Antique Chinese bitong (brush pot) carved of hardwood with beautiful grain patterns. The mouth and foot of the container have a fine cusped edge. The bottom is carved with three low feet. The bitong has a pleasing overall shape with a slight flare towards the top.

Age: Early 20th century

Dimensions: 6 5/8" high x 6 3/8" wide

Large Chinese yellow Peking glass vase. Dramatic baluster form with tall neck and rounded foot. The rim displays how many layers of glass it took to create this vase. The color is a vivid golden/yellow color previously reserved for imperial use.

Age: Mid 20th century

Dimensions: 13 3/4" high x 7" wide

Chinese hardwood ruyi scepter carved in the shape of a stylized lingzhi. Decorated with writing and designs of fruit, bats, fish, lingzhi mushrooms and other symbols of good fortune. Ruyi scepters were used by the noble class to hold or display as a symbols of power and good fortune and they were used by Buddhist monks in teaching. And later ruyi scepters became a traditional gift and prized object for the scholar's table.

Age: Early 20th century

Dimensions: 12 1/4" long x...

Kawase Hasui
Fisherman at Sunset
Date: 1930s. This edition 1950s-60s.
Approximately 5.5 x 3.75 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Artist's oval seal at lower left.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print tipped along its top edge to original card.
Condition: Excellent.

Japanese Meiji period woodblock print depicting the journalist Fukuchi Gen'ichiro (1841-1906) reporting live at the battle front as government troops assaulted the rebels during the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion by Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915). This image is number 45 from the series "Instructive Models of Lofty Ambition" published by Matsuki Heikichi in 1885. The series title is at the top, the cartouche at the upper left contains a brief biography of Fukuchi Gen'ichiro, and the publisher's infor...

A Chinese bleu de Hue dish for the Vietnamese market, with copper rim, painted with five dragons, the base with the mark 'man tang fu ji' meaning Mark of the hall filled with good fortune. 18.5cms diam. Qing dynasty, 19th century. Good condition.

Japanese Meiji period woodblock print by Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915) depicting Kusunoki Masashige (1294-1336) parting from his eldest son Masatsura (1326-1348) at Sakurai Station as he entrusts Masatsura to lead his clan in battle against Ashikaga no Takauji. The title cartouche is at the upper right and the date of 1883 is at the lower left. Kiyochika’s name is at the lower right. Paper size: 14 1/4" x 9 5/8." The print is not backed and is in good overall condition. There is some wr...

Pair of large Chinese Qing dynasty lidded ginger jars decorated in underglaze blue with Buddhist lion dogs among flames and clouds set against a white porcelain ground. Glazed base and interior. Including the lid, each jar measures about 11 1/4" - 11 1/2" height and diameter with one jar slightly larger than the other. 19th century. Very good overall condition with no chips, cracks, or repairs. Typical production imperfections. There are scratches in the glaze (particularly on the lids) fr...

Burmese bronze Buddha sitting in Mara Vijaya (calling the earth to witness) posture on double lotus base with excellent green patina.

Age: Burma, Shan Period, 16th Century
Size: Height 29.5 C.M. / Width 16.8 C.M. / Depth 12 C.M.
Condition: Nice condition overall (some expected degradation due to its age). 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.

We have a particular interest in beautiful old Raku tea bowls and spend quite a bit of time searching for exceptional examples to include in our gallery. Here we see a beautiful work that appears to be at least 200 years old and likely much older. On the side can be seen the typical “hasami no ato” (tongs mark) and along the base on both the inside and the outside are impressed lines, formed during the firing process, that I have seen only a few times before and only on very old ...

A striking glass bowl which defies explanation by important female glass artist Iwata Itoko enclosed in the original singed wooden box. Made like the feathers of a peacock, each blue flourish contains a round bead of air marking the eye of the feather. Incredible! It is 15 cm (6 inches) diameter and in excellent condition. This is a rare opportunity to acquire one of her chawan, as she produced very few and only in the last years of her life.
Iwata Itoko (1922-2008), started working w...

Height: 19.4 cm (7.8 in)
Width: 15.5 cm (6.2 in)

Chinese porcelain blue and white Shou vase; decorated with four Shou (longevity) characters; hatched border to the shoulder; good condition

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Vintage oil painting on canvas, with idyllically rustic scenery of somewhere in the United States, by a Japanese painter, Mizukami Keiji (1915-?), October, 1950. 53 x 45 x 2 cm (20.86 x 17.71 x 0.78in). Some stains, mold, and paint-peelings due to aging as is.


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SEQUENCE CAPELINS

Verticallly 15 consective capelins of Japanese food samples (so-called food models or fake foods) made of vinyl resin as a rare custom-made. Heisei period (1989-2019). 26.5 x 13 x 1.5cm (10.43 x 5.11 x 0.59in). Some aged stains and deterioration as is.


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Impressive antique Kuro Raku Chawan, over 100 years old, by great artist Rintaro Ohashi with family crest. The bowl was made in Taishō era 8 (1919), its also written on the inside of the lid. I comes with the originally signed and sealed wooden box.

No chips or cracks.

Size: 8,2 cm high x 11,8 cm in diameter.

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Japanese bronze vase with nice form, used to decorate single flower arrangement in Japanese traditional tea ceremony.

Age: Japan, Showa Period, Early 20th Century
Size: Height 19 C.M. / Width 10.5 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.

A colorful Guinomi Sake cup by Shibata Masamitsu enclosed in the original signed wooden box. The design, while technically perfect, is playful with soft colors which allow the viewer a childish sense of wonder. It is 6 cm diameter, 7.5 cm (3 inches) tall and in excellent condition, directly from the artist.
Shibata Masamitsu was born in Toki City, the heart of Mino country, in 1961. After graduating from Kyotos Ritsumeikan Daigaku University, He spent a year at the Tajimi Ceramics Researc...

Japanese Meiji period woodblock print triptych by Utagawa Kokunimasa (1874-1944), aka Ryua, titled “The battle between Japan and Russia at Seoul” depicting troops landing on the Korean peninsula at the start of the Russo-Japanese War. The print was published by Fukuda Hatsujiro and is dated in the cartouche at the lower left 2/1904. Signed at the lower right "Ryua" and with the artist's red "Edokko" seal below. Each of the three panels measures 14 1/2" - 14 5/8" x 9 3/4" (paper size). Go...