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HANDMADE Japanese GLASS CHAIRE TEA URN w/box by CHOJU
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Pre 2000 item# 475323 (stock# MOR1669)
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A fine clear glass urn, smooth outside, frosted inside, with blue candy-stripe swirls, the outside wrapped in a single sheet of heavily cracked applied silver foil. It comes with a solid ivory lid, enclosed in a silk bag with kiri wood box signed Choju. The receptacle is used for storing the precious powdered tea use in the Japanese Zen Tea Ceremony. IT is 3 inches (8 cm) tall and in perfect condition.
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Unusual Paper Screen by Yamauchi Issei
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Pre 1980 item# 474623 (stock# ANR1665)
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Sculptured black pines rise from the misty forest floor, yellow sky fading beyond; a brilliant modernist rendition of this traditional theme by Yamauchi Issei (b. 1929). The entire scene is performed with colored paper, applied directly or wetted and applied as pulp. Fantastical shapes seem to dance across the two panel canvas. Gold strips applied in the upper branches are sunlight’s last rays reflecting off the needles, the yellow sky implicating late summer dusk. Saved from the harshness o ...click for details
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Antique Japanese Buddhist Priest OHI and KESA
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Pre 1900 item# 473465 (stock# MOR1663)
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A large Kesa of silk and gold metallic brocade (Kinran) embellished with dragons seeking the Buddhist jewel among clouds, interspersed with red patches featuring lotus dials. A detail in sumptuous extravagance, the quilted cloth is backed with white patterned silk. It is accompanied by a smaller piece of the same design called Ohi, a sash worn to accompany the Kesa. The large piece is 72 x 37 inches (94 x 185 cm), the smaller 12 x 56 inches (30 x 140 cm). A fabulous wall hanging, they date f ...click for details
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Antique Japanese Buddhist Textile, Priest OHI and KESA
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Pre 1940 item# 473377 (stock# MOR1662)
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Peach bands of silk arranged in vertical columns stagger across six feet of Kesa interspersed with colorful patches featuring flowers and geometrics. The Kesa is backed with sumptuous orange silk. It is accompanied by a smaller piece of the same design called Ohi, a sash worn along with the Kesa. The Kesa is 78 x 45-1/2 inches (198 x 115.5 cm), the smaller Ohi 12 x 57 inches (30 x 142 cm). A fabulous wall hanging, they likely date from the early 20th century and are overall in very good cond ...click for details
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Japanese ZEN SCROLL by Priest YAMADA MUMON w/ Box
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Pre 1980 item# 472976 (stock# ALR1659)
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Here is the character for bamboo written in an expressive, picture form by the former Kancho of Myoshinji Temple, Yamada Mumon (1900-1988) enclosed in the original signed wooden box. The six strokes are performed with a single dipping, the last, long streak fading to white as it passes down the trunk of bamboo. The signature places this from his time at Myoshinji, the seals reading Taishitsu Ro Shi (Taishitsu was one of his pen names) and Mumon. The top seal is Kaishin, Open the Heart. Perfo ...click for details
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SUPERB Japanese BIZEN TSUBO VASE, KOYAMA SUEHIRO
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Pre 1980 item# 472771 (stock# TCR1657)
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Bizen does not get much better than this! Here is a phenomenal Tsubo by Koyama Suehiro (b. 1948) enclosed in the original signed wooden box. Burnt crisp and black on the front, the face changes as we turn the tsubo away from the flame, revealing rivulets of ash glaze running toward the back through a surface heavily textured with particles. Turning more we find these rivulets condensing into streaks rushing around a bare eye lidded with a large kutsuki. Below are pieces of two necks now atta ...click for details
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Amazing Bizen Vase by Konishi Toko II
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Pre 1980 item# 472606 (stock# TCR1656)
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A dramatic piece by Konishi Toko II enclosed in the original signed and stamped wooden box. Firing while on its side has created a tremendous landscape on the vase. Bidoro runs from the point, spreading like liquid to the burnt red back around two eyes (formed where the piece was supported in the kiln) and kuro Goma Kasu of solidified ash chars the surface. The piece is 9-3/4 inches (25 cm) tall and in perfect condition. Toko of course, learned from his father Toko I (1899-1954) and was succ ...click for details
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Edo period Japanese Samurai 2 SCROLL SET
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Pre 1900 item# 471781 (stock# ALR1654)
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This is a 2 scroll set painted with samurai clutching prayer beads enclosed in an ancient wooden box titled Kishi Zenkei no Zo, Kishi Zenko no Zo (Portraits of Kishi Zenkei and Kishi Zenko). One scroll bears the date Ansei 3 (1856), Summer. It is unclear weather this is the actual date of the paintings, or the date of events pertaining to the lives of the two men featured. Also included is an old letter or attribution, and a more modern (pre-war) letter. On the second is written, These two s ...click for details
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GORGEOUS CERAMIC BOWL w/box, Japanese, KAWAI KANJIRO
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Pre 1940 item# 466144 (stock# TCR1640)
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This is a fabulous bowl by 20th century ceramic master Kawai Kanjiro (1890-1966), enclosed in the original signed and stamped wooden box dating from the 1930s. The true mastery of this artist comes out in this most basic of forms. A simple basin, with no foot or adornment, punctuated by 6 lines, and yet the effect is phenomenal. Inside covered in gosu blue glaze with three horizontal bands surrounding a center dial of squiggly lines in white; the outside only glazed halfway down, revealing th ...click for details
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