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Antique Japanese Suzuri Ink Stone Collection

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Tea Articles: Pre 1920   item# 843186 (stock# MOR2506)

Antique Japanese Suzuri Ink Stone Collection
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The Kura
tel.81-75-432-6980


700.00 

Here is a group of five Suzuri ink grinding stones of various styles and one Ryubun-Do bronze water-dropper. From top right is A Chinese ceramic grinding stone decorated with children in cobalt on white. A hollow on top allows for the ink to be ground and a slight wall separates it from the water which can be added to dilute or removed to darken the ink. Next a simple dark stone with a fine karaki (rosewood) lid carved tofit specifically this stone. Underneath is carved Amahata. Third is a ...click for details


Ornate Antique Japanese Sencha Tea Storage Box

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Tea Articles: Pre 1920   item# 819654 (stock# MOR2444)

Ornate Antique Japanese Sencha Tea Storage Box
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The Kura
tel.81-75-432-6980


2,400.00 

Everything about this sencha tea implement storage cabinet is top quality; a most unusual box made up almost entirely of worm wood featuring a removable door with an inner panel of antique Chinese origin, possibly an image of a tea salesman with his baskets of leaves. A bronze handle surmounts the lightweight box, with a set of four jade rings attached through a pair of folding fans serving as a handle for the door. Climbing up the naturally gnarled sides of the door are two tiny frogs gazing ...click for details


Antique Japanese Robuchi Tea Room Hearth frame

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Tea Articles: Pre 1900   item# 817011 (stock# MOR2438)

Antique Japanese Robuchi Tea Room Hearth frame
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tel.81-75-432-6980


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A rustic Chashitsu Robuchi hearth frame of raw knotty wood enclosed in an age blackened wooden box. The simplicity of style is consistent with the Edo aesthetic, and its quiet glow is quite striking in the humble confines of the tearoom. The frame is 16-11/16 inches square (42.7 cm) by roughly 2-1/2 inches (6.4 cm) tall. It is ready to be installed in the floor for Robiraki!.


Antique Japanese Yuzen Furosaki Tea Room Screen

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Tea Articles: Pre 1900   item# 816317 (stock# MOR2436)

Antique Japanese Yuzen Furosaki Tea Room Screen
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The Kura
tel.81-75-432-6980


755.00 

A Chashitsu Screen made from an antique kimono decorated with villages dotted over a watery landscape, blossoming trees and thatch roofs embroidered with gold thread. The kimono is 19th century, made in the famous Kyoto Yuzen style of dying with accented embroidery. The patterning was likely taken from the lower hem of the kimono. The screen is backed with a beautiful combination of antique patterned sarasa and orange patterned brocade with a simple wood frame befitting the humble confines of ...click for details


Antique Japanese Robuchi Tea Room Hearth frame

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Tea Articles: Pre 1900   item# 815575 (stock# MOR2434)

Antique Japanese Robuchi Tea Room Hearth frame
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The Kura
tel.81-75-432-6980


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A rustic Chashitsu Robuchi hearth frame decorated with autumn grasses in worn gold maki-e. The simplicity of style is consistent with the Edo aesthetic, and may be the oldest Robuchi we have offered to date. Susuki pampas grass rises about the edge setting the autumnal theme. Once mother of pearl leaves clung to the branches of a small bush, but now little remains beyond shadow and insinuation. The frame is 16-11/16 inches square (42.7 cm) by 2-5/8 inches (6.7 cm) tall. There is wear typica ...click for details


Antique Japanese Lacquered Robuchi Tea Room Hearth

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Tea Articles: Pre 1920   item# 815313 (stock# MOR2433)

Antique Japanese Lacquered Robuchi Tea Room Hearth
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300.00 

A fine black lacquered Chashitsu Robuchi hearth frame decorated with rafts of seasonal boughs floating over swirls of gold maki-e. The frame is 16-13/16 inches square (42.7 cm) by 2-1/8 inches (5.3 cm) tall. There are two chips in the outside edge, but the front is fine. Each age worn corner has cracked, please see photos.


Antique Carved Bamboo & Doe-Skin Buddhist Gong Striker

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Tea Articles: Pre 1920   item# 808365 (stock# MOR2415)

Antique Carved Bamboo & Doe-Skin Buddhist Gong Striker
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An antique Dora (gong) striker wrapped in deer skin with an elegant and expertly carved bamboo handle. The bamboo is deeply incised with stamps and signatures in a running sosho script. Among others, names on the handle read Ogon, Hobutsu and Sekko. Although found in Japan, it is possibly, like many revered ritual instruments, originally of Chinese origin. The striker is over 12 inches (31 cm) long and in excellent condition. We have had the dried and cracked doeskin professionally replaced ...click for details


Antique Japanese Chashitsu Tea Room Sign

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Tea Articles: Pre 1920   item# 794215 (stock# MOR2398)

Antique Japanese Chashitsu Tea Room Sign
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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


Antique Japanese Seto Tea Ceremony Mizusashi

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Tea Articles: Pre 1920   item# 687110 (stock# TCR2233)

Antique Japanese Seto Tea Ceremony Mizusashi
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The Kura
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380.00 

Dark Seto Mizusashi with black lacquered lid and enclosed in an old kiri-wood box. The pale clay covered in thick, black molasses-like glaze, a burn of red around the rim. It is 6-1/2 inches (17 cm) tallA6 inches (15.5 cm) diameter and in excellent condition. Part of an extensive collection of tea-ware assembled from the Meiji to the early Showa era we have recently acquired, spanning several centuries of production.


Antique Japanese Irabo Chawan Tea Bowl

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Tea Articles: Pre 1920   item# 686249 (stock# TCR2229)

Antique Japanese Irabo Chawan Tea Bowl
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The Kura
tel.81-75-432-6980


400.00 

A superlative Korai style Irabo chawan covered with thick green freckles over the pale yellow-brown glaze. It is over 6 inches (16 cm) diameter, more than 2 inches (5.5 cm) tall and is in excellent condition, enclosed in a wooden box. Part of an extensive collection of tea-ware assembled from the Meiji to the early Showa era we have recently acquired, spanning several centuries of production.

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