Keyaki (Zelkova) and Hinoki (Cypress) woods. All original bronze hardware. 2 section set. Upper section features 2 sets of sliding doors and four side by side drawers below. Bottom section has a pair of sliding doors and 3 side by side drawers. Originally used as a kitchen chest to store large jars of water, dishes, cooking utensils and serving ware...
Modern Japanese Ceramics
Sold, Thank you! Delicate pink and blue fan-shapes like the scales on some iridescent tropical fish or feathers on an exotic bird rise in an overlapping pattern to form this open flower receptacle by Kusaba Yuji enclosed in the original signed wooden box. Neriage is well known in Northern Japan thanks to living National Teasure Matsui Kosei who worked in colored clay, however it is unheard of in Southern Japan, and in this case, made of colored porcelain...
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1920
item #1463566
(stock #Shotei142A)
Era Woodblock Prints
$1,500 Shotei Takahashi (Hiroaki) (1871-1945)
The Pond of Senzoku Date: Pre-1923. Size: Mitsugiriban. 15 x 6.75 inches. Shotei seal at left. Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Reference: M-108 in Shotei catalog. Watanabe #684. Ota-ku 2005 Catalog #62. Medium: Japanese woodblock print. Condition: Two pieces of tape at back margin. Light toning. Fray at top left margin...
Momoyama Gallery
sold Wonderful white Raku Chawan with a barley seen notched foot and highly sophisticated form. It was made in the Kaei Era 4, which is the year 1851 during the Japanese Edo Period...
Forestangel Asian Antiques
$1,500.00 This is an excellent and intricately carved very charming netsuke, made by our own Pennsylvania native, David Carlin. He describes it as a "Model of 3 elderly bearded gentlemen, each leaning on the back of the other with the first two carrying blind man's canes.
The third holds a bottle into which "DC" is etched in a double square cartouche. Each dressed in a robe with a rope belt.”. Natural Himotoshi is formed by the first Blind Man's arms. Netsuke is heavily polished...
Momoyama Gallery
sold One of such rare antique Hagi Chawan with wonderful milky white glaze from the 18th century, perfectly thrown and highlighted with an old gold restoration, a fantastic gintsugi (kintsugi) which makes our Hagi tea bowl even more valuable and outstanding. Like many of the great Japanese ceramic traditions of western Japan, Hagi originated with Korean potters...
Zentner Collection
SOLD An unusually small size Nagoya Mizuya Tansu in 1 section made of Hinoki (Cypress) and Sugi (Cryptomeria) woods. 3 sets of sliding doors with spacious storage behind each set. 4 side by side center drawers and 3 drawers at the bottom for additional storage needs. Narrow depth allows for placement in even the narrowest of hallways.
Age: Meiji Era: (1890-1900) Dimensions: 43 1/4" Wide by 49 1/4" High by 14 1/4" Deep
Conservatoire Sakura
$1,500.00 Cast bronze vase. Very elegant unusual shape. Decorated with a dragon in high relief. Probably Japanese rather chinese and very old Edo period, 18th century or before. The metal has an excellent patina of a beautiful brown color. Below a mark with Chinese characters.
205mm x 185mm. Slightly dented, barely visible. Original patina, not cleaned.
Japanese shin hanga woodblock print titled “Keisho” (Make-up), No 2, from a series of six self-published prints titled “Women’s Manners of Today” by Kobayakawa Kiyoshi (1899-1948). At the upper left, the print is dated 6th month of Showa 5 (1930) and signed with the artist's red bird/duck seal below. The title is in kanji in the lower margin. A seal at the lower left margin shows it is from a limited edition of 100...
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1960
item #1466425
(stock #Hasui593)
Era Woodblock Prints
SOLD Kawase Hasui
Ikegami Honmonji (Honmon Temple, Ikegami) Date: 1931. Size: Oban. Approximately 15 x 10.125 inches. Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Watanabe round 6mm seal, indicating a lifetime edition printed 1946-57. Signed and sealed within the image. Medium: Japanese woodblock print. Reference: Hotei #245. Condition: Adhesive residue at back visible only slightly in the tops of the trees. Note: One of Hasui's most loved snow scenes.
Momoyama Gallery
sold One of a kind - a rare 17th century Kiyomizu Chawan with a wonderful thick and vivid hand painted Sakura scenery. Such old Kiyomizu items in perfect antique condition are very, very rare. It comes with an antique wooden box. Kyo ware/Kiyomizu ware are works of art that illustrate the scenery of the four seasons in Kyoto or feature drawings that bring good luck. A lot of the vessels are made by using the technique wherein the clay is baked once before being painted...
Momoyama Gallery
sold A striking late 19th century Shigaraki Chawan with one of the most beautiful Kintsugi repairs we have ever seen...
Zentner Collection
1500.00 An antique Japanese Kusuri Tansu (herbal medicine chest) made of Kaki (Persimmon) and Kiri (Paulownia) woods. All original hand forged iron hardware with each pull ring decorated with a Chrysanthemum back plate. Some of the drawers still retain label remnants of the contents that it held. Constructed using hardened wooden nails and straight dovetail joinery. Consisting of 35 drawers.
The Kura
sold, thank you A radical image by the outlandish Doi Goga featuring a black devil and its child. The child reaches up to the monster, while the monster seems to be giving him a raspberry, his toungue flailing in the air. Ink on paper, it has been completely restored in beige cloth border with bone rollers reflecting the original mounting. The scroll is 42 x 181 cm (16-1/2 x 71-1/4 inches) ad is in excellent condition.
Doi Goga (1818-1880) was a Confucian scholar of the late Edo to Meiji periods. He was b...
Conservatoire Sakura
$1,500.00 Joli petit okimono en bois sculpté en forme d'enfant jouant du tambour. Sa robe est finement incrustée de motif de fleurs stylisées de différent matériaux, argent, os teinté, corne ou ébène et nacre. Dessous 2 caractères gravés sur une tablette de nacre indiquent le nom de l'artiste qui est certainement célèbre au regard de la qualité de l'oeuvre. Il manque quelques perles et les baguettes de tambours, mais celà ne nuit point à l'équilibre de la sculpture. Toutefois nous pouvons ...
Kyoto Ceramics and Fine Art
Sold, Thank You! Here we see a Chinese style celadon floral bowl by one of the 5 Imperial Court Artists of Meiji. The potter, Sozan, spent his life perfecting techniques for celadon production first used in the Southern Song Dynasty as evidenced here with his powdery blue “kinuta” glaze. The low-relief floral design really brings an elegance to this work and the celadon glaze seems to have an inner radiance all its own. Sozan (the first) was born in an area of what is known today as ... |
