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Japanese : Lacquer : Contemporary item #1403040 (stock #27)
Dragon's Pearl
$600.00
A Japanese Contemporary Large Bamboo Sculpture made of thin strips of madake bamboo and lacquer. The artist is using an irregular, open work plaiting technique creating a kind of large cocoon shape. It can be seen from different angles and it can also be use for flower arrangements as there are openings through which a receptacle can be placed inside. But it can be admired simply as a sculpture. Made by Homura Reiryu ( b. 1970 ) from Oita prefecture, Kyushu, Japan...
Japanese : Lacquer : Contemporary item #1424016 (stock #1495)
Modern Japanese Ceramics
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A sumptuous wood grain bowl by Tanaka Eiko covered outside in red and black lacquer, the lacquer thin enough to allow highlights of the tiger-striped grain to show through. Her tree of choice is the Horse Chestnut (Jap. Tocchi), which has unparalleled grain patterns. A perfectly fitted black lacquered lid with elegant finial covers the bowl. It is 10 cm (4 inches) diameter, signed on the base and comes in her red paper box with shiori card...
Japanese : Lacquer : Contemporary item #1424094 (stock #1496)
Modern Japanese Ceramics
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A sumptuous wood grain bowl by Tanaka Eiko covered outside in thin black lacquer, the inside clear to best present the exquisite grains of the wood. Her tree of choice is the Horse Chestnut (Jap. Tocchi), which has unparalleled grain patterns, here visible through the black outside as a soft glow about the center of the bowl. Inside black lines like an abstract ink painting decorating the straight grains. She brings the rim up to an extremely thin edge, abrupt, both delicate and challenging...
Japanese : Lacquer : Contemporary item #1433723 (stock #1594)
Modern Japanese Ceramics
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There is something deeply elegant and feminine about the work of the female Maki-e artist Arai Etsuko, clearly evident here in this glass sake set decorated with olives in colored lacquer and precious gold powder enclosed in a compartmentalized and signed wooden box. Inside, the simple black silhouette, outside, various shades of green connected by gold branches from which hang fruit in various stages of ripeness. The Tokkuri is 17 cm (6-3/4 inches) tall, the cups 5 cm (2 inches) diameter...
Japanese : Lacquer : Contemporary item #1444000 (stock #1713)
Modern Japanese Ceramics
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Gold flecks twinkle like stars in the night sky inside this free form dry lacquer sake cup by female lacquer artist Arai Etsuko enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is made of multiple layers of cloth, paper and lacquer with the final layer dusted with mother of pearl and gold flakes, polished down to a dull sheen. It is the cup 7 cm (2-1/2 inches) diameter, new from the artist in perfect condition...
Japanese : Lacquer : Contemporary item #1444033 (stock #1595)
Modern Japanese Ceramics
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A splendid antique cut glass cup selected and decorated by contemporary female lacquer artist Arai Etsuko enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Glass Maki-e Hai, Yoake (Glass Sake Cup named Breaking Dawn). She said that when she first saw the glass in a street market, she instantly envisioned how the engraved patterns could be accentuated by colors and powdered precious metals. Here an interesting comparison of techniques is possible...
Japanese : Lacquer : Contemporary item #1463304
Modern Japanese Ceramics
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Perhaps because of its proximity (or lack thereof) to central Japan, the beautiful lacquer wares of Akita may be lesser known than other regions. Here is an exquisite sake cup and katakuchi serer of turned wood covered in multiple layers of soft, black lacquer by Sato Fumiyuki of the Kawatsura lacquer tradition. A belt of gilded binding wrapping the body is the only decoration...
Japanese : Lacquer : Accessories : Contemporary item #1465676
Treasures of Old Times
$550.00
Vermillion lacquered gourd confectionery bowl (Kashiki) made by Ishikawa artist Maehata Harusai, the 3rd.
Elegant rounded shape with color contrast gives a graceful appearance.

The bowl was exhibited at Mitsukoshi Art Club in 2012 in "Tea Ceremony Lacquering Thirty Years - Harusai Maebata Exhibition".

