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Welcome To Another Century
$325.00 Small box and cover made of very thinly cut keyaki (Zelkova) wood, in oblong shape with rounded corners. The domed cover is decorated in black polished lacquer, black ishime lacquer, gold lacquer inlaid with small pieces of mother-of-pearl. An open folding fan wraps around the surface of the cover, continuing onto the sides, decorated with parting clouds, showing silhouettes of birds flying over waves.
Inside, the surface is covered in thin brown lacquer, allowing the wood grain to show...
Modern Japanese Ceramics
sold, thank you A set of five deep plates by Living National Treasure Kondo Yuzo decorated with pomegranates in blue on snow white porcelain. The are 20.5 cm (8 inches) diameter and in excellent condition, each signed on back. They come in a custom made contemporary box.
Kondo Yuzo (1902-1985) was born in the Gojozaka district of Kyoto and studied alongside Kawai Kanjiro and Hamada Shoji at the Kyoto Ceramics Research facility, where he studied kiln technique directly under Shoji...
Kodo Arts
$880.00 A pair of art deco bronze early Showa Period Ca. 1930 hanging lanterns. 27cm tall x 20cm in diameter each. Great condition. Ask for shipping quote.
Modern Japanese Ceramics
sold, thank you A playful Dragon rises from this genuine stone base, a sculpture perfect for the coming year of the Dragon by popular contemporary artist Sugitani Keizo. 18 x 15 x 25 cm (7-1/2 x 6 x 10 inches) and is in excellent condition, directly from the artist. The creature floats slightly over the stone base on a copper stud set into the stone. It comes accompanied by a signed certificate, directly from the artist.
Sugitani Keizo was born in Osaka in 1959...
Modern Japanese Ceramics
sold, thank you A playful Dragon descends to this genuine stone base, a sculpture perfect for the coming year of the Dragon by popular contemporary artist Sugitani Keizo. 28 x 24 x 20 cm (11 x 9-1/2 x 8 inches) and is in excellent condition, directly from the artist. The creature floats slightly over the stone base on a copper stud set into the stone. It comes accompanied by a signed certificate, directly from the artist.
Sugitani Keizo was born in Osaka in 1959... Japanese shin hanga woodblock print titled "Temple in the Wood" depicting deer at a shrine deep in the woods around Nara by Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950) dated Showa 15 (1940). Posthumous memorial edition as marked in the upper left margin. The artist's black ink stamped signature and red seal is at the lower left. The print is block titled and signed in the lower margin. Illustrated in "The Complete Woodblock Prints of Yoshida Hiroshi," Abe Publications, color plate #237...
Welcome To Another Century
$200.00 A mokko-shaped porcelain kogo incense burner, which is a square with each corner indented. The corners are so strongly indented that the shape becomes an octagonal. All sides are slightly bulging out and the cover is slightly domed, giving the whole a soft, rounded feel.
From the center of the cover, the surface has been divided into eight ‘cake slices’...
Modern Japanese Ceramics
Sold, thank you 7 various porcelain plates by Living National Treasure Kondo Yuzo decorated with blue, gold and red glazes and featuring pomegranates on six, the sun rising over a precipitous mountain scene decorating the last. The smallest are 18 c (7-1/4 inches) diameter, the largest 24.5 cm (just under 10 inches and all are in excellent condition. There is no box...
Modern Japanese Ceramics
$1,400.00 This piece by Kiyomizu Rokubei VI epitomizing the midcentury aesthetic, this piece by Kiyomizu Rokubei VI covered in soft gold colors and abstract patterns comes enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Kinsai Moriki. It is 16.5 cm (6-1/2 inches) diameter, 23 cm (9 inches) tall and in excellent condition...
The Kura
sold, thank you A set of five Mokko-gata (elongated-lobed) kashi-zara wood dishes, each uniquely decorated with seasonal flora in raised lacquer with mother of pearl and lead inlay enclosed in an older wooden storage box. The artist has made excellent use of the natural wood grain, allowing it to fomr a backdrop like bushes and garden stones for the subdued tones of gold, silver and shimmering mother of pearl...
The Kura
$600.00 A beautiful hand crafted box by Nitta Kiun enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Tanzaku Bako (Poem Card Box). It is 40 x 11 x 7 cm and in perfect condition. Nitta Kiun was born in Wakayama in 1944, and studied woodcraft under his father, establishing his own woodcraft studio in 1980. He held his first Solo exhibition in 1985, and was accepted for the first time the following year into the Nihon Dento Kogeiten National Crafts Exhibition...
AfricAsia Primitive and Antiques
€750.00 Old mask of the Noh traditional theater representing the character of Yamauba or Yamamba, with an emaciated face, dishevelled hair, and a sinister smile. The mask is made of wood, painted to ehance its features, and with brass eyes. The mask is signed...
Japanese : Other Prints : Pre 1980
item #1487468
(stock #Fujishiro001)
Era Woodblock Prints
$425 Seiji Fujishiro 藤城清治 (born 1924)
Fairies in a Tree (Playing Instruments) 木の上の妖精たち Size: 9.5 x 6.25 inches (24 x 16 cm) Frame size: 17.5 x 15.75 inches (44.5 x 39.5 cm) Not dated. Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist. Edition 119/500. With certificate of guarantee on back.
Conservatoire Sakura
$3,800.00 Wooden lectern covered with black lacquer, decorated with Japanese seignorial emblems (Mon) with gold powder. The emblems are treated in three different versions, all three of excellent lacquer quality in a very elegant style. The lectern can be dismantled into 4 parts, the box, the drawer, the top and the axis, the elements are assembled using mercury-gilded copper frames, which are finely chiseled with scrolls of stylized plants on a nanako background. This simple “Mon” decor but of superb...
Modern Japanese Ceramics
sold, thank you The Fundo stamp of Living National Treasure Kaneshige Toyo is impressed into the base of this classical Bizen Mizusashi by Toyo named Fuku no kami (God of Fortune) by 12th Grandmaster of the Omotesenke School of Tea Keio Sosa (Seisai), enclosed in a wooden box titled Bizen Mimitsuki Mizusashi, Na: Fuku no Kami and signed by Seisai., It retains the original ceramic lid as well as a lacquered lid also bearing an alternate signature of Seisai. It is 17.5 cm (7 inches) diameter, 15 cm (6 inches) ta...
The Kura
$2,500.00 A carved wood figure of a wandering priest, robes billowing in the wind, his large straw hat full of holes, signed Yasuchika on the back. Dating from the late Edo to Meiji period, it is by a member of the Tsuchiya Yasuchika lineage. The figure is 31 cm (12 inches) tall and in excellent condition, complete with walking stick.
The Kura
sold, thank you Ring in the New Year with this beautifully cast bronze bell surmounted by a dragon embellished with Characters of good fortune enclosed in an ancient red-lacquered wooden storage box. It is 15 cm (6 inches) diameter, 21 cm (8 inches) tall and in excellent condition, dating from the Edo period.
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1950
item #1487492
(stock #Aoyama003)
Masaharu Aoyama (1893-1969)
Nikolai-do (Nikorai-do) in Snow (An Orthodox cathedral in Tokyo) Date: ca. 1940s. Print size: 3.75 x 2.75 inches. Publisher: Unsodo. From a group included in an Unsodo client sample book. Aoyama's "Ao" seal at lower right. Medium: Japanese woodblock print attached along top edge only to original holiday card. Condition: Excellent. |