All Items : Archives : Furnishings : Furniture : American : Victorian : Pre 1920 item #292659 (stock #744)
A Victorian Style Oak Washstand, with Center Drawer, Towel Bars and a Scrolled Back. Dimensions; 34" high x 33.5" wide x 16" deep. From the early 1900's and in excellent condition.
All Items : Archives : Instruments and Implements : Timepieces : Pre 1920 item #1381718 (stock #40J18-104)
Antique Seth Thomas mantel clock in a faux marble adamantine case, with 8-day brass movement striking the hour and half hour on a bell and a gong. Circa 1900-1910. Running condition, with key. Size: 10 3/4 inches high x 16 inches long. Very nice condition.
All Items : Archives : Instruments and Implements : Timepieces : Pre 1920 item #1331934 (stock #7244)
An Edwardian 14K white and yellow gold rod link watch chain from the 1910 1920 era. It measures 13-1/2" long, the links alternate from elongated diamond shaped in yellow gold with rectangular lined white gold links and it has a swivel and springring clasp. The links are of hollow construction and this fine chain is is stamped 14K on the jump rings and on the inside of the swivel...
This is a SWISS DREICER & CO. PLATINUM 19 JEWELS POCKET WATCH. Dial reads: DREICER & CO. Movement reads: ADJUSTED 7/ NINETEEN JEWELS/ 62846/ HAAS NEVEUX & CO./ SWISS. Interior of the case is marked: IBE logo/ PLATINUM ( hand marked)/ 217808. The Case has been tested and is guaranteed PLATINUM. Circa 1920 this Pocket Watch has Blue Enameled inititals on the back: CM...
All Items : Archives : Instruments and Implements : Timepieces : Pre 1920 item #1180235 (stock #6843)
A fine quality lady's gold filled engraved hunter case pocket watch by Regina. Trade marked by the Omega Watch Company in 1911, this example has a serial number corresponding to the period btween 1913 and 1916. The porcelain dial has black markers, a single-sunk seconds dial and blued hands. It is marked with the retailer's name A.M. GILPIN with the town name DUNNVILLE, ONT. (Canada), a small town near Hamilton...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1920 item #1363356 (stock #653ar)
By the workshop of the renowned maker Ryubundo (signed Kinryu-do on the bronze lid), this iron tetsubin measures roughly 8 1/4" from tip of spout to other side, and the handle reaches just about 8 1/2" high. The exterior is decorated with a dragon that reaches around the entire pot, in and out of waves and cloudlike forms, the entire surface decorated with these traditional motifs and rock like textures...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1920 item #288808 (stock #MOR1122)
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Pine boughs laden with snow shelter a pair of foraging raven in a spectacular scene reminiscent of paintings of the Kyoto school masters which decorates this Meiji period cloisonn・vase. The unusually tall tapered form swells at a tight shoulder to close about the wide neck wrapped with a band of darkly patinated silver. Silver wire defining the color is so thin as to be almost invisible...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1920 item #1489302 (stock #08424)


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Antique Japanese oil painting on canvas, by an anonymous painter named 'N. Omure', 1914, with some aged vertical flaws just like being the parts of its landscape itself. 45.5 x 38 x 2 cm (17.91 x 14.96 x 0.78in)...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1920 item #1294276 (stock #MOR4269)
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Incredible attention to detail defines this large Pagoda entirely gilded in gold. It is 32 inches (81.5 cm) tall, 16 inches (41.5 cm) square at the base and in excellent condition. This would have been displayed in a Butsuma as a reliquary container. Both upper and lower doors open to reveal gold lined chambers in which the Buddhist objects could be stored. A couple of the small bells dangling from the eaves have been replaced or re-hung with wire...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1920 item #921022 (stock #ANR2644)
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A later Meiji period two panel screen, Pigment on silk, signed Hosen (Usui Hosen) dating 1900-1910. Shunkei lacquer frame with cloth backing. Quintessential for the era, the scene is brushed in an abbreviated style, allowing the viewer to participate by completing the details. Muted colors and the lack of hard lines lend the screen an ethereal quality, as if recalled from a distant memory...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1920 item #1182620
Very strong and well carved wooden mask. Japan, 19th/early 20th century. H. 22 cm (34 cm including custom made stand). Good wear and patina, some missing parts to the horns.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1920 item #107980 (stock #T019)
SOLD. SIZE: 31mm (1 3/16") diameter. Cond: very good for age. NOTE: signed below self-shank. SOLD. NO PRICE, NO INFO
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1920 item #539180 (stock #MOR1828)
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A very unusual hammer textured lotus shaped tray featuring an insect crawling down the side enclosed in a wooden box titled Textured Leaf Shape Fruit Dish and signed Tekisui Zo (made by Tekisui). The brass basin is supported by a withering round stem convoluting beneath. A bright portion of brass hammered out with holes show the leaf slowly deteriorating, returning to earth. The insect is like a red flying-beetle or lady-bug, very detailed...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1920 item #627539 (stock #MOR2034)
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Forty sections of various antique katana scabbards have been set about the circumference of this antique suiban basin for use in Kado and Keido (flower arranging or bonseki sand gardens). Striped, mottled, textured, engraved and polished; covered in sharkskin, snakeskin or lacquered cloth. All lie between belts of tiger striped ebony-like hardwood around a removable copper basin...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1920 item #424988 (stock #MOR1546)
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A giant mingei carved mask of an oni (demon) embodying the indefinable sense of madness particular to Japanese Demon images. The face has a mysterious mixture of sadness and evil not duplicated in any other culture, a truly pitiable character. The mask, carved from a single block of wood, is just over 2 feet (66 cm) tall and in fine condition.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1920 item #1333649 (stock #ALR5160)
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A fetching scene of colored washes very much in the Taisho style by important artist Ono (Ohno) Bakufu. Pigment on silk in superb Kinrande mounting. It is roughly 21-1/2 x 79 inches (56 x 200 cm).
Born in Tokyo Ono Bakufu (1888-1976) relocated to central Japan after the great Kanto earthquake of 1923 where he became an honorary member of the Hyogo Prefectural Academy of Fine Arts. Often displayed at the Teiten National Exhibition, he is best known for paintings of fish, w...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1920 item #1069140 (stock #MBR2933)
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A saintly recluse dozes restfully, his pole dipping to the waves below the rocky outcrop upon which he sits; a fine bronze figure dating to the Meiji period and signed on the reverse. The figure with the rock is 32 x 22 x 30.5 cm (11 x 9 x 12 inches) and is in fine condition.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1920 item #1444299 (stock #R014)
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The benign figure of Monju Bosatsu bearing the sword of knowledge and a sutra astride a fierce Shishi lion exquisitely painted by Takagi Shunrin in 1920. The compassionate being appears in royal regalia and white robes seated on a lotus shaped saddle upon the fierce creatures back. Pigment on silk in the original silk mounting with large ivory rollers enclosed in the original signed wooden box dated Spring of Taisho 9 (1920). The Rollers will be changed if exporting. It is quite large at 87 x ...