Japanese Art & Antiques

The wrist rest skillfully carved on the concave side depicting 'Daruma', wearing a ear-ring. Signed cachet: Rakudo. 20 by 6 cm.

Pair of lacquered Kansai-style lidded ohitsu ????? (rice containers) complete with a pair of lacquered rice spoons. The ohitsu feature a crest ? (...

A large Japanese Imari-verte porcelain vase with hand-carved hard wooden cover. The vase, in a baluster shape, showcases a vibrant and continuous ...

A pair of six-panel hinagata byôbu ???? (doll festival folding screens) with a continuous painting on gold leaf showcasing flower carts ?? (hana’g...

A large six-panel byôbu ?? (folding screen) covered with six separate hanging scroll paintings ??? (kakejiku) depicting different taka ? (hawks) p...

A tall and exceptionally well-made Bunraku ?? doll, known in Japan as a Ningyô Jôrurui ?????, depicting the beautiful character of Yaoya Oshichi, ...

The circular dish on a high foot, decorated in underglaze blue with flowers growing beside a water stream. The reverse side with flowers designs. ...

A large gold lacquer wooden sculpture of the bodhisattva Kannon ??, the Goddess of Mercy, standing on a double lotus throne. Kannon is also better...

A distinctive, large dark patinated bronze Japanese lantern ?? (tôrô) comprising five sections. It features a cone-shaped roof, crowned with a...

Great, tall two-panel byôbu ?? (folding screen) adorned with two separate hanging scroll paintings ??? (kakejiku), each depicting a taka ? (hawks)...

A pair of black lacquered wooden hokai ?? (covered portable food containers) of traditional shape. The cover adorned with a crest ? (mon) depictin...

A dark red lacquered wooden zushi-shrine. Its black lacquered inside is elegantly decorated with a lotus pond with white and red lotus flowers and...

A black lacquer bajô jingasa ???? (horseback samurai hat) with a slightly upward-bent visor. Covered with crests ? (mon) in golden maki-e depictin...

A large Kutani-ware ??? porcelain globular vase with horizontal ribs by the famous artist Tokuda Yasokichi III ??????? (Masahiko ??) (1933-2009). ...

A mid-size four-panel byôbu ?? (folding screen) by Sagawa Kakoku ???? (1867-1946) featuring a vivid painting of fowl in action. It portrays a scen...

Leporello illustration book filled with polychrome shunga paintings. Shunga ?? (literally “spring pictures”), is an erotic artistic tradition that...

A medium-sized six-panel byôbu ?? (folding screen) showcasing a delicate Rinpa School-style painting that captures a tranquil gathering of four cr...

The black laquer shrine with two hinged doors mounted with copper kanagu, revealing the figure of Guanyin standing on a double-lotus throne, weari...

A 6-panel byôbu?? (folding screen) with an animated Kanô School-style painting on gold leaf of karako ?? (Chinese children) at play under supervis...

Pair of impressive, antique kakejiku ??? (hanging scroll) showcasing the awe-inspiring Niô guardians ??, also referred to as heavenly kings. Each...

Two blue and white figures of boys, cast seated on one knee and holding a bowl on their heads. Height: 11 cm.

Of rectangular form with recessed gold fundame edges, bearing a superb gyobu nashiji ground finely decorated in gold, brown, and red hiramaki-e an...

The panels are surrounded by two silk borders. Height: 170 cm. Width: 396 cm.

A life-size wooden statue (height 172 cm) of a Buddhist deity in his manifestation of a warrior, clad in armour and standing on a rock. The eyes o...

A large six-panel byôbu ?? (folding screen) covered with six separate hanging scroll paintings ??? (kakejiku) depicting different taka ? (hawks) p...

Black lacquered steel jingasa ?? (ancient soldier’s hat) of the ensui ?? (conical) type. The front and back with a gold lacquer family crest ? (mo...

Fine black lacquer wooden upright katana sword stand ??? (tachi’kake) fully encrusted with shiny blue mother-of-pearl ?? (raden). Height: 65.9...

Elegant lacquer low two-tiered display table, known as a ‘kanmuri’shoku’ ?? (crown display table) adorned by intricate design of autumn flowers ex...

A captivating lacquer suzuri’bako ?? (writing box) of rounded rectangular form depicting a pair of shishi ?? (temple lions) and the lucky god Hote...

Exceptional, traditional Japanese granite chôzu’bachi ??? (water basin) that is square of shape with on the top surface a cylindrical water pool a...

An uniquely double-gourd-shaped lacquer suzuri’bako ?? (writing box) with a design of gourd leaves, by Hara Yôyûsai ???? (1769-1845). Covered with...

Art Deco-style bronze okimono ?? fashioned in the shape of a Chidori ?? (plover), capturing the bird in full flight above a stylized, upward curvi...

Japanese Satsuma figure of a seated Jurojin (one of the seven lucky gods) and a deer. 22 cm. height

134 by 152 cm.

Of round form with curved rim, inlaid with leaf and floral sprays interspersed, around a central rosette, the rim with scrolling flowers. A s...

Each of rectangular form with feet and tapering crest, decorated with mother of pearl inlaid fragments featuring lotus heads amongst floral leafy ...