A Minimalistic Hanging Scroll Painting by Okada Hanko
Hanging scroll painting depicting a group of rocks. Ink on paper. Signed Hanko and two seals.
Okada Hanko (1782-1846) a Nanga painter and Caligrapher.
He was born in Osaka, the son and pupil of Okada Beisenjin...
Bamboo Poutai. Very finely carved. The artist knew how to make all the emotions and characteristics of the character. The delicacy of the movement of the hands slightly retracted in a precious attitude, the joy of the laughing eyes wrinkled with enjoyment, the softness of the mouth. The sympathetic fatness of the neck...
19th Century Chinese Celadon Rose Medallion Vase
It is 24 inches (61 cm) tall by 9.6 inches (24.5 cm) wide. It is 20 Lb.
It has rubbing of paint and gold, dark spots, a hole at the bottom and surface wears and scratches (as seen in the photos).
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Pair of 1900's Japanese Mixed Metal Gold Komai Style Box with Geisha & Samurai Fighting Rooster
They are 1.25 inches (3.1 cm) tall by 3 inches (7.6 cm) long by 1.8 inches (4.5 cm) wide. Total weight is 403 gram.
They have rubbing of gold, cut marks at the bottom and bent at the base corners and inside the lid, and surface wears and scratches (as seen in the photos).
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1900's Chinese Ge Type Crackle Porcelain Vase Marked
It is 10.1 inches (25.7 cm) tall by 4.4 inches (11.3 cm) wide. It is 1.4 Lb.
It has glaze crazing, glaze cracks, skip glazes, dark spots and surface wears and scratches (as seen in the photos).
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1900's Chinese Rock Crystal Carving Twin Boy
It is 3.1 inches (8 cm) tall by 2.7 inches (6.9 cm) wide. It is 139.4 gram.
It has small chips at the finger and toe, surface wears and scratches (as seen in the photos).
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Inrô with four compartments in fundame lacquer decorated with a pavilion near a river in a mountain landscape in hira maki-e, taka maki-e lacquer and kirigane.
The inside in nashi-ji gold lacquer.
INRO MANJU NON INCLUDED (SOLD)
Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
Inrô : height 7,5 cm -3 in
Black and gold lacquer sageju-baco (picnic box) decorated with floral motifs in hiramaki-e. It includes a sake bottle, a four-compartment box with nashi-ji lacquer inside, a simple tray and a hollow tray. At the top, there is a bronze handle for transport.
The sageju-bako is divided into four superimposed boxes for food on the left; a simple tray, a sake bottle and a hollow tray on the right. They are in the shape of a plum blossom.
On the top, on both sides a phoenix...
Bronze vase with a dark brown patina in the shape of a trunk.
It bears a three characters signature underneath : 京翁斎 « made by an old man in Kyôto”.
Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912)
Height : 22 cm-Diameter : 14 cm
Pair of stamped brass stirrups decorated with Hashizuka, Ito and Manabe Mons.
Japan - Edo (1615-1868), 18th century.
Measures: Height 10.24in , length 12.6in, width 4.72in
As in Western culture, the culture Japanese stirrups were part of traditional accessories used only by the nobility and the people belonging to the upper class. The stirrups were made in the most precious metal, they were intended to indicate the social status of the owner...
Two big eight-sided kaioke boxes in black lacquer, decorated with mon and maple leaves in golden lacquer.
Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912)
Height: 17,6 in (44,7 cm) -Width : 14,9 in (38 cm)
Gold and black lacquer painted box. The decor consists of reserves containing pictural scenes of characters in gardens with pavilions. The bottom is decorated with flowers.
The inside of the lid is decorated with tea leaves in gold lacquer on a black lacquer background.
This box rests on four wood polychrome lacquer feet carved in the shape of a bat.
China circa 1880
Height 4.72 in. (12 cm) – Width 11.42 (29 cm) – Depth 8.27 (21 cm)
A long handled bronze mirror Kagami-e decorated with a representation of the Great Buddha of Kamakura, Dai Butsu Kamakura, set against a nashiji style ground suggestive of small billowing clouds...
Incense burner in lacquer, hexagonal and curved shaped, decorated with hira and takamaki-e in gold and silver lacquer on a nashi-ji background, peonies along the banks of a river and a mount. The lid has a cruciform opening.
A mon is affixed to one side of the diffuser. It is the mon of the family Ōkubo (大久保氏)a family belonging to the Fudai-Daimyo house (the vassals of the Tokugawa family).
The head of the family was created Daimyo by the Tokugawa family in 1684...
A high quality "Porcelain for Palaces" type Arita dish with foliate rim in Imari export style decorated in the full Imari five colour palette principally with Irises, Peonies and Chrysanthemums, with Fence-work and Plum trees and a central motif of Peonies. The reverse decorated with flowering Plum and Rock peonies and an Artemesia leaf.
For a set of thirteen dishes with the same pattern in the Royal Collection see
C&J : Ayers, J., 2016...
A bowl and accompanying saucer or stand both with slightly everted lips. Decorated in a combination of underglaze blue with enamels, iron red and green, with gilding. A truncated version of the gosai palette, a three rather than the full five colour palette, which would have included in addition yellow and aubergine coloured over-glaze enamels.
The design is composed of a series of contrasting narrow bands of geometric diaper with Matsu and Kiku inclusions in the lozenge shaped cells and band...
An unusual low bowl with the primary subject of a Minogame, a symbol of longevity, decorated in somenishikide style in underglaze blue with additional enamels. The three Lobate reserves outlined in underglaze blue with yellow enamels framing an iron red ground inset with an auspicious minogame set against an iron red diaper ground. Each reserve divided by a stylised symmetric floral arrangement of a Poppy flower surrounded with foliage in underglaze blue and gilt detailing. The interior decorate...
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Offered is a very fine mid-18th Century Japanese porcelain oval lobed or quatrefoil-type bowl featuring molded decoration of suns and scrolls, and an underglaze blue landscape scene. This piece also has underglaze blue designs to the reverse, probably stylized bird forms, and a mark observed on pieces from the 1750-80 period within the Shibata Collection at the Kyushu Ceramic Museum (see, e.g., Shiba...
