Japanese Calligraphy Box
Located in Pasadena, CA
This is a very elegant and simplistic Japanese lacquered calligraphy box that dates to the mid-20th century. The minimal refined designed box includes the brush and other required wr...
Wood, Lacquer
$3,000
H 77 in W 20 in D 0.5 in
Japanese Hanging Calligraphy Scroll Keigetsu Omachi with Collector Box
Located in Atlanta, GA
A mounted calligraphy hanging scroll (Kakejiku) by Japanese poet and calligrapher Omachi Keigetsu (1869-1925) circa 1900s, late Meiji or Tasho period. The inkwork in cursive calligra...
Wood, Paper
$17,727
H 1.78 in Dm 10.63 in
Suzuribako or writting set box in hira maki-e lacquer of unusual circulare shape
Located in PARIS, FR
Impressive suzuribako writing box decorated in gold and tin maki-e lacquer on a nashiji ground. The lid is adorned with a composition depicting a pine and a plum tree whose trunks in...
Gold Leaf
Japanese Lacquer Maki-E Tiered Suzuribako and Ryoshibako
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese roiro lacquer scholar combo box with an upper tier of inkstone box (Suzuribako) and a lower document box (Ryoshibako) circa 1910-30s (end of Meiji to Showa period).
Stone, Metal
Antique Gold Nashiji Maki-e Tiered Writing Box with Desk
Located in Taichung, TW
The Design & Impact: This incredibly rare, multi-layered writing box (kasane suzuribako) perfectly encapsulates the deep sense of ceremony and refined aestheticism of the traditiona...
Wood, Lacquer
Antique Japanese Samurai Helmet Box, Tenbun Period, 1532-1555
Located in Prahran, Victoria
Samurai helmet box, attributed to a gift from Japanese monk Kennyo (Kosa) (1543-1592), the Abbot of Ishiyama Honganji temple in Osaka in the 16th century. This group of monks fought ...
Iron
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H 78 in W 24 in D 0.25 in
Japan OWL Hand-Painted Silk Scroll Signed Hashimoto Ryoka with Collector Box
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japan, hand-painted silk scroll of an owl, signed seal of Hashimoto Ryoka, bone rollers, including rare original signed collector box,Showa period 1930s-1940s Dimensions: 24 inches...
Silk
Sold
H 2.25 in W 9 in D 9.75 in
Japanese Fine Rich Black Gold Lacquer KOI and Pine Writing Box, Collectors Dream
Located in South Burlington, VT
From our recent Japanese Acquisitions Kyoto travels. A superb Makie Lacquer Suzuri-Bako writing box complete with its original ink stone and ink stone container crafted in rich bl...
Wood
Sold
H 70 in W 20 in L 70 in
Japan Horn Owl Hand Painted Antique Silk Scroll Signed Keisen with Collector Box
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japan, hand painted silk scroll of a moon light horned owl in tree, signed seal of Keisen including wood collector box tomobako, Taisho period 1918 Dimensions: 20 inches wide and...
Silk
Antique Japanese Sutra Box, 1630
Located in Prahran, Victoria
Antique Japanese sutra box made from wood and incised copper, dated 1630 the 7th year of Kanei.
Copper
Japanese Gilt Silver Flowers Treasure Box Bonbonniere
Located in South Burlington, VT
Give a gift fit for a King or Queen. Japanese gilt sterling silver Gourd form keepsake box, bonbonniere. This lovely flower themed sterling silver box features a wonderful wabi sa...
Sterling Silver
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H 8.67 in W 7.88 in D 11.82 in
Antique Japanese Wooden Writing Box with Decorative Hardware 'Meiji Era'
Located in London, GB
Antique Japanese wooden writing box with decorative hardware (Meiji Era). This calligraphy box has sumptuous wood with characterful painted black hardware. The lid is hinged and has ...
Metal
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H 6.5 in W 2.5 in D 1.5 in
Japanese Antique Spiritual Guardian Stone Jizo with signed box tomobako
Located in South Burlington, VT
Unusual Find with original signed collector storage box From our recent Japanese acquisitions. This is a personal shrine sized Japanese Buddhist stone traveler’s and children's gu...
Stone
Japanese Fine Bronze "Buddhist Documents" Vessel Mint, Signed, And Boxed
Located in South Burlington, VT
Bronze precious documents box mint, signed, and boxed With original artist designer documents and signed collector hinoki wood storage box, tomobako. Artist: Kanaya Joun (b.1933)...
Bronze
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H 6 in W 14 in D 3.5 in
Japanese Antique Opium Scale Triple Signed with Original Box, 19th Century
Located in South Burlington, VT
From Japan comes this hard to find opium scale with its original wooden box, 19th century. It is triple signed on the weighing pan, staff, and box. This is the first we have s...
