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Bizen Vase by Isezaki Mitsuru
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Pre 2000 item# 537955 (stock# TCR1824)
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A faceted dark Bizen vase by representative artist Isezaki Mitsuru (b. 1934) enclosed in the original signed and stamped wooden box. Each face is different, one covered in the charred pebble texture known as gomakasu, which fades to a smooth dark coal on the next, then a face divided with the violent gomakasu and smooth scorch marks on the shiny red clay, and last a face with three eyelets and a smattering of gray ash glaze at the lip. Three firing cracks extend from the mouth of the vase outw ...click for details
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Antique Japanese Ohi Ceramic Okimono
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Pre 1940 item# 534532 (stock# TCR1821)
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A rare Ohi-yaki okimono of a happily dancing old man dating from the first half of the20th century and bearing an Ohi Kiln mark on back. He clutches a fan in his right hand, sweeping right with his left foot in a gracefully comic movement. We can imagine he has had a touch too much sake this evening. His robes are typical Ohi Ame-iro candy glaze, with flesh colored skin. The figure stands 10 inches (25.5 cm) tall and is in perfect condition.
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Rare Japanese Art Nouveau Porcelain Vase from Kutani
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Pre 1920 item# 529828 (stock# TCR1813)
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A very unusual art nouveau style Kutani vase decorated with a jagged forest of pink trees on soft green carpet, butterflies circling the shoulder which breaks into a darkened cloud of moriage beads decorated with spiraling karakusa designs in slightly raised gold. Superb workmanship, it is simply signed Kutani-zo (made in Kutani). The vase is 10 inches (25.5 cm) tall and in excellent condition and dates from the first quarter of the 20th century.
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UNUSUAL Japanese Woodblock Tea Room Screen, Hanga
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Pre 1980 item# 529252 (stock# ANR1811)
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A furosaki tea room screen made of a very large hanga woodblock print in the fashion of Inui Tai mounted within a simple wooden frame and stamped in the lower left corner. An intriguing work, village roofs are visible over a sea of rice containing all manner of small country scenes. A cat glares at two frogs, boys pluck small fish from irrigation ditches, uniformed students ride on their way to school, a farmer carefully cares for his plants… The screen is entirely black and white, accentuat ...click for details
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Exceptional Japanese Koi Scroll, Fukuda Bisen
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Pre 1940 item# 525262 (stock# ALR1804)
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The powerful carp leaps up through rushing water, fighting against the current toward its goal beyond the falls in this evocative ink painting by Fukuda Bisen (1875-1963) enclosed in the original signed and stamped wooden box dating from the first half of the 20th century. The enigmatic creature seems embodied with all the vigor of human volition, an impression the artist has skillfully rendered in soft sweeps and washes of gray ink. Almost lost in the torrent, he fights on to the upper reache ...click for details
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Antique Japanese Taisho Screen Set by Kubota Chikubun B
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Pre 1920 item# 524565 (stock# ANR1802)
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A pair of Taisho period screens featuring cranes in lush foliage by Kubota Chikubun (b. 1880), the style defining this brief and powerful period of Japanese art history. A pheasant looks out over the waters of a garden pool, a bamboo spout pouring water in the grove behind, while a pair of baby cranes take tentative steps in the cool waters of the pond opposite, carefully watched over by their mother. The screens are 67-1/2 x 149 inches (172 x 378 cm) and in excellent condition. Chikubun was b ...click for details
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Antique Japanese Taisho Screen Set by Kubota Chikubun A
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Pre 1920 item# 524564 (stock# ANR1802)
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A pair of Taisho period screens featuring cranes in lush foliage by Kubota Chikubun (b. 1880), the style defining this brief and powerful period of Japanese art history. A pheasant looks out over the waters of a garden pool, a bamboo spout pouring water in the grove behind, while a pair of baby cranes take tentative steps in the cool waters of the pond opposite, carefully watched over by their mother. The screens are 67-1/2 x 149 inches (172 x 378 cm) and in excellent condition. Chikubun was b ...click for details
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Fine Japanese Chawan Tea Bowl by Potter Kawai Kanjiro
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Pre 1960 item# 524392 (stock# TCR1799)
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A very tall footed chawan by Kawai Kanjiro enclosed in a fine Kiri-wood box endorsed by his daughter Koha, head of the Kawai Kanjiro Museum. The piece is very much in this potters unique style. The pale rough clay is covered in ash colored glaze with a wide band of soft green, within which are two floral scribbles in red and blue. The bowl is 6 inches (15 cm) diameter, 3-3/4 inches (9 cm) tall and is in perfect condition. Kanjiro was a true artist by nature, and together with Hamada Shoji, s ...click for details
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Fine Small Japanese Cherry Blossom Screen, Gekko
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Pre 1930 item# 516472 (stock# ANR1781)
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Swallows flit between the elaborately painted gofun blossoms of this perfect small six panel screen signed Gekko and dated 1922. Washes over color create the lichen studded tree limbs, and the flowers fade from crisp clarity to formless clouds of white. The blossoms are caught on that one day before they are blown from the branches in snowy rain, evidenced by the profusion of young leaves which permeate the branches. The artist has shown superb skill in attaining an affect on paper ordinarily ...click for details
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