One of his most popular new forms, this starkly arching elevated dish is by Murakoshi Takuma is covered in white over shadows of iron with areas of thin green revealing the clay beneath, weeping giant droplets onto the swirling center. It is called a Geta-zara, named after the traditional elevated wooden sandals worn in Japan in previous eras...

A challenging elegant form capped with a pierced lid by Yagi Akira enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Koro (Incense Burner). It is 13 cm (5-1/4 inches) diameter, 8.5 cm (3-1/4 inches) tall and enclosed in the original signed wooden box.
Yagi Akira was born in Kyoto in 1955, son of avant garde Yagi Kazuo (1918-1979) one of the founding members of Sodeisha. Akira was voted one of the 20 most important living artists by Honoho, Japans premier printed ceramic forum...

A devil plays the shamisen, a cup and bottle of sake at his knee, on this wide low bowl by Kiyomizu Rokubei V decorated by Nakajima Kaho with a poem scrawled about the outside enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Kaho-gajin hitsu Kashi-zara. It is 21.5 cm (8-1/2 inches) diameter 6 cm (2-1/4 inches) tall and in perfect condition. The box retains the original wrapping cloth stamped by Rokubei...

Very rare original 18th C. Edo Polychrome Japanese Oni devil oni boxwood statue. Original mineral pigment is intact, overall condition is very good and wear consistent of age. Bone inlay, very well carved. Small shrine compartment opens with figure inside. Wrapped in a swirling water dragon. Water dragon reveals a lotus pod reliquary above the head.

Provenance: Collectors Seal Tomkinson collection #266
Kevin Page, London UK
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Antique Japanese wood and lacquered with gilt gold stand. Carved detail of playful fu dogs and flowering peonies. Golt gilt over dark lacquer. Hand carved, complete. Sturdy and ready to be enjoyed today.

Age: Late Edo period circa 1800's

Dimensions: 34" wide x 13" deep 14" high

A ceramic fired bowl with red clay.
The diverse peoples of Papua New Guinea maintain some of the most unusual and distinctive ceramic traditions found anywhere in the world. New Guinea ceramists gather clay in the hills or swamps surrounding their villages and form it into wares that range from superbly functional cooking and storage pots to highly esoteric sacred figures...

An antique Meiji period Japanese carved wooden hanging wall mount. Lacquered and painted with mineral paints. Depicting Fish-basket Guanyin (Yulan Guanyin 魚籃觀音).

Age: Meiji period (1868 - 1912)

dimensions: 30" high x 17 1/2" wide

The bodhisattva Guanyin in the manifestation of a young lady with bare feet carrying a basket with a fish...

Unusual Edo period Japanese hanging Jizai with hand carved keyaki hardwood mother whale and calf as connecting mechanism. Bamboo vertical with help rope tie off point. Original condition, complete and functioning. Rare and beautiful to see with Wale and calf...

Antique Japanese keyaki hardwood shibayama mounted wall panel. Carved of wood, lacquer,  bone, and mother of pearl. A flower display dragon vase of lacquer displaying clippings of flowering dogwood. Carefully carved with great detail. Condition is very good and ready to be enjoyed and hung to a wall...

Japanese hardwood naturalist leaf tray. Leaf is carved both sides, accenting the natural twist of the wood. Finished with warm tone.

Age: 20th Century circa 1970's

Dimensions: 38" long x 11 1/2" wide x 3 1/2" high

Japanese shin hanga woodblock print by Toshi Yoshida (1911-1995) titled "White Plum in the Farmyard" dated in the left margin 1951. The artists's red seal is at the lower left and the print is pencil-signed in the lower right margin. Early lifetime edition likely dating from the 1950s/60s. Paper size: 15 3/4" x 10 5/8" (image: 14 1/2" x 9 1/2"). Very good color and overall condition.

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Art of assortment as art of retailing, as very scarce remains of Showa-Retro celluloid bookmarks attached on cardboard. 1950-60s, Japan. 27.5 x 40 cm (10.82 x 15.74in) each...

This simple white form floats effortlessly like a gull on the wind over the white wood stand by Yagi Akira enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Jiken, Clod 92-14. It is sheer porcelain supported by two metal rods on a straing grained wooden box. 47 cm (18-1/2 inches) long, roughly 4 cm diameter, and in perfect condition...

A Silent Shadows series sculpture by Sugitani Keizo enclosed in the original signed wooden box with engraved date beneath 220202. It is 16 x 13 x 25 cm (6 x 5 x 10 inches) and in excellent condition, directly from the artist this summer.
Although imbued with the rustic sheen of metal, Sugitani’s works are in fact creations in Shigaraki clay that are hand-built into interlocking forms that are almost Escher-esque in their simple complexity...

A sculpture of assembled ceramic shards by Yorigami Munemi in mottled moon colors enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled RE:CRATIONS, Banki (Disc).  It is 52.5 x 31.5 x 8.5 cm (21 x 12-1/2 x 3 inches) and in fine condition.
Yorigami Munemi was born in Kyoto in 1944, but went to Tokyo to study gardening at the Tokyo University of Agriculture, graduating in 1967.  Two years later he apprenticed in ceramics under Yagi Kazuo, founding member of the avant-garde Sodeisha gr...

An antique Japanese stacking Gyosho Bako (peddler's box) made of Kiri (Paulownia) wood. All original hand forged iron fittings with replacement cord. Seven stacking trays with a bottom eighth section housing an additional tray for products and a drawer where store supplies and money were kept. Top cover would be turned over to use as a product demonstration tray. Each tray has a recessed bottom that secures it to the underside tray. Constructed with hardened wooden nails.

Age: Edo Peri...

Stephen De Staebler Ceramic Sculpture.  (American, 1933-2011 in Berkeley, CA)  leg lower section in clay from knee down through foot into base.  Original pigment and coloring, condition is very good. Signed & Dated in clay on rear 1996 Dimensions: 33 1/2 x 10" x 18"

he was best recognized for his work in clay and bronze. Totemic and fragmented in form, De Staebler's figurative sculptures call forth the many contingencies of the human condition, such as resiliency and fra...

Very rare five dynasties yue mise covered box decorated with incised twin butterfly motive. 12 cm diameter. 3 cm high. Conditions : small chips on the fottrim of the base, no crack or hairline and free from restoration.