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I would like to apologize to all, we have been working on the Tohoku relief effort and have not been focused 100 percent on web sales. Many emails and packages have been delayed, we are doing our best to manage both. Your patience and understanding through the crisis have been sincerely appreciated. November 22 2011 Robert is in the earthquake/tsunami affected region and will be only sporadically available to answer emails through December 3rd. Your patience is appreciated. For more on their activities see http://www.idrojapan.org

Robert Mangold has been working with Japanese antiques since 1995 with an emphasis on ceramics, Paintings, Armour and Buddhist furniture.

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Winter Landscape by Otaki Uzan Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings: Pre 1940   item# 1124416 (stock# ALR3079)  click for details The Kura tel.81-75-432-6980 550.00  Sharp winter landscape ink and light color on silk contained in a green copper silk border embellished with flowering vines and ivory rollers. The scroll is 22 x 82 inches (56.5 x 209 cm) and in overall fine condition. Some minor age spotting just below the signature. Otaki Uzan (1871-1939), a Nanga artist from Yamagata studied under Kawamura Ukoku before establishing himself in Tokyo. Often prized in the Japane ...click for details Porcelain Sencha Tea Set by Seifu Yohei IV Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1920   item# 1122907 (stock# TCR3078)  click for details The Kura tel.81-75-432-6980 1,350.00  A fine set of six ivory colored porcelain tea cups and tea pot by Seifu Yohei IV (1871-1951) enclosed in the original signed wooden boxes dating circa 1920. The kyusu measures over 3 inches (7.5 cm) tall, 5 inches (12.5 cm) from handle to spout. The tea cups each measure 2 inches (5 cm) tall, 2-3/4 inches (7 cm) diameter and are in fine condition, with no chips cracks or repairs. The Seifu lineage, unlike many pot ...click for details Porcelain Koro by Seifu Yohei IV Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1920   item# 1122707 (stock# TCR3077)  click for details The Kura tel.81-75-432-6980 875.00  A fine ivory colored porcelain koro incense burner by Seifu Yohei IV (1871-1951) enclosed in the original signed wooden box dating circa 1920e pot has a turned lid of rare Chinese rosewood with elegant ivory finial. It measures 3 inches (7.5 cm) tall, 3-1/2 inches (9 cm) diameter and is in fine condition, with no chips cracks or repairs. The Seifu lineage, unlike many potteries of the time, was low production and t ...click for details Antique Japanese Snowy landscape Scroll by Hata Hakuho Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings: Pre 1930   item# 1120795 (stock# ALR3076)  click for details The Kura tel.81-75-432-6980 800.00  A fine silk painting by Hata Hakuho enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Yuki no Ko-minato (Small Port in Snow). Color on silk with frosty silver blue cloth extended in beige and featuring fine sculpted bone rollers. The scroll measures 21 x 50 inches (53 x 127 cm) and is in excellent condition. This could have been painted on the same day as his submission to the 1929 Teiten National Exhibition Which shares teh same title and appears to be the same scene from a very slightly dif ...click for details Winter's End, Antique Japanese Screen, Takahashi Shiko Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings: Pre 1940   item# 1120769 (stock# ANR3075)  click for details The Kura tel.81-75-432-6980 2,750.00  A Nihonga Scene mounted on a two panel screen of a thatched house in the winter forest, blossoms just opening on the garden trees by Takahashi Shiko (1897-1970). The scene has been created over a complete wash of white, making the crisp early spring morning real and sharp. The screen measures 74-1/2 x 67-1/2 inches (189 x 172 cm) and is in excellent condition bordered in a red lacquer frame typical of the 1920s and 30s and retains the original backing paper. A superb example of the early Show ...click for details Antique Japanese Lacquer Bowl, Scabbard Patterns Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Swords and Related: Pre 1920   item# 1120493 (stock# MOR3074)  click for details The Kura tel.81-75-432-6980 970.00  17 Saya (scabbard) patterns form the walls of this unique lacquer bowl dating from the first part of the 20th century. Carved designs, lacquered or inlayed, filled with mother of pearl or eggshell or flakes of precious metals, a very unique look at the variety of sword furniture available at that time. The rim is red and black Nejiri nuri, with simple black inside and on the base. The bowl is 3-1/2 inches (9 cm) tall, 7 inches (18 cm) diameter and in fine condition, with some wear on the bott ...click for details Antique Japanese Signed Bamboo Carving, Fish Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Netsuke and Related: Pre 1920   item# 1120487 (stock# MOR3073)  click for details The Kura tel.81-75-432-6980 700.00  A chikkon (bamboo mingei carving) of a dried fish signed Ippu-saku (made by Ippu) enclosed in a kiri-wood box dating from the first part of the 20th century. The carving makes expert use of the root area and twisted stalk of the bamboo, nodules visible about the belly and at the end of the tail. The eyes are inlayed stone. It is 21 cm (8-1/4 inches) long and in fine condition. Antique Japanese Chato Wooden Doctors Sword Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Netsuke and Related: Pre 1920   item# 1120159 (stock# MOR3072)  click for details The Kura tel.81-75-432-6980 Sold, Thank you!  A unique hardwood bokuto Tanto sword which, when drawn, reveals an interior compartment made to carry a chashaku tea scoop. The saya (scabbard) appears to be carved of Tochi, a highly prized domestic wood known for the mottling in the grain. The handle looks to be Keyaki (Zelkova), a very hardwood resembling Elm. The fittings are of bone or horn, with an ivory button imitating the pin which secured the blade to the handle. Inside the compartment is a bamboo tea spoon. It is 16 inches (40 cm ...click for details Antique Japanese Sagemono Bokuto Wooden Doctors Sword Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Netsuke and Related: Pre 1900   item# 1119891 (stock# MOR3071)  click for details The Kura tel.81-75-432-6980 Sold, Thank you!  An unusual decorative wooden sword (tea room sword) carved of hardwood in the shape of a dried fish signed on the belly pierced and wrapped with a faded silk chord. An excellent example of the genre it is 13-1/2 inches (34 cm) long and in fine condition. It is said that these wooden swords were produced from the mid to late Edo period, in lieu of swords for those not allowed to carry weapons (all but samurai). D ...click for details Antique Japanese Bone Netsuke, Hotei Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Netsuke and Related: Pre 1900   item# 1119872 (stock# MOR3070)  click for details The Kura tel.81-75-432-6980 395.00  A tiny mingei image of the god of fortune Hotei carved from what appears to my untrained eye to be bone, possibly Stag-horn. He squats, grinning up at the sky, his ubiquitous sack voluminous behind. Through the back and down through the bottom is bored a hole for the string. The figure is 1-1/2 inches (4 cm) tall and likely dates from the 19th century (Late Edo to Meiji). These are not modern reproductions, but genuine antique Japanese Netsuke coming from Kyoto. ...click for details Return To Top View Next 10 Items PAGE: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9