A set of classical blue and white bowls swimming with medaka fish by Kondo Takahiro enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Medaka Sometsuke Hachi. Each is roughly 19 cm (7-1/2 inches) diameter, 5.5 cm (2 inches) tall and all are in excellent condition.
Kondo Takahiro (b. 1958) was born the grandson of Living National Treasure Kondo Yuzo. However, he graduated Hosei University not with a degree in sculpture or crafts, but in Literature. From there he studied at the Kyoto Prefect...

This piece is very rare as its shape is heptagon and has stem. YouTube movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8EwafQLRIY Size: 8.8cm(D)/10.0cm(H) Certificate/written by Noriki Shimazu the famous researcher with Asian antiques in Japan

Diameter approximately 18.3 cm.There is a chip to the rim. There are 3 hairlines. There is a firing crack to the rim. More pictures are available.

Width approximately 13.5 cm (across the handles). In good condition.

Early Showa Period c.1930 Signed Kochikusai Wagumi free form bold flower basket with signed original box. Made with smoked madake bamboo from old minka farmhouses. H: 38cm x W: 26cm x 25cm deep. Excellent condition. Shipping from CA warehouse.

Rare and very unusual triangle shaped tea ceremony bamboo and rattan flower basket. Wide bamboo inserts accent the front with 3 tightly knotted runners down the front. Sensuous cylinder mouth completes the art deco piece. Piece not signed but definitely a Showa Period piece C.1926-1950. Very good condition; see photos. H:25cm x W:32cm x Depth: 25cm. Shipped from CA warehouse.

Exceptional MORITA CHIKUYŌSAI (D.1963)Bamboo Flower Basket Showa era (1926-1963), mid-20th century of smoked madake bamboo and rattan, the cylindrical body worked in twining over diagonal plaiting and finished with vertical bamboo culms with decorative butterfly knotting, the shoulder and foot finished in horizontal plaiting, the tall handle wrapped with a spiral band, signed on the base Chikuyōsai. H:50cm x W:16cm. Excellent condition with natural wear on the bamboo joints of the longated ...

The sliver of a moon rising over a mountain, water or mist flowing past a tree dotted crag in the fore scratched out in dry brushstrokes on hand made Obara paper by Fujii Tatsukichi enclosed in the originals signed wooden box titled Futsuka Tsuki (2nd Day Moon). It is mounted in a ield of eggshell paper in Edo period Ginran cloth border with ceramic rollers. The scroll measures 42 x 134 cm (16-1/2 x 52-3/4 inches) and is in overall fine condtion, with minor age spots.
Fujii Tatsukichi (18...

An unusual round bowl with cover carved in the shape of a Tai (red snapper) turning upon itself carved rom wood and covered in red and black lacquer dating from the mid 20th century. It is 21 cm (just over 8 inches) diameter, 10 cm (4 inches) tall and in excellent condition.

An austere ink landscape by the ordinarily more outlandish female ceramicist Shigemori Yoko mounted as a hanging scroll. Ink on paper in a field of dark cloth wit ceramic rollers. It is 46.5 x 167 cm (18-1/2 x 65-1/2 inches) and in excellent condition.
Shigemori Yoko (1953-2021) was born in Kagoshima. Yoko came to Kyoto where she initially studied painting at the Kyoto Tankidai Art College, then moved to ceramics at the Kyoto Municipal Art University where she studied traditional pottery...

1900's Chinese Molded High Relief Blue & White with Underglaze Copper Red Porcelain Peach Censer with Wood Carved Lid and Stand

It is 5.6 inches (14.22 cm) tall by 6.5 inches (16.51 cm) and 5.5 inches (13.97 cm) wide measured without lid and stand. It is 9.5 inches (24.13 cm) tall by 6.5 inches (16.51 cm) and 5.5 inches (13.97 cm) wide measured with lid and stand. It is Lb.

It has small chips and firing crack at the opening's rim, stains, and surface wears and scratches. The wood...

Meiji (1868-1912) Japanese Mixed Metal Bronze Lobe Shaped Censer Koro with Twin Phoenix Bird

It is 2.75 inches (6.98 cm) tall by 3.75 inches (9.7 cm) wide. It is 1.1 Lb.

It is tarnished and has rubbing of gold and patina, stains, oxidation, and surface wears and scratches (as seen in the photos).

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Pair of 16th Century Ming Dynasty Chinese Gilt Lacquered Wood Fu Lions

They are 3.4 inches (8.63 cm) tall by 4 inches (10.16 cm) wide and approximately 34.5 mm thick. They weigh 149 gram.

They have been repaired (glued back) at each lion's paw. They also have peeling, chips, one lion is missing a paw, stains, cracks at the back of one lion, and surface wears and scratches (as seen in the photos).

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Old Chinese Salmon Coral Hediao Nut Pit Carved Beads Necklace

It is 15.75 inches (40 cm) in length. The coral beads range from 18.8 mm to 17.34 mm wide. The hediao beads range from 26.42 mm to 25.98 mm in length and 15.42 mm and 14.81 mm wide. It is 133 gram.

It is tarnished and has flea bite chips, small holes, and inclusions at the coral beads, stains and flea bite chips at the openings of the hediao beads, and surface wears and scratches (as seen in the photos).