PAIR OF 'SAWASA' PARCEL-GILT HANDLEDCUPS
CHINESE OR JAPANESE, 18TH CENTURY ????? ???? ???????????????each with rounded sides resting on a ring foot rising to a foliated mouth, the exterior covered in black lacquer...
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ARITA WHITE-GLAZED DISH
EDO PERIOD,17TH CENTURY ?? ??????????thinly potted, moulded on the cavetto with six peach-form cartouches with crane, bamboo and flowers, covered in a creamy white glaze (1)21.1cm diameter...
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SETO WARE DISH
EDO PERIOD, 17TH CENTURY?? ????two sides covered in mushroom-coloured glaze, the centre incised with two bands(1)25.5cm diameterProvenance: Gregg Baker, 9 May 2016, with an original receipt.Dr. Kenneth...
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MINO WARE WATER JAR, MIZUSASHI
EDO PERIOD,17TH CENTURY ?? ?????rustically potted in irregular cylindrical form with waisted neck and lipped inverted narrow mouth, set with a pair of lug handles, circular disk-cover...
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A Koto Bizen Wakizashi With Edo Mountsand Higo Kozuka, 16th Century and Later The blade unsigned (mumei), with shakudo tsuba and fuchi-kashira, the kashira decorated with paulownia crest (mon), straight copper...
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A Japanese Ko-Wakizashi, 16th/17th CenturyKoto period blade mumei (unsigned), the lacquer saya with a kamon (crest); fitted with Edo period koshirae, including square iron sukashi tsuba, iron and gold fuchi-kashira,...
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A Suit of Samurai Armour (Tetsu KuroUrushi Okegawa Nimai Dou Gusoku), Early Edo Period, 17th Century Brown/black lacquer three-plate iron zunari kabuto (helmet) with matching hanpo (facial armour) and bronze...
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A Set of Four Imari 'Grapevine' Dishes,Edo Period, 17th Century Each decorated to the interior with a ring of overglaze blue enamel containing maple leaves in red and aubergine
diameter 5.5 in — 14 cm...
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19TH CENTURY JAPANESE MIXED METAL JUMPINGCARP PLAQUE19th Century Japanese Mixed Metal Jumping Carp Plaque , Edo Period, converted into a teak wood coffee table, depicting a carp leaping from the cattails for a fly,...
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CA. 1920- JAPANESE SATSUMA BALUSTERVASEFor your consideration, this lot is a Vintage Japanese Satsuma Handled Polychrome Ceramic Baluster Vase, signed underneath with hiragana and kanji characters, circa 1920-1930....
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JAPANESE EDO / MEIJI LEADED COPPER ARTICULATEDCRABEast Asia, Japan, Edo to Meiji period, ca. mid 19th to early 20th century CE. A leaded copper articulated model of a crab. Meticulously constructed of numerous hammered...
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SIGNED JAPANESE EDO COPPER ARTICULATEDCRAYFISHEast Asia, Japan, late Edo to early Meiji Period, ca. mid-19th to early 20th century CE. A fine model of an articulated crayfish bearing an impressed signature on...
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YOSHITORA UTAGAWA WOODBLOCK "BATTLEOF DAN'NOURA" 1861Yoshitora Utagawa (Japanese, active 1830-1880). "The Great Battle of Dan'noura" woodblock (triptych), Edo period, 1861. Marks: censor's seal aratame. A striking...
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SIGNED 1650S JAPANESE EDO WAKIZASHIBY BISHU OSAFUNEEast Asia, Japan, early Edo Period, ca. mid-17th century, signed "Bishu Osafune" on tang. A forged steel wakizashi blade of elegant shinogi-zukuri form bearing...
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17TH C. JAPANESE EDO STEEL KATANA W/GILT BRASS MENUKIEast Asia, Japan, early Edo Period, ca. early 17th century CE. A forged steel katana blade of nice length exhibiting a shinogi-zukuri shape and a shortened...
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JAPANESE MEIJI SHUNGA HANDSCROLL PAINTING- ORGY**First Time At Auction**
East Asia, Japan, Meiji period, 1868 to 1912. A very long Shunga painting mounted as a handscroll and depicting various explicit sexual interludes...
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HUGE 19TH C. JAPANESE IMARI VASE - GARDENSCENESEast Asia, Japan, Edo period, early to mid 19th century. A magnificent and quite sizeable Japanese Imari vase of a baluster form, beautifully decorated with four panels...
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[A PRIVATE SCOTTISH COLLECTION, EDINBURGH]COLLECTION OF ART REFERENCE BOOKS
ON JAPANESE, KOREAN, AND SOUTHEAST ASIAN ART ??????????????????????Including:Brown, Roxanna M. The Ceramics of South-East Asia: their dating...
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A Japanese Arita circular dish and abottle, Edo period, late 17th Century, painted in dark blue with peonies in a vase by a fence, 27cm diameter, the bottle also Arita, 18th Century, with a copy of Chinese 'Prunus...
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Two Zelkova Wood Shop Signboards, Kanban
PHARMACEUTICALKANBAN: EDO PERIOD, 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY; EYEGLASS KANBAN: MEIJI PERIOD, LATE 19TH CENTURY
each of rectangular form, the eyeglass shop kanban with gilt and polychrome highlighted...
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ASIAN CHINESE ART & CULTURE REFERENCEBOOKS, 16 Sixteen reference books on Asian or Chinese art and culture comprising "China: a history in art" by Smith & Weng, "The Han Dynasty" by Michele Pirazzoli-t'Sterstevens,...
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SHIN-GUNTO KATANA (LONG SWORD) WITHKOSHIRA-E (MOUNTING)
SWORD EDO PERIOD, 17TH CENTURY, KUNITSUGU MARK WITH 20TH CENTURY MOUNTS ?? ??? ??? ????????the metal saya(scabbard) fitted with obi-tori(hanger), semegane(scabbard...
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Japanese Edo Period Katana Sword19thcentury or earlier the tang signed on both sides a prominent hamon along the blade iron tsuba matching temple dog menuki lacquered wooden saya with remnants of antique paper...
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A Wakizashi Samurai Sword with SignedBlade Tadayoshi Family ca. Early Edo Period Buke-Zukuri Koshirae Mountings of Later Period and Metal Scabbard of WWII Era With Shinogi Zukuri Nihonto Suguta (blade shape)...
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Japanese Ko-Kutani table screen Edoperiod Tin-glazed earthenware, painted in the 17th-century style to depict trio of Europeans on face and "red seal"-type ship with western sails verso; face within a diaper...
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Very Rare Pair of Japanese Six-PanelByobu (Floor Screens), 18th century, Edo Period, each panel executed in gouache on paper with gold foil borders at the top and base, bordered in the original silk brocade...
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