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Momoyama Gallery
sold Here is one of the most important chawans of our collection: rounded wan shaped tea bowl with high foot of the bamboo node style in the typical O-Ido shape. The light, little coarse clay with enclosures is expertly thrown and full glazed - with the exception of the foot - with a transparent glaze of wood ash with some feldspar over a white engobe - in the style of Korean kohiki chawan (unglazed area on the outer wall is a typical feature found on many kohiki chawans)...
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1950
item #1359044
(stock #Kanmei001)
Era Woodblock Prints
SOLD Kanmei F. K. (Active 1940s)
General Douglas MacArthur, 1947. Size: Oban. Approximately 16.75 x 11.0 inches. Edition: First and only. Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Bears rarely used Watanabe seal at lower right margin. Carver: Aoyanagi Isao (seal) Printer: Ono Gintaro (seal) Sealed by the artist and signed in English and Japanese. Medium: Japanese woodblock print. Condition: Paper slightly toned. Small surface spot at right...
The Kura
Sold, thank you! A very unusual incense burner in the form of two servants holding up Hotei as he looks joyously toward the night sky. It is performed in crackled white glaze over pale clay with simple iron decoration. It comes enclosed in the original signed wooden box bearing the Teishitsu Gigei-in seal titled Ga-korai Hotei Koro indicating it was based on Korean decoration techniques. It is 18.5 x 10 x 14 cm (7-1/2 x 4 x 6 inches) and is in fine condition...
The Kura
Sold, thank you! A superb image by Hirai Baisen depicting the fire lit on the mountains surrounding Kyoto on the final day of Obon enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled “Okuribi”. It is performed with washes of ink and gold on silk, bordered in a fine frame of patterned brocade. It is 22 x 79 inches (56 x 200 cm). It features large ivory rollers, which will need to be changed if shipped outside Japan...
The Kura
sold, thank you A large porcelain vase covered in olive green upon which grows a rush of white bamboo and a brief epitaph by Miura Chikusen I enclosed in the original signed wooden box dating to the late Meiji or early Taisho period. It is 15 inches (37.5 cm) tall and in excellent condition. The box has much darkened with age. Works of this size by Chikusen, who largely specialized in the minute world of Sencha ware are quite rare...
Momoyama Gallery
sold Here is a really rare example of Ko-Agano-yaki from the early Edo Period (1600-1630) with a fine Kintsugi gold repair: regular wan shaped Ko-Agano tea bowl, showing very fine slightfinger marks from throwing. The foot ring has been cut with a potters knife on a hand wheel. A glaze of rice straw ash has been poured with a laddle, while the potter held the bowl at the unglazed foot. Its unglazed finger marks show a fine, little iron bearing clay of a brownish color...
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1930
item #1436508
(stock #Ohara251)
Era Woodblock Prints
SOLD Ohara Koson
Roaring Tiger Size: O-tanzaku. Approximately 14.25 x 7.75 inches. Date: ca. 1900s-1923. Koson signature and seal at lower right. Publisher: Daikokuya. Reference: K41.6 and cat. 134 in Crows, Cranes and Camellias: The Natural World of Ohara Koson (Reigle Newland). Medium: Japanese woodblock print. Condition: Excellent. "A tiger roars as it stands on a mountain ridge and looks over the crescent moon far below...
Modern Japanese Ceramics
Sold, Thank you! Not to save the best for last, but this piece by Nagae Shigekazu is simply breathtaking. The pattern of light and dark squares which drives direct lines across the distended quadrilateral form hails images of the Ichimatsu-moyo pattern at the Katsura Rikyu imperial palace. The lyrical curves of the vessel itself are in sharp contrast to the extreme precision of the patterns, creating a unique dialog between viewer and viewed...
Zentner Collection
Sold An antique Japanese two section display tansu (Kazaridana) made of Kuri (Chestnut) and Hinoki (Cypress) woods. Features 3 adjustable shelves with original bronze hardware and glass. Bottom section has 5 spacious drawers for additional storage.
