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Antique Japanese Chawan Tea Bowl, Kozan
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Pre 1920 item# 795886 (stock# TCR2405)
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A fine wan-gata chawan covered in thick rust-colored glaze forming five drips around the white clay of the base. The glaze appears predominately red, but is actually diffused with varying shades of yellow, black and olive, creating quite a sensational festival for the eyes, enhanced by the dark of the tea room. Imagine the yellows brought out by candle-light. High fired and thin walled, it is stamped on the base Kozan (the bright mountain). Likely from the kilns of Kyoto, the bowl is 6.3 cm ...click for details
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Antique Japanese Chawan Tea Bowl
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Pre 1900 item# 795882 (stock# TCR2404)
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A nobori-fuji crest wraps over the rim of this 19th century chawan, the kodai foot quite small, a simple button cut and slightly sculpted. The white glaze has absorbed some color over time, creating a fine sense of antiquity. The simplicity of the bowl is contrasted by the sumptuous blue of the design. Likely from the kilns of Kyoto, the bowl is unsigned, 4-1/2 inches (11 cm) diameter, 3 inches (7.5 cm) tall and in perfect condition, enclosed in a modern wooden box.
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Antique Japanese Shino Chawan Tea Bowl, Kotenka
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Pre 1920 item# 794221 (stock# TCR2400)
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A robust Shino Chawan decorated with a traveler’s hat and walking stick; wiped on glaze under thick white feldspar revealing raw earth beneath. An excellent example of Shino ware signed and stamped KoTenKi (Old Hope of Heaven) on the base, the shattered glaze darkened with use creating a warm antique feel. The wheel-turned belted form is 7.5 cm (3 inches) tall, 10.5 cm (4-1/4 inches) diameter and in excellent condition, likely 75 to 100 years old. It comes in a modern wooden box.
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Antique Japanese Chashitsu Tea Room Sign
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Pre 1920 item# 794215 (stock# MOR2398)
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An unusual sign cut from a plank of worm eaten wood inlayed with two ceramic characters reading Whispering Pines. The fresh green glaze intimates the evergreen branches of the pine against the dark shadows of bark and forest. From right to left, it reads Sho-Sei. It would be an excellent addition to a Northern Tea Room… The sign is roughly 15-1/2 by 8 by 1 inches 40 x 21 x 2.5 cm) and is in perfectly displayable antique condition. The character Sho appears to have been repaired twice, top a ...click for details
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Antique Japanese Carved Mingei Tray with Bat, Kinkoku
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Pre 1900 item# 793731 (stock# MOR2397)
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A wooden tray carved worm eaten kiri with the image of a red lacquered flying bat, the wormed sections acting like clouds in the dark wood night sky. This tray was purposely made, carved using an existing piece of wormed wood which exemplifies the Japanese aesthetic of Wabi-Sabi. The wood is quite thick, 2 cm thick on the edge, the tray measuring roughly 11 inches (28 cm) square, 1-1/2 inches (4 cm) to the rim. It is perfect for service of Sencha tea. The tray is signed beneath Kinkoku and c ...click for details
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Antique Japanese Bamboo Vase w/ Maki-e design of Sagi
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Pre 1920 item# 793062 (stock# MOR2396)
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Crested-ibis huddle among dried grasses in the frigid waters of a winter river, a scene common throughout the long Japanese winter, depicted in lacquer on the raw polished surface of this bamboo flower vessel dating from the later Meiji to Taisho period. All exposed areas of the vase, top, bottom and inside the basin, are perfectly lacquered black. The birds are performed with gold and silver over black and red lacquer, worn to a very attractive gradient of color. The vase is 13-1/2 inches (3 ...click for details
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18th Century Japanese Ao-Bizen Tsubo
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Pre 1800 item# 792447 (stock# TCR2394)
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Stylized waves undulate about the shoulder of this rare 18th century Ao-Bizen (Blue Bizen) tsubo storage urn marked with pale color. The piece has magnificent keshiki (scenery), with a shi-seki in the side, a large divot elsewhere, pale licks of soft brown hi-iro and three tiny finger marks appear to be that of a child. The piece was made in the coil method, with a flat base attached to coils of clay rising up and smoothed. The base is quite worn, with the remainder of the support marks still ...click for details
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Meiji p. Japanese Carving of a Bunraku Reader (Gidaiyu)
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Pre 1910 item# 792080 (stock# MOR2393)
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An incredibly realistic image of a gidaiyu gripping the sides of his book stand as he rises up to let fly a great bellow. Glass eyes and thick colored gofun are reminiscent of the iki-ningyo (living dolls) of the period. The figure is 57 cm (23 inches) tall, and requires a display space 40 x 55 cm (16 x 22 inches). There is some minor damage (chips in the gofun covering), on the tips of his shoulder wings, top of his chonmage topknot, and the left hand has been re-carved, but very well done; ...click for details
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Antique Chinese Scroll, The Butterfly Lovers
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Pre 1900 item# 790346 (stock# ALR2391)
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The girl, slender as a sapling, prepares her coiffure as a young man peeks into the room. A mid Qing Dynasty painting mounted as a Japanese hanging scroll likely depicting the star crossed lovers Liang Shan Bo and Zhu Ying Tai, known as the Butterfly Lovers, an 800 year old tale of young love similar to but pre-dating the Shakespearean Romeo and Juliet drama. Exquisitely depicted with pigment on silk bordered in Kinran green silk threaded with geometric patterns in couched gold, extended with p ...click for details
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