An antique Japanese Sendai Tansu made of Keyaki (Zelkova) and Sugi (Cryptomeria) woods. All original hand forged iron hardware including the Warabite style handles and the stylized Chrysanthemum arabesque lock plates. 6 drawers with a security door that hides 2 small drawers used to protect valuables. It comes with a key.

Age: Late Meiji Era (1900-1910)

Dimensions: 45 1/4" Wide by 34 3/4" High by 17 1/4" Deep

Takahashi Shotei
Shrine by the River
Date: 1930s. This edition early postwar.
Size: 5.5 x 3.625 inches
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Artist's seal at lower right.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent. Top margin edge has slight browning.

Small cast bronze incense burner. Ding (tripod) shape. Beautiful casting and neat finish. The sobriety of the decor and the perfection of the volumes giving this small creation a powerful yet elegant appearance suggest that it is a very old censer, probably from the Song period. An excellent very old patina stained with verdigris in places would be compatible with this earlier period. Height 82mm. Fine condition.

A Japanese boxwood netsuke depicting a blind man holding his giant scrotum. Homin signature engraved on seal. Meiji period 19th century Sizes: 3,6 x 3,5 x 3 cm. Condition report: Good condition

A Japanese boxwood netsuke depicting the mask of the demon Kobeshimi. Bridge on the reverse forming the himotoshi. Meiji period 19th century Sizes: 4,2 x 3,5 x 1,6 cm. Condition report: Good condition

OLD MAP

Map of an certain village in today's Niigata prefecture, Japan. Original drawing, Meiji period (1868-1912). approx. 250 x 200cm (98.42 x 78.744in). Like an abstract painting and powerful.


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Pair of small vases in cloisonné enamel on gilded copper. A beautiful identical landscape is represented on each vase, fish, rivers, birds and flowers on a background of a luminous blue sky. The wires are in silver, the base is in gilded copper. The gilding is now almost completely missing, except on the base. They are both in perfect condition, which for a pair is rare. Height 125mm. Japanese work from the end of the 19th century.

INKSTONE CASE

Wood, stone, and Indian ink. Japan. In such used condition as is, just like it's an abstraction itself. H 9 x 31 x 21.5cm (3.54 x 12.20 x 8.46in).


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The androgynous Kannon sits in meditation under climbing rocks and tumbling waves deeply carved into the side of this bamboo incense container dating from the early 20th century (late Meiji to Taisho period). It is 34 cm long (13-1/2 inches) long and in excellent condition, a superb example of the genre. This would have been used to hold incense sticks.

A Kintsugi gold repair provides a flash of gold on the much-used richly color-stained glaze of this Early Edo Takahara Yaki Chawan Tea bowl enclosed in an age darkened kiri-wood box titled Takahara Yaki Hira Chawan. The box is annotated inside followed by a Ka-o stylized signature. There is also a separate Kiwame letter enclosed. The bowl is 15.3 cm (6 inches) diameter and in excellent condition. Takahara Yaki began with Takahara Tobei (Fujihei) who hailed from Higo in modern day Kumamoto pre...

Japanese bronze rabbit hollow sculpture.

Age: Japan, Showa Period, 20th Century
Size: Height 18.4 C.M. / Width 13 C.M. / Length 30 C.M.
Condition: Nice condition overall. Please refer to the enlargement photos for more details.
Shipment: Worldwide shipping from Bangkok, Thailand at actual cost. Please e-mail us for the shipping fee.

Chinese porcelain letter holder.

Age: China, Qing Dynasty, 19th Century
Size: Height 21.2 C.M./ Width 20.7 C.M.
Condition: Nice glaze and condition overall. Please refer to the enlarged photos for more details.
Shipment: Worldwide shipping from Bangkok, Thailand at actual cost. Please e-mail us for the shipping fee.

Diameter approximately 8.9 cm. There is a soft glaze missing on the rim. In good condition.

Furoshiki (wrapping cloth) with tsutsugaki auspicious motifs of seven treasures (takara-zukushi), which is made of hand-woven cotton and vegetable indigo dye. Tsutsugaki is paste-resist-dye and colors are added with mostly pigments. Treasures are: sacred jems, cloves, a lucky mullet, a hiding hat, a coat, citruses and so on. It is made in Kyushu in Meiji period (1868～1912)　In good condition except for three mending patches and some tiny holes. 94cm x 124cm

Height: 3.7 cm (1.6 in)
Width: 2.5 cm (1 in)
Depth: 2.2 cm (0.8 in)

Japanese lacquered wooden netsuke of a seated boy; minor wear to the lacquer; good condition

Height: 12.2 cm (4.9 in)
Width: 8.2 cm (3.3 in)

Quality Japanese Satsuma vase; heavily gilt throughout with very detailed diaper work extending up the neck to a figural cartouche; the main body shows three kidney-shaped vignettes depicting figures in domestic settings; the lower body is also decorated with the finest gilt diapers; good condition

Sculpture of a long-nosed tanuki, walking with a hat on its back and a flask in its left paw. The piece is built around a large piece of root wood that comprises the torso, legs, the enlarged scrotum and tail. The head is a separate piece of root wood, the ears inserted. The sake flask is a small piece of root wood, and the hat is carved from a slab of a different wood species.

Hat and sake bottle are attached to the tanuki with braided silk cords.

Mingei.

Root wood with black...

47 piece Burmese Mizoran necklace. 45 cm strung. Made up from a mixture of materials which show different fluorescence under UV light including some amber. Undated, estimated to be 20th century or earlier. Can be viewed in central London and shipped worldwide.