All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1900 item #1438764
Large Japanese early Meiji period sumi ink on paper scroll by calligrapher Ito Keishu (aka Ito Shinpei), who was active circa 1870s to 1890s. Signed and with three red seals. Paper mount and wood scroll ends. The scroll measures 79” x 32 1/2" (painting size: 54 1/2" x 26”). Good intact condition with some rubbing and soiling evident. There is a small distressed area or repair to the paper mid-way down the scroll on the right side (see enlargement)...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1492 item #1438715
Diameter approximately 28 cm. In good condition.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Metalwork : Pre 1900 item #1438708
An antique Japanese bronze temple bell called Bonsho with a handle depicting diverging dragon heads called Ryuzu, protrusions called chi chi or nye to improve resonance of sound, two opposing Tsuki-za striking panels and a Mei-bun inscription of the bell's history. Bonshō (Japanese: 梵鐘, Buddhist bells), also known as tsurigane (釣り鐘, hanging bells) or ōgane (大鐘, great bells) are large bells found in Buddhist temples throughout Japan, used to summon the monks to prayer and to de...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Baskets : Pre 1900 item #1438687
An antique Japanese bamboo Ikebana basket in a free-form nest-like shape created using multi-layered 3/4" wide strips interwoven with rope made of woven bamboo. The voluminous handle was created using interwoven bamboo rope in an abstract style. Patina is in a natural smoke and chestnut color. Flat foot with a three star patterned base. Unsigned. It comes with a cylindrical metal water and flower vessel.

Age: Meiji Era (1868-1912)

Dimensions: 22" High by 12" Diameter
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1492 item #1438676
Diameter approximately 25 cm. There is a slight color difference. In good condition.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Metalwork : Pre 1900 item #1438674 (stock #1-1242)
Silver alloy opium box, lavishly decorated on all its sides with relief designs representing a nobleman with his servant in a park, flowers, birds (on the lid), and two inscriptions. Partly erased artist mark beneath. China, 19th century. Height: 6.2 cm. Very good condition.
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : German : Porcelain : Pre 1900 item #1438642 (stock #T10)
This porcelain vase was produced in Germany by the Donath Dresden Studio in the 1890s. It is 9 1/2 inches tall and 4 inches across the handles. The vase has a unique shape with rococo style feet, handles and molded relief. Every inch is filled with delightful details. The front and back panels have hand painted scenes of young lovers in garden settings. They are dressed in 18th century costumes. The opposite panels are painted with iridescent lavender and cream colored reserves...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1438629 (stock #7969)
A Blue and White Reticulated Dish. Well decorated in underglaze blue with the classic Fitzhugh pattern. E19thC. Diameter; 9″ (22.8cm). Condition; excellent.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Korean : Metalwork : Pre 1900 item #1438624 (stock #1771)
A Very Rare Korean Silver Bar Hairpin/Enameled Bamboo, Bird, plum -19th C.: Korea, Joseon dynasty, 19th century. The long terminal cast with bamboo leaves, flying cranes and plum flower head with a roundel coral inserted into the plum flower-head on the either side of the bamboo head-end, and enameled in blue, red, green, and yellows, the cylindrical silver bar ends with a point tip...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Snuff Bottles : Pre 1837 VR item #1438561 (stock #270)

This is a spectacular Famille Noire Glazed Molded Porcelain Snuff Bottle of Bulbous Pear form, with a green ruyi band decorated straight neck, a white glazed mouth, and a concave recessed oval footing. The bottle is decorated on both sides with vases that contain the flowers of the four seasons: winter: plum blossoms; spring: peony; summer: lotus or orquid, and autumn: chrysanthemum, dressed in a variety of colors where green is the dominating palette, set atop an opaque black background...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Stoneware : Pre 1492 item #1438482 (stock #GYA06R221)
A good Chinese Song dynasty Jizhou painted moon and prunus tea bowl. Dia. 13cm. Condition: no chip, no restore, in good condition as shown. Shipping from Taipei, Taiwan via EMS at actual cost. Item selling at various platforms, please ask before ordering.
All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Accessories : Boxes : Pre 1837 VR item #1438235 (stock #BNJtortSew)
Circa 1820 English, this charming tortoise shell sewing box having zig zag patterned string inlay can also be used as a jewelry box. The interior has fitted tray which still has its original compartment lids and the tray removes to reveal another compartment. In very good antique condition, it measures 10” across, 6.75” deep, 3” high.
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Copper : Pre 1920 item #1438220
A fine hammered copper tray with handles from the workshops of Gustav Stickley in New York. Measures about 16 3/8", 19" across handles and weighs over three pounds. Tray was polished long ago and patina has aged, shows some wear and stains. Joiner's compass mark.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Central Asian : Pre AD 1000 item #1438188 (stock #1-1240)
Square shaped seal with incised design representing a lion and a deer facing each other, surmounted by a five character inscription. Indus Valley civilisation, ca. 3000 B.C. Height: 42 mm. Length: 46 mm. Slight abrasion, otherwise very good condition. A rare seal of this type.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Baskets : Pre 1900 item #1438118
An antique Japanese bamboo Ikebana basket in a barrel shape with dual double arm connected handle. The body is woven with multiple layered bamboo strips in a horizontal pattern which gives strength and tenacity to the piece as well as the symbolic nature of bamboo. The base is a bamboo rope foot with a star patterned bottom. Natural soot patina contrasted against chestnut brown highlights.

