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Place of Origin: Asian
Japanese Black and Gold Lacquer Kaioke Boxes 'Hokaibako'
Located in PARIS, FR
Two big eight-sided kaioke boxes in black lacquer, decorated with mon and maple leaves in golden lacquer.
These are usually octagonal boxes containing the painted shells used in ...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Lacquer
An Antique Japanese Lacquer Maki-e Tray
Located in Atlanta, GA
A fan shape black lacquer tray from Japan circa 1910-30s, late Meiji to early Showa era. Elaborated decorated with a bundle of yomogi blossom in a very fine Maki-e technique using both gold and silver powders. There is a Japanese symbol on the top left, which represents yomogiu, stemming from yomogi (蓬), a wild plant that belongs to the chrysanthemum family and widely grown in Japan.
This name yomogui is from a scene in the Tale of Genji...
Category
Early 20th Century Japonisme Asian Lacquer
Materials
Lacquer
Vintage Japanese Lacquer Duck Box by Zohiko, Showa Era, Mid 20th Century, Japan
By Zōhiko Studio
Located in Austin, TX
A finely decorated vintage Japanese box for precious incense, kogo, in the shape of a male mandarin duck, oshidori, by Zohiko, Showa Era, 1960's, or earlier.
The lovely and whimsic...
Category
1960s Showa Vintage Asian Lacquer
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
18th Century Chinese Lacquer Bowl with Pewter
Located in Brea, CA
Chinese lacquer bowl of deep flared form with pewter from the 18th century. Over a body of black lacquered the exterior decorated with gilt scenes o...
Category
18th Century Qing Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Lacquer
Japanese Lacquered Samurai Jingasa Hat Edo Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
A bespoken Japanese historical hat known as Jinggasa (militant hat) that was worn by samurai in Edo period (1603-1868) circa 18-19th century. There were several subtypes of Jingasa a...
Category
19th Century Japonisme Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Japanese Lacquer Kobako, Swallows and Bamboo, Edo Period, mid 19th c, Japan
Located in Austin, TX
A fine and elegant Japanese gilt maki-e lacquer box for incense accessories, kobako, late Edo period, mid 19th century, Japan.
The fantastic small box of rectangular form, with a sl...
Category
Mid-19th Century Edo Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Silver
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
Mid-18th Century Edo Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Gold
Antique 19th Century Chinese Lacquer Sewing Box with the Stand
Located in Brea, CA
Antique 19th century Chinese lacquer sewing table with hand painted scenes and beautiful legs. Gilt export black lacquer all-over the table.
Category
Mid-19th Century Qing Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Lacquer
Set Antique Chinese Lacquered Wooden Plates
Located in New York, NY
A matched set of Antique Chinese Lacquered Wooden Plates. Sculpted cut Elm wood sections joined together with wooden pins, wire banding and lacquer from the Qing Dynasty. A rare set of Antique Chinese Lacquered Plates...
Category
1880s Qing Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Wood
Chinese Red Lacquer & Brass Side Table Removable Ice Chest Style Hoof Foot Base
Located in Topeka, KS
Handsome Chinese red lacquer and brass ice chest, planter, accent table with galvanized insert and lid on hoof foot style removable base. This piece is in wonderful vintage condition...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinoiserie Asian Lacquer
Materials
Brass
Set of 3 hibachi Incense burner Planters
Located in Fukuoka, JP
A rare and elegant set of three Japanese hibachi (traditional fire bowls) from the Meiji period (1868–1912), made of richly grained paulownia wood and intricately decorated with carv...
Category
20th Century Asian Lacquer
Materials
Belgian Black Marble, Copper
19th Century Chinese Lacquer Gaming Board
Located in Brea, CA
19th century Chinese export gilt decorated black lacquer gaming board. The game board painted with gilt seated figures in various poses on a black ground within a landscape vignette ...
Category
19th Century Qing Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Lacquer
Asian Black and Red Round Box Lacquer Offering Vessel Urn
Located in North Hollywood, CA
South Asian Burmese black and red lacquer box, offering vessel urn with compartment for storage.
This round lacquer ware box from Burma is made from bamboo and lacquer.
In Burma (now...
Category
Late 20th Century Folk Art Asian Lacquer
Materials
Bamboo
Black and Gold Lacquer Japanese Suzuribako Box
Located in Stamford, CT
19th century Japanese black and gold lacquer Suzuribako box with firefly and plum blossom design.
