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Japanese Netsuke in Boxwoord in the form of two chestnut
Located in PARIS, FR
Boxwood netsuke of two chestnuts, one smaller on top of the larger.
Chestnuts are a central part of Japanese culture and gastronomy. Castanea Crenata or Japanese chestnut is an indi...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Boxwood
Bronze okimono sculpture of a standing hare
Located in PARIS, FR
Bronze sculpture with a gorgeous brown patina, that represents a standing hare, with one of its paws up. Its head is treated with great realism and the care in which parts like fur a...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Bronze okimono sculpture of an hare lying down
Located in PARIS, FR
Bronze sculpture with a brown patina that represents a hare lying down with an arched back. Its head and several other details are treated with great realism, from the texture of its...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Kobako box in eggshell lacquer decorated with peonies and a butterfly
Located in PARIS, FR
Kobako in rankuku lacquer, also known as eggshell lacquer in Europe, decorated with peony flowers and a butterfly realized in maki-e lacquer. The butterfly (choho) in Japan, is perce...
Category
Early 20th Century Lacquer
Materials
Gold
Miniature hokkai bako or kaioke, doll furniture replica of a traditional box
Located in PARIS, FR
Small hokkai bako or kaioke seashells game box, of circular form with its four feet, its bronzes and cordon, decorated with a motive of flowers of gold lacquer on a black lacquer bac...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Lacquer
Materials
Gold, Bronze
Bronze okimono sculpture of a catfish or namazu
Located in PARIS, FR
Sculpture or okimono in bronze of a wavy catfish emerging from calm water, scales are not represented, and its expression of eyes and mouth could be considered naive. One other inter...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Japanese boxwood netsuke in the form of three toads stacked on each other
Located in PARIS, FR
Netsuke in boxwood representing a group of three toads, laying on a flat base, inlaid eyes made of water buffalo horn. Signed underneath the platform. The frog (kaeru) is associated ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Boxwood
Japanese boxwood nestuke in the form of a turtle hiding in its shell
Located in PARIS, FR
Netsuke in boxwood in the form of a tortoise hiding in its shell with only its head overstepping. Textures from the shell are executed with realism precision and a great care for details. Same goes for the scales of the skin of its legs. The central scale in the center of the shell is movable and enables the passing of a thread. In Japan, tortoise are symbol of luck and longevity, it is thought to be a creature of good omen supposed to bring 10 000 years of happiness. This animal is associated with numerous myths, the most popular dating back to the Nihon-Shoki, an antique tale of Japan and its dynasty. The legend of Urashima Taro...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Edo Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Boxwood
Bronze okimono sculpture of a huge cicada lying on a bamboo segment
Located in PARIS, FR
Huge bronze sculpture in the form of a cicada standing on a bamboo segement. This type of sculpture of small dimensions with a flat base is generally used by calligraphs to maintain ...
Category
Late 20th Century Japanese Meiji Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Bronze sculpture representing a puppy lying down
Located in PARIS, FR
Bronze okimono sculpture with a deep brown patina, representing a lying puppy, probably of shiba inu breed. This kind of subject is common in traditional Nippon sculptures, this spec...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Japanese okimono sculpture of a lying puppy with its head facing its rear
Located in PARIS, FR
Bronze okimono sculpture with a deep brown patina, of a lying puppy, probably of shiba inu breed, represented with its head facing its rear. This kind of subject is common in traditi...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Bronze sculpture of a rat standing on a radish (Okimono)
Located in PARIS, FR
This beautiful bronze okimono depicts a mouse delicately perched on a leafy radish. The mouse, resting on its two hind legs, has a long tail that wraps around the radish. Each elemen...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Tebako in Nashiji lacquer adorned with golden Persimon flowers
Located in PARIS, FR
Tebako box with two compartments in golden and nashi-ji lacquer, decorated with golden, red, and kirigane lacquer, golden persimmon tree leaves, among rocks. The compartments are of ...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Japanese Meiji Lacquer
Materials
Gold
Side table made and designed in Japan for the Liberty and Co.