3rd Maehata Harusai is one of the leading lacquer artists from Ishikawa province.
Born in 1964 as the eldest son of Harusai, the 2nd, he studied Kaga Makie under Min...
Japanese : Lacquer : Boxes : Contemporary item #1482985 (stock #28)
Modern Japanese Ceramics
$8,250.00
Geometric designs in glimmering Raden (abalone shell) cross the surface of this intricate box by Okada Yuji enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Youko. Inside gold nashiji glistens on the mirror black surface. It is 15 x 15 x 11 cm (6 x 6 x 4-1/2 inches) and is in excellent condition, directly from the artist.
Okada Yuji was born in Kyoto in 1948 and graduated with honors from the Kyoto Hiyoshi-ga-oka High School Lacquer Course, Receiving top prize for his graduation project...
Japanese : Lacquer : Boxes : Contemporary item #1482987 (stock #30)
Modern Japanese Ceramics
$5,800.00
Thick hirame polished gold disks glimmer on the surface of this peach-shaped container by Okada Yuji enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Toju. The peak is tinged pink, while a green leaves embedded with kiri-gane gold wrapping up the sides. A striking work of kanshitsu (dried lacquer art) from the pinnacle of the artists career. It is 7.5 cm (3 inches) tall, the same diameter and is in excellent condition...
Japanese : Lacquer : Contemporary item #1483016 (stock #20)
Modern Japanese Ceramics
$2,750.00
Like the layered hills of Kyoto at twilight, this vase is of Kanshitsu dry lacquer body with layers of colored Urushi by Okada Yuji enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is 31 cm (just more than 12 inches) tall and in perfect condition.
Okada Yuji was born in Kyoto in 1948 and graduated with honors from the Kyoto Hiyoshi-ga-oka High School Lacquer Course, Receiving top prize for his graduation project...
Japanese : Lacquer : Boxes : Contemporary item #1483118 (stock #26)
Modern Japanese Ceramics
$10,000.00
A Kanshitsu Jikiro (Dried Lacquer box) by Okada Yuji covered in dark lacquer decorated with Kanshitsu-ko (powdered dried lacquer) and gleaming strips of mother of pearl and polished suzu-ita metal over billowing clouds of mother of pearl enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Seifu (Blue Wind). On top a ring of fine mother of pearl flakes studded with solid discs of hirame gold indicate the sun. The box is 30 x 18 x 22 cm (12 x 7 x 9 inches) and is in perfect condition, created in 2...
Japanese : Lacquer : Boxes : Contemporary item #1483156 (stock #31)
Modern Japanese Ceramics
$14,000.00
Creatures congregate among the fallen leaves and small grasses surrounding this incredible Kanshitsu (dry lacquer) box by Okada Yuji enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Yafu (Field Wind). A plethora of techniques have been used to create this box. First the dry lacquer technique means perhaps a year in creating the egg-like shape, due to drying time of the many layers. It is covered in polished black lacquer, with leaves of gold maki-e riven with kirigane cut gold chips. The sn...
Japanese : Lacquer : Boxes : Contemporary item #1483198 (stock #32)
Modern Japanese Ceramics
$3,000.00
The spider crosses a glimmering golden web wet with dewdrops of solid gold Hirame and inlayed mother of pearl, a stellar work by Okada Yuji enclosed in the original signed wooden box. The interior and base are glittering with gold Nashiji. Known for his depictions of small creatures, this is a perfect example of his work. It is 8 cm (just over 3 inches) diameter and in excellent condition.
Okada Yuji was born in Kyoto in 1948 and graduated with honors from the Kyoto Hiyoshi-ga-oka High S...
Japanese : Lacquer : Contemporary item #1483374
Modern Japanese Ceramics
$2,800.00
Sunrise colors layer like a brilliant orange sedimentary horizon on this exquisite Kanshitsu Dry Lacquer vase by Okada Yuji enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is 33 cm (13 inches) tall and in excellent condition.
Okada Yuji was born in Kyoto in 1948 and graduated with honors from the Kyoto Hiyoshi-ga-oka High School Lacquer Course, Receiving top prize for his graduation project. In 1969 he apprenticed under Ito Hiroshi, and the following year was accepted into the Kyoten (Kyo...
Japanese : Lacquer : Contemporary item #1483510
Modern Japanese Ceramics
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Seed pods cluster beneath the glimmering white flowers clinging to the silver tinged gold vines decorating the exquisite marbled grain of this large tray from Okada Yuji. The vines and leaves are in gold and silver taka-maki-e, the flowers inlaid carved and polished shell, and the beans are inlaid lead. The tray has been enhanced with wiped on lacquer accentuating the natural wood grain. Turned from a tree dried for over ten years in 1995, it was decorated by Okada in 2008. The tray is 46 cm di...
Japanese : Lacquer : Contemporary item #1483613 (stock #23)
Modern Japanese Ceramics
$8,300.00
A striking Dry Lacquer form covered in black lacquer with a galaxy of red and gold swirling about the offset neck, the entire an undulating wave of abstracted dimensions by Okada Yuji enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is 32 x 27 x 8.5 cm and in perfect condition, dating from 2007.
Okada Yuji was born in Kyoto in 1948 and graduated with honors from the Kyoto Hiyoshi-ga-oka High School Lacquer Course, Receiving top prize for his graduation project. In 1969 he apprenticed unde...
Japanese : Lacquer : Contemporary item #1483680 (stock #19)
Modern Japanese Ceramics
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Like the layered hills of Kyoto at twilight, this vase is of Kanshitsu dry lacquer body with layers of colored Urushi by Okada Yuji enclosed in the original signed wooden box. in the dark blue about the base glimmers tiny flakes of mother of pearl. The rim is covered in white Chogai shell applique. About the flaring neck, is a slight indentation, a very challenging form to be polished out. It is 34 cm (just more than 13-1/2 inches) tall and in perfect condition.
Okada Yuji was born in Ky...
 
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