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Zentner Collection
$1,250.00 An antique Japanese Ko Tansu (personal storage chest) and of Kiri (Paulownia), Hinoki (Cypress) and Sugi (Cryptomeria) woods. Original hand forged iron hardware including the Mokko handles. A hinged door hides two small drawers behind and two sliding doors hide a storage space where books and reading material was tucked away.
Its original purpose was for the storage of papers, ephemera, letters, documents, books and small accessories...
Zentner Collection
$1,250.00 An antique Japanese Bamboo Ikebana basket woven in a traditional form with an elegant loop handle. It features a woven foot, with a star split base that was signed by the artist. The woven sides have terminating two through five layered spacers. The three Bamboo loop handle has caterpillar styled reinforcements at the base with five auspicious turtle style woven reinforcements along the top. Natural soot patina acquired over years of loving use...
Zentner Collection
$1,250.00 A vintage Japanese contemporary low Mizuya Tansu made from solid Keyaki (Zelkova) wood. Two sliding doors open to a spacious storage area. Three side by side drawers along the bottom with Hikute iron handles. Taiko drum nail heads decorate the sliding doors and horizontal side bars add structural strength as well as aesthetic beauty to the chest.
Age: 1970's Dimensions: 35 1/2" Wide by 23 1/2" High by 17 3/4"Deep
Modern Japanese Ceramics
sold, with thanks! A wild work by young pottery sensation Matsumura Jun enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Necrosis TBF. It is 23 x 14.5 x 8 cm (9 x 5-1/2 x 3 inches) and is in excellent condition, from the artist late 2020.
Matsumura Jun was born in Chiba Prefecture on the outskirts of Tokyo in 1986...
Japanese : Tea Articles : Contemporary
item #1440183
(stock #TRC210111)
Kyoto Ceramics and Fine Art
Sold, Thank You! A beautiful example of modern Bizen-ware—with a thick feldspar glaze partially covering the clay body allowing the natural ash glaze underneath to show through in areas. This piece along with others by the same artist tend to push the bounds of what you usually see in Bizen pottery.
The craftsman who made this piece, Takahiro Ishii, was born in Tokyo, and, after studying ceramics for a number of years, he moved to Bizen to become a ceramics teacher and later opened his own kiln...
Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1920
item #1440429
(stock #TRC210220)
Kyoto Ceramics and Fine Art
Sold, Thank You! A black Raku ceremonial tea bowl displaying an excellent patina bestowed by time. The light colored clay peeks through in areas giving this piece a unique feel. Though the box is signed by the artist known as Rakuen, details on this particular potter seem to be lost to time...
Mastromauro Japanese art
EUR €1,250 A Japanese paulownia wood Kashi-ki “sweet box” with leaves and flowers motifs, decorate with kijimakie lacquer design and gold parts, mother of pearl inlays and lead foil.
Edo period 19th century
Sizes: 13 x 10 x 6,5cm.
Condition report: Good condition
Zentner Collection
Sold Antique Japanese single section tansu with pair of sliding glass doors. Four uniform drawers sit symmetrically at the bottom of the chest. Overall simple modern design with functional use. Natural finish, over hinoki (Japanese cypress) wood.
Would make for a great low media cabinet. Age: Meiji Period (1868 - 1912) Dimensions: 59 1/2" long x 14 1/2" deep x 26 1/2" high
Zentner Collection
SOLD Antique Japanese ko tansu (personal storage chest) made with kiri (paulownia) wood drawer fronts and sugi (cryptomeria) wood body and drawer interiors. 5 drawers of various sizes. Finished with red and black negoro lacquer finish. Hand forged iron hardware including hirute drawer pulls and round lock plates.
Age: Meiji Period (1868-1912) Dimensions: 16" high x 22" wide x 13 1/4" deep
Kyoto Ceramics and Fine Art
Sold, Thank You! This depiction of the eternal “ensō” on a backdrop of pearly white feldspar over red clay signifies enlightenment, the eternal, the nothingness, and the freedom of the mind to envision and to create...
Kyoto Ceramics and Fine Art
$1,125.00 The style of this vase, known in Japanese as karakane (“kara” meaning Chinese and “kane” meaning copper), has been carried on by Japanese craftsmen since its theorized introduction during China’s Tang Dynasty. Falling in and out of fashion over the centuries as Japan alternated between preferences for Chinese style tea-ware and more homegrown versions, today it remains a common fixture in many tea rooms...
The Kura
Sold, Thank you! A very unusual Toyoraku Usubata vase covered outside in black lacquer decorated with geometric gold maki-e designs, the inside nearly swamped by organic green flowing to the center. It comes enclosed in the original somewhat dilapidated wooden box signed: The 75 year old man Toyosuke. This appears to be the signature of the third generation, and so would date from 1854, only a few years prior to the death of the fourth generation who began the technique of lacquering pots...
Zentner Collection
$1,250.00 An antique Japanese Buddhist altar stand made of Keyaki (Zelkova) wood. All original Urushi lacquer and each part was hand carved. Featuring a center lotus flower with a 4 petal Dorje Vajra on each side. Beautiful craftsmanship throughout. Slight loss to back leg support.
Age: Meiji Era (1868-1912) Dimensions: 24 1/2" Wide by 9" High by 11 3/4" Deep
The Kura
Sold, Thank you! Gold glimmers on the rim against pale concrete tones on this rare mid-Edo period tea bowl from the Utsutsugawa kiln in Nagasaki prefecture, late 17th to early 18th century. Waves of brush strokes decorate the outside, while the white slip cascades from the rim in withering streaks within. A kutsuki on the side testifies to some event which happened during the firing, where another piece of pottery collapsed against the side, fusing and causing the bowl to deform...
Zentner Collection
SOLD A Keyaki (Zelkova) root burl bonsai stand with twisty gnarly roots supporting a flat surface. Beautiful original patina.
Age: Mid Century (1950-1960's) Dimensions: 14 1/2" Wide by 13" High by 12 3/4" Deep
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1960
item #1448256
(stock #Hasui536)
Era Woodblock Prints
SOLD Kawase Hasui
Moon Over Kiyosumi Garden Size: Oban. Approximately 15.25 x 10.25 inches. Date: 1938. Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Watanabe 6 mm round seal lower right corner, indicating a lifetime edition printed between 1946-1957. Reference: Hotei #424. Condition: Excellent.
Zentner Collection
SOLD An antique Japanese Ikebana basket made with split and large slatted bamboo and Wisteria branches for the handle and mouth. Its design is a flattened Ovid form that is almost purse-like in shape. The top of the basket is woven along the Wisteria mouth in a free-form style that undulated along the wavy movement of the mouth. The base is a raised twisted rope foot...
Forestangel Asian Antiques
$1,250.00 19th C. Japanese Boxwood Netsuke: TANUKI NO HARA TSUZUMI,
Signed Juzan (ishikawa Komei)
This is a finely carved boxwood netsuke depicting Tanuki, seated, wearing a kimono, with a striker on his right hand, getting ready to beat his hairy distended scrotum that is resting on a cushion as if it were a mokugyo. Very skillfully done miniature sculpture that is signed Juzan within an oval reserve on the bottom of the netsuke. The cord holes (himotoshi) are lined up with natural material...
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