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- - - - - - - - - - - | Japanese Boxwood Covered carved Crane box Edo Meiji Item # 5619 Click HERE to inquire about this item This is an important example of the finest in late Edo to early Meiji wood carving. The piece is a covered box carved in the shape of a nesting Japanese Crane. Incredible detail to the feathers and head. Fine old patina indicates a dating from 1840 to 1870. The box measures 6 and seven eighths inches long by 3 inches wide by 3 inches high. The interior has been accented with either a light wash of gold lacquer or gold paint. Of particular note is the interior base which has been skillfully carved to make it look as if it were made of strips of interwoven wood or bamboo. The box is signed on the base. The signature translates to Dosen Z ( made by Dosen). The very tip of the tail on the upper lid has had a chipped end which has been very finely restored, we owned the piece for several years and did not even notice the repair until taking the photos for this listing. For the Japanese, the crane or tsuru is considered a national treasure, appearing in art, literature, and folklore. The Japanese regard the crane as a symbol of good fortune and longevity because of its fabled life span of a thousand years.
Price: $2375
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- - - - - - - - - - - - | Rare Japanese cloisonne Ginbari covered Cat box Meiji  Item # 5620 Click HERE to inquire about this item We have been collecting and handling Japanese cloisonne for many years and have NEVER seen a piece quite as unusual as this one. A thorough search of all the literature that we have on Japanese cloisonne does not reveal any other example of figurals done in cloissone. While birds and animals are plentiful in Chinese cloisonne, this appears to be one of the rarest of Japanese works, made even more so by the magnificent blue ginbari ground of the piece. Formed in the shaped of a reclining cat, it is a covered dish or box form with floral standard cloisonne patterns on the ginbari background. The piece is in very fine condition with no chips and no cracks on dings in the enameling. It is 6 inches long, 4 and three quarter inches high to the tip of the ears and 3 and one quarter inches wide at the widest. Dates from the mid Meiji period, circa 1890 to1910. An important piece for any collector of superb Japanese cloisonne
Price: $1800
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- - - - - - - - - - - | Japanese Meiji Miniature Jewelry cabinet box with Menuki Item # 5621 Click HERE to inquire about this item Japanese Meiji Miniature Jewelry cabinet box with Menuki.Menuki were placed under the tsuka ito to help with the grip of the sword. They were often elaborately decorated and featured a variety of designs A very nicely crafted miniature camphor wood parquetry cabinet that has had thirty one menuki appplied to the front, top and inside on the front of two drawers. The menuki have a variety of design including dragons, frogs with leaf umbrellas, boats, deer and florals. There are four main drawers. Three on the left side and one wide drawer at the bottom. On the right is a sliding panel that reveals two more small drawers inside. The sides and back are unadorned. The chest measures 7 and one half inches high by 7 and seven eighths inches wide by 4 and one quarter inches deep and is in excellent condition with nice old patina ( and a lot of dust in the crevices of the menuki). On the bottom of the wide drawer at the base of the chest we found that it had a beautiful inscription ( M.G. M. Spexarth Your birthday October 27, 1884 from Your Gus). We suspect the piece was brought back in the that period by some sailor or adventurer who had visiting Japan and bought the piece for his sweetheart. A lovely example of Victorian script in the inscription. Obviously the piece is from the early to mid 1880s in order to have been given as a treasure in 1884. To learn more about Menuki go to http://www.bugei.com/subcategory_87_1.htm
Price: $2250
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- - - - - - - - - - - | Footed Japanese hand painted Porcelain Low Bowl Meiji Taisho Item # 5623 Click HERE to inquire about this item Footed Japanese hand painted Porcelain Low Bowl Meiji Taisho. A lovely footed Japanese porcelain dish or bowl, probably used for a compote. The piece is decorated in overglaze enamel on the top of the bowl with a beautiful design of a flock of Japanese cranes flying over a lake or the inland sea. Great detail to the largest pair of cranes and to the waves in water. The underside of the bowl or dish has an intricate geometric design that possible includes some Japanese mons. Signed on the base with a mark that translated to Nippon, Chinson Zo (made) Yokohama. The piece measures 11 and one quarter inches in diameter at the top and stands 3 and one quarter inches tall at the rim. The foot is 3 seven eighths inches in diameter. Excellent condition. with no chips, hairlines of restorations. We date the dish to the late Meiji to Taisho era, circa 1910 to 1925.
Price: $975
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- - - - - - | Japanese burl wood root vessel Meiji dated 1902 Item # 5677 Click HERE to inquire about this item Japanese burl wood root vessel marked Meiji 35th (1902), June 12th and signed with owners name Shinichiro Muto. This root vessel measures 10 inches high by 10 inches wide and deep. Excellent condition with original interior liner and shaped wood base. Great for Ikebana, flower arrangement.
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