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Momoyama Gallery
$650.00 Late Edo (1603-1868) Period Shino Chawan with all highlights of the Japanese aesthetics of wabi sabi. It is in perfect antique condition and comes with its original wooden box, a cloth bag (shifuku) and the attestation of a tea master inside. Shino-ware dates to the Momoyama period when potters were attempting to recreate white porcelain-wares that were being imported from China at the time. Originally they were made in single-chamber anagama style kilns set into the hillsides. La...
Haruko Watanabe
Sold, Thank you. Amazing boro made of hand-spun and vegetable indigo dye cotton fragments. It used to be the lining of yogi, which is one kind of futon, in the shape of kimono. It is from the Japan Sea side district in Kansai, such as Fukui or Kyoto. It is partly sewn with hemp yarn. Late 19th to early 20th century. W:95cm, L:165cm
Mastromauro Japanese art
EUR €1,400 Bronze okimono depicting the study of a powerful tiger in a furtive position.
The animal is represented with its legs bent, its tail curled upwards and its body in a lowered position just before launching the attack.
The streaks of the fur, typical of the animal, are depicted in a masterful way and highlighted with a marked engraving.
This okimono is signed Hideyoshi 秀義 under the belly.
Origin: Japan
Period: Meiji second half of the 19th century.
Dimensions: 10 x 36 x 9 cm....
Mastromauro Japanese art
EUR €2,900 Okimono expertly carved from a single block of ivory depicting a hunter in the company of an Onagadori rooster. A child stands at the hunter's feet while he strokes the rooster's feathers.
This okimono features the Yukiharu 之晴 signature in relief under the base within a rectangular reserve in red lacquer.
Origin: Japan
Period: Meiji end of 19th century.
Dimensions: 29 x 7.5 x 6 cm.
State of conservation: Very good
BRIAN PAGE ORIENTAL ART
GBP £235.00 Rare Chinese Neolithic Xindian Culture Pottery Jar
This rare pottery jar was made around 3,000 years ago by peoples of the Neolithic Xindian culture (c. 1200 - 500 BC). The Xindian culture is a relatively late Neolithic culture and overlaps with the Chinese Bronze Age. Xindian pottery is rarer and generally less refined, more coarse and brittle than pottery from some earlier Chinese Neolithic cultures. This jar, however, is well-made and of an attractive form. It is made from quite a gritt... Fine Tall Chinese Western Han Dynasty Painted Pottery Soldier (with impressed seal)
This impressive pottery model of a warrior was made over 2,000 years ago during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 8). It is made from a dense grey pottery and quite highly-fired. He stands alert with his right hand raised. The pack on his back, a container for arrows, shows that he is an archer. In the hands would originally have been placed a miniature wooden shield and weapon, now long since rotted away ... Fine Tall Chinese Western Han Dynasty Painted Pottery Soldier (with stand)
This impressive pottery model of a warrior was made over 2,000 years ago during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 8). It is made from a dense grey pottery and quite highly-fired. He stands alert with his right hand raised. The pack on his back, a container for arrows, shows that he is an archer. In the hands would originally have been placed a miniature wooden shield and weapon, now long since rotted away and lost....
BRIAN PAGE ORIENTAL ART
GBP £1,200.00 Rare Chinese Yuan Dynasty Burnished Black Pottery Groom Figure (32.5cm)
This impressive and attractive pottery figure was made during the Yuan Dynasty (AD 1279 - 1368). Such figures from the Yuan Dynasty are very distinctive and are particularly rare and desirable. The surface of such Yuan figures is typically fired to grey, or almost black, and sometimes, as in this case, burnished to a smooth finish. This figure represents a groom or possibly a merchant. The clothing is distinctly Mong...
The Kura
sold, thank you A set of 5 rare Dutch glass cups imported to Japan in the Edo period and formerly owned by the Confucian scholar Nakai Riken (1732-1817). They are enclosed in a custom made double sided wooden box with drop in doors titled on the side Yoi-O-Gozui (Five fortuitous ways to be drunken) with a long verse carved into each door. Of course, the meaning of the title goes much deeper, and the Gozui is also a Confucian concept. The emperor of China distributed five jade treasures to the five feudal lor...
tomoe art
$970.00 Hotei, one of the seven lucky gods. Painted with ink on paper. Signed and sealed. It is accompanied by an inscripton authenticating the painting that it is painted by Okamoto Hansuke. It is attributed to Okamoto Hansuke(1575-1657).
