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Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1970
item #1453142
(stock #Koitsu674)
Era Woodblock Prints
SOLD Tsuchiya Koitsu
Ushigome Kagurazaka. Date: 1939. Size: Oban. 17 x 11.375 inches. Publisher: Doi Hangaten. Doi watermarked paper. Carver: Harada. Printer: Yokoi. This seal combination indicates an early post-war edition. Reference: Koitsu catalog TK-DH-056. Condition: Top back corners have tape residue. Faint toning apparent in margin to former matte edge.
Zentner Collection
$650.00 Antique Japanese cylindrical hibachi made of bent suginoki (cryptomeria) and decorated with a maki-e lacquer scene of a family of chickens in a bamboo grove. The mother hen and two chicks look for food on the ground while their father rooster looks back at his third little chick. Bamboo details are made of inlaid shell and the background is flecked in gold. With a copper insert.
Age: Meiji/Taisho Period (early 20th century) Dimensions: 7 5/8" high x 10 1/4" wide
Zentner Collection
$4,000.00 Antique Chinese porcelain brush washer. Semi-conical form with doucai decoration of swirling clouds. Very fine lines with subtle overglaze colors on a white ground. The doucai technique allows for controlled details and vibrant colors as the outlines are first painted on as a blue underglaze and then fired. After this step, the colors are applied using lovely enamel overglazes and the object is fired again at a lower temperature. The bottom of this brush washer has a Qianlong mark in blue und...
Zentner Collection
$650.00 Antique Chinese small blue and white glazed porcelain ink cake container. The lid is domed and decorated with a lively five-clawed dragon floating in a sky with wisps of clouds and the flaming jewel. The bottom portion of the container is also decorated with a wave-like pattern and a Qianlong mark. Inside are still the colorful ink remnants from it's previous scholarly owner.
Dimensions: 1" high x 2 3/4" wide
Zentner Collection
$9,000.00 Antique Chinese porcelain brush washer in the form of an opening lotus blossom. On one side is a pair of bats and on the other lingzhi mushrooms. Delicately carved and glazed white with brown, orange and gold over painting. Very subtle purple and green high lights on the tips of the lotus petals. Sits on a hardwood stand intricately carved with more bats and lingzhi. Daoguang Period (1821-1850)
Dimensions: Total size: 4 1/4" high x 4 1/4" wide x 3 3/4" wide. Size of brush washer ...
Zentner Collection
$2,000.00 Antique Chinese porcelain water coupe in the form of a pine branch. Whimsically sculpted with a gibbon hanging from it's handle. Glazed a lovely mauve color on the outside and a white glaze inside. Underside has Wang Bing Rong mark in a raised cartouche. Wang Bing Rong (1840-1900) specialized in carved decoration on porcelain and was active during the Tongzhi to Gunagxu Period.
Dimensions: 6" long x 3" wide x 2" high
Momoyama Gallery
sold From our collection of Japanese Chawan with Christian Cross design: highly distorted shoe shaped (kutsugata) tea bowl with a rounded brim, made of light, coarse, unrefined Mino clay. The expertly thrown body was trimmed with a potter's knife in its lower part around the foot ring. In the style of Seto kuro bowls this Chawan was covered with a brown glaze. On one side the sign of a Christian (Maltese) cross was left unglazed and was covered with a transparent ash glaze. On the other...
Helen M Edwards
$870.00 Height: 3.1 cm (1.2 in)
Length: 3.7 cm (1.7 in) Depth: 2.4 cm (0.9 in) Fine Japanese netsuke of a calligrapher; leaning back and looking pleased with his work, his legs extended under his worktable; stained natural material; minor age related wear; signed
Helen M Edwards
$450.00 Height: 3.3 cm (1.4 in)
Width: 3.5 cm (1.5 in) Depth: 2.7 cm (1.1 in) Japanese carved shishi dog seal block; inlaid eyes; natural material; minor wear; good condition
Abhaya Asian Antiques
$500.00
Antique wedding blanket, circa late 19th CE/early 20th CE, from the Bouyi/Buyi (possibly Zhuang) China. This is tightly woven in three panels, from very fine handspun cotton thread with a silk floss yarn supplementary weft “well” pattern. The black cotton lattice gives the overall pattern depth. The wide woven-in border has a “wanzi” swastika meander pattern that seamlessly transitions from the black cotton to silk pastel. There is a simple repair on the edge (noted in enlarge...