Age: Late Meiji/Taisho (1900-1920) Dimensions: 72 3/4" Wide by 53 3/4" High by 18 1/4" Deep
Conservatoire Sakura
$2,700.00 Drawer box (kodansu). The exterior is entirely covered with vegetable fiber basketry surrounding reserves in the shape of fans in silver and gilded copper, chiselled with birds and flowers. The interior is soberly lacquered in black (roiro) and bears powdered Chinese characters...
Conservatoire Sakura
$2,700.00 Cut iron tsuba. Decor of dragons and sacred pearls. Inside the beads, tiny iron balls are mobile. The style is called Namban. This kind of tsuba is little represented without however being rare. But the model presented here is exceptionally of excellent quality...
Conservatoire Sakura
$2,700.00 Small Satsuma earthenware incense burner in the shape of a cricket cage. Technically complex openwork work with results that are still uncertain, the fine bars of the cage have survived the test of fire without damage, then that of handling for more than 100 years. Today the object is in excellent condition. Below the mark of the Satsuma and the name Hattori who was one of the best ceramic painters of his time., allowing a precise dating. We can, on request, find out who it is.
Height 14cm.
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1960
item #1477871
(stock #Hasui630)
Era Woodblock Prints
SOLD Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)
Snow at the Silver Pavilion (Ginkakuji no yuki) Date: 1951. Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Black 6 mm seal at lower left, indicating a first edition (1946-57). Hasui signature and seal at lower left. Size: Oban. 15.25 x 11.25 inches. Reference: Hotei #560. Medium: Japanese woodblock print. Condition: Back margins have tape residue. Two small bumps at lower margin edge repaired by conservator. Slight fading.
Reflets des Arts
€2,700.00 Inro – A amusing and beautiful model of a black japanese urushi lacquer Inro, open by 4 cases and a lid, showing mice and a rat playing together on shells. Brown, black, gold and silver lacquers of maki-e. H : 5,7 cm. Japan Edo (1603-1868) 18th century.
Zentner Collection
$2,700.00 Antique Japanese ikebana basket. Wild and natural appearance with gnarled wisteria branches making up the frame of the basket including a tall arching handle. The small, neatly woven body of the basket is made of split bamboo and is nestled between the knotted wisteria branches.
Age: Meiji Period (1868-1912) Dimensions: 14" high x 15" long x 9" wide
tomoe art
$2,700.00 The two-tiered round mochi(round rice cake) called "Kagami-mochi",Ise lobster, bitter orange and green leaves. Painted with ink and pigments on paper. Sealed. The piece has been restored and remounted with beautiful old silk fabric, and futai tassels have been also reused from the old piece. It is inscribed Motonobu on the lid of the storage box.
The subject depicted is an offering made to welcome the New Year's god "Toshigami", and all of the decorations have a meaning. The round tiered ...
Modern Japanese Ceramics
sold, thank you A broken open Tsubo By Kim Hono enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Chikyu no Tameiki (The Earth Sighs). It is for the most part, raw earthen colors, with a thick pool of tinted aquamarine glass inside. It is 40 x 34 x 41.5 (16 x 13-1/2 x 16-1/2 inches) and is in excellent condition. Upon the box is drawn an image of the Tsubo with a single dried lotus seed pod rising from within.
Kim Hono was born in Seto City Aichi Prefecture in 1958, and graduated the Prefectural Ceramics...
Modern Japanese Ceramics
$2,700.00 A large ceramic sculpture by Yamaguchi Mio titled O-ga-tamanoki The O-gatama no Ki is a tree usually found within shrine precincts which is said to invite the gods to come. Mio often finds her inspiration in teh natural world, or that space between the natural world and the world beyond. The sculpture is 25 x 29 x 61.5 cm (10 x 11-1/2 x 24-1/2 inches) and is in excellent condition, directly from the artist. It comes with a signed wooden placard.
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