Japanese Midcentury Ebroidered Silk Old Wise Man Drinking Sake Portrait

Antique 19th century portrait oil painting prepared by Winsor Newton. Features a young man dressed in traditional attire with big sidebur...

Vintage original oil on canvas board painting of a man in a hat and jacket with his back to the artist. From the estate of Louis Wolchonok. Measures: Sans frame - 23” x 29”, 33".

Large antique framed Chinese black silk folk art textile / tapestry panel or table runner embroidered with brown, gold and blue flowers / leaves. ...

"Set of six vintage framed Chinese chinoiserie silk embroidered tapestry panels featuring Peacocks / birds amidst the landscapes of gnarled pine tree and flowering branches. # Chinese Pinyin - Translation (Literally) 1. ???? - què wu yíng chun - bird dance welcome spring 2. ???? - què wu song feng - bird dance pine wind 3. ???? - song píng què wu - pine fan bird dance 4. ???? - què píng chun sè - bird fan spring scenery 5. ???? - chun nuan hua kai - spring warm, flower bloom 6. ???? - zhú bào chun méi - bamboo report spring plum Translation (Semantically) (1) birds are dancing and welcoming the return of spring (2) birds are dancing with breeze in the pine forest (3) pine fans like a peacock while birds are dancing (4) bird fans its tail for the beautiful spring (5) in the warm spring...

Two vintage Korean textile tapestries. Made of silk featuring metallic gold embroidery with medallions, peacocks and dragons. One purple, one green. Wall hanging. Tablecloth. Di...

Pair of antique Chinese Qing Dynasty silk textile / tapestry court rank military buzi badges or panels embroidered with a scene Mandarin Ducks and blue fl...

Artistically framed for display in a slight shadow frame with non-reflective pixie glass, these pair of embroidery art panels from Japan are dated circa 1910-1930s, end of Meiji to early Taisho period. This period was the peak of the Japanese oversea expositions, when all things Japonisme took Europe and America by storm and left long-lasting impact on western art and design. The influence, however, was clearly not one-directional; As when Japanese artists, artisans and dealers experienced western art, it in turn inspired and impacted on the aesthetics of the Japanese art made for the western tastes. An interesting crop of art forms quickly emerged with a particular outlook that bridged the east and west, with the fundamental techniques still rooted in Japanese traditions. These rare hyper-realistic embroidered portraits were such an example. They took the essential format of the western portrait that permeated the Victoria and Edwardian Society, but substituted with exotic Japanese subjects and executed in traditional embroidery techniques which had been perfected for centuries by the natives. The two portraits on offer, one an elder man with long white beards and a pair of round spectacles lighting a pipe, and the other a grinning man with a peasant attire, were both set in black background, stimulating an appearance of Classic western oil painting or perhaps even the photograph. The fine stiches were maneuvered into an impressively hyper-realistic imagery that was far removed from the traditional Japanese embroidery...

A vintage Mid-Century ivory color silk brocade collectable Japanese ceremonial kimono. One of a kind. Fabulous museum quality ceremonial kimono in pure silk with intricate detailed h...

A vintage midcentury red color silk brocade collectable Japanese ceremonial wedding kimono. One of a kind handcrafted . Fabulous museum quality ceremonial piece in pure silk with ...

A truly beautiful Japanese ceremonial kimono, circa 1930-60s in an oriental Art Deco style. White silk textured background with elaborate and intricate embroidery in colors, silver a...

A Japanese silk Fukusa panel circa late 19th-early 20th century of Meiji Period. The front was beautifully decorated with Yuzen-zome, a labor intensive resist-dye technique invested ...

A Japanese silk Fukusa panel circa late 19th-early 20th century of Meiji Period. The front was beautifully decorated with Yuzen-zome, a labor intensive resist-dye technique invested by an artist monk Miyazaki Yuzensai (1654 -1736) of Edo period. The auspicious composition features a group of red-crown cranes, the symbol of longevity. Three of them perch on the rock by the ocean (East Sea) an two of them are in flight. Additionally, two egrets frolic in the wave. Yuzen dying was used extensively to showcase the amazing details such as the waves and the gradual coloring effect. Embroidery was used sparsely to highlight areas such as the legs of the crane to render it more dimensional details. The piece has a red silk backing and still retains four blue tassels on corners as well as decorative stitches along the edges. Fukusa is a traditional Japanese textile...