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Lacquer
Antique Japanese Lacquered Wood Wabi-Sabi Bowl
Located in Atlanta, GA
What can we say about this bowl? Perhaps we can start by describing the unique Japanese aesthetic concept of "Wabi-Sabi". In contrast to the western concept of beauty that is centere...
Category
19th Century Japonisme Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Wood
19th Century Antique Hand Painted Chinese Lacquer Table Jewelry Cabinet
By The Lacquer Company
Located in Brea, CA
19th century antique hand painted Chinese lacquer jewelry cabinet with a pair of raised panel doors opening to five drawers with turned ivory...
Category
Late 19th Century Qing Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Lacquer
19th Century Chinese Gilt Lacquer Gambling Storage Box Trays and Dishes
Located in Brea, CA
Very rare complete circa early 19 century Chinese gilt lacquer gambling storage box trays and dishes. A great and complete gold and black lacquered gaming set...
Category
1820s Qing Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Lacquer
19th Century Chinese Lacquer Tea Caddy
Located in Brea, CA
Middle 19th century Chinese Export double lacquer tea caddy on stand from the Qing dynasty. octagonal form with hinged lid ,divided interior with me...
Category
19th Century Qing Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Lacquer
Japan 1810 Kajikawa Edo Period Five Drawer Inro Lacquered Gilt Wood With Rooster
Located in Miami, FL
Japanese Inro from the Edo period (1615-1868) created by Kajikawa.
Beautiful Inro, created in Japan by one of the Kajikawa family during the Edo period (1615-1868), circa 1810. Has been carefully crafted in carved precious wood with applications of gilding maki-e and decorated with Japonism patterns. All dan trays are attached together with a himo cord. The detailed craftsmanship was a true pleasure to behold.
Period: Edo period (1615-1868). Shogunate.
Approximate Date: 1790-1810
Motif: A family of birds consisting of a cockerel, the hen and three chicks.
Drawers: Five.
Shape: Rectangular navette.
Technique: Carved wood, lacquer and decorated in iroe-hiramaki-e on a gold ground.
Ojime: 15mm 20mm, oval carved from natural translucent agate.
Netsuke: None
Weight: 47.70 Grams.
Measurements: Inro is 78 mm by 55 mm by 18 mm (3.07 x 2.17 x 0.71 Inches).
Signatures: Kajikawa Saku, in the underside with the signature KAJIKAWA. By a member of the Kajikawa family, signed Kajikawa 梶川 Japan, late 18th century to early 19th century, Edo period (1615-1868).
The Kajikawa family
Kajikawa family, flourished in the 19th century, they was Japanese lacquerware artists whose school in Edo (now Tokyo) flourished for more than 200 years. This family is perhaps the most famous of all the dynasties of Japanese lacquer artists, and certainly the name most often found on inro. The family is said to have been founded by Hikobei at Edo in the early 17th century, although some claim that the family’s great reputation really stemmed from his son and pupil Kyujiro. In any event, Hikobei worked for the shogunate, as did his successors until well into the 19th century. Kijirō excelled in designing particularly delicate lacquer inrō, portable medicine cases...
Category
1810s Edo Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Agate, Gold
Japanese Red & Black Lacquer Bowl, Early 20th Century
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
A Japanese red & black lacquer bowl from the early 20th century. Its frame is crafted from woven rattan fibres and covered in multiple layers of lac...
Category
Early 20th Century Other Asian Lacquer
Materials
Rattan, Lacquer
19th Century Chinese Export Lacquer and Gilt Davenport Desk
Located in Brea, CA
Early 19th century Chinese export lacquer and gilt Davenport desk, the entire finely decorated with the typical figural landscape and foliate gilt decoration, the sloped top opening ...
Category
Early 19th Century Qing Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
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 Japonisme Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Lacquer
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.
Category
Late 19th Century Edo Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Lacquer
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
Late 19th Century Meiji Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Gold, Bronze
18th Century Pair of Chinese Silver Lacquer Bowls with Mother of Pearl Inlaid
Located in Brea, CA
Pair of Chinese silver, lacquer, and mother of pearl big bowls from the 18th century. The faces each of a thin sheet of distressed silver over a body of black lacquered wood with mot...
Category
18th Century Qing Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Lacquer
Intricately Carved Kamakura Lacquer Box with Botanical Design by Tamerou Ono
Located in Prahran, Victoria
A vintage Japanese Tsuzuri bako, writing box. with an unusual, deeply carved relief of Japanese sarcandra glabra, a woody herbal sub-shrub native to Asia with deep green glossy leave...