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Dimensions: 17 1/2" High by 9" Diameter
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1438113 (stock #4620)
An early Japanese blue & white plate produced in Arita at the end of the seventeenth century. The centre features a roundel carefully painted with a vase of flowers on a verandah. The unusual vase perhaps based upon a Dutch example...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1438059 (stock #20210125-01)

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Offered is a lovely 18th Century (circa 1770-1800) Japanese blue and white Arita porcelain nagazara (which translates roughly as "long dish") of squeezed rectangular form, painted entirely by hand with a marine view. This is entirely appropriate, as the purpose of such nagazara was to serve fish...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1437975 (stock #4614)
A Japanese molded dish with a barbed rim. The centre with a dragon coiled around a tablet of calligraphy. The back has an apocryphal Ming reign mark for Chenghua. 4 spur mars. Circa 1780.

Approximately 22 cm diameter. There is a filled flake to the front edge at roughly 12 o’clock, otherwise fine...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1437974 (stock #4613)
An unusual 18th century Japanese porcelain dish with chidori and waves drawn in thick outline, the centre with a Tibetan Buddhist symbol. The V & A Museum, London, has an identical dish, FE.113-2006. Arita1770-1780.

21.7 cm...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1437973 (stock #4612)
A Japanese porcelain plate decorated with a dignitary beneath a parasol, attended by his servant, in a garden. The cavetto is unusually decorated with a continuous landscape, a device not often encountered on Arita porcelain. The use of linear shading is reminiscent of Chinese “Master of the Rocks” style. Arita, circa 1680~1700.

The back is entirely plain with four spur marks within the foot-rim...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Central Asian : Metalwork : Pre AD 1000 item #1437815 (stock #1-1238)
Plate of circular form, with a detailed decoration in relief depicting Buddha, surrounded by his disciples, facing an elephant which bears a stupa on its back, the whole scene surmounting a relief design representing flower petals. Bronze, with fine slightly encrusted patina. Gandhara, ca. 3rd century. Diameter: 13.9 cm...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Metalwork : Pre 1900 item #1437771
Antique Chinese gilt copper repoussé box with hinged lid. Decorated all over with finely detailed designs of birds in blossoming branches. A phoenix adorns the front and back of the box and white jade carved in the form of three fruits (probably peaches) decorates the lid.

Age: 19th century

Dimensions: 2" high (2 1/4" high including jade) x 4 1/8" long x 3 1/8" wide
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Devotional Objects : Pre 1900 item #1437768
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A lot of 9 Japanese antique Buddhist temple Lotus leaves and blossoms. Made to be part of a Buddhist altar arrangement. The Lotus represents enlightenment blooming from out of the mud. Carved from wood and lacquered gold. Lotus petals are carved separately and joined. Each fitted with a custom metal stand.

Age: Meiji Era (1868-1912)

Dimensions: Varies from 15 1/2" to 36 1/2" High
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Indian Subcontinent : Himalayas : Pre 1920 item #1437765
Antique Tibetan broach with figures of the Lord Vishnu astride the anthropomorphic form of Garuda, his vehicle mount (vahana). Made of metal filagree and inlaid with coral, shell, turquoise, and red and blue carved glass.

Age: Early 20th century

Dimensions: 2 1/8" high x 2 1/8" wide
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1837 VR item #1437677 (stock #52)
A Chinese porcelain water pipe made for the Imperial Palace in Hue. Decoration of dragons in cobalt blue underglaze. Below 4 characters in blue and, which is unusual, 4 other characters incised under glassure, perhaps the mark of the potter or the commander. The silver setting of very good quality is a fine example of fine goldsmith's work, it is perhaps -be Chinese but more probably Annamese. It is exceptional to find a water pipe of this quality. Beginning of the 19 ° perhaps a little before...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Furniture : Pre 1900 item #1437669
An antique Japanese Kansai Daiku Tansu (carpenter chest for tools and hardware) made of Hinoki (Cypress) and Sugi (Cryptomeria) woods. 14 drawers of various sizes used to store tools and hardware used by a Japanese wood craftsman. Japanese woodworking techniques used in making this chest include through mortise and tenon joinery and hardened wood nails. Original hand forged iron hardware including the Kakute handles. Originates from the Kansai region of Japan.

