The Size of Obi: 12 1/4" Wide x 176 "( 14 feet). This is wonderful Fine Japanese Kyo Obi with Platinum works with silk. Obi has Japanese Katakana marking at the end “PURACHINA” (platinum). It is not made of Platinum Haku (leaves) rather Platinum threads. It has beautiful Goshoguruma (Imperial wheel carrier). It has also the flower design of Peony, Chrysanthemums as well as other flower design. The clors are very delicately composed. As Fukuro Obi, there is a blank area as photographs...
Meticulously embroidered panel for baby carrier that never got finished.. and was packed away to be finished later...probably by a loving grandmother, and then backed and border probably her daughter for sale.
Miao people in the region of Zhi Jin
including border ...measures 20 x 23.5 inches
the last 2 pics are of the back side of the embroidery
A delicately painted Satsuma pottery jar with two courtyard scenes of daily life for the Japanese elite.
The rest of the jar features a complex ground of various patterns. There has been a professional repair to the vase lip, but otherwise excellent. Measures 6 inches high with lid. Signed on bottom.
An antique Chinese white jade reticulated carving of lock.
Date: 19th century Qing Dynasty
Dimensions: 2.75" X 1.75"
China old wooden frog toggle xx
A woodblock print by the artist Karhu. The print is labeled "Avoiding Stepping". The full narrative is "As You Would Avoid Stepping In Shit, Ignore Fools". Clifton Karhu became one of the most successful contemporary Western artists working in Japanese woodblock style. Karhu lived permanently in Kyoto, Japan, where he was the head of the Kyoto branch of the renowned Japan Print Society. Print is signed and numbered 17/100
Date: 1976
Dimensions: 26" X 9.25"
A woodblock print by the artist Karhu. The print is labeled "Bigger Fool". The full narrative is "The Bigger Fool is a Fool Who Hires a Fool". Clifton Karhu became one of the most successful contemporary Western artists working in Japanese woodblock style. Karhu lived permanently in Kyoto, Japan, where he was the head of the Kyoto branch of the renowned Japan Print Society. The print is signed and numbered 37/100
Date: 1976
Dimensions: 24.5" tall X 9" wide
A woodblock print by the artist Karhu. The print is labeled "Negligance". The full narrative is "Fight the Enemy, Negligance". Clifton Karhu became one of the most successful contemporary Western artists working in Japanese woodblock style. Karhu lived permanently in Kyoto, Japan, where he was the head of the Kyoto branch of the renowned Japan Print Society. The print is signed and numbered 23/100.
Date: 1976
Dimensions: 25.75" X 8.25"
A woodblock print by the artist Karhu. The print is labeled "Hurry to Study". The full narrative is "Hurry to Study wih Age the Spirit Slows". Clifton Karhu became one of the most successful contemporary Western artists working in Japanese woodblock style. Karhu lived permanently in Kyoto, Japan, where he was the head of the Kyoto branch of the renowned Japan Print Society. Print is signed and numbered 12/100
Date: 1976
Dimensions: 25.75" X 9"
A woodblock print by the artist Karhu. The print is labeled "Fish of Fortune". The full narrative is "Don't Let Go of the Fish of Fortune". Clifton Karhu became one of the most successful contemporary Western artists working in Japanese woodblock style. Karhu lived permanently in Kyoto, Japan, where he was the head of the Kyoto branch of the renowned Japan Print Society. Print is signed and numbered 41/100
Date: 1976
Dimensions: 26" X 8.25"
A woodblock print by the artist Karhu. The print is labeled "Wealth & Happiness". The full narrative is "Wealth & Happiness come to Those Who Don't Deserve Them". Clifton Karhu became one of the most successful contemporary Western artists working in Japanese woodblock style.
Karhu lived permanently in Kyoto, Japan, where he was the head of the Kyoto branch of the renowned Japan Print Society...
An antique Persian hookah conical stand with Damascene silver and gold inlay. Geometric shapes surrounding six floral panels. Old losses.
Dates: Late 17th to early 18th century
Provenance Handley Estate purchased from London Spinks : Auction 1985
Dimensions: 8" X 7.5" diameter
Thinly potted with the interior moulded with five young boys playing with two dogs within trees and vines. Each boy with well defined features, all in separate poses.
The bowl covered all over in a warm olive-green glaze. The back of the bowl left bare with a single line upper border...
Thinly potted with a branching stem bearing graceful leaves that frame a large peony blossom on the central stem, all with delicately combed details below a line border,.
The bowl covered all over in a warm olive-green glaze. The back of the bowl left bare with a single line upper border, resting on a short base.
Size: approximately 7" diameter by 2-1/8"
high
Condition: No breaks or restorations...
Thinly potted with a double branch stem bearing graceful leaves that frame two large side peony blossoms.
The bowl covered all over in a warm olive-green glaze. The exterior carved with a band of simplified lines that ends below the rim and above the foot ring, resting on a short base.
Size: approximately 6-1/2" diameter by 2-1/5"
high
Condition: No breaks or restorations...
Thinly potted with a center fish, bordered by three ducks swimming among a water setting all with delicately combed details.
The bowl covered all over in a warm olive-green glaze...
Thinly potted with the interior with three fish swimming among waves.
The bowl covered all over in a warm olive-green glaze. The back of the bowl left bare.
Size: approximately 5-3/8" diameter by 2"
high
Condition: No breaks or restorations
Note: This bowl along with the other 4 Youzhou bowls were purchased from the same collector many years ago
A Dehua Blanc de Chine figure of Guanyin
The bodhisattva is modelled seated resting her hands on a rock cliff hidden inside her long flowing robes with one foot exposed. Around her neck she wears a jewelled necklace and a serene expression on her face. The colour an ivory tone.
Age: 19th Century or earlier
Size: Approximately 8" high by 5-1/2" wide by 4" depth
Markings: No Markings
Condition: No noticeable cracks or restoration