Artist's black signature not read
Lake Biwa
Date: 1930s.
Size: 5.5 x 3.625 inches.
Publisher: Takemura Hideo. Seal lower right.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

Playable Antique Japanese Buddhist temple hanging lacquered drum. Gold and black lacquer with deer skin hide. Base is secure with four indepenent feet. A round gold gilt flaming archway ascends above the trum. Black lacquer over wood. With hand forged iron nails neatly holding down the tight skin.

Age: Meiji Period 19th Century

Dimensions: 55" high x 26" wide

(After) Hiroshige Ando
Fireworks at Ryogoku on the Sumida River
Date: Monday, May 9, 1938.
Size: 7.5 x 5.25 inches (19 x 13.5 cm).
Note: Menu for the passenger ship Katori Maru on the N.Y.K. Line.
Publisher: Likey Nippon Mokuhan Co. Tokio (Japan Woodblock Co. Tokyo).
Medium: Japanese woodblock print. The traditional means of woodblock print creation was employed for all steps through inking of the carved blocks. Then, the block was used in a mechanical printing proc...

This is absolutely rare:

A 16th century Momoyama Period Wa-Nari shaped Kuro Mino Chawan with a rounded brim and a 'wandering' lip, 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. A wonderful tong mark is still visible (please see picture number 3).

In the style of Kuro Oribe bowls this bowl was covered with a black glaze. But this is a very unusual piece, which departs from the s...

Takahashi Shotei
Shrine by the River
Date: 1930s. This edition early postwar.
Print size: 5.625 x 3.625 inches
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Artist's seal at lower right.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print attached along its top edge only to 7 x 4.75 inch original blank card.
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Condition: Excellent.

Low Japanese rectangular table made of 100% hardwood. Very well made it strong joints and heavy wood. Dark warm tones.

Age: Mid Century 1950's

Dimensions: 59" Long x 35" wide x 13 1/3" high

A mirror image pair of Japanese Meiji Era bronze vases with a bird hovering over flowers on both sides, and foo lion handles. Signed on bottom, these have excellent detailing and very good weight to them. Measure 13.75 inches high.

Chinese Song / Yuan Dynasty Longquan Celadon Porcelain Bowl

This attractively-shaped porcelain bowl was made during the 13th / 14th century at the Longquan kilns, Zhejiang province. It is fairly "heavily-potted" and nicely decorated with carved lotus leaves around the outer wall and an impressed floral pattern in its centre. It is coated in a thick celadon glaze with a few lines of glaze crackle here and there on both inner and outer surfaces. There is no restoration or repair and it has a ...

A Very Fine Korean Inlaid/Molded Octagonal Celadon Dish-13th C.: Korea, Goryeeo dynasty, 13th century. A well potted octagonal dish inlaid with black and white slip chrysanthemum on octagonal exteriors and molded with floral heads on interiors, 3 spur marks on base, applied rich celadon glazed surfaces evenly. It’s b very good condition, it measures 12cm d. x 4cm h.

Indus Valley Bronze Age Pottery Female Figure with Oxford TL Test (c.3300 - 1300 BC)

This unusual and striking pottery figure was made over 3,000 years ago during the latter part of the Indus Valley Civilisation that flourished in the North-western region of South Asia during the Neolithic to Bronze Age periods (c.3300 - 1300 BC). It is made from a reddish pottery that is fairly highly-fired, the body being of a cylindrical / cone-shaped form with applied outstretched arms, breasts and bird-...

Rare 5th to 6th Century Silla Jar with Separate Single-Level Perforated Stand and Perforated Knobs. This type is so rare, only one other example has been published as far as we know. It appears in Volume 1 of Korea's Pottery Heritage by Edward B. Adams. While the perforated knobs here, utilized to run a cord through, do appear on other Silla ware on rare occasion, they are not on the similar example in Adams' book. This is the only jar with this combination of features. So if you are looking for...

A Rare, Tall Masterpiece 5th to 6th Century Silla Jar with a Luxurious Drip Glaze. This is a rare opportunity to add a true masterpiece from 1,500 years ago to your collection. Silla ware is the most undervalued and underpriced of Korean antiquities. It preceded and influenced the Sue ware of Japan. This is the most beautiful example of a Silla jar we have seen. The entire circumference is richly adorned with an abundant accidental greenish brown drip glaze that culminates in vibrant pools. It i...

Diameter approximately 13.5 cm. Diameter approximately 13.6 cm. There are green glazes on the back. In good condition.

Rare and Fine 5th to 6th Century Silla Jar with Beautiful Form and Design. Silla ware is the most undervalued and underpriced of Korean antiquities. It preceded and influenced the Sue ware of Japan. This jar is a precursor of the round 19th Century Korean Moon Jars that now sell for hundreds of thousands and sometimes millions of dollars. The body is similarly constructed of two wheel-thrown halves, but adds a perforated attached pedestal and ridged tall neck and features incised wave patterns c...

Japanese Showa period cloisonne enamel vase decorated with two prominent cattleya orchids set against a pale yellow wireless ground. The counter enamel at the interior mouth and base is pale yellow and in the interior of the vase is purplish brown. Chrome rims. No mark but likely produced by the Ando Cloisonne Company. 9 3/4" high x about 6" diameter at the shoulder. Very heavy for its size. Circa 1945-1960s. Very good overall condition.

A very sophisticated Kuro Raku Hira Natsu Chawan made by the IX generation Raku Kichizaemon Ryonyu (9代 楽吉左衛門) made around the beginning of 19th century about 200 years ago during the Edo era.

His seal is engraved beside the foot ring and - rarely seen - also his Kao, written with red lacquer, which underlines the importance of this bowl for the artist.

Perfectly formed and resting firmly on a well-grounded kodai (foot/ pedestal), this Hira chawan is vivid, li...

A blue and white long neck bottle vase decorated with Eight Immortals and the three friends of winter to the neck. Ming Dynasty 16th-17th Century. Very good condition with no any chip excepted short firing crack visible on the enlargement 3, no any other cracks and free from any restoration. Height: 28,2 cm.

Mid-18th Century, Japanese Mixed Materials Three-case Inro, Kyoto ware Ojime, and Manju Netsuke This is Mid-18th Century, wonderfully carved Three-case Lacquered Inro inlaid with Porcelain. The inro is contained within a dark brown frame. The porcelain is inlaid in a Mokume bacground, and it depicts the figure of Lao-Tze on the front, and a couple of sages on the back. The white and brown Kyoto ware ojime depicts Daikoku, and is impressed with the seal of Eiraku Tokusen. The wood m...