A quite rare square shaped bowl decorated with flower to each side and inside is plain with obviously Qingbai tone. Xuande six characters mark and possibly of the period. Ming Dynasty 15th Century in very good condition, no any chip, no any crack and free from any restoration excepted a bit fritting to the mouth rim. Diameter: 9,1 cm X 9 cm Found recovered at South Sulawesi area.

Cotton girl's kimono with auspicious motifs, such as plum blooms, bamboos, pine trees, which are kata Yuzenzome (stencil-resist dye and colored by hand), and hand painted turtles and waves. The ground cloth is benibana (safflower) dye which is very precious. Safflower has been grown in Yamagata prefecture in Tohoku district. It was sent to Kyoto and dyed there in Edo period, but it went declined in the end of Edo and chemical dye replaced benibana dye later. Generally, in good condition but ha...

Golden Maple leaves and five petaled plum blossoms float on the golden pond pooling on this early Edo period Karatsu Chawan decorated with a single Zen circle. Superb quality repairs gleam about the rim, one large repair decorated over top of the gold with fine amages of leaves and blossoms. The base is small and shallow, indicative of the early era. It is 12 cm (just less than 5 inches) diameter, 7.5cm (3 inches) tall and comes enclosed in an old wooden box.
Kintsugi embodies the spiri...

A set of 4 exquisite lacquered wooden boxes with trays decorated with Tsuba (sword guards) in gold on a jet black mirror surface dating from the early 20th century enclosed in a four tier black lacquered wooden box. Inside is silver Nashiji with scattered cherry blossoms. The trays feature solid silver rims and are signed Ryoshin. Each box is 13.5 x 10.5 x 5.7 cm (5-1/4 x 4 x 2 inches) and each tray is 17.6 x 14.6 x 1.7 cm and all are in overall fine condition.

An inviting poem for the 8th month is engraved among the leaves and grapes clinging to the vines forming the handle on this tall ewer covered in pale white glaze by Otagaki Rengetsu dating from the 19th century. It is 22 cm (9 inches) tall, 13.5 x 19 cm across the handle and is in excellent condition. The poem reads:
Okazaki no tsuki mi ni ki mase
Miyakobito
kado no hata imo nite matsura nan
Come see the moon in Okazaki
People of Kyoto
And I will serve you bo...

Fukutaro Tanouchi
Udon
Publisher: Takemura Hideo.
Size: 5.5 x 3.625 inches.
Date: 1930-40s.
Signed by the artist.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.
A rare and wonderful shin hanga design.

Takahashi Shotei
Red temple in rain; priest over the steps
Date: pre-1936.
Size: 5.625 x 3.5 inches.
Medium: A woodblock-printed postcard.
No artist's seal.
Reference: S-7 in Shotei catalog.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Condition: Excellent.

A rare antique Japanese Chinese lion figure "karashishi", made of Hirado porcelain with underglaze blue details. Condition: few traces of usage. Dimension: c. 19.4 cm high x 16.3 cm long x 11.6 cm wide.

Baluster-shaped, the vase decoration represents a procession, in gold and polychrome enamels, very finely detailed, of guards surrounding palanquins, servants equipped with lanterns, and others with fans, banners and standards. Period: Meiji (1868-1912). Sign under the base with missing characters. Height: 20 cm.

A nice one Wucai/ Famille Verte censer standing on three legs and decorated with Dragon and Phoenix. Very good condition, no any chip, no any crack and free from any restoration. Late Ming Dynasty 17th century Fujian Ware. Height: 9 cm and Mouth Diameter: 8,3 cm

An offering dish with flower foliated shape and decorated with incised Dragon with carved incised detail on underglazed red ground, surrounded by classic scrolls to mouth rim. Perfect condition. Late Yuan to Early Ming Dynasty. Diameter: 15,2 cm.

Peaches decorate this exquisite vessel in Kutani colors by Tei Shitsu Gigei-in Ito Tozan. It is 17 cm (6-1/2 inches) diameter, 31 cm (12-1/4 inches) tall and in excellent condition. It comes in an unmarked old kiri-wood box.
Ito Tozan I (1846-1920) began as a painter in the Maruyama school studying under Koizumi Togaku. In 1862 he became a pupil of Kameya Kyokutei, as well as studying under Takahashi Dohachi III nd Kanzan Denshichi (who made the dishes for the imperial table). In 1867, w...

An extremely rare blue and white bowl decorated with continuously peony scrolls to exterior, flower head medallion to the interior center under Persian cobalt blue. Diameter: 19,5 cm. Very rare bowl and please see the similar one in the Cleveland Museum of Art visible on enlargement 9, the other at National Palace Museum Taipei Taiwan visible on enlargement 10.

Antique Japanese woodblock print in triptych by the artist Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1864) depicting a scene from the Kabuki play "Koharu no Mitsugumi Sakazuki". Here, the outlaw murdurer, Shirai Gonpachi (left) is challenged by the famous otokodate (dashing hero), Banzui Chobei (center and with his traditional brown and white plaid fabric).

Kunisada was born to a family that owned a ferry boat service allowing him the time and money to devote to art. At an early age, he impressed the gr...

Antique Chinese pair of wooden Baku. Carved with deeply wrinkled skin and pawed feet, these elephant-like creatures were revered for their nightmare devouring quality. Depicted here with saddles for riding, decorated with sprays of cymbidium orchids and painted details.

Age: 19th century

Dimensions: 9 1/2" high x 23" long x 14" deep (each)

Antique Japanese small two-panel screen painting. A beautifully painted image of a pheasant in mid flight. A quiet body of water is lightly suggested below. On the right side of the composition is a blossoming tree with white flowers and new leaves. Painted in ink and light colors on paper. Mounted with brackets for hanging on the wall.

Age: Late edo to Early Meiji C. 19th Century

Dimensions: 24 1/2" high x 56 1/2" long

Kawase Hasui
Moon at Itako (Country House)
Date: 1945. ("Sendai Japan, Christmas 1945")
Size: 5.625 x 3.625 inches.
Medium: Lithograph.
Condition: Excellent.
Note: There is an oban version of Moon at Itako dated 1936.

Height: 9 cm (3.5 in)
Width: 10.8 cm (4.4 in)

Quality Chinese porcelain ovoid vase depicting a number of qilin surrounding the belly of the vase with lappets below the rim and a scaled border above the base; double circles to the base; good condition