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Material: Mother-of-Pearl
Chinese Lacquered Happiness Box with Birds & Blossoms, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This finely lacquered box was once presented as a gift, filled with popular snacks like roasted melon seeds, dried fruit, and cinnamon-toasted soy beans. Dated to the late 19th centu...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Bone, Mother-of-Pearl, Wood, Lacquer
Antique Korean Mother of Pearl Inlay Lacquer Tabletop Accessory Chest Joseon
Located in Atlanta, GA
An antique Korean lacquered small chest of drawers with Mother-of-Pearl inlays circa 19th century (late Joseon Dynasty). The tabletop box with multiple small drawers of various sizes...
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19th Century Korean Other Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Brass
Japanese Tagasode (Whose Sleeves?) Lacquer Incense Box, Kobako, Meiji Period
Located in Austin, TX
A fine and unusual Japanese lacquer box for incense accessories, kobako, featuring a tagasode (whose sleeves?) design, Meiji Period, circa 1900, Japan.
The exquisite box of simple rectangular shape worked in maki-e lacquer, taka-maki-e, and raden, all against a lush ground of gold nashiji. Fitted with silver rims.
The main decorative element of the box depicts a six panel folding screen, byobu, showing an interior scene with kimono strewn over a rack, a motif known as tagasode (whose sleeves), all in raised taka-maki-e lacquer and inlaid raden.
The screen depicts an intimate room with tatami mats on the floor and sliding shoji doors in the background. The foreground depicts a large clothing...
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Early 1900s Japanese Meiji Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Silver
Chinese Qing Lacquered and Inlaid Handled Sewing Box
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An unusual and fine antique Chinese Qing lacquered and inlaid papier mache handled sewing box with decorative panels dating from latter 19th or early 20th century. The sewing box is of round cylindrical shape with a swing carry handle and is inlaid with mother of pearl and abalone. The body is made up of eight oval shaped scenes of typical Chinese style with buildings and people picked out with inset abalone and mother of pearl and highlighted and contained within a gilded border. These are set between bands of patterned abalone and against a blue silk background. A similar band of abalone is applied to the swing handle. The cover sits within a recess and is made up of bands on inset abalone with cut out triangular designs and set over blue silk with a small finely carved mother of pearl handle...
Category
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Abalone, Mother-of-Pearl, Silk, Lacquer
Antique Japanese Lacquer and Inlay Kang Table from Ryukyu Island
Located in Atlanta, GA
A small low table with lacquer and intricate mother-of-pearl inlay design from Ryukyu Islands kingdom circa 17-18th century. Ryukyuan kingdom was used to be an independent island cou...
Category
18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Lacquer
Antique Japanese Lacquer and Inlay Table from Ryukyu Islands
Located in Atlanta, GA
A small square-form table with lacquer and intricate mother-of-pearl inlay design from Ryukyu Islands kingdom circa 17-18th century. Ryukyuan kingdom was used to be an independent is...
Category
18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Lacquer
Antique Japanese Lacquer and Inlay Box from Ryukyu Island
Located in Atlanta, GA
A lacquer presentation box with mother-of-pearl inlays from Japanese Ryukyu Islands circa 17-18th century. The lidded box in rectangular form with rounded corner is a classic example...
Category
18th Century Japanese Japonisme Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Lacquer
Pair of Qing Dynasty Chinese Religious Temple Architectural Ornament
Located in Forney, TX
A scarce pair of Qing Dynasty temple architectural ornaments, the decorative antique building element fragments each elaborately hand carved, polychrome painted and lacquered, richly detailed featuring two figural pairs accented...
Category
Early 19th Century Asian Folk Art Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood, Lacquer, Paint
Large Japanese Namban Lacquer Coffer Arqueta, 16th Century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A large Japanese Namban lacquer arqueta coffer for the Portuguese market
Kyoto, Momoyama-period, late 16th century
In Hinoki cypress lacquered in ...
Category
16th Century Japanese Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
Japanese Namban Chest adorned with cylindrical motives and mother of pearl inlay
Located in PARIS, FR
Small namban style chest with a semi-cylindrical lid made of black lacquered wood (urushi) with gold lacquer (maki-e) and inlaid with mother-of-pearl (raden).
Mon style decoration (...
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Mid-18th Century Japanese Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Lacquer, Mother-of-Pearl
18th Century Chinese Export Mother Of Pearl Tea Chest
Located in Basingstoke, Hampshire
An 18th century Chinese Export Lac de Bergaute tea chest, of octagonal shaped form with hinged lid and red paper-lined interior. Decorated in mother of pearl with figures in a garden...
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18th Century Chinese Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl
Fine Japanese Export Red Lacquer Box with Masonic Symbols, circa 1800
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A fine Japanese export red lacquer box with Masonic symbols
Kyoto/Nagasaki, 1800-1820
Red lacquer decorated with scattered flowers and flying birds with long tails in gold, wit...
Category
Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Gold
Pair of Japanese Lacquer and Mother-of-Pearl Inlaid Knife Urns, circa 1800-1815
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A rare pair of Kyoto-Nagasaki style lacquer and mother-of-pearl inlaid knife urns
Edo period, early 19th century
Measures: Height 71 x diameter 30 cm
?Formed as urns with vertically lifting covers and elongated finials, revealing fitted green velvet lined interiors for knives, decorated overall with birds, flowering stems, faux-fluting and oval panels with landscapes. The square plinth is raised on four bracket feet. Inside the lifting cover of one of the urns are Japanese characters, supposedly indications of some code by the craftsman.
