All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1930 item #1379140
晚清 精美綠玉/金珠項鏈 重量:61克 長度:16英寸 (40.64 cm) An Exquisite Vintage Green Jade Necklace with Gold Spacers Length: 16 inches (40.64 cm) Weight: 61 grams Medium: Jade & Gold Date: Late Qing Dynasty/Republican Period Condition Report: Hand-Crafted, Good Condition Provenance: Property of a MA Family collection
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1930 item #1472208 (stock #Miller009)
Lilian May Miller (1895-1943)
The Three-Foot Bamboo Pipe
Date: 1927.
Size: Approximately 5.625 x 3.75 inches.
From the book, Grass Blades from a Cinnamon Garden.
Monogrammed within the image.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Slight toning.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1930 item #1422088
Chinese printed scroll in colours on paper. Old label saying 21 The Mother of Tai Shan. 136 x 56 cm. Good condition. Undated, estimated to be early 20th century or earlier. Can be viewed in central London and shipped worldwide.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Wood : Pre 1930 item #1167128
A finely done Chinese hardwood box with burlwood square inlaid sections on the side. The box inside is covered with a fabric cushioned interior and partitioned to put small objects inside.

Age: Republic Period (c1900).

Size: Height: 2.5" Width: 7.5" Length: 15.5"
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1930 item #1364764 (stock #302)
Antique Japanese Hyotan made from a gourd plant for Sake. Painted with trailing flowers outlined in silver. Original red hanging rope.

Age: Edo Period (18th Century)

Condition: Very good condition, no restoration

Size: Approximately 8-1/4" high by 4" diameter at it's widest point.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Baskets : Pre 1930 item #1459146 (stock #2021-1006)

Bamboo and rattan ikebana basket (hanakago), rectangular format stretched in its height and Chinese style. Thicker bamboo braids on the four sides. Includes a bamboo sheet vase intended to receive the floral arrangement.

Ikebana or Ka-do (the way of flowers) is a traditional Japanese art of flower arrangement. Contrary to Western floral art, ikebana does not aim at highlighting only the beauty of flowers and the harmony of colors...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1930 item #1370049 (stock #319)
Chinese dingyao bowl of shallow conical form with lobed rim. The widely flaring sides divided into six lobes, with indentations along the rim corresponding to thin raised lines radiating from the circular inner well.

Age: Song Dynasty (960 - 1279)

Condition: Very good overall condition. Some kiln grit and a firing flaw on one of the lobes.

Size: Approximately 16 cm diameter by 4 cm high
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1930 item #1338949 (stock #YoshidaH018)
Hiroshi Yoshida
Glittering Sea, from The Inland Sea Series
(Hikaru Umi, Setonaikaishu)
Date: 1926
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.75 x 10.75 inches.
Signed and sealed in the image. Titled and signed in pencil.
Jizuri seal at upper left margin indicating self-printing by the artist.
Condition: Slightly toned. A single point of ink in the sea as issued.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1930 item #1429399 (stock #Hasui486)
Kawase Hasui
Evening in Beppu
Souvenirs of Travel, third series.
Date: 1929.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. A first edition with the Watanabe A seal in the right margin.
Size: Oban. Approximately 15 x 10.25 inches.
Hasui signature and seal at lower left.
Reference: Hotei No. 143.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: The back has two spots of foxing. Tone line in margins.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Indian Subcontinent : Himalayas : Pre 1930 item #1355327 (stock #HP/Ph731)
A very peculiar phurba with a important size , H 39 cm , obviously it is not a Dyangro handle recarved, the tip which usually is a triangular blade has 4 irregular sides with various animist and auspicious symbol, the middle part consists of both a dorge and a cubic part with animist symbol, the top has 4 naive ancestor faces surmounted by a rider (H8 cm) . obvious sign of good age from early 20th More pictures and information of local origin on request, presented on an iron stand , H 39 cm
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1930 item #1158843 (stock #Baldridg001)
Cyrus leRoy Baldridge (1889-1977)
Peking Winter, 1925
Edition 194/200
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Size: Oban, approximately 15.25 x 10.25 inches.
Dedicated: "For John Happer" John Stewart Happer was a famous author on Japanese woodblock prints.
Condition: Five wormholes. Otherwise very good condition.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Sculpture : Pre 1930 item #1461263 (stock #1-1306)
Statue of a Taoist exorcist ("yingong"), in formal attire, sitting on a throne, holding his commandment baton in his right hand and a bowl containing the lustral water in his left. Wood, coated with polychrome painting. Animal hair used to represent the moustache and the beard. Votive box at the back, lid missing. China, early 20th century. Height: 25 cm. Painting partly flaking, otherwise very good condition.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1930 item #1161840
Vintage chinese woodblock color print of Chinese tea house, called Red Frog in Shanghai by Elizabeth Keith, 1887-1956. It depicts a large tea house bustling with people; outside, a mother with her children, a bearded man, and other civilians. Inscribed on back "tea house of the red frog in shanghai by Elizabeth Keith purchased at Sojourner's B1 Army Officers 1945 Seoul, Korea Oct. 1960 R.M. Heikes" Signed lower right front with stamp EK 1924. Good condition and color.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Wood : Pre 1930 item #1342640 (stock #136)
Chinese antique turned wooden brush pot in Huanghuali wood. The pot tapers towards the triple beaded turned base, fashioned to look like a stand and has a slightly rolled top with a recessed base. No mark. Good patination of the wood.

Approximately 22 cm high by 17-1/5 cm diameter at widest point.

Good condition with normal signs of use.

Note: I have lightened some of the pictures up quite a bit so that the details of the grain of the wood can be seen.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Folk Art : Pre 1930 item #992928 (stock #FI-10)
Tsuchi Ningyo, Clay Doll. Kintaro with Giant Carp. ca. early 1900's. H.4.25"(11cm) x W.3.375"(8.5cm.) Signed on bottom "Yano." Body is 100% intact and in good condition, but most of the paint has flaked off of the fish...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Metalwork : Pre 1930 item #1246027
Small bronze incensor of the Japanese god Daikoku "magic money mallet", or Uchide no kozuchi. He is associated with wealth and prosperity and is commonly portrayed seated upon bales of rice surrounded by mice, which symbolize plentiful food. The mouse seated upon the mallet is actually a removable lid. Taisho period (1912-1925) Size: 4.5" tall, 6.5" long
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1930 item #1360876 (stock #256)
Pair of antique Chinese flower ball dishes with various balls spaced over a white ground. These dishes have scalloped rims edged in gilt. The underside of each dish carries three bats in iron red. The glazed white base holds a shop mark in iron red enclosed in a single iron red border.

Age: Qing Dynasty

Size: Each dish is approximately 4" diameter

Condition: Good, no breaks or cracks. Some of the gilt around the edges has worn off
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1930 item #1427170 (stock #YoshidaH042)
Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950)
Mt. Rainier
United States series.
Date: 1925.
Edition: Posthumous. "Toku" (special) seal.
Size: 21.0 x 15.25 inches.
Pencil signed and titled in English. Signed and sealed in Japanese within the image.
Reference: Abe catalog #13.
Condition: Very good color. Outer margin edge is toned.