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Antique Japanese Bronze Buddhist Temple Toro Lantern
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Pre 1920 item# 676631 (stock# MBR2190)
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A large detailed Meiji period bronze ishi-toro garden lantern style lantern from a Buddhist temple. Etched about one tier above the base are seven names, likely the names of those whose donations bought the lantern over a century ago. It comes apart into 4 separate interlocking pieces. It is solid bronze but for 6 flat head screws holding on the elephant head decorations to the top. About the base fly three dimensional plovers (chidori) over waves. The door is fully functional, the light ch ...click for details
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Distinct Edo period Japanese Samurai Armor, Yoroi
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Pre 1900 item# 675140 (stock# SAR2187)
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An Edo period suit of raw iron with all matching parts, featuring 16 plate helmet with two lame shikoro and large fukigaeshi. The mask is fantastic, a real stunner with dramatic features and a large mustache. It has five plate sode and a go-mai-do cuirass of five iron plates, with kusazuri of leather scales. The sangu are all matching, very nice on dark silk tightly woven iron scales, with a crest in brass on the back of the hands. The original Maedate is in the form of a box and would likel ...click for details
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Edo p. Japanese Shinto Shrine Fox Pair, Kitsune
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Pre 1900 item# 674307 (stock# MOR2184)
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An exquisite pair of gofun covered fox on black and gold lacquered stands protected by copper wire cages, dating from the second half of the Edo period. They wear a shrewd look, eyes narrowed to slits, enhancing their mischievous image. The mystical carvings are covered in white gofun, stained a soft gray from age with highlights still white from eons of careful cleaning. Around the pair of ethereal creatures are removable cages of copper wire to protect the sacred images, the gofun coating m ...click for details
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17th c. Japanese Buddhist Temple Koro Incense Burner
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Pre 1700 item# 674017 (stock# MOR2183)
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Shishi prance across the mottled Kiri-wood surface of this Momoyama to early Edo period Koro in gold and silver maki-e and mother of pearl inlay. A copper insert contains the fragrant incense ash. There is a hand forged iron staple top and bottom of one ancient crack testament to age. It likely once had a silver hoya (cover) which has disappeared over the centuries. When we acquired this and another similar piece listed from a temple in Fukui prefecture, it was so covered in grime that the m ...click for details
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Edo period Japanese Bronze Quail Koro, Kamejo
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Pre 1800 item# 667889 (stock# MOR2167)
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A rare and outstanding Edo period rendition of a standing quail by Tsumura Kamejo (d. 1772) enclosed in an Edo period Kiri wood box. Each ruffled feather is uniquely created, standing on the birds back. The rest of the body is carefully incised with repeating patterns of feathers, the artists mark clearly visible under the tail. The face is that of the Edo quail, a fierce gaze showing the awe of nature and its inhabitants with which the people co-existed at that time. As the cities grew that ...click for details
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Edo period Japanese Karatsu Chawan Tea Bowl with Skull
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Pre 1900 item# 667639 (stock# TCR2166)
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A ring of skulls playfully sojourn on the front of this rather unusual deep Edo Karatsu Chawan. On back another pair tumble helplessly over the thick speckled glaze. The base is bare earth, dark and shiny with age and handling. The skulls are not just resist painted on, but are actually incised, the eyes and nostrils set deep into the southern clay. The bowl is 3-1/2 inches (8.5 cm) tall, roughly 4 inches (10.5 cm) diameter and is in excellent condition, enclosed in a wooden box.
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Edo p. Japanese Buddhist Painting, Nehanzu
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Pre 1900 item# 667635 (stock# ALR2165)
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A late Edo period (19th century) image known as the Nehanzu, death of the Buddha. It is absolutely fantastic, one of the best painted I have ever seen. Mourners of all species surround the death bed of Buddha. His mother comes from heaven dropping a bag of magical medicine, which catches on the limb of a tree, unable to reach him in time. Hawk, tiger, elephant, Shishi,. Cow, snail, horse, monkey, crane, rooster, goose, pheasant, turtle, rabbit, egret, mandarin duck, mole, centipede, snake, p ...click for details
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Superb Antique Japanese Tetsubin Teapot by Chusaburo
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Pre 1920 item# 667159 (stock# TCR2163)
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A gorgeous iron tea pot with both a bronze and iron lid signed on the side Oguro-an (the Oguro hermitage or studio) and enclosed in a wooden box signed Chusaburo. There are holes in the sides and handle intimating antiquity and deterioration, creating a worn and intimate feel for such a hard surface and bringing it into the wabi-sabi fold. The bronze lid is heavily mottled in color and the iron lid features a silver ring handle. The piece is 5-1/2 inches (14 cm) square, 10 inches (25 cm) tall ...click for details
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Edo period Japanese Shino Chawan Tea Bowl
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Pre 1800 item# 666145 (stock# TCR2161)
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A fine 17th-18th century Kutsugata E-Shino Chawan, the pitted white glaze decorated pell-mell with slashes of gray outside, and what intimates three tumbling balls of yarn within. Two excellent dark gold repairs glint on the inner rim, a testament to age and use equaling the dark color filling the perforated and crackled once white glaze. The large basin is roughly formed, the artists fingers dragging furrows into the sides and the thick shino glaze running in uneven drips both within and with ...click for details
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Edo period Japanese Seto Yaki Bull Shuro
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Pre 1900 item# 666122 (stock# TCR2160)
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What a fantastic expression worn by this Edo p. Seto Hand warmer (hibachi or properly Shuro/ Te-abure). The dark shiny Seto glaze suits well the beast portrayed. Coals would have been burned inside, heating the surrounding pottery walls, and the piece would have been placed on a step leading into the house for guests to warm their hands on or used within the house in a more formal room. It is 13 inches (33 cm) long and is in fine condition overall. It appears as if when potted the craftsman ...click for details
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