Located in PARIS, FR
The Liberty and Co. was established in 1875 by Arthur Lisenby Liberty with the intention of selling goods and furniture from all around the British empire. By the end of the XIX th ...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Zitan
Netsuke in the form of a snake in boxwood with inlaid eyes and signature
Located in PARIS, FR
Boxwood netsuke of a snake tangled on itself, each scale is carved with precision, and the overall brown patina is intense. Even though snakes are almost always bad omen in Asia, it ...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Meiji Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Boxwood
Netsuke in ebony in the form of two mice on a fine piece of wickerwork
Located in PARIS, FR
Netsuke, très probablement en bois d’ébène, représentant deux souris sur une vannerie, l’une s’en extrayant et l’autre reposant dessus. Traitement réaliste du pelage et de la queue a...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Ebony
Netsuke in boxwood in the form of three clams
Located in PARIS, FR
Boxwood nestuke in the form of three clams or bivalve shells, probably of the Ruditapes philippinarum sub species that can be found all the way from Siberia to Philippines, and Japan...
Category
Antique 18th Century Japanese Edo Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Boxwood
Kobako in natural wood of a frog under a willow tree
Located in PARIS, FR
Small kobako in natural wood made of a circular cross section, lacquered using both the maki-e technique and a transparent finish that grant a glossy finish to the bark. The composit...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Lacquer
Materials
Gold
Japanese bronze okimono or sculpture of a textured toad
Located in PARIS, FR
Okimono bronze sculpture of a toad.
The toad or the frog (kaeru) is associated with good luck and wealth. Kaeru means both “toad” or “frog” and “to return home” in Japanese. This me...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Inro in gold kinji lacquer representing chrysantemum flowers on all sides
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautifull Inro of three compartments made in kinji lacquer with an hiro maki-e ornament chrysanthemum flowers of gold and silver lacquer. Inside is in fundame lacquer.
Signed by Josen Zo and stamped by Seisan
Presented with an Ojime in metal in the shape of a chrysanthemum flower and with its netsuke representing two chrysanthemum flower buds.
The chrysanthemum (kiku) in not only the heraldic symbol of the Japanese imperial family...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Asian Edo Lacquer
Materials
Lacquer
Inro in black and gold lacquer with a proeminent chrysantemum flower motive
Located in PARIS, FR
Two compartments inrô in black lacquer, hira maki-e and mother-of-pearl inlay on a hirameiji background, decorated with a bouquet of chrysanthemums in a small purse, a hoe on the other side, and a fluttering butterfly which can be found on both sides. The interior is in hirameiji lacquer. The ojime is a drum made out of black lacquer and ivory with a mother-of-pearl inlay. The Manjû netsuke...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Japanese Edo Lacquer
Materials
Gold
Japanese bronze of a rooster with a great work of gold and chocolate patina
Located in PARIS, FR
Okimono bronze sculpture of a reclining rooster.
In the Kojiki (lit. “Records of Ancient Matters”), a collection of myths about the origins of Japan, the rooster manages to lure the...
Category
Antique 19th Century Japanese Meiji Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Big mouse standing bronze
Located in PARIS, FR
Huge sculpture of a rat with a dark brown patina, its pose reinforces the schematic
treatment. Its simple head and hardly figured moustache, its smooth and plump
body and very deta...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Bronze
Huge mouse lying down
Located in PARIS, FR
Huge sculpture of a mouse (or rat), with a rather dark patina, represented with a
schematic expression and realized with the hollow bronze technique. It is represented
in extension...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Bronze
Bronze sculpture of two cicadas on a bamboo, used by calligraphs to hold paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Two cicadas in bronze facing each other on a bamboo segment
One is an adult while the other is at the nymph phase. Three foundry stamps, one underneath and one alongside each insect...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Large Italian cup in Red Marble garnished with an assortment of sea shells
Located in PARIS, FR
Large cup made of red marble from Vitrolles turned foot, garnished with shells.
