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An Exceptionally Fine Japanese Satsuma Cylinder Vase, Meiji Period (1868-1912)
By Kinkozan
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The flaring cylindrical stoneware body richly decorated with hand painted enamels depicting songbirds perched upon flowering Sakura branches (cherry trees) set against a progressivel...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Ceramics
Materials
Enamel
A Very Fine & Large 19th C. Enamelled Chinese Canton Porcelain Basin / Punchbowl
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A large 19th century Chinese `Famille-Verte' Canton porcelain basin / punchbowl, decorated overall with hand painted enamels depicting courtly figures, surrounded by images of birds ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Enamel
A Very Fine Japanese Mixed Metal Bronze Suiban / Planter on Stand, Taisho Period
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A very fine Japanese bronze Suiban (planter) of bellied oval form, richly decorated overall with hand enamelled and 'shibuichi' & 'shakudo' motifs, depicting geometric designs, pine ...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Scholar's Objects
Materials
Bronze
A 19th Century Chinese Enamelled Canton Porcelain Bottle Vase, Late Qing Period
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The globular base with rounded shoulders showing hand painted panels of courtly figures in garden settings, executed in a striking palette of vermillion, pink, green & blue enamels, ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Enamel
A Monumental 19th C. Ryukyu Hariko (Papier Mâché) Vase, Meiji Period (1868-1912)
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A stunningly attractive & exceptionally large baluster shaped ‘Ryukyu Hariko’ (papier mâché) vase, masterfully decorated overall with hand painted images of a fruiting peach tree ren...
Category
Antique Early 1900s Japanese Meiji Lacquer
Materials
Lacquer, Paper
A Very Good Tibetan Thangka Depicting Buddha Nagaraja, 19th Century or Earlier
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A striking 19th century Tibetan thangka of the enlightened one, Buddha Nagaraja; King of Nagas (a.k.a. Buddha Nageshvara). Shown seated in the vajra position atop a lotus blossom, ha...
Category
Antique 19th Century Tibetan Tibetan Paintings and Screens
Materials
Other
A Signed Japanese Netsuke of a Monkey Riding a Turtle, Showa Period
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
An amusing Showa Period (1926-1989) hand carved hardwood netsuke depicting a monkey riding atop a turtle, the eyes of the monkey inset with cabochon pupils, signed with etched charac...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Hardwood
An Amusing Japanese Netsuke in the Form of an Octopus, Taisho Period (1912-1925)
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The hand carved & stained boxwood netsuke deftly rendered in the form of an octopus with somewhat anthropomorphic features, showing black stained eyes & furrowed brow effecting an am...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Boxwood
A Fine Hand Carved & Ebonized Wood Display Stand, Japan Meiji Period (1868-1912)
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The finely carved & ebonized plateau in the form of open framework of pine tree limbs with etched fronds, rising from an entwined root-like skirt. ...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Wood
A 19th Century Burl Root Wood Display Stand, Meiji Period (1868-1912)
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A striking root-wood display stand comprised of a series of entwined organic elements with various gnarled appendages, rising to support a plateau with a burled & polished surface. M...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Wood, Burl
A Diminutive Copper Alloy Head of Buddha, Thailand Sukhothai Period (1350-1400)
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
This Sukhothai Period copper alloy (bronze) head cast with tightly curled ‘snail shell’ hair beneath a domed ushnisha rising to a flame shaped finial - denoting an enlightened state ...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Thai Other Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Metal, Bronze
A Diminutive Gilt Copper Alloy Head of a Crowned Buddha, Ayutthaya Period
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
This 17th century Ayutthaya Period copper alloy (bronze) head of Buddha depicted in the ‘Phra Chao Song Khruang’ manner (Lord Wearing Ornaments), showing Buddha adorned with an ornat...
Category
Antique 17th Century Thai Other Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Bronze, Gold Leaf
19th Century Chinese Famille Verte Porcelain Garlic Mouth Vase, Kangxi Marks
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The globular body finely decorated with hand applied enamels depicting nobles taking tea surrounded by attendants and small children. The slender neck rising to a bulbous mouth (seemingly ground), the underside of the base showing small firing cracks and blue under-glaze double ring Kangxi marks...
