Five(5) Japanese Pottery Sake Cups, 2 3/4" high, 2" diameter-top rim, Bamboo Brush painted on different colors of background. The condition is good.

Two(2) Japanese Porcelain, Pottery Tea Cups, Fish and Character written decoration, 3 1/2" to 3 3/4" high, with raised and indented design , the condition is good.

Japanese Brown Pottery Tea Cup with Cover, 3 1/2" high, the condition is good.

Japanese Pottery Tea Cup, square top and round bottom, 3 1/2" high, the condition is good.

Japanese Pottery Tea Cup, raised decoration, 4" high, in good condition.

Two(2) Japanese Pottery Tea Cups, raised design on heavy Pottery, 4" high, 2 3/4" diameter-top rim, the condition is good.

Two(2) Japanese Porcelain Tea Cups, 3 3/4" high, 3" diameter-top rim, the condition is good.

Six(6) Japanese Ceramic Tea Cups, various shape and design, 3 1/2" high, they are all in good condition.

Four(4) Japanese Mugs, Cups, with Handle, 3 3/4" high, 4" diameter-top rim, all different colors, they are all in good condition.

自立する一輪挿し / FOOTED SINGLE-FLOWER VASE

Bamboo single-flower vase that stands on its own feet in exquisite balance. Showa period, 20th century, Japan. approx. H 35cm (13.77in)...

A Japanese Kobako (personal storage box) designed with beautiful Yosegi Zaiku marquetry. Made in the Hakone region in Kanagawa Prefecture, it is a single drawer style used to store precious Okimono and treasures.

Yosegi Zaiku is a Japanese traditional craft dating back to the Edo Period (1603-1868). Wooden rods of varying natural colors are cut into elongated geometric shapes and glued together to form solid blocks...

MAN AND HORSE

Scarce vintage tiny antimony ornament of a pack-horse man decorating (or assisting) the landscape of Bonsai, called ‘Tenpai’, Showa period, 20th century, Japan...

The mark of the potter is carved on the bottom.

Born in Shigaraki in 1913, Tani Seiuemon was the key person to revive old Ko-Shigaraki and Ko-Iga styles with natural ash glaze effects.
Tani Seiuemon works are exhibited in British museum and Cleveland Museum of Art.
Currently, his son Tani Q operates the family kiln in Shigarakicho.

Size
3.3in. (8.5cm.) high;
4.68in...

The size of Chokin Canister : 7 11/16" High x 3 13/16" Dia.
This is rare Japanese Chokin (metal carving) Tea Canister by Famous Japanese Tea Seller Yamamotoyama from Showa 60th, 1985. The canister is made by Tin, main body with another Chokin carved metal was applied. The detail of Chokin design around canister 360 degree.The top of cover has "Go Mei Cha", fine tea in Japanese. The canister has " Nihonbashi, Yamamotoya". Nihonbashi is Tokyo's famous district...

This is an excellent and intricately carved very charming netsuke, made by our own Pennsylvania native, David Carlin. He describes it as a "Model of 3 elderly bearded gentlemen, each leaning on the back of the other with the first two carrying blind man's canes. The third holds a bottle into which "DC" is etched in a double square cartouche. Each dressed in a robe with a rope belt.”. Natural Himotoshi is formed by the first Blind Man's arms. Netsuke is heavily polished...

This is an excellent and intricately carved very charming small netsuke, made by our own Pennsylvania native, David Carlin. He describes it as a "Small, finely detailed representation of the bottom half of a man seeming to be passing through a tombstone with "RIP" etched on it. Daisies are carved on the other side of the tombstone instead of the man's head, giving new meaning to the phrase.” . Netsuke is heavily polished...

A rare Buddhist Zeze tea bowl by great Seki Omo with hand painted Shinto Shrine Ema and votive picture tablets, enclosed in the originally signed and sealed wooden box. This rare work of Seko was made 30 years ago.

Zeze ware has been considered to be one of the Enshu Shichiyo, the seven best kilns selected by Enshu Kobori (1579-1647) who was a master of tea ceremony and also a military commander in the early Edo period...

Ryohei Tanaka
Soaring Birds (Titled in Japanese at lower left)
Medium: Japanese Etching
Date: 1982.
Edition: 78/100.
Signed "T. Ryohei" and dated in pencil.
Paper size: 23.75 x 14.375 inches.
Condition: Outer margin has slight toning.