Composition of shells including a leopard cone (conus leopardus), a horned helmet (cassis cornuta), tw...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Baroque Vases
Materials
Marble
Jizai okimono bronze sculpture of an articulated praying mantis
Located in PARIS, FR
Bronze Jisai Okimono sculpture of a praying mantis, partially articulated, deep brown patina. Both front legs and head are fixed in a rather realistic posture while the four other le...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Japanese bronze sculpture of a frog hidding in a lotus leaf (Okimono)
Located in PARIS, FR
A small bronze sculpture of a frog emerging from a huge lotus leaf, a small but detailed beetle on the other side of the leaf. The frog (kaeru) is associated with luck and wealth. In...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Japanese bronze sculpture of a ginseng root, ganodermas mushrooms growing on it
Located in PARIS, FR
Bronze sculpture representing a group of genoderma mushrooms developing on the long stem of a Ginseng root that is standing on two kakis. Logically this root would be Panax ginseng, ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Bronze sculpture of an eagle on a tree stump, to be used as an incense burner
Located in PARIS, FR
This bronze sculpture represents a royal eagle standing on top of a tree stump. Its body and the stump were realized separately and mounted, the transition being right above the talo...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Japanese lacquer kobako or incens box decorated with two insects
Located in PARIS, FR
Small Kobako circular box in lacquered wood with a cicada and unidentified insect, probably a gryllotalpa orientalis, displayed on its top part.
The background is decorated in maki-...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Lacquer
Materials
Gold
Japanese black and gold lacquer tabako bon or smoking set with silvered bronze
Located in PARIS, FR
Tabako Bon, or tobacco smoking set, adorned with gold and black fundame lacquer, in the form of cross braces and floret of the Hanabishi flower. The regular pattern is dotted with ci...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Lacquer
Materials
Gold, Silver, Bronze
Japanese ikebana banakago basket of Chinese style
Located in PARIS, FR
Handled circular ikebana basket (hanakago) in Chinese style, in vanished bamboo and rattan. Inside in copper alloy.
Ikebana or Ka-do (the way of flowers) is a traditional Japanese a...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Decorative Baskets
Materials
Bamboo, Rattan
Tiny Ikebana basket realised in lacquered bamboo
Located in PARIS, FR
Small Ikebana basket with a black lacquer finish, solely made of bamboo slats. The handle is of rectangular shape, made of a single slice of bamboo split and fixed by four knots deep...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Decorative Baskets
Materials
Bamboo, Lacquer
Japanese ikebana basket made in brass at the immitation of wicker work
Located in PARIS, FR
Rare brass ikebana basket made to imitate the traditional Japanese basketry (hanakago) that usually use bamboo and rattan. Of trapezoidal form with a round opening, a tight collar a...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Decorative Baskets
Materials
Brass
Japanese ikebana basket or hanakago designed to be hung
Located in PARIS, FR
Rare hanging bamboo basket for ikebana (hanakago).
The body is made of bamboo folded on itself, reinforced by rattan braiding at the round neck and on the sides to hold the suspensio...
Category
Early 20th Century Showa Decorative Baskets
Materials
Bamboo, Rattan
Japanese Sagemono Inro box with a maki-e decor of a Samuari in a lake landscape
Located in PARIS, FR
Inrô in gilded lacquer according to the takamaki-e, hiramaki-e and kirigane techniques, with five squares of a mountain lake landscape.
On the first side, there is a man on horsebac...
Category
Antique 18th Century Japanese Edo Lacquer
Materials
Gold
Ikebana in bronze of an Hawk designed to display flowers hanged on the wall
Located in PARIS, FR
Bronze intentded for hanging (銅掛斜生, dô kakenanaike, « hanging bronze ») depicting a hawk, placed on a branch. The inside is hollow so a bouquet a flowers can be put inside and thus, ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Japanese fudebako or brush box in lacquered hardwood and ceramic inlay
Located in PARIS, FR
Brush box (fudebako) is made of wood and lacquer. On the lid, lacquer decoration representing sagittarius, a flower inlaid with ceramic and a leaf inlaid (raden).