Okamoto Hansuke(1575-1657) was a military tactician and calligrapher of the early Edo period. His original surname was Ishigami, and he later inherited the Okamoto clan. He is well known by his given name, Nobunari, and his common name, Hansuke. He originally se...
Southeast Asian : Metalwork : Pre 1930
item #1487908
(stock #WN415)
Two silver teapots, both with strainer and hinged cover on pouring spout. Beautifully made with floral decoration, the knobs in bud-shape. Both marked "ZR800". Provenance: Swiss-Dutch family living in Indonesia in the first half of the 20th C. Condition: few traces of usage. Dimension: large teapot: c. 22.3 cm high, 17.8 cm wide, weight: 607 g, small one: c. 15.4 cm x 12.4 cm, weight: 417 g. Total weight: 1.024 kg.
Chinese Ming dynasty Wanli period guan form jar with wide shoulders tapering to an unglazed foot and glazed, slightly recessed base decorated in underglaze blue with lotus flowers and scrolling foliage on a white ground. Short cylindrical neck and fully glazed interior. Measures 6 7/8” high. 16th century. No chips, cracks, or repairs. Minor scratches to the glaze are visible under magnification. From the estate of Gerhard Lohmeier, a Diplomat at the German Embassy in Beijing from 1985 to ...
June Hastings
$1,150.00 A square Chinese cloisonne enamel gau box with four arched apertures and gold gilt strap loops for personal carrying. Richly decorated on a yellow ground with designs of formal lotus and foliage, the top side panel has a dark blue fylfot. The back panel, with the large red Shou-type character, slides up to open. Made for the Tibetan market, this dates
early to mid 19th century, but could possibly be late 18th. Measures 3.35 inches high, 3" across, 1" deep.
Conservatoire Sakura
$600.00 Chinese hard porcelain dish. Decorated with a palace scene in the center and a rich variegated decoration on the margin, interspersed with a cartouche containing birds. A dominant blue enamel happily illuminates the whole. Although this style of decor is relatively common, it is exceptional to come across some of such good quality, in fact here the firing was perfect, the enamels are superb which is very important.
China, probably Jingdezhen kilns mid-19th century.
Excellent state of conservat...
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Sold POJAGI TEA MATS 4 pieces set of traditional folk Korean patchwork hemp textiles handmade from various scrap fabrics so-called 'Pojagi (Bojagi)', late 20th century, approx. 45 x 35 cm (17.71 x 13.77in) each. No same pattern is available as its highlight. Still some expected slight frays and stains due to aging as its uniqueness. selected by kikue * Please understand that EMS shipping fee is additional...
Modern Japanese Ceramics
sold, thank you A deep wan-gata bowl swept with swirling Zen brush-strokes over earthen glaze by veteran female artist Shigemori Yoko enclosed ina wooden box titled O-Chawan (Big Tea Bowl). It is 13.5 cm (5-1/4 inches) diameter, 9.5 cm (just less than 4 inches) tall and in perfect condition, directly from the artist’ family and comes enclosed in a wooden box annotated by her nephew.
Shigemori Yoko (1953-2021) was born in Kagoshima. Yoko came to Kyoto where she initially studied painting at the Kyoto Tan...
Modern Japanese Ceramics
sold, thank you Vibrant colors and glistening gold decorate this leaf shaped sculpture by Matsuda Yuriko enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled HASU (Lotus Leaf). It is roughly 37 cm (15 inches) diameter and in excellent condition.
Matsuda Yuriko was born in Ashiya, Hyōgō Prefecture in 1943nd lives and works in Oshino, Yamanashi Prefecture. Yuriko is an avid exhibitor; it is a wonder she has time to do any work at all. Both within Japan (Nihon Togei Ten, Gendai Togei Ten etc.) and without sh...
Modern Japanese Ceramics
$2,600.00 Clouds cling to the slopes of this large ceramic container in the shape of Mt. Fuji by Matsuda Yuriko enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Fujisan. It is 41.5 x 15.5 x 41.5 cm (16-1/4 x 6 x 16-1/4 inches) and is in excellent condition.
Matsuda Yuriko was born in Ashiya, Hyōgō Prefecture in 1943nd lives and works in Oshino, Yamanashi Prefecture. Yuriko is an avid exhibitor; it is a wonder she has time to do any work at all. Both within Japan (Nihon Togei Ten, Gendai Togei Te... |