Iron
Sold
H 0.75 in W 15 in D 0.75 in
Japanese Fine Pair of Silver Long Pipes Kiseru with Signed Collector Box
Located in South Burlington, VT
Rare find from our most recent Japanese acquisitions This is a pair of fine sterling silver Japanese banded kiseru long smoking pipes. Each kiseru is made of two separate silver ...
Silver, Silver Plate
Sold
H 12 in W 7.5 in D 6.5 in
Japan Fine Old Buddhist Figure in Original Gold and Black Lacquer Box , Zushi
Located in South Burlington, VT
A fine Japanese Buddhist figure concealed in an elegant door hinged black and gold lacquer traveling box, zushi. These were crafted for travelers and portability. The holy man, a...
Wood, Giltwood
Imperial Emperor's Treasure Gilt Silver "Shrine" Keepsake Box, 1938
Located in South Burlington, VT
Give a gift fit for a King or Queen. Japanese Imperial Emperor's sterling silver "Torii Shrine Gate" Keepsake box- gift from the Showa Emperor 1938. This lovely Shinto S...
Sterling Silver
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H 5.5 in W 7 in D 7 in
Fine Silver & Gold Bronze Buddha & Dragon Censer, 1930 Mint Signed & Boxed
Located in South Burlington, VT
Mint, signed, and boxed A fine Japanese hand cast silver and gold inlaid Bronze Buddhist Dragon Censer with sixteen (16) Buddhist Disciples - Rakan- inlaid with silver and copper, e...
Gold, Silver, Bronze
Japanese Seal Box
Located in Sarasota, FL
This Very fine and wonderfully hand made JAPANESE SEAL BOX has silver corners, handles and trim all designed vines detail over black lacquer. hand painted gold flowers to the top an...
Gold
Japanese Carved and Lacquered Shibayama Cabinet, Meiji Period
Located in San Francisco, CA
An elaborate and finely detailed carved wood, and gold lacquered Shibayama cabinet (Chigaidansu). Having beautifully applied semi-precious stone and mother of pearl decoration of flo...
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
Japanese Black Lacquer Jubako Box with Stork Motif
Located in Stamford, CT
A four-tier Japanese Meiji period black lacquer Jubako box with stork and fir tree decoration. Box in four sections with lid.
Lacquer
$385,000
H 38 in W 36 in D 21 in
Japanese Lacquer and Cinnabar "Samurai" Cabinet, Inaba Family, Edo Period
Located in Troy, NY
Exceptionally large and rare lacquer cabinet. According to the heraldry, visible on the headgear in one of the panels, it was made for the Inaba family, a high ranking Daimyo family,...
Bronze
Sold|$12,000
H 2.5 in W 9 in D 10 in
Japanese Maki-e Lacquer Document Box, Edo Period, early 19th Century, Japan
Located in Austin, TX
A spectacular Japanese maki-e lacquer lidded box, possibly a writing box, suzuribako, decorated with images of folding fans, ogi, Edo Period, early 19th century, Japan. The low, rec...
Coral
Antique 19th Century Export Chinese Lacquer Gaming Box
Located in Brea, CA
Antique 19th century export Chinese lacquer gaming box with hand painted scenes gilt export black lacquer with 4 pair of two dragons playing a ball, there are 7 gaming boxes and 12 t...
Lacquer
$16,500
H 74.5 in W 48 in D 14.5 in
Antique Japanese Lacquer Inlaid Hardwood Meiji Period Shibayama Shodana Cabinet
Located in Portland, OR
An exquisite antique Japanese Meiji period Shibayama Shodana cabinet, circa 1880. One of the finest antique Shibayama cabinets one will see, the cabinet is finely inlaid and overlaid...
Gold
$2,880
H 1.5 in W 20.5 in D 11 in
19th Century Chinese Gilt Lacquer Fan with Mother of Pearl Faces and Lacquer Box
Located in Brea, CA
Antique 19th century hand painted Chinese fan with mother of pearl faces, Qing dynasty, the fan features black and gold lacquered handled a colorful screen with a figural, hand paint...
Lacquer
Japanese Lacquer Ryoshibako Document Box Meiji Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
A large Japanese lacquer box with elaborate Maki-e design from Meiji period, (mid-late 19th century). The generous size of the box was reserved for paper document and called Ryoshiba...
Wood, Lacquer
Japanese Lacquered Tebako 'Box'
Located in PARIS, FR
Tebako box with three compartments in golden and nashi-ji lacquer, decorated with golden, red, and kirigane lacquer, golden persimmon tree leaves, among rocks. The compartments are o...
