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Petrie-Rogers Gallery
$500.00 Rare Japanese limited edition sosaku hanga woodblock print by Shizuma Uchida (1906-2001) titled "Chichibu Mountainous Region." The title and signature of the artist are in black ink at the lower right with the artist's red seal below. The bottom margin is pencil-signed "S. Uchida," titled in kanji, and numbered 6/20. Paper: 11 1/2" x 14 3/4" (image: 10 1/2" x 14"). This image is undated, but the artist was known to have been active as a printmaker in the 1930s. Very good overall condition. ...
Momoyama Gallery
$3,800.00 On behalf of a Dutch collector Here is another stunning chawan, a Nogime (hare's fur) Tenmoku tea bowl from the Jian Kilns - made in the Southern Song era (Chinese: 南宋; 1127–1279). Such tea bowls were one of the first tea bowls in Japan, which came together with the first tea from China. Little refined iron bearing clay, with iron oxide, thrown into the typical tenmoku shape. The bowl was tilted a little in the sagger so the flat pool of glaze inside is a little til...
Zentner Collection
SOLD Antique Chinese hardwood ruyi scepter, naturalistically carved in the gnarled form of a lingzhi mushroom. A ruyi (meaning "as desired" or "as you wish" in Chinese) is a symbol of power and good fortune. Larger ruyi were held by nobility as scepters, smaller ruyi acted as a talisman. Because of it's many medicinal uses and it's power to balance one's qi (life force), lingzhi fungus is often seen in Chinese art as a symbol of health and longevity.
Republic Period (1912-1949)
Zentner Collection
SOLD Antique Japanese small bronze door latch in the form of a rabbit. The rabbit sits on a section of hollowed out log. The log is patinated green and the rabbit, a deep orange. With signed tomobako.
Age: Taisho/Showa Period (circa early 1900's) Dimensions: 1 1/4" high x 2 1/8" long x 1 1/4" wide
Zentner Collection
Price on Request A rare small size bronze Laos rain drum. Would have originally been given as a gift to a wealthy family's children to play. Stunning relief work seen with great detail on all sides. Pair of four frogs sit atop the flat surface. Excellent original condition with beautiful patina consistent with age.
With a lot of respect, if not fearfully, Kmmu played bronze drums for all kinds of ceremonies: to pray for the rain to come or to stop, to protect against animals or thieves in harvest times...
Abacus Asian Art
Sold, Thank you very much A very rare blue and white tripod censer standing on three legs, well balance potted with two straight ears, surrounded to the neck with six emblems mark. The body with the design of three friends of winter, these are the bamboo, prunus and plum blossom and one Fungus scroll such known as Ruyi. Ming Dynasty 15th century possibly Interregnum period Thianshun to Early Chenghua period. Found at Kalimantan Island Indonesia. Condition is very good, no any chip, no any crack and free from any restorat...
Abacus Asian Art
Inquire for Price A Southern Song Dynasty Longquan area celadon lotus bowl, covered overall with olive green glazed. Condition is very good, no any chip, no any crack and free from any restoration. Diameter: 16,5 cm and Height: 5,5 cm.
Abacus Asian Art
Sold, Thank You Very Much An early celadon ewer with small crackled glaze to entire body, covered with a deep green glazed. Base with spurs mark and glazed. Northern Song Dynasty possibly earlier. Condition is very good, no any chip, no any crack and free from any restoration. Found at Java Island. Height: 14,5 cm.
Global Ceramics
$120.00 Carved amber glass snuff bottle, a stylized animal head to each side. China, late 19th century. Height "2/ 5.2 cm. Condition: minimal nicks to rim (cf. pics).
Modern Japanese Ceramics
sold, with thanks! I find this piece captivating, the golden thorns rupturing the rough and blank matte white clay. When I asked the artist about his concept, he explained the clay body is the individual formed by self-image, societal pressure, ego, all the things which constrict our actions and channel our emotions. The thorns are the true inner self bursting out of the surface, irrepressible, they pierce the shell and shine like the sun. Though the visible surface may be flat, rough-hewn, colorful, torn, mat...
Zentner Collection
$1,600.00 Antique Japanese figure of seated Quan yin, made of carved cinnabar lacquer. She is seated on a lotus throne and holds a scroll in her hands. Her robes are carved all over with floral and Buddhist motifs. Her facial expression is serene, befitting her role as goddess of compassion.
Age: Meiji Period (1868-1912) Dimensions: 6 1/4" high x 3 1/2" wide x 3 1/4" deep
Zentner Collection
$2,000.00 Antique Nepalese bronze figures of Yama Dharmaraja and Yami in tantric embrace. The buffalo headed Buddhist protector, Lord of Death and Justice stands with his consort. He tramples a male buffalo with one foot, a female victim with the other. He brandishes a skull-tipped stick in his right hand and his hair streams out in flames behind his horns.
Age: 19th century Dimensions: 5 1/4" high x 3 1/4" wide x 2" deep
Zentner Collection
Price on Request Antique Chinese pair of ornately carved gilt wood panels. Each panel is a mirror of the other and depicts a scholarly display of flowers in an elaborately carved vase. Among the flowers are lotus, peonies, berry stalks and blossoming fruit branches. Attracted to the berries, are a pair of kingfishers. Each vase stands on a multi tiered display with scrolls in boxes and upright containers surrounded by bats and kylin (qilin). Later backed with dark purple glass.
Age: 19th century <...
Welcome To Another Century
$140.00 A long woman’s summer obi made of thin silk, woven in jacquard and openwork techniques with chrysanthemums or asters interlaced with fences of plaited bamboo leaves. On this, in Yuzen dye technique, imitating an ink drawing, several areas painted with cart wheels floating in waves.
The obi has been opened; a practice quite common in order to have the material cleaned. There is a paper (dry) cleaner’s tag on the obi. Japan, ca. 1950s. L ca. 13 ft, H ca. 13 inches Fe...
Mastromauro Japanese art
Price on Request A large Japanese wood okimono of a shishi with its puppy on a wooden base. Silk, enamel and glass eyes.
Edo period 18th century
Sizes: 37 x 50 x 30 cm
Condition report: Good condition
Mastromauro Japanese art
EUR €1,200 A shell incense box (kogo) painted in relief pure gold with waka writing inside with probably poetic or romantic references.
Very similar to shells for the game of kaiawase, but larger in size.
Edo period 19th century
Sizes: 5 x 10 x 8 cm
Condition report: Good condition – with tomobako
The size of Box: 4 1/4" Square x 2 3/8", Medallion size: 2 5/8" Dia x 1/4" High dome shape.
The si"e of Presentation Box: 9 7/8" Long x 7" Wide x 3 1/4" High. The title of work: Dream Mist. The design depicted from Nadeshiko (Dianthus, Pink) flowers with such a delicately made by very thin/fine silver wires. This Japanese Cloisonne, Shippo Medallion was created by Fine Japanese Cloisonne Artist, Shinya Okamoto from Chiba Prefecture, Japan. I am proudly present first time his work for selling in...
Zentner Collection
SOLD Antique Japanese wooden bowl carved in the form of a wide lotus leaves. On the inside of the bowl, a frog with turquoise eye climbs the stalk of a lotus blossom. Two more frogs cling to curling leafy edges. The underside of the bowl is carved like the underside of a lotus leaf including it's spiraling stalk.
Age: Meiji Period (1868-1912) Dimensions: 12 1/4" wide diameter x 3 1/4" high |