Category
Antique 19th Century Chinese Qing Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Six 19th Century Japanese Arita Hizen Imari Porcelain Lidded Bowls, Meiji Period
By Arita
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
All six bowls are raised on a circular foot and richly decorated with hand painted enamels depicting floral designs in an Imari palette of cobalt, vermillion & gilt, against alternat...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Ceramics
Materials
Enamel
Eight 19th Century Japanese Imari Porcelain Dishes, Meiji Period (1868-1912)
By Arita
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
All richly decorated with hand painted enamels in a palette of cobalt, vermillion, green & & gilt, showing triangular panels of geometric designs interspersed by circular cartouches ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Ceramics
Materials
Enamel
A Diminutive Japanese Bronze of Amitabha Buddha, Taisho Period (1912-1925)
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A finely rendered & patinated diminutive bronze of Amitabha Buddha, 'The Enlightened One', shown wearing a flowing robe and seated in a meditative position with both hands clasped in...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Bronze
Carved Yellow Soapstone Figure of Guanyin, Chinese circa 1900
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The finely carved full length figure of 'The Goddess of Compassion, Kindness & Mercy' shown attired in flowing robes, her hair worn in high chignon with her face effecting a serene a...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Soapstone
Highly Decorative & Richly Carved Oriental Giltwood Table Lamp, China Circa 1950
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The intricately carved and richly gilded column depicting scholars, attendants and figures on horseback, fitted with an old parchment shade. Dimensions, 20” high (to socket) overall ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Table Lamps
Materials
Lacquer, Giltwood, Parchment Paper
A Fine & Exceptionally Large Hand Embroidered Chinese Silk Matrimonial Panel
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
An exceptionally large & exceedingly fine hand embroidered Chinese matrimonial 'Double Happiness' silk panel. The navy blue silk field richly decorated with hand-stitched gold, silve...
Category
Antique Early 1900s Chinese Qing Textiles
Materials
Silk, Glass, Wood, Textile, Thread
An Exceedingly Fine Pair of 19th C. Miniature Japanese Mixed Metal Bronze Vases
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
Both bottle-shaped & panelled bodies richly decorated with finely worked motifs using both shibuichi & shakudo techniques, depicting cranes in flight on one side, with others standin...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Metalwork
Materials
Gold, Silver, Bronze, Copper
An Extremely Fine 19th C. Miniature Japanese Mixed Metal Bronze Cylinder Vase
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The diminutive & finely proportioned cylinder-shaped body illustrating a naturalistic motif of a silvered lily blossom issuing from a leafy stem, decorated with both Shibuichi & Shak...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Metalwork
Materials
Gold, Silver, Bronze, Copper
A Very Fine Miniature Japanese Mixed Metal Bronze Bottle Vase, Meiji Period
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The finely proportioned ovoid shaped body rising to an elongated slender neck with a flaring rim, decorated with motifs of waterfowl standing in a grassy marsh with silvered bodies, ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Metalwork
Materials
Gold, Silver, Bronze, Copper
A Fine Early 18th Century Yongzheng Period Chinese Blue & White Porcelain Plate
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The central field decorated with flowering lotus branches & peony flowerheads, rising to a shoulder with a repeating band of geometric leafy designs interspersed by panels with auspi...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Chinese Qing Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
A 17th C. Chinese Chongzhen Blue & White Minyao “Peoples Wares” Porcelain Bowl
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The central field showing a medallion of overlapping petal motifs, radiating out to auspicious Chou character (twisted peach tree) & lotus blossom designs, segmented by undulating li...
Category
Antique Mid-17th Century Chinese Ming Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
A 17th C. Chinese Chongzhen Blue & White Minyao “Peoples Wares” Porcelain Saucer
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The central field showing a medallion of overlapping petal motifs, radiating out to auspicious Chou character (twisted peach tree) & lotus blossom designs, segmented by undulating li...
Category
Antique Mid-17th Century Chinese Ming Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
A Very Fine Japanese Mixed Metal Bronze Censer on Stand, Taisho Period
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A very fine Taisho Period bronze censer of bellied oval form, richly decorated overall with hand enamelled and 'shibuichi' & 'shakudo' motifs, depicting geometric designs, pine trees...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Scholar's Objects
Materials
Bronze
A Framed Group of Five Chinese Dali Marble Scholar’s Stones, Late Qing Period
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
Although sometimes referred to as ‘paintings’ or ‘dream stones’, these are sections of Dali marble, quarried from the Cangshan mountain range in Western China and carefully chosen & ...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Scholar's Objects
Materials
Marble, Brass
A Large 20th C. Chinese Famille Jaune ‘Eight Horses of Wang Mu’ Porcelain Vase
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The large Jingdezhen period baluster shaped body finely decorated with hand painted enamels depicting the ‘Eight Horses of Wang Mu’ against a treed & mountaino...