A closely related knife urn, now in the collection of the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem (inv. E 73115), was acquired in Nagasaki by Captain Samuel Gardner Derby of the Margareth of Salem in 1801. Captain Gardner Derby traded in Nagasaki under charter from the VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie), the Dutch East India Company. Between 1797 and 1814 Holland was occupied by the French and from 1811 until 1816 Java by
the English. During these periods practically no Dutch shipping was possible between Holland and Batavia (Jakarta) or between Batavia (Jakarta) and Nagasaki. To maintain a minimum amount of shipping between Batavia (Jakarta) and Nagasaki, between 1797 and 1807, the VOC chartered mainly American ships. American captains and officers ordered and bought mainly lacquered furniture in an American-English style, completely different from what the Dutch up till then had ordered. The present knife urns were possibly also ordered and acquired by Captain Gardner Derby during his stay in Deshima/Nagasaki in 1801.
Another similarly neoclassical shaped knife urn in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum Oxford (inv. 1996.17) appears to be signed by woodworker Kiyotomo koreo tsukuru (Kiyomoto made this). The same name, together with an address in the Sanjo-Teramachi District of Kyoto, has been found inside a fragmentary urn in a private collection. This is an indication that European-style furniture was not only lacquered in Japan but made there as well. This undoubtedly is not only true for knife-urns, but all European- style furniture lacquered in Japan after circa 1800 was made by Japanese furniture makers...
Category
Early 19th Century Japanese Anglo-Japanese Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Brass
Japanese Lacquer Tray With Cards
Located in New Orleans, LA
This Meiji-period lacquer tray represents the mastery of Japanese craftsmen in the art of lacquer work. Precious materials are precisely inlaid in the lacquer base, creating a highly...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Gold
An exceptional Namban 'escritório' writing-box, with a single drawer
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Kyoto, Late Momoyama to Edo period, circa 1590-1630
Decorated in pearl shell and gold with branches, leaves and flowers inside cartouches on a pearl shell mosaic background.
H. 25 ...
Category
17th Century Japanese Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Gold
Japanese Nagasaki Export Lacquer Box with Depiction of the 'Trippenhuis'
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Japanese Nagasaki export lacquer box with mother-of-pearl depiction of the Amsterdam ‘Trippenhuis’
Edo-period, circa 1830
H. 12.5 x W. 24...
Category
19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Lacquer
Japanese Edo Period Igarashi School Long Lacquer Box, Tanzaku-Bako
Located in Austin, TX
A stunning Japanese Edo period lacquer tanzakubako, box for poem cards, late 18th-early 19th century, Edo Period, Japan.
Attributed to the Igarashi School, this box is masterfully ...
Category
Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Lacquer
Japanese Colonial Nagsaki Lacquer Box with Depiction of Amsterdam, 1830-1840
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An important Japanese lacquer box with a view of The 'Nieuwe Stadsherberg Van Amsterdam
Nagasaki, Edo-period, 1830-1840
The black lacquered wood box, decorated in gold and inla...
Category
Early 19th Century Japanese Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
Antique Thai Mother-of-Pearl Inlaid Offering Tray
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Thai Mother-of-Pearl Inlaid Offering Tray. Crafted of assembled wood in an elevated and footed rectangular shape with rounded corners, lacquered red on the interior and black...
Category
Late 19th Century Thai Other Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl
Japanese Meiji Gilt Lacquer Writing Desk & Poem Box
Located in Chicago, IL
With intricate construction and exquisite decoration, this fine tabletop writing set is a masterpiece of Japanese lacquerware. The matching set includes a writing table (bundai) and poem box (tanzaku bako), both decorated with gilt lacquer in the style of takamaki-e and hiramaki-e urushi lacquer.
Framed by everted ends, the lacquered table top is masterfully worked, depicting a robed man seated on a veranda within an idyllic mountain-and-water landscape. Swirling clouds drift overhead and pine trees bend towards the sky, formed of raised lacquer (takamaki-e) and mother of pearl inlay (raden). Dark lacquer at the corners imitate metal hardware and the sculptural corner legs are decorated with raised motifs of maple leaves.
The writing table includes a matching poem box (tanzaku bako), used for storing paper cards of painted calligraphy and poetry. The lid is similarly decorated in shimmering gilt lacquer with a raised design of a fine carriage beneath a pine tree, draped in cloths and shaded by bamboo blinds...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
Pair of Black Lacquer Panels Mounted in a Shadowbox Frame, Japanese
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Circa 1900 pair of black lacquer panels mounted in a shadowbox frame, Japanese. Elegant, later Meiji period work. Gilt painted, overlaid & inlaid with abalone & mother of pearl. One ...
Category
Early 1900s Japanese Meiji Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Lacquer
Japanese Edo Period Lacquer and Mother-of-Pearl Embellished Stoneware Koro
Located in Austin, TX
A highly unusual Japanese crackle glazed koro (incense burner or censer), lacquered and inlaid with mother-of-pearl embellishment, signed Gyokusen, Ed...
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19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Copper
Antique 20th Century Japanese Mother-of-Pearl Bento Box
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Beautiful and antique Japanese Mother-of-Pearl Bento Box with full array of components included. Unique iridescent lacquer finish throughout, with black & gold hand painted details a...
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20th Century Japanese Other Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl
Vintage Korean Lacquer Box with Inner Tray and MOP inlays
Located in Atlanta, GA
A lovely vintage Korean lacquer box in bright red and decorated with mother-of-pearl inlays circa 1970-80s. The square form box features an auspicio...
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Late 20th Century Korean Arts and Crafts Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Lacquer
Antique Chinese Lacquer Gaming Box and Counters
Located in London, GB
Antique Chinese Lacquer Gaming Box and Counters
Chinese, late 19th century
Height 9.5cm, width 32cm, depth 23cm
This beautiful Chinese red lacquer box...
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Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Lacquer
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