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A Slender stoneware flower vase of hexagonal section, covered in a brown and black iron glaze, and decorated with was resist calligraphic reed moti...

A superb Japanese lacquer suzuribako (writing box), decorated on the exterior in iro-e togidashi with the scene of the Izumo lovers going for a che...

A gajo album of fourteen urushi-e (lacquer paintings), depicting various subjects, mostly plant studies (bamboo, iris, monring glory, wild rose, ar...

Carved from an irregular piece of antler, the shape has suggested to the artist a mythical Kappa clutching in front of it a cucumber, its favourite...

A brown lacquered tokuri (saké flask), the core probably of dry lacquer, decorated with a simple rain dragon in brown, black and gold takamakie an...

Presumably intended for cosmetics, the box is decorated with trompe-l’œil rocks in iridescent silver and earth-red takamakie with inlays of aoga...

The antler has been cut on two sides rather like an old fashioned clothes peg, the two flaps displaying surprising spring and strength. One side i...

The netsuke is carved as a fat Daikon radish with its leaves attached and two smaller radishes towards its base. Set into the face is a finely car...

SHIBATA ZESHIN (1807-1891) A woven basketwork Tonkotsu of oval section. It is lacquered in black ishime with a yusu (teapot) decorated with gold ...

A small Japanese Shino dish, with fawn body partly burnt orange from firing, decorated in iron with sketchy pine trees beneath a cream glaze.

A hand-built tsuribana (hanging basket for a creeper), potted and brushed by Rengetsu with a poem of her own composition, translated as: Along t...

Decorated in the finest gold togidashi with a recumbent stag holding a branch of reishi fungus in its mouth and looking up at two wheeling bats, al...

A Bizen stoneware gourd-shaped Hana-ike, impressed with two dimples and applied with two small handles. Impressed mark Kozan.

A Japanese E-garatsu mukozuke or tsutsutsu chawan, of cylindrical section with squared mouth, the red stoneware body covered in a grey glaze and de...

A Blue and white porcelain chaire, painted in underglaze blue with two butterflies, chrysanthemums and a long inscription. Signed Heianki (?) Sahei...