Category
Late 20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Ceramics
Materials
Enamel
A Rare Edo Period Hirado Porcelain Netsuke, Japan Circa 1850
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The recumbent white porcelain figure of a pug dog shown baring its teeth, decorated by hand with spot painted cobalt detail, the underside with twin holes intended for a cord to pass...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
A Fine Pair of 19th Century Japanese Hand Enamelled Porcelain Cabinet Plates
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
These fine cabinet plates date from the Meiji Period (1868-1912), showing richly decorated hand painted enamelled bodies. Their central fields illustrating finely executed vignettes ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Finely Carved Soapstone Buddhist Stele of Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara Guanyin
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
In Indian Buddhism, Avalokiteshvara is a male Bodhisattva, however in Chinese Buddhism he takes the form of the female Bodhisattva, Guanyin - ‘The One Who Hears the Cries of the Worl...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Soapstone
A Finely Cast Standing Bronze Figure of Guanyin, 17th / 18th Century
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The finely cast bronze figure of Guanyin - Bodhisattva Goddess of Compassion, Kindness & Mercy.
Shown wearing an outer robe finely modelled with cascading folds tied at her waist, h...
Category
Antique 1690s Chinese Qing Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Bronze
Signed Japanese White Lacquer and Maki-E Lacquer Tansu, Meiji Period
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The case decorated overall in crackle-glaze white lacquer and fitted with a patinated metal carrying handle over three tiers of small drawers. The first two tiers are comprised of a ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Lacquer
Materials
Lacquer
Portrait of a Mongolian Bride by Batjargal Tseyentsogzol, Mongolian (1966-)
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A finely painted portrait of a beautiful young woman attired in traditional wedding costume of the Great Khans. Executed with an almost jewel-like degree of detail & sharpness, signed bottom right and set behind a glass panel within a custom made embossed gilt frame.
Canvas dimensions, 24" high x 18" wide.
Frame dimensions, 32.5" high x 26.5" wide.
Artist Bio: Batjargal Tseyentsogzol...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Mongolian Other Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Glass
Exceptional & Highly Decorative Pair of Chinese Export Carved Giltwood Panels
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
An exceptional & highly decorative pair of antique Chaozhou hand carved giltwood panels, both showing finely executed relief-carved & gilded vignettes, composed in a terraced format ...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Giltwood
A Chinese Famille Verte Enameled Porcelain Charger, Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The central field depicting two mythological feng-huang (phoenix's) encircling chrysanthemum blossoms & scrolling vines within a band of ruyi-heads, the cavetto rising to an iron red...
Category
Antique 1690s Chinese Qing Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Japanese Cinnabar Scholars Cabinet, Early Taisho Period (1912-1926)
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The top & sides decorated with cartouche shaped panels depicting fauna & flora, the front showing a pair of panelled doors decorated with flying cranes & clouds, the obverse decorate...
Category
Antique Early 1900s Japanese Taisho Scholar's Objects
Materials
Brass
19th Century Chinese Famille Rose Enamelled Porcelain Basin, Qing Period
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A very attractive 19th century Chinese 'famille rose' porcelain basin, the deep welled interior decorated with hand painted enamels depicting flowering vines & fowl, rising up to a f...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Highly Decorative Antique Burmese Lacquered Betel Box / Kun-It, Circa 1900
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The vermillion lacquered cylindrical body decorated overall with repeating bands of curvilinear geometric motifs, the cover lifting to reveal both of its original trays intended to h...
Category
Early 20th Century Burmese Lacquer
Materials
Lacquer, Bamboo
Four Chinese Export Famille Rose Botanical Plates, Qianlong Period (1736-1795)
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A very attractive group of four 18th century Chinese export porcelain botanical plates apparently made for the French market, circa 1775.
Each plate having a scalloped rim banded wit...
Category
Antique 18th Century Chinese Qing Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
A Very Fine Takamaki-e Lacquer Cheroot Case in the Manner of Shibata Zeshin
By Shibata Zeshin
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The 'ishime' lacquered case consisting of two conforming molded sections with one sliding overtop the other, both sides decorated with hand painted gilt, silver & burnt dark russet (kasshoku) lacquers, depicting motifs in low relief of a rat with an acorn on one side and two acorns on the opposing.
In Japanese culture rats are considered auspicious symbols of fertility & wealth, acorns symbolize prosperity & growth. Signed with characters and a mon on one edge.
Takamaki-e is a lacquer technique in which metallic powders such as silver, gold, copper, pewter etc., are used in combination with lacquer & clay-dust to build up motifs in low relief.
Please note that the color tones & hues of the lacquered motifs appear somewhat more vibrant in the images due to ambient lighting conditions.
Regarding the opinion stating the superior quality of this fine example being likened to works associated with those by Shibata...
Category
Antique 1870s Japanese Meiji Lacquer
Materials
Lacquer
19th Century Oriental Bronze Bottle Bud Vase, Circa 1890
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The bottle shaped body decorated with foliate & geometric motifs within petal shaped panels, rising to a slender tapering neck to a flaring rim, raised overall upon a circular foot.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Asian Qing Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
