Antique Japanese flower container for ikebana. Made of a large piece of burled wood with dramatic gnarled form. Inset with a shallow container for water.

Age: Taisho Period (early 20th century)

Dimensions: 13" high x 11" wide

Antique Chinese miniature model set of two "official's hat" arm chairs and a matching stand. Made of hardwood, carefully carved small versions of the classic furniture forms.

Age: Mid 20th century

Dimensions: Chairs 9 1/2" high x 6" wide. Stand 6" high x 3 1/4" wide

Chinese silver snuff bottle with over enamel. Delicately rendered with leaves and flowers in shades of blue, turquoise, white and soft purple. Has a collectors seal on bottom and dates from the 19th century.

Height 2.75" x width 2.5" x depth 1.125"

Antique Japanese Shō, mouth organ (flute) used in Gagaku (classical performances traditionally for the imperial court). A musician blows through the silver lined protruding mouthpiece. The air travels through the bamboo tubes creating notes (said to sound like the Ho bird or phoenix). Skillful musicians are able to blow air in and out of the mouth pieces creating sustained, uninterrupted notes. The arrangement of bamboo tubes are said to resemble the folded wings of the phoenix. This small flut...

Very Fine and Rare Large Chinese Western Han Dynasty Pottery Model of a Stove featuring Fish & Seafood

This extremely rare and impressive pottery model of a cooking stove was made during the early Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 8). It is made from quite a high-fired grey pottery that has a distinct ring to it when tapped. Its main upper surface is wonderfully decorated with finely-detailed fish, seafood and various cooking implements. Around the outer edge is a repeating geometric pattern ...

Quite a large Chinese copper handwarmer with fine patina. Finely engraved with lotus scrolls among lattice, the domed lid pierced with the same design. Originally two bronze swing handles, one is lost. Condition: traces of usage, one handle lost, interior with some verdigris. Dimension: diameter: c. 20.5 cm, height with handle up: c. 19.5 cm.

Early stoneware celadon glazed large basin shaped bowl circa Jin Dynasties (266CE–420CE) with wide flat mouth rim, incised wave patterns on rim and cavetto. D: 19.4cm/7.6cm and H: 5.9cm/2.3in. There are some shallow chips on mouthrim and kiln adhesions in center and rim- please examine enlargements. Ex Dr. John Au, Australia..

ROPPONGI HILLS

Anonymous Japanese oil painting on canvas, after 2003, 53 x 45.5 x 2 cm (20.86 x 17.91 x 0.78in), as Tokyo Story of today with a metropolitan scenery with skyscrapers behind Mori Garden (ref. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roppongi_Hills).


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A striking vision of black blasted with ocjer glaze wrapping in rivulets around to a single beaded drop by Oiwa Tomoyuki enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled unpretentiously Chawan. It is 13.5 x 12 x 10 cm (roughly 5 x 5-1/2 x 4 inches) and in excellent condition.
Oiwa Tomoyuki was born in Hyogo prefecture in 1977, and graduated the Bizen Ceramic Center in 2004. The following year he came to study under the outsider Kakurezaki Ryuichi, where he would remain for 8 years, garne...

Japanese netsuke of a Kappa. A whimsical  folklore creature that looks like a  turtle with a face suppose to be around lakes and streams. Made of boxwood sitting on a lotus pad, delightfully carved. Signed on back. Dates from the Showa age c 1950.

166 different Chinese coloured woodcuts with their accompanying poems and seals bound into 8 volumes. Printed in colour from handcut woodblocks. Complete except for the illustrations of the plum series of 20 woodcuts, although the poems are included. Size of individual volumes 32x29 cm. The woodcuts have been dis- bound sometime in the past and pasted separately onto Chinese paper and now rebound. This is the 1879 Shanghai edition and has been identified by the leading scholar. See Thomas Eb...

An absolutely and definitely rare Tobi Seiji vase decorated with similar to "DAVID" vase in the British Museum, carved incised with a Dragon swirling to the body and with iron brown spots and connected stand. Very special pieces which found in Indonesia archipelago. Condition is perfect, no any crack, no any chip and free from any restoration. Yuan Dynasty 13th-14th Century. Height: 22,3 cm

Unique cricket box with glass front, wire mesh cover and copper repoussé image of crickets and “Eight Horses-八駿全圖 ” after the style of China’s most famous 20th century artist Xu Beihong -徐悲鴻. Hand crafted this is a charming and functional vintage piece from the 70s or 80s. L: 11cm/4.6in W: 4cm/1.6in and H: 6.5cm/2.6in

Antique Japanese six-panel screen painting (byobu) with a design of fans on silver leaf ground. Each fan is an intricate scene of sections carefully salvaged from even older paintings. Fans with battle scenes, peonies, maples, pines, bamboo, waves and more. Painted in mineral colors and gold leaf on paper. The silver leaf of the screen has beautifully oxidized over time.

Age: Edo Period (1603-1867)

Dimensions: 66" high x 148" long

A Chinese Buddhist prayer table made entirely of Rosewood. Elaborately hand carved side panels and surrounded by a beautiful apron. The top of the table was designed with a floating panel.

Age: 1950's

Dimensions: 33 1/2" Wide by 12 3/4" High by 20" Deep

Antique Japanese unusual Buddhist shrine pagoda. Made of lacquered wood with gilt copper hardware. The shrine has six sides and an elegant sloping roof. Carved details of waves and mist. A tall multi-storied finial on top.

Age: Edo Period (c.1850's)

Dimensions: 26" high x 16" wide

Pair of Chinese antique candlesticks. Glazed in a dark green pigment with dark tones throughout. Each retains their export wax stamps indicating there older then 100yrs old at time of export. Ready to be enjoyed.

Age: 19th Century

Dimensions: 7 1/2" high x 5 1/2" wide

An antique 2 panel Japanese screen titled Scholar in Summer Landscape. Painted in sumi on paper, mounted on a wooden core frame with paper hinges, textile border and lacquered molding. Signature & seal: JUZAN (Nagamura Senzan, 1820-1862) who was a Nanga painter.

Age: Edo Period mid 19th century

Dimensions: 67 3/4" high by 74 1/2" wide.