Playable Antique Japanese Buddhist temple hanging lacquered drum. Gold and black lacquer with deer skin hide. Base is secure with four indepenent feet. A round gold gilt flaming archway ascends above the trum. Black lacquer over wood. With hand forged iron nails neatly holding down the tight skin.

Age: Meiji Period 19th Century

Dimensions: 55" high x 26" wide

(After) Hiroshige Ando
Fireworks at Ryogoku on the Sumida River
Date: Monday, May 9, 1938.
Size: 7.5 x 5.25 inches (19 x 13.5 cm).
Note: Menu for the passenger ship Katori Maru on the N.Y.K. Line.
Publisher: Likey Nippon Mokuhan Co. Tokio (Japan Woodblock Co. Tokyo).
Medium: Japanese woodblock print. The traditional means of woodblock print creation was employed for all steps through inking of the carved blocks. Then, the block was used in a mechanical printing proc...

Top quality piece by Hamada Shinsaku with a rich persimmon (Kaki) glaze.

Dimensions:
Height: 8.3cm
Width: 13.5cm

Condition:
Unused, with a signed wooden box.

Born in 1929 as the second son of Hamada Shoji, Hamada Shinsaku continued the Mashiko pottery tradition. He worked closely with his father and took over the family kiln in Mashiko in 1978.

Shinsaku Hamada's pottery is internationally recognized and featured in many top museums. His...

Previously in Japanese collection
There are Korean tag with a number and export permission tag.

Height 23.7cm

Comes with matching wooden storage box with label "Silla Jar made 1450 years ago"
There are minor chips. Please see the photos for reference.

This is absolutely rare:

A 16th century Momoyama Period Wa-Nari shaped Kuro Mino Chawan with a rounded brim and a 'wandering' lip, made of light, coarse, unrefined Mino clay. The expertly thrown body was trimmed with a potter's knife in its lower part around the foot ring. A wonderful tong mark is still visible (please see picture number 3).

In the style of Kuro Oribe bowls this bowl was covered with a black glaze. But this is a very unusual piece, which departs from the s...

Takahashi Shotei
Shrine by the River
Date: 1930s. This edition early postwar.
Print size: 5.625 x 3.625 inches
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Artist's seal at lower right.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print attached along its top edge only to 7 x 4.75 inch original blank card.
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Condition: Excellent.

This is Aka Raku tea bowl from the Late Edo Period that has been repaired using the traditional Japanese kintsugi technique. The bowl has a warm, earthy color with a slightly irregular shape, typical of Raku ware. The surface features small speckles and a soft, smooth glaze with a gentle shine.

Thin, gold-colored lines from the kintsugi repair run vertically along the bowl. The foot is unglazed, and the potter's mark is incised near the foot ring.

The bowl has a rustic simp...

TOOL OF DOLL'S HEAD CRAFTSMAN

Straw-made base sticking with such incomplete doll's heads during the making process as the professional tool of Japanese 'kashira-shi' (craftsman specializes in making doll's head). Showa period, 20th century. Base: H 17.5 x D 17 cm (6.88 x 6.69in), Largest doll's head: L 15.5 cm (6.10in). Aged deterioration as is.


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Low Japanese rectangular table made of 100% hardwood. Very well made it strong joints and heavy wood. Dark warm tones.

Age: Mid Century 1950's

Dimensions: 59" Long x 35" wide x 13 1/3" high

A mirror image pair of Japanese Meiji Era bronze vases with a bird hovering over flowers on both sides, and foo lion handles. Signed on bottom, these have excellent detailing and very good weight to them. Measure 13.75 inches high.

Chinese Song / Yuan Dynasty Longquan Celadon Porcelain Bowl

This attractively-shaped porcelain bowl was made during the 13th / 14th century at the Longquan kilns, Zhejiang province. It is fairly "heavily-potted" and nicely decorated with carved lotus leaves around the outer wall and an impressed floral pattern in its centre. It is coated in a thick celadon glaze with a few lines of glaze crackle here and there on both inner and outer surfaces. There is no restoration or repair and it has a ...

Chinese Song / Yuan Dynasty Longquan Celadon Porcelain Bowl

This attractively-shaped porcelain bowl was made during the 13th / 14th century at the Longquan kilns, Zhejiang province. It is fairly "heavily-potted" and is coated both inside and out in a finely-crackled celadon glaze of good colour. The outer wall has been decorated with incised lotus leaves rising from around the foot, together with bands of incised lines surrounding the body.

Diameter 12.5 cm, height 7.25 cm. It is in ve...

A Very Fine Korean Inlaid/Molded Octagonal Celadon Dish-13th C.: Korea, Goryeeo dynasty, 13th century. A well potted octagonal dish inlaid with black and white slip chrysanthemum on octagonal exteriors and molded with floral heads on interiors, 3 spur marks on base, applied rich celadon glazed surfaces evenly. It’s b very good condition, it measures 12cm d. x 4cm h.

Tsuchiya Koitsu
Lake Chuzenji in Nikko
Size: 5.5 x 3.625 inches.
Publisher: Takemura Hideo.
Date: 1930s.
Koitsu's Shinsei seal at lower left.
Koitsu catalog no.: TK-TM-121.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

Tsuchiya Koitsu
Asakusa Temple (Sensoji) Main Gate
Publisher: Takemura Hideo. Round Takemura seal lower right.
Date: 1930s.
Size: 5.5 x 3.625 inches.
Title and Koitsu's Kiyoshi seal at left.
Koitsu catalog no.: TK-TM-136.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

Indus Valley Bronze Age Pottery Figure (c.3300 - 1300 BC)

This unusual and bizarre pottery figure was made over 3,000 years ago during the latter part of the Indus Valley Civilisation that flourished in the North-western region of South Asia during the Neolithic to Bronze Age periods (c.3300 - 1300 BC). It is hollow and made from a reddish pottery that is fairly highly-fired. Incised lines cover the top of the head to represent hair and the facial features have been applied using thin strips...

Indus Valley Bronze Age Pottery Female Figure with Oxford TL Test (c.3300 - 1300 BC)

This unusual and striking pottery figure was made over 3,000 years ago during the latter part of the Indus Valley Civilisation that flourished in the North-western region of South Asia during the Neolithic to Bronze Age periods (c.3300 - 1300 BC). It is made from a reddish pottery that is fairly highly-fired, the body being of a cylindrical / cone-shaped form with applied outstretched arms, breasts and bird-...

Indus Valley Bronze Age Pottery Female Figure (c.3300 - 1300 BC)

This unusual and striking pottery figure was made during the latter part of the Indus Valley Civilisation that flourished in the North-western region of South Asia during the Neolithic to Bronze Age periods (c.3300 - 1300 BC). It is made from a reddish pottery that is fairly highly-fired, the body being of a cylindrical / cone-shaped form with applied outstretched arms, breasts and bird-like features to the face. Impressed smal...