Age: Early Meiji Era (...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Furniture : Pre 1910 item #1437655
An antique Japanese Kururi Tansu (apothecary chest for herbs and medicine) made of Sugi (Cryptomeria) wood and finished in a Negoro lacquer. 30 drawers each with an iron ring pull. It features two side carrying handles and a custom-made raised stand.

Age: Meiji Era (1868-1912)

Dimensions: 24 3/4" Wide by 17 1/4" High by 9 7.8" Deep
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Baskets : Pre 1900 item #1437651
An antique Japanese bamboo Ikebana basket in a bowl shape with a gnarled Wisteria handle. Clad in thick diagonal 1 3/4" slats with 2 supporting 1/2 bamboo stalk atop the basket measuring each 5" in length. Split bamboo rope foot. Wisteria handle features 4 appendages which harkens to a stylized dragon. Natural soot patina acquired over years of loving use and display.

Age: Meiji Era (1868-1912)

Dimensions: 15" High by 10 1/2" Wide by 10" Deep
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Korean : Ceramics : Pre 1900 item #1437594 (stock #RAK-11)
"Bun-in" is the last kiln for Joseon court. And there, high quality and sophisticated works were made. The chamfered vase is very rare on late Joseon. This piece is seemed to be made at a folk kiln in Bun-in. Certification : written by Noriki Shimazu the famous Asian antiques researcher in Japan. Size/ D:16.4cm H:14.5cm
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Ceramics : Pre 1492 item #1437587 (stock #RAA-9)
Phan kiln had been producing royal tableware for Lanna dynasty and very sophisticated works. However it had ended in a short time of period. Among of them the celadon works are famous for their elegant beauty. Certification : written by Noriki Shimazu the famous Asian antique researcher in Japan. Size/ D:26.4cm H:7.5cm
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre AD 1000 item #1437585 (stock #RAC-19)
Yue-zhou-yao"越州窯”is well known as the oldest kiln to produce celadon works. This piece is very rare because of iron speckles and almost perfect condition though it has repaired crack at the bottom. Certification : written by Noriki Shimazu the famous Asian antique researcher in Japan. Size: D:18.2cm/H:22.1cm
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Glass : Pre 1920 item #1437583
Antique Chinese blue Peking glass water coupe. Small and round in form with a highly raised design of a chimera with the head of a bird. Incised Yongzheng mark on the bottom.

Age: Early 20th century

Dimensions: 2" high x 2 1/2" wide
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Baskets : Pre 1910 item #1437567
An antique Japanese Bamboo Ikebana basket with a natural robust soot patinated rich chestnut color. It features a twisted Bamboo rope base with diagonal cladded interwoven slats. The gnarled Wisteria branch handle evokes the feeling of a scholarly ancient Pine tree that symbolizes longevity. Its ovoid shape has a wide open mouth. An elegant main vessel for any Japanese flower arrangement or a stand alone sculptural centerpiece for any table or mantel.

Age: Meiji Era (1868-1912)
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Baskets : Pre 1910 item #1437564
An antique Japanese Bamboo Ikebana basket in a Sea Urchin shell form with fine weave and two woven ring handles. Often incorporated into the art of flower arranging, it also doubles as a sculptural table centerpiece.

Age: Meiji Era (1868-1912)

Dimensions: 11 1/2" High by 14" Diameter
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Indian Subcontinent : Himalayas : Pre 1700 item #1437522 (stock #1-1237)
Finely cast statue of Bodhidsattva Vajradhara, of typical Newari style, wearing diadem, necklace and dhoti, sitting on a double lotus throne,hands crossed on his breast, his left hand holding the bell, his right hand holding the vajra. Gilt bronze. Nepal, late Malla period, 16th century. Height: 7.2 cm. Gilding partly missing on some areas, otherwise very good condition.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Folk Art : Pre 1900 item #1437506
An antique Japanese large Taiko Drum with a Keyaki (Zelkova) wood body and strong leather ends. Beautiful rich deep sound when struck. All original hand forged iron hardware including the very large Taiko nails and the four carrying rings.

Age: Late Edo Era (1950-1860)

Dimensions: 30 1/4" Long by 26 1/2" Diameter.