Zentner Collection
$3,600.00 An antique Japanese tall Kyushu Choba Tansu (merchant chest) in 2 sections made of Hinoki (Cypress), Keyaki (Zelkova) and Suginoki (Cryptomeria) woods. Original hand forged iron hardware including the Warabite style handles and the double bar lock plates. With 2 pairs of sliding doors and 8 drawers, it has plenty of room for organizing and storage. Side ribs add strength and support as well as visual design to the chest. The bottom sliding doors hide three drawers on the right with a removable...
Zentner Collection
SOLD An antique Japanese hibachi (brazier) cast in bronze and hand crafted with a dragon and thunder bolts flying amidst the stormy clouds on one side and a crouching tiger with its playful partner hanging from a bamboo limb in a forest of bamboo on the opposing side. The handles feature converging phoenix birds with their tails as the apex.
Originally used as a hand warmer in a country inn (Ryokan) in Japan, in present day it can be used as a planter or decorative centerpiece of a room.
Zentner Collection
$2,450.00 An antique Japanese Sakata Bo Tansu made entirely of Kirinoki (Paulownia) wood. All original natural Urushi lacquer and hand forged iron hardware. Locking bar secures three Kimono drawers. The main lock features a stylized Chrysanthemum with leaves design. A hinged security door hides two small drawers where valuables were kept. Constructed using straight dovetail Japanese joinery and wooden nails. Very thick wood case construction and thick iron fittings that is a testament to its Edo Per...
Zentner Collection
SOLD An antique Japanese Sakata Kotansu (personal storage chest) made of Kirinoki (Paulowani) wood. All original hand forged iron hardware and natural Urushi lacquer finish. Main lock plates feature stylized Chrysanthemums and their leaves. Five drawers for spacious storage and a hinged security door that hides two small drawers where valuables were kept. Constructed using straight dovetail Japanese joinery and hardened wooden nails.
Age: Edo Period (1800-1850) 26 3/4" Wide by 24 3/4...
Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1960
item #1453032
(stock #Hasui558)
Era Woodblock Prints
SOLD Kawase Hasui
Snow at Kashi (Kashi no Yuki) Date: 1930s-50s. Size: Approximately 6 x 4 inches. Hasui seal lower right. Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Reference: Hotei Hp-32. Medium: Japanese woodblock print attached along its top edge to a blank original card. Condition: Excellent.
Helen M Edwards
$660.00 Width: 2.8 cm (1.3 in)
Height: 2.7 cm (1.2 in) Chinese bronze seal in the form of a Chilong; some surface rusts present
Hawkes, Asian Art
£220.00 An unusual Arita porcelain tea pot styled after a cast-iron example. The textured surface is described as “nail head” when it appears on an iron tetsubin. Late 18th ~ early 19th century.
The Shibata Museum compendium has a pot of similar shape and cartouche, no nail head texture or iron dressing but with additional cobalt decoration, item#3782. 1780~1820. This example is approximately 17.5 cm high. The handle has a very obvious stress crack but no other problem. Fine ...
Hawkes, Asian Art
~~~SOLD~~~ A Kutani “Yoshidaya Revival” dish, early 19th century.
The Yoshidaya kiln was a short-lived venture, situated in Yamashiro, intended to revive earlier Kutani-style wares. The founding investor was Toyota Denuemon IV (aka Sekio, lived 1751-1827), a businessman who used the professional name Yoshidaya. He chose not to situate his kiln in Kutani because of the site's remote location, but his wares emulate the earlier Kutani wares in a variety of ways. Approximately 15... |
