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Zentner Collection
$650.00 Antique Japanese cylindrical hibachi made of bent suginoki (cryptomeria) and decorated with a maki-e lacquer scene of a family of chickens in a bamboo grove. The mother hen and two chicks look for food on the ground while their father rooster looks back at his third little chick. Bamboo details are made of inlaid shell and the background is flecked in gold. With a copper insert.
Age: Meiji/Taisho Period (early 20th century) Dimensions: 7 5/8" high x 10 1/4" wide
Momoyama Gallery
sold From our collection of Japanese Chawan with Christian Cross design: highly distorted shoe shaped (kutsugata) tea bowl with a rounded brim, 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. In the style of Seto kuro bowls this Chawan was covered with a brown glaze. On one side the sign of a Christian (Maltese) cross was left unglazed and was covered with a transparent ash glaze...
Helen M Edwards
$870.00 Height: 3.1 cm (1.2 in)
Length: 3.7 cm (1.7 in) Depth: 2.4 cm (0.9 in) Fine Japanese netsuke of a calligrapher; leaning back and looking pleased with his work, his legs extended under his worktable; stained natural material; minor age related wear; signed
Helen M Edwards
$450.00 Height: 3.3 cm (1.4 in)
Width: 3.5 cm (1.5 in) Depth: 2.7 cm (1.1 in) Japanese carved shishi dog seal block; inlaid eyes; natural material; minor wear; good condition
Zentner Collection
$3,600.00 An antique Japanese tall Kyushu Choba Tansu (merchant chest) in 2 sections made of Hinoki (Cypress), Keyaki (Zelkova) and Suginoki (Cryptomeria) woods. Original hand forged iron hardware including the Warabite style handles and the double bar lock plates. With 2 pairs of sliding doors and 8 drawers, it has plenty of room for organizing and storage. Side ribs add strength and support as well as visual design to the chest...
Zentner Collection
SOLD An antique Japanese hibachi (brazier) cast in bronze and hand crafted with a dragon and thunder bolts flying amidst the stormy clouds on one side and a crouching tiger with its playful partner hanging from a bamboo limb in a forest of bamboo on the opposing side. The handles feature converging phoenix birds with their tails as the apex...
Zentner Collection
$2,450.00 An antique Japanese Sakata Bo Tansu made entirely of Kirinoki (Paulownia) wood. All original natural Urushi lacquer and hand forged iron hardware. Locking bar secures three Kimono drawers. The main lock features a stylized Chrysanthemum with leaves design. A hinged security door hides two small drawers where valuables were kept. Constructed using straight dovetail Japanese joinery and wooden nails...
Zentner Collection
SOLD An antique Japanese Sakata Kotansu (personal storage chest) made of Kirinoki (Paulowani) wood. All original hand forged iron hardware and natural Urushi lacquer finish. Main lock plates feature stylized Chrysanthemums and their leaves. Five drawers for spacious storage and a hinged security door that hides two small drawers where valuables were kept...
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1960
item #1453032
(stock #Hasui558)
Era Woodblock Prints
SOLD Kawase Hasui
Snow at Kashi (Kashi no Yuki) Date: 1930s-50s. Size: Approximately 6 x 4 inches. Hasui seal lower right. Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Reference: Hotei Hp-32. Medium: Japanese woodblock print attached along its top edge to a blank original card. Condition: Excellent.
Hawkes, Asian Art
£220.00 An unusual Arita porcelain tea pot styled after a cast-iron example. The textured surface is described as “nail head” when it appears on an iron tetsubin. Late 18th ~ early 19th century.
The Shibata Museum compendium has a pot of similar shape and cartouche, no nail head texture or iron dressing but with additional cobalt decoration, item#3782. 1780~1820. This example is approximately 17.5 cm high. The handle has a very obvious stress crack but no other problem...
Hawkes, Asian Art
~~~SOLD~~~ A Kutani “Yoshidaya Revival” dish, early 19th century.
The Yoshidaya kiln was a short-lived venture, situated in Yamashiro, intended to revive earlier Kutani-style wares. The founding investor was Toyota Denuemon IV (aka Sekio, lived 1751-1827), a businessman who used the professional name Yoshidaya. He chose not to situate his kiln in Kutani because of the site's remote location, but his wares emulate the earlier Kutani wares in a variety of ways...
Hawkes, Asian Art
£220.00 A pair of Japanese Export porcelain models of Karashishi, the fabled Buddhist lion-dogs of Japan. Arita, early 18th century. White porcelain with iron-red enamel decoration.
Each is approximately 6.5cm high, 6cm long. The first is in fine condition with some firing lines as issued...
Momoyama Gallery
sold Splendid Kuro Raku Chawan by one of the most important potters of all time, the 3rd Raku Donyu also known as Nonko. It was made around 1650 and was named 'chidori' which means 'a thousand birds' or 'plover'. It is in great antique condition and has one of the best and finest Kintsugi gold repair landscapes I have ever seen. You can still find the tong mark on the bowl - please look at picture number 9 and 4. Born the eldest son of Jôkei...
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1940
item #1452979
(stock #Hasui554)
Era Woodblock Prints
SOLD Kawase Hasui
Torii at Miyajima in Snow (Ryobu-torii of Itsukushima Shrine in Inland Sea) Size: Koban. Approximately 7.5 x 5.125 inches. Date: 1936. From "Shinto and its Architecture." Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Hasui seal lower left. Medium: Japanese woodblock print. Reference: Hotei Hb-s9 Condition: Foxing in sky at right. Pencil note on back.
Conservatoire Sakura
$2,000.00 Pair of Japanese sliding door handles. They are made of a copper alloy finely chiseled with scrolls and stylized flowers on a nanako background, alternately there are shakudo plates (an alloy of copper and gold, shibuichi or silvered sentoku. They are excessively heavy and of the best quality. The size is much larger than for a normal door handle (double in size) which implies very high and wide doors. It is not a usual rich house that can accommodate doors of this size...
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1940
item #1452942
(stock #Hasui553)
Era Woodblock Prints
SOLD Kawase Hasui
Lake Shoji Size: Koban. Approximately 7.875 x 5.25 inches. Date: 1930s. Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Hasui seal lower right. Medium: Japanese woodblock print. Reference: Hotei Hp-14. Condition: Excellent. Pencil note on back.
Zentner Collection
SOLD Antique Japanese large bronze sculpture of a hawk perched on a gnarled pine branch with wings extended. Beautiful and dramatic with lovely attention to detail. In two sections.
Age: Taisho Period (1912-1925) Dimensions: 25 1/2" high x 22" wide x 12" deep.
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1960
item #1452930
(stock #Hasui551)
Era Woodblock Prints
SOLD Kawase Hasui
Arakawa Date: 1930s-50s. This edition ca. 1957. Publisher: Likely Doi Eiichi. Publisher's seal lower left. Artist's seal lower right. Condition: Excellent. A rarely seen design. |