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Material: Mother-of-Pearl
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...
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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...
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18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Lacquer
A Fine Jingasa with Mother-of-Pearl ‘Mosaic’ Decoration
Located in London, GB
A Fine Jingasa with Mother-of-Pearl ‘Mosaic’ Decoration
Lacquer, wood, leather, mother-of-pearl, gilt
Japan
Late Edo Period - Circa 1861 - 1863
SIZE: 7.5cm high, 37cm dia. - 3 ...
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1860s Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Leather, Mother-of-Pearl, Wood, Lacquer
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...
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Late 19th Century Thai Other Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl
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
Japanese black lacquered sword stand 刀掛け (katana’kake) with raden inlay
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Charming black lacquered wooden sword stand (katana’kake), designed for 3 swords, encrusted with beautiful shiny blue/purple mother-of-pearl (raden).
Presenting a stylized depiction...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Lacquer
Guangxu Chinese black gold Jewelry Box, yellow silk
Located in Valladolid, ES
Exquisite Chinese Jewelry Box, made for export, France. With a stamp inside of Joan of Arc, Domremy. End S XIX-PP S XX
Silk lined interior. Polylobed profile, the entire body covere...
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1880s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Gold Leaf
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 x D. 15 cm
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The house depicted on t...
Category
19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Lacquer
Chinese Mother of Pearl Inlaid Lacquered Box
Located in New York, NY
Chinese mother of pearl inlaid lacquered rectangular box, depicting in landscape, circa late 19th-early 20th century. Measures: 3.5" H x 9.75" ...
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Late 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
Pair of Asain Black Lacquer and Mother of Pearl Inlay Side Chairs 20th C.
Located in San Francisco, CA
Pair of Asain black lacquer and mother of pearl inlay side chairs 20th c.
Measures: 19.5" wide x 18.5" deep x 19" high at the seat x 41.5" high at the back
The padded seats measure...
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Late 20th Century Unknown Chinese Export Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
Red lacquer Festival Flag Support abundantly inlaid with mother-of-pearl, Japan
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Rare museum-worthy Japanese lacquered wooden festival support for a flag. In feudal Japan this kind of supports sat on the back of a horse or ox during pr...
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19th Century Japanese Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Metal, Bronze, Copper
Antique Chinese Coromandel Black Lacquer Screen with White Mother of Pearl
Located in Toronto, ON
This antique Chinese screen features intricate inlaid mother of pearl goddesses. What makes this screen unusual is the grand scale of the design of the figures. The screen is lacquered in black and entirely hand painted. The reverse side of the screen is also hand painted. The screen can be used as a room divider or headboard. Coromandel lacquer screens...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Lacquer, Wood
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...
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19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Abalone, Mother-of-Pearl, Silk, Lacquer
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 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...
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18th Century Japanese Japonisme Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Lacquer
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
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...
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Early 19th Century Asian Folk Art Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood, Lacquer, Paint
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...
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Early 19th Century Japanese Anglo-Japanese Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Brass
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 ...
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16th Century Japanese Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
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...
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Early 19th Century Japanese Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
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...
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Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
Materials
Gold
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
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Lacquer, Mother-of-Pearl
Contemporary Japanese Black Lacquer Hanging Wall Vase
Located in Prahran, Victoria
Fine quality contemporary Japanese hanging vase, black lacquer with inlaid mother-of-pearl. This piece is signed and comes with its original paul...
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
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Lacquer, Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
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 ...
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Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Mother-of-Pearl Lacquer
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24k Gold
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
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Copper
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