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Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1960
item #1374358
(stock #Hasui359)
Era Woodblock Prints
SOLD Kawase Hasui
Mount Fuji in Moonlight, Kawaibashi Date: 1947. Size: Oban. Approximately 15 x 10.5 inches. Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Bears the black 6 mm Watanabe seal in the lower right corner, indicating a first state printed between 1946-1957. Medium: Japanese woodblock print. Reference: Hotei #241. Condition: Paper is lightly toned on front. More heavily on back.
Zentner Collection
Price on Request Rare Japanese gyosho kannon bako. Constructed of Kiri wood with original red lacquer finish. The piece is fitted with hand-forged iron plates and mounts. The front of the chest holds 3 small drawers in its lower section, with a pair of large doors above. The interior of the chest has a large open compartment with a long drawer long the top. The sides are fitted with iron rings and handles with a long cord so the piece may be carried on a merchant's back.
Edo Period (1603-1868) circa...
Zentner Collection
SOLD Japanese bronze vase with a wide, flattened body shape, the tall cylindrical neck rendered with bamboo stalk texture. The handles of the vase are a pair of leaping rabbits over low relief waves. The foot of the vase is imprinted with the artist cartouche.
Meiji Period (1868-1912) Dimensions: 7 1/2" x 7" x 6"
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1940
item #1374312
(stock #Hasui358)
Era Woodblock Prints
SOLD Kawase Hasui
Kiso River, Inuyama Date: 1931. Size: Oban. Approximately 15 x 10.5 inches. Publisher: Bijutsusha. One of only eight Hasui designs by this publisher. Artist's signature and seal lower left. Reference: Hotei #176. Medium: Japanese woodblock print. Lovely woodgrain in sky. Condition: Right and bottom margins reinforced by conservator...
Momoyama Gallery
sold Elegantly shaped Ki-Seto Chawan from the Edo Period, early 19th century with a rarely seen gold rim. Precious metal rings were added when the chawan was made for the aristocracy and for the high nobility. The beautiful and glossy glaze (guinomi-de) has a fantastic crazing. The bowl has also a decoration with vivid tanpan marks ( copper green marks ). This Ki-Seto tea bowl is in very good condition, very unusual for a chawan of this age...
Welcome To Another Century
$200.00 Small food dish for vegetables, relish etc. of round shape with small indentations in the rim. Thin, light colored stoneware, covered in cream-colored glaze with very fine crackle and pinkish brown swirls. In the bottom a highly stylized kotobuki character (longevity) in iron brown and three green glaze splashes on the rim. Glazes have left a few spots uncovered. Oribe ware, Japan, early Taisho era, 1920s.
H 2 x diam. 4-1/2 in. Minimal traces of usage, fine condition.
Welcome To Another Century
$230.00 Small serving dish of square, mokuzuke, of octagonal shape with two handles standing off the side. Thin light-colored stoneware covered with cream-colored glaze with fine crackle filled in the brown color from the foot to ¾ of the height. On top of the cream-colored glaze some iron-brown decorations of pine needle, plum blossom, cross hatch design and a mon-shaped design and a splash of green glaze with some blue in it. Inside a light textile structure impressed in the glaze...
Zentner Collection
Price on Request Japanese two panel byobu screen painting of a fierce rooster watching butterflies floating overhead. Pigment on silk, with black lacquered frame. Attributed to Goun.
Taisho Period (1912-1925) Dimensions: 56" x 64"
Zentner Collection
SOLD A hirado ware porcelain figure of the mythical creature baku, the dream eater. This beast is a chimera with the features of an elephant, an ox, a rhinoceros and a tiger. The expert artist hand-carved every detail of the figure with fine lines, the flames and spines along its back carved in high relief. The glaring eyes are left bare with black pupils while the rest of its body is glazed white...
Zentner Collection
$6,000.00 Japanese hirado ware porcelain figure of a puppy . The entire body is hand carved with realistic fur pattern, the body in white underglaze with the eyes left bare. The puppy's paws and toes are fully carved to the bottom of the piece, which is left bare from the white glaze. The bottom is pierced with an air hole from when it was originally fired in the kiln.
Meiji period (1868-1912) Dimensions: 7 1/2" x 5 1/2" x 5" H
Zentner Collection
SOLD Japanese hirado ware porcelain figure of a tiger. With fully hand-carved fur pattern, whiskers, a wide grin with front fangs exposed. The tiger is glazed in white with the pupils of the eyes left buff. The four paws of the tiger have been hand-sculpted with the toes and claws on the bottom of the figure. The bottom and nostrils of the tiger are pierced through for air to escape during firing.
Published in: "Hirado Ware, by C. Philip Cardeiro, pg...
Zentner Collection
$4,750.00 Rare Japanese weight driven wall block with finished Keyaki wood frame, strait palisade case with three sided glazed movement, beneath rectangular brass dial with time display by going down weight, peony flower engraved brass, small drawer on bottom.
Meiji Period (1868-1912) circa 1880s Dimensions: 2.5" x 2.5" x 15.25"
Zentner Collection
SOLD Maeda Toshinaga was a Japanese daimyo, who was the second head of the Kasa Domain. He was the eldest son of Maeda Toshiie and married one of Oda Nobunaga's daughters, Ei-Hime. He supported Tokugawa Ieyasu and, after receiving his brother Toshimasa's lands (Noto, 215,000 Koku), controlled a total of 1,250,000 Koku, an amount exceeded only by the Shogunate. Toshinaga built and resided in the Kanazawa Castle. He had no children and adopted his brother Toshitsune as his heir...
Zentner Collection
SOLD Unusual Japanese stacking box comprised of 10 shallow compartments for the storage of important documents or calligraphy implements. The edges of each compartment are reinforced with hand-forged iron plates. The tall box is held together by a long cord.
Edo Period (1603-1868) Dimensions: 9.5" : x 14" D x 16.5" H
Zentner Collection
$4,000.00 Rare Japanese gyosho bako (peddler's chest traveling backpack) made with 100% Kiri wood (paulownia). With raised lacquer Ichi mon on its hinged front door with red lacquer backside. The door opens to a shallow front compartment with red lacquer frame interior. The top of the chest has a hinged lid with hand-forged iron plating and lock, opening to a deep inner compartment. The bottom area of the peddler's box holds a long sliding drawer with iron ring pulls on either side and red lacquer sides...
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1970
item #1374104
(stock #Koitsu412)
Era Woodblock Prints
SOLD Tsuchiya Koitsu (1870 - 1949)
Tokaido Numazu Harbour. Date: 1940. Size: Oban. Approximately 17 x 11.25 inches. Publisher: Doi Hangaten. Publisher's watermark at upper left margin. Carver: Harada. Printer: Yokoi. This seal combination indicates an early post-war edition. Reference: TK-DH-63. Medium: Japanese woodblock print. Condition: Paper is slightly toned.
Zentner Collection
SOLD Antique Japanese bar tansu with dramatic natural Keyaki burl front hardwood. The locking bar has hand-forged iron bamboo motif plating; Its handle is a 16 petal chrysanthemum Imperial seal mon. The piece has 4 large drawers and a safe box containing 2 smaller drawers.
Original condition lacquer finish.
Meiji Period (1868-1912) Dimensions: 24" x 12" x 24.5" H
Zentner Collection
$2,000.00 Japanese ko tansu, or small chest, with natural finish kiri wood front drawers. The outer frame has the Akamatsu wood dramatic woodgrain in black lacquer finish and cut-out handles for carrying. The hand-forged iron lock plates are in motifs of the Mokko mon.
Edo period (1603-1868) Dimensions: 22.5" x 10.5" x 10.75" H |