Interior and base o...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Lacquer
Materials
Gold
Japanese Shawan tea cup in celadon with corded pattern by to Tenzo Shimaoka
Located in PARIS, FR
Celadon tea cup with corded patterns glazed in the Jômon zogan style made by Tatsuzô Shimaoka (1919-2007, Mingei school). Developed by himself, this style ...
Category
20th Century Japanese Showa Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Celadon
Japanese Ikebana flower basket made of bamboo with its Knotty Wood handle
Located in PARIS, FR
Ikebana basket (hanakago) made of dark brow varnished bamboo wickerwork, elongated rounded shape, with a handle made of three varnished wooden branches. Thicker bamboo braids on the ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Taisho Decorative Baskets
Materials
Bamboo
Japanese bamboo sculpture of a seated toad realised in the rhizome
Located in PARIS, FR
Bamboo sitting toad. The node of the wood is used as the base of the statuette.
The toad and the frog, referred to by the same term in Japanese (kaeru) are associated with good luck...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Bamboo
Japanese Sumida-Gawa sculpture of a man distributing peaches to its monkeys
Located in PARIS, FR
Polychrome sculpture in Sumida-gawa stoneware, also called Sumida-yaki, representing an old man surrounded by five monkeys in front of a basket containing two nuts. Glazed clothes an...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Ceramics
Materials
Enamel
Japanese Bundai or writting table in gold lacquer with a decor of lake landscape
Located in PARIS, FR
Rectangular bundai writing table on four legs in gold lacquer with black highlights on a nashi-ji background. The top is decorated with a lake landscape with plum trees, pine trees a...
Category
Antique Early 18th Century Japanese Edo Lacquer
Materials
Gold, Bronze
Japanese tea house in rankanku or eggshell lacquer with a decor of gold crane
Located in PARIS, FR
Miniature tea house with a crane and bamboo motif in black and gold takamaki-e lacquer on a rankaku (eggshell inlay) base. It has several compartments and trays on the roof, walls an...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Lacquer
Materials
Gold
Japanese lantern in cast iron decorated with colourfull enameled champleve.
Located in PARIS, FR
Tall hexagonal lantern in bronze with a blue, red and green enamel openwork with stylized lotus flower motives. The shaft has a nice brown patina. The base is decorated with taotie m...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Metalwork
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Japanese Bronze Vase decorated with a Phoenix and paulownia leaves
Located in PARIS, FR
Patinated bronze vase decorated with a flying phenix and paulownia leaves. The phoenix has imperial and solar symbolism. This bird of good omen also embodies virtues from the teaching of Confucius (such as goodness, righteousness, and wisdom). Paulownia (kiri) is considered as a symbol of nobility, honor and longevity. Since the Edo era, there has been a tradition that paulownia is planted at the birth of a daughter to be used later as a material for making items that will be part of her dowry. Its wood is ideal for chests and kimono boxes...
Category
20th Century Japanese Showa Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Articulated iron sculpture or Jizai (articulated) in the form of a butterfly
Located in PARIS, FR
Fine iron jizai of an articulated butterfly with fascinating openwork on its wings.
The butterfly (choho) in Japan is perceived as "the soul of the living and the dead", the spirits ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Japanese bamboo sculpture of a Monkey holding Longevity Peaches in its two hands
Located in PARIS, FR
Chiseled wood sculpture representing a seated monkey holding peaches of longevity in his hands. The impression of the fur is quite realistic, and its e...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Bamboo
Japanese writting set in waqasa lacquer including bundai ryoshibako and fudebako
Located in PARIS, FR
Set of bundai, ryōshibako and fudebako in wakasa lacquer with an old rose background and black traditional Japanese patterns.
The saya pattern (or sayagata) is composed by Chinese svastikas. This symbol linked to Buddhism, mean intelligence, power and peace. It is a good omen sign.
The kanoko pattern reminds stains on fawn back.