Lacquer
$34,998Sale Price|20% Off
H 58.27 in W 42.52 in D 22.84 in
Japanese Lacquer Meiji Period Cabinet on Stand, circa 1890
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A exquisite, fine quality Meiji period (1868-1912) Japanese black lacquer cabinet on stand with wonderful scrolling gilded decoration. Having a pair of inset panel doors depicting sc...
Lacquer
$27,500
H 5.75 in W 10 in D 13.25 in
Large Japanese Lacquer Document Box, Ryoshibako, Edo/Meiji period, Japan
Located in Austin, TX
A large and magnificently decorated Japanese lacquer document box, ryoshibako, signed Umeboshi/Baikyo, late Edo or early Meiji Period, mid 19th century, Japan. The large document bo...
Softwood, Lacquer
Japanese Lacquer Box with Fine Maki-e Decoration Meiji Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
A lacquered wood box with lid from Japan circa 19th century Meiji Period. The finely decorated box was used to store paper slips and small documents on the desk. It is overall finish...
Wood, Lacquer
$9,600
H 2.25 in W 98.75 in D 9.5 in
Antique Japanese Ink Stone Maki-e Lacquer Box Suzuribako Edo Provenance
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese ink stone box (known as Suzuribako) with exquisite maki-e decoration from Edo period (circa mid-18th century). The box features a rectangular form with edges of beveled st...
Wood, Lacquer
Rare Japanese Ceramic Glazed Bowl Makuzu Kozan Meiji Period
By Makuzu Kozan
Located in Atlanta, GA
On offer is a rare ceramic bowl with overglazed design by the famed Japanese ceramic artist Makuzu Kozan (1842-1916), circa 1906-1916. The bowl is rather unusual from the potter's re...
Ceramic
Japanese Lacquer Maki-e Sake Ewer Meiji Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese lacquered wood sake ewer with maki-e design, circa late 19th century, Meiji period. The nicely decorated lacquerware is of a Classic sake ewer form with a round body, a sm...
Lacquer
$3,800
H 3.5 in W 8 in D 3.25 in
Japanese Antique Lacquer Maki-E Miniature Hasami-Bako with Copper Mounts
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese lacquered box with lid in the shape of a miniature Hasami-Bako (traveling chest) circa late 18 to early 19th century of the Edo period. The black box is decorated with fin...
Copper
From Japanese handmade earthenware pottery, originating circa 14,500 B.C. and adorned with elaborate corded patterns known as jōmon, to natural elm case pieces and storage cabinets built in Qing dynasty–era China to mid-century Thai rice-paper charcoal rubbings, antique and vintage Asian art and furniture make for wonderful additions to all kinds of contemporary interiors.
Eastern elements elevate any home’s decor. Introduce zen sensibility to your living room, dining room and bedroom with the neutral color palettes and the natural materials such as rattan, bamboo and elm that we typically associate with traditional Asian furniture. Decorative handwoven embroideries and textiles originating from India and elsewhere on the continent, which can be draped over a bed or sofa or used as a wall hanging, can be as practical as they are functional, just as you wouldn’t seek out Japanese room-divider screens — often decorated with paintings but constructed to be lightweight and mobile — merely for privacy.
With everything from blanket chests to lighting fixtures to sculptures and carvings, it’s easy to tastefully bring serenity to your living space by looking to the treasures for which the East has long been known.
For British-born furniture designer Andrianna Shamaris, the Japanese concept of beauty in imperfection isn’t limited to her Wabi Sabi collection. She embraces it in her New York City apartment as well. In the living area, for instance, she retained the fireplace’s original black marble while swathing its frame and the rest of the room in bright white.
“We left the fireplace very clean and wabi-sabi, so that it blended into the wall,” says Shamaris, who further appointed the space with a hand-carved antique daybed whose plush pillows are upholstered in antique textiles from the Indonesian island of Sumba.
In the growing antique and vintage Asian art and furniture collection on 1stDibs, find ceramics from China, antiquities from Cambodia and a vast range of tables, seating, dining chairs and other items from Japan, India and other countries.
Decorated with white cranes and the sought-after thousand-butterflies motif, the Meiji-period vessel offers both a celebration of traditional aesthetics and a clear reflection of the era’s appetite for exquisite export pieces.
For 25 years, gallerist Betsy Nathan has leveraged her keen eye and key connections to bring a unique selection of rare finds to the market.
Now working alongside his daughter Bianca, dealer Joel Chen has presented a most covetable array of antiques, art and contemporary creations for more than 40 years.
From cherry-blossom-adorned walls paired with glamorous lighting to wood-paneled ceilings above checkerboard-patterned chairs, these 12 spaces seamlessly blend Eastern and Western aesthetics.
The dealer and curator has spent the past 50 years amassing a collection of exceptional art, furniture and architectural elements that trace the cultural influence of the Spanish empire from Europe to the Americas and beyond.
These spaces exemplify how Eastern elements elevate a home's decor.