Antique Japanese Art

Each one is embroidered in silk thread with poultry amongst plants on a black ground.

The animal is shown striding forwards with it head up and fangs bared. The stipes are patinated and raised in shallow relief. On a wood plinth.

A bronze box with an iron panel to the top inlaid in gilt, silver and patinated bronze with a kingfisher against delicate flowers and foliage, with...

The god of good harvest is shown sitting on three full sacks of grain and branshing his mallet.

One of families promenading beside a lake, the other showing ladies in the bath house, each within an English gilt faux-bamboo frame

Pair of Japanese Imari dishes with shaped edges

The bird is perched on a gnarled rootwood stand, with gilt and shakudo eyes and talons.

These large vases have square section scroll handles. They are beautifully decorated with gilt, silver, shakudo and coloured bronze inlays. The c...

These wide baluster vases are applied with oni-mask handles. On one side there are gilt carp swimming up a waterfall with the spray picked out in s...

A Japanese bronze and parcel gilt figure of a man tying a rice bail, standing on a gold lacquered wooden stand. Signed.

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A Rare and Fine Collection of Twelve Japanese Export Lacquer Portrait Medallions on Copper Decorated in Gold Hirahaki-E and Kinji on a Roironuri Gr...

This figural group shows a mendicant Oni with a tattered umbrella and wearing a voluminous shakudo cloak over gilt tiger mask greaves. A smaller on...

A Japanese Meiji period ivory pill box with incised leopards.

Japanese Imari dish of rectangular form, with leaf design handles

Japanese bronze cockerel with silvered body, details in shakudo and gilt, signed Shigemitsu, late Meiji Period

Shown with abundant plumage and inlaid eyes.

Bishamonten is the god of war in the Japanese Shichifukujin (Seven Lucky Gods). Here he is shown with a ferocious expression on his face as he van...

The bottle vases have carp in swirls of water, with some gilt details.

Fine pair of Japanese imari vases

A Japanese porcelain 'Imari' barber's bowl, gilt and painted in iron-red, black and underglaze blue with a jardinière of chrysanthemums on a fence...

Japanese bronze bijin holding her obi, mounted on a lacquered wooden base, signed in a rectangular reserve Miyao Eisuke

A pair of 19th century Japanese porcelain vases of large scale, decorated with lacquered over glaze showing panels of flowers within a geometric fl...

A LARGE JAPANESE IVORY BRUSH HOLDER Late 19th /early 20th Century. Height: 5.5/8”(14.5cms) Width: 4” (10cms) The ivory tusk carved wi...

A large early 20th century Japanese Satsuma pottery temple jar and lid. The jar is profusely decorated with deity, some of the figures and deco...

A Japanese bronze and parcel-gilt figure of a man with his loin cloth trapped in a clam shell, standing on a gold lacquered wooden stand. Signed.

A superbly carved Japanese ivory dish of two parts which are both signed by their respective carvers, the exterior section is beautifully carved wi...

Japanese ivory okimono of Ebisu the God of Good Fortune holding a net with a straw basket containing a tai (sea bream), signed in a tsuishu red lac...

A superb Japanese ivory cabinet on stand, the freestanding cabinet covered with silver mounts and hinges and sitting on a tortoiseshell stand again...

Japanese ivory okimono of a mother peeling an apple for her child, signed with incised characters Noriaki, late Meiji Period.

Japanese ivory okimono group of father and son feeding chicks and hens, signed in a tsuishu red lacquer seal Munehisa, Meiji Period.

Japanese ivory okimono group of a woodcutter tying a bundle of logs while his son is making a fire, signed in a tsuishu red lacquer reserve Tsuneto...

Japanese ivory okimonoof Taketori Monogatari (the Bamboo cutter tale) with the winged Princess Kaguya Hime ascending to the moon, signed with incis...

A late 19th century Kutani figure of a man holding a paper scroll. Japanese, Meiji period.

A pair of Japanese six fold screens - colour on a ground of gold leaf squares depicting yellow finch and sparrows in flight over various flowers.

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 set of six original early 20th century Japanese Kimono designs - gouache over graphite on Japan paper each with a small three character stamped...

A large Art Nouveau period cloisonné enamel vase. Decorated with flowers and birds. On a teakwood base.

A set of twelve late 19th century Japanese watercolour portraits of native indigenous hawks each shown in a different position resting on a ceremon...

A collection of late 19th century Japanese watercolours of Irises produced by The Yokohama Nursery Company, No 21-35 Nakamura, Yokohama

This large vase has a central continuous band of scrolling green karakusa on a pale green ground.

This attractive vase has two stylized butterflies against white floral sprays on a pale blue ground. The wings of the butterflies have Tamura's tra...

The entire central field of this vase is decorated with white cranes and foliage on a blue ground.Meiji period.

An exceptionally fine large japanese ivory okimono figure of a farmer Meiji period