The sakura (cherry blossom) pattern is emblematic of Japan. The blossoming in a short time marks spring beginning and is a symbol of renewal and ephemeral beauty.
There are also traces of calligraphy brush, in reference to the function of the objects.
Bundai is a low table used to put books or scrolls and, later, to write.
Rectangular ryōshibako (letter and document box) with a slightly domed
Fudebako (pencil case) of rectangular format very narrow in its length with two rounded corners, flat cover.
Wakasa lacquerware...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Lacquer
Materials
Lacquer
Japanese Ikebana or hanakago flower basket in bamboo
Located in PARIS, FR
Dark brown bamboo ikebana basket with twisted handle. The breading of the wickerwork is very intricate and complex and suggests a meditative state on human work and bond to nature.
I...
Category
20th Century Japanese Showa Decorative Baskets
Materials
Bamboo
Japanese Ikebana or hanakago basket in wicker and bamboo
Located in PARIS, FR
Ikebana basket (hanakago) in wickerwork of polished bamboo with twisted handle. Features a sheet metal and varnished bamboo vase for the floral arrangement.
Mark under the vase Nana...
Category
20th Century Japanese Showa Decorative Baskets
Materials
Bamboo, Wicker
Japanese Ikebana or hanakago wicker basket of elongated and conic shape
Located in PARIS, FR
Ikebana basket (hanakago) made of bamboo wickerwork of elongated cylindrical and conic shape. Accompanied by a natural bamboo vase and a carrying box.
Nakata Kinseki (1902-1959)
Japa...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Decorative Baskets
Materials
Bamboo, Wicker
Japanese inro of the edo period adorned with a landscape houses near a lake
Located in PARIS, FR
Inrō with four gold lacquer compartments, decorated with a lake landscape. Accompanied by a bronze ryusa manju.
Small boxes formed of compartments that fit one on top of the other, i...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Japanese Edo Lacquer
Materials
Gold
Japanese inro box in black and gold lacquer with a decor of snowy landscape
Located in PARIS, FR
Inrō with four boxes in black and gold lacquer, representing a person in a pavilion in a snowy landscape with mountain on the background. Realised in maki-e on black lacquer with sma...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Japanese Edo Lacquer
Materials
Gold
Pair of japanese bronze vase imitating hay and decorated with a grass hopper
Located in PARIS, FR
Detailed pair of vases in bronze of baluster form, textured to represent straws of hay, bound together by three knots that divide each vase in three, just under le second ring, a well detailed grasshopper is detached from the rest of the composition.
Insects (mushi) occupy an important place in Japanese culture. Hunting for insects is a popular pastime, especially among children. Using plastic nets and cages, they catch cicadas and beetles to observe them.
Between 1830 and 1832, Hokusai composed an untitled series of ten large horizontal prints...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Natsume or tea box adorned with mapple leaves and sakure flowers
Located in PARIS, FR
Natsume in dark red lacquer, decorated with autumn leaves and cherry blossoms in hiramaki-e and nashiji. Interior in black lacquer.
Maple leaves (Momiji) are celebrated in literature...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Lacquer
Materials
Gold
Japanese Kobako box in the form of a furoshiki present in gold and black lacquer
Located in PARIS, FR
Rectangular and flat lacquer Kobako (small box) representing a furoshiki knot seen from above. Fundame background, furoshiki in takamaki-e with floral pattern, inside the folds of th...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Japanese Edo Lacquer
Materials
Gold
Japanese Kogo or inecens box in the form of a realistic eggplant
Located in PARIS, FR
Small lacquered wooden box in the shape of an eggplant. Top of the fruit near the leaves painted with silver pigments. Interior painted with gold pigments, signature in the center pa...
Category
20th Century Japanese Showa Lacquer
Materials
Silver
Japanese Okimono sculpture of a Chinese cabbage or Pe-Tsai realised in Boxwood
Located in PARIS, FR
Okimono of a Chinese cabbage made in boxwood. The texture and veins have been delicately detailed.
Native from China, it is an herbaceous plant of the ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Boxwood
