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4 Japanese Meiji Shakudo Mixed Metal Place Card Holders
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Pre 1910 item# 926744
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$895
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A wonderful set of four mixed-metal shakudo fan-shaped place card holders. Each fan is decorated with an elegant scene depicting a pair of cranes under a flowering tree. The design is very well formed and the sharp details are picked out with bright gilding that stands out nicely from the dark bronze background. The backs of the fans have attached folding easels. At the end of the shogunate period, Japanese metalsmiths turned their attention from sword making toward a variety of personal and household objects of astounding quality. The holders are presented in their original individual wooden cases lined with red silk and cotton. The boxes even retain their original rice paper inner covers with the addresses of the Tokyo and Yokohama stores where the holders were apparently purchased.Origin: Japan, ca. 1900. Condition: excellent, all original. Size: 2-5/16” x 1-7/16”.
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Japanese Meiji Period Sumida Gawa Pottery Tankard
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Pre 1910 item# 814788
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$175
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A very good Meiji period Sumida Gawa tankard , the interior and upper half finished in a thick blue flambé glaze that drips down the outer sides of the bisque body. The bisque background is colored rust and creates a nice backdrop for the kimono-clad figure (probably a Rakan, judging from the style of the robes and the exaggerated eyebrows) who seems to be intently studying a gourd. The back of the tankard bears an applied tile with the kanji mark for Ban-ni, a member of the Inoue Ryosai group of potters.Origin: Japan, ca. 1900. Condition: excellent, a very small flake on the man’s earlobe visible upon close inspection, no other chips or cracks. Size: 5-1/8” tall.
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Japanese Meiji High Relief Bronze Stick Vase
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Pre 1900 item# 338427
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$425
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Elegant Meiji period bronze stick vase, the surface with relief decoration of birds and blossoms. The decoration is very high relief with excellent detail. Two birds are roosting in a blossoming tree. The detail covers the bulbous portion of the vase and snakes up the narrow part, as well. Engraved grasses appear at the base of the tree trunk. The vase has its original luminous mahogany-colored patina. The base is engraved with a collector's inventory number.Origin: Japan, ca 1880. Condition: excellent, all original, no dings or cracks. Size: 6-1/2" tall.
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Japanese Porcelain Plate--Edo Period
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Pre 1837 VR item# 25593
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Lovely Edo period porcelain plate with underglaze blue decoration of a shoreline with an outcropping of pine trees on a cliff, a flock of birds, a small village of huts, and three mountain peaks; the edge decorated with blossoms against a dark blue background. The reverse is conservatively decorated with simple brush strokes. The body is very white and of fine quality, the glaze is equally fine, slightly tinted and with a smoth orange peel texture. The sides of the plate are slightly ridged to create a lobed effect.Origin: Japan, late 18th/early 19th century. Condition: virtually mint, the very slightest of knife scratching to the glaze surface. Size: 9" diameter; 1.25" high.
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