Category
Mid-20th Century Asian Lacquer
Materials
Wood
A Chinese Hand-Carved Red Lacquered Basket with Handle, Late 19th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Chinese Hand-Carved Red Lacquered Basket with Handle, Late 19th Century
Provenance: Private Australian Collection.
Dimension: Height: 31cm Width: 27cm Depth: 30cm.
Category
Late 19th Century Qing Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Wood
Rare 19th Century Qing Dynasty Armorial Lacquer and Gilt Framed Panel
Located in Richmond, London
An extremely rare and superbly decorative Chinese export black lacquer panel, exquisitely gilt-decorated with figures, pagodas and emblazoned with a coat of arms, also displaying mot...
Category
1810s Chinese Export Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Japanese Lacquered Maki-E Natsume in Kodaiji Style
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese lacquered tea caddy (known as Natsume) with fine Maki-e decoration circa 18-19th century Edo to Meiji period. The large-sized nat...
Category
19th Century Meiji Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Japanese Lacquer Incense Burner, Koro, Edo period, mid 19th century, Japan
Located in Austin, TX
An elegant and refined Japanese lacquer koro, incense burner, in the form of a chaire, tea caddy, Edo Perio, mid 19th century, Japan.
The barrel shaped koro formed as a traditional ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Edo Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Copper
Early 19th Century Chinese Export Lacquer and Gilt Work Table
Located in Brea, CA
Early 19th century Chinese export lacquer and gilt work table from the Qing Dynasty, with carved gilt dragon head feet, with the table of canted rectangular form, with moulded top, t...
Category
Early 19th Century Qing Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Lacquer
Vintage Japanese Black, Gold and Red Lacquer Document Fubako Box
Located in Sheridan, CO
Black, Gold and Red Lacquer Japanese Document Fubako Box, Meiji period, late 19th C/Early 20th C. A Japanese lacquer box featuring hand decorated gold paint depicting scholars and sa...
Category
1920s Meiji Vintage Asian Lacquer
Materials
Lacquer
Japanese Maki-e Lacquer Stack Box Jubako
Located in Atlanta, GA
An antique jubako (stack boxes) with five tiers in an elongated octagon shape circa 19th century (end of Edo or beginning of Meiji period). jubako was traditionally used to store and...
Category
19th Century Japonisme Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
19th Century 14.25‘’ Large Chinese Lacquer Sewing Box
Located in Brea, CA
19th century Chinese lacquer sewing box from the Qing Dynasty. Decorated beautifully all over with intricate designs and images of ancient C...
Category
19th Century Qing Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Lacquer
Japanese Lacquered Sake Drinking Set Meiji Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese lacquered Sake Drinking set circa late 19th century (end of Meiji period), The assemble consists of a red lacquer stand open frame support and a lid that encloses a storage space with black lacquered interior. The lid features a and a cup holder in the center and four heart shape cutouts on the corners. There are three maki-e decorated sake cups with gradual sizes. The cups showcase on the red background elaborate gold hiramaki-e paintings...
Category
Late 19th Century Meiji Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
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
Late 19th Century Meiji Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Gold
Japanese lacquered Inro chrysantemum
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 J...
Category
Mid-18th Century Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Lacquer
19th Century Chinese Export Lacquer Chess and Backgammon Board
Located in Brea, CA
A 19th century Chinese export lacquer chess and backgammon board 50 cm x 50 cm with gold black lacquer board, with white and red counters ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Qing Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Lacquer
Burmese Vintage Black Lacquer Bowl with Silver Toned Frieze of Palmettes
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Burmese vintage black lacquer bowl from the mid 20th century, with silver highlights. Created in Burma during the midcentury period, this vintage ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Asian Lacquer
Materials
Metal
Qianlong Chinese Canton enamel jardinière
Located in Castle Douglas, GB
Qianlong Chinese Canton enamel jardinière
18th century Chinese enamel jardinière, bonsai planter. Rectangular with canted corners of caveto form, the frieze decorated with Greek ke...
Category
18th Century Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Enamel
Japanese Kara Nuri Lacquer Tea Caddy, Natusme, late 20th century, Japan
Located in Austin, TX
A bold and wild vintage Japanese lacquer tea caddy, Tsugaru nuri natsume, Heisei Era, circa 1990's, Aomori Prefecture, Japan.
The striking ...
Category
1990s Taisho Asian Lacquer
Materials
Softwood, Lacquer
Old Lacquer Pumpkin Shape Lidded Box China
Located in Den Haag, NL
Two very nice attractive Chinese Lidded boxes with tray . Beautiful
Antique Gold color ,comes with a Red Lacquer inside .
