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Zentner Collection
SOLD A fine Japanese ikebana basket hand-woven from bamboo, cane, cedar root, and urushi lacquer. Signed by artist Jiro Yonezawa (b.1956). Jiro Yonezawa attended the Beppu Vocational Arts Training Center in 1981 and spent a year as an apprentice to Masakazu Ono. Later on, he continued his training at the Oita Prefectural Beppu Industrial Art Research Institute. He lived and worked in the United States from 1989 to 2007. In 2008 he returned to Japan and built a new studio in Oita Prefecture...
AntiqueTica.com
$1,800.00 Japanese kayaki wooden hibachi in the form of natural wood.
Hibachi is a traditional Japanese heating device. Age: Japan, Edo Period, 19th Century
EastWest Gallery
Sold A namasu or serving dish of unusual quadrilobed form with scalloped suhama style rim; a stylization of a wave washed beach. An auspicious form referencing Horai-san, the isle of the Immortals and therefore a wish for a long life.
The bowl is decorated with a central mon of a stylised Lotus motif, perhaps also containing elements of the aoi-mon, and karakusa. Surrounded by four panels containing an unusual four toed Water dragon emerging from stylised waves...
Zentner Collection
SOLD Japanese two section isho tansu (clothing chest) from the Sado Island area. Original dark reddish lacquer finish. With hand-forged iron hardware, decorative plating incised with motifs of cranes and turtles with many tails, both symbols of longevity. The lower unit holds a corner safe box with two small drawers concealed inside.
Meiji Period (1868-1912) Dimensions: 41" L x 16" D x 41" H
EastWest Gallery
Sold An interesting dish of barbed, lotus petal, form with a bulls eye base, janome, decorated in Nanga style, monochrome (sumi-e) landscape paintings in the Chinese Literati tradition of Southern China, a school particularly associated with the Nagasaki area and the work of the Kameyama kiln, where it is believed artists of this school provided designs for use on their wares.
The dish is in the style of the Kameyama kiln, but is marked with a simple two character mark in seal form reading “tama-y...
Momoyama Gallery
sold We continue to offer you the most important chawans and present you this wonderful Tsutsui-Iga Chawan, dating back to the Momoyama period or even the Muromachi Era. Cylindrical shape - hanzutsu - built up from clay coils and squeezen into shape, the foot roughly cut on a hand wheel. This technique is usually affiliated with the Muromachi period, but was used in Iga well into the Momoyama period...
Momoyama Gallery
sold Kuro-Raku Chawan by the 14th generation Kakunyu Kichizaemon (1918-1980) enclosed in its originally signed and sealed wooden box. The inside of the lid bears an appraisal of the the 13th Iemoto (tea master) of Omotesenke, Sokuchusai (1901-1979)...
The Kura
sold, thank you Ame-yu graces the rough textured clay of this large Mingei platter from Aizu in the Northern reaches of Japan on the border between Fukushima and Yamagata. Often mistakenly identified as Tamba due to the similarity in the coloring of this particular glaze, the underlying granular white clay gives it away. About the rim is a ring of fire-colored tendrils trapped in a groove, an interesting added feature. It is 31.5 cm (12-1/2 inches) diameter and dates from the later 19th century...
The Kura
Sold, thank you Autumn colors by Goto Shiro in thick pigment on silk in a superb patterned-silk frame with solid ivory rollers. It comes in the original signed wooden box with a Futo-maki rolling bar titled Yudonoyama Banshu (Late Autumn at Mt. Yudono). This is representational of Nihonga in the 1950s, a time when artists were seeking a new direction, breaking with the past and expanding the limits of the medium...
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1940
item #1379292
(stock #Kasamatsu028)
Era Woodblock Prints
SOLD (L) Kasamatsu Shiro (1898-1991)
Shower of Cherry Blossoms at Kanbayashi Hotspring, Shinshu Date: 1939. Size: Oban. Approximately 15.25 x 10.25 inches. Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. First edition. Watanabe sausage seal (in use 1929-42). Signed and sealed by the artist. Medium: Japanese woodblock print. Condition: Excellent. Never displayed.
Zentner Collection
$650.00 Antique Japanese pair of bronze candle sticks, with archaic Chinese style motifs, cartouche mark on bottom.
Taisho Period (circa 1920's). Dimensions: 10 3/4" high
Welcome To Another Century
$450.00 Tea bowl of irregular shape. Deep dark brown clay covered in a greenish-gray glaze that leaves the bottom part of the bowl uncovered. The inside in the same tone with a brown patch. The rim covered with a brownish-green glaze. One looped line decoration in brownish green on the outside. A small patch at the inside of the bowl left uncovered...
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1980
item #1379619
(stock #YoshidaT021)
Era Woodblock Prints
SOLD Toshi Yoshida (1911-1995)
Hope Bay (Antarctica). Date: ca. 1977. Edition: 74/600. Size: 25.25 x 12.25 inches. Published by the artist. Pencil signed and numbered. Blue jikoku seal. Medium: Japanese woodblock print. Condition: Excellent.
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1960
item #1379646
(stock #Tomoyo001)
Era Woodblock Prints
$800 Jinbo Tomoyo (1902-1994)
Given title: Woman in Lavender Kimono Date: 1957. Size: 18.25 x 11.75 inches. Edition: First. Signed and sealed by the artist. Carver: Sato Jurokichi. Printer: Inomura Shonosuke. Medium: Japanese woodblock print. Condition: Excellent. Note: One of just a few prints made by this artist. Tomoyo Jinbo (Teisaburo) studied under Hirazaki Eiho and Ito Shinsui.
Zentner Collection
SOLD A massive Japanese solid Keyaki (elm) hardwood Kannon Biraki merchant's chest. Decorated with hand-forged iron plating, the motifs seen throughout the piece's hardware include the image of Ebisu, one of the Seven Lucky Gods of Fortune, proudly holding up a freshly caught fish, a large Mokko (melon) shaped lock on the front pair of doors, with flowers and pine trees adorning the drawer below in the form of its lock and handle plates...
Haruko Watanabe
$500.00 Miyako-jofu woman's kimono with fine kasuri which is hand-woven of choma (ramie) and dyed with Ryukyu-ai. Wefts and warps are hand plied. Miyako-jofu has been woven in Miyako Island in Okinawa since 14th century. It was called "Satsuma-jofu" in Edo period as the island belonged to Satsuma feudal domain. It was imposed as tax. It is time-consuming process of thread making, thread plying, weaving as matching wefts and warps kasuri pattern...
Momoyama Gallery
sold Another historical masterpiece in the development of Japanese culture: grey Shino Chawan, distorted cylindrical shape - hanzutsu, covered with a whitish Shino glaze over an iron oxide engobe, resulting in a beautiful grey shino glaze, which partly turns to red shino (aka shino). A decoration of a branch with a leaf and berries on the front and a criss cross grass pattern on the back has been incised into the engobe resulting in white shino colored lines...
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1930
item #1379988
(stock #Ohara164)
Era Woodblock Prints
SOLD Ohara Koson
Sparrows ad Wisteria Size: 16.75 x 10.5 inches. Early 20th century. Reference: K33.10 and page 142 in Crows, Cranes and Camellias: The Natural World of Ohara Koson (Reigle Newland). Publisher: Nishinomiya Yosaku Koson signature and seal "Made in Japan" stamped on verso. Medium: Japanese woodblock print. Condition: Excellent front. A couple of areas of thinner paper where once adhered to backing. One pinpoint-sized hole in lower sky. |