Nice patine .
Category
Early 20th Century Chinoiserie Asian Lacquer
Materials
Fruitwood
Edo Maki-e Japanese Box
Located in Brescia, IT
Japanese box with lacquer lid finely decorated with Maki-e, dating from the 18th century, mid-Edo period.
The box is of special size to preserve important calligraphy.
All sides of ...
Category
Late 18th Century Edo Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Gold Leaf
A Papier-Mâché Lacquered Vase , Kashmir, 19th century
Located in PARIS, FR
Lacquered papier -maché vase ,Kashmir,19th c."
A baluster vase with a flared neck, in painted and lacquered papier-mâché, decorated in polychrome and gold with a complex and varied floral design.
Minor damage to the base.
Modern base
The papier-mâché technique was first adopted in Kashmir in the 14th century by Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani, a Sufi mystic, who came to Kashmir during the late 14th century along with his followers, many of whom were craftsmen. These craftsmen used hand-made paper pulp from Iran.
Kashmir papier-mâché has been used to manufacture boxes (small and big), bowls, trays, étagères, useful and decorative items, models, birds and animals, vases, lights, corporate gifts...
Category
Mid-19th Century Anglo-Indian Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Paper
A 19th century Chinese export chinoiserie decorated papier mache wall pocket.
Located in Central England, GB
This delightful piece is in remarkably good condition. It is designed to hang on a wall to contain paper or stationary. It is made from papier mache finished with black lacquer and i...
Category
19th Century Chinoiserie Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Other
Japanese Lacquer Maki-e Plate of Takasago Story
Located in Atlanta, GA
A large circular plate with a short stem base in Vermillion lacquer color from Late Meiji Period circa end of 19th century to early 20th century. ...
Category
19th Century Meiji Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Lacquer
1950s Antique Lacquered Wooden Box with Ornamental Details
Located in Marbella, ES
A beautiful antique wooden box lacquered in reddish and black tones, decorated with intricate traditional motifs depicting ornamental scenes and patterns. This detailed design highli...
Category
Mid-20th Century Asian Lacquer
Materials
Lacquer
19th century Chinese Lacquered Elm Lunch Box, 1890s
Located in LEGNY, FR
Antique Chinese lunch box made of lacquered elm, dating from the 19th century, handmade. Used by rice paddy workers. Removable lid with a han...
Category
1890s Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Elm
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 Taisho Asian Lacquer
Materials
Gold
Late 19th-Early 20th Century Lacquer Standing Offering Dish, Burma
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Late 19th-early 20th century lacquer standing offering dish, Burma
Beautifully lacquered in gold and red pigments, such offering dishes were designed to serve meals for monks, hig...
Category
Late 19th Century Tribal Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
19th Century Red Lacquer Folding Chair China Round Back Chair
Located in Epfach, DE
The Chinese folding chair was made in the beginning of the 19th century. It is worked out very beautiful and the red lacquer is in a good conditi...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Leather, Wood
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
Late 18th Century Edo Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Gold
Qing Dynasty Chinese Red Lacquer Box
Located in Brea, CA
Chinese red lacquer box from Qing dynasty. Includes nine-pieces. Before in excellent condition. But when I take pictures, accidentally fell t...
Category
Early 17th Century Qing Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Lacquer
Rare Early 19th Century Chinese Gilt Black Lacquer Writing Box
Located in Brea, CA
A truly rare beautiful and amazing piece. From the early 19th century of the Qing Dynasty in China, this gilt black lacquered writing box is ...
Category
Early 19th Century Qing Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Lacquer
19th Century Chinoiserie Gilt Painted Box
Located in New York, NY
A 19th century Chinese chinoiserie gilt painted box. Lacquer work box of very high quality.
Beautifully painted.
Category
Early 19th Century Qing Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
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 (...
Category
Mid-18th Century Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Lacquer, Mother-of-Pearl
Antique Large Scale Japanese Lacquer & Gilt Decorated Tray
Located in Atlanta, GA
This exquisite large-scale antique Japanese lacquer tray showcases masterful gilt decoration against a rich lacquered ground. Its expansi...
Category
19th Century Anglo-Japanese Antique Asian Lacquer
Materials
Lacquer
Persimmon Box in Cream Lacquer by Robert Kuo, Limited Edition
By Robert Kuo
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Persimmon box
Black lacquer
Hand repousse
Copper base
Limited Edition
Lacquer is a laborious and time-consuming process. After it is tapped from the
trees, lacquer needs to b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Lacquer
Materials
Copper
