Small Lacquered Japanese Kazaridana Cabinet, Edo Period

Precious cabinet in carved cinnabar red lacquer with two leaves and a drawer, revealing six small drawers. The doors are adorned with a porcelain plaque decorated with tits flying am...

Exceptional suzuribako, the outside of the lid decorated with a bird of prey attached to its perch, the inside decorated with an old cherry tree in blossom behind faggots. The interi...

Rare Japanese Shibayama cabinet with multiple drawers and sliding panels. The two central leaves reveal a precious compartment with mult...

Important Arita porcelain dish, with polychrome decorations in blue reserves of different shapes, the coral background embellished with phoenixes and flowers. Japan, 18th century.

Important vase with gadrooned body in Arita porcelain with blue, coral and gold decoration of flowers in reserves on a background of lattices and foliage. Japan, 18th century.

Arita porcelain dish with decoration of a shishi among peonies. Apocryphal Chenghua mark on reverse. Japan, 18th century

A large and magnificently decorated Japanese lacquer document box, ryoshibako, signed Umeboshi/Baikyo, late Edo or early Meiji Period, mid 19th century, Japan. The large document box, ryoshibako, of tall, rectangular shape with rounded corners, and fitted with an inrobuta (flush-fitting) cover with beveled edges. The exterior of this exquisite box is decorated all over with fifteen different raised reserves shaped as uchiwa (paddle) fans against a lush and intricate krikane ground imitating shagreen. The uchiwa shaped reserves all of takamaki-e, and exquisitely painted with designs of animals, flowers, and landscapes in silver, gold, maki-e, hiramaki-e, and takamaki-e, with kirikane, nashiji, and polychrome embellishments, upon gold lacquer fudame grounds. The interior of the lid is nothing short of spectacular, featuring a large design of a magnificent and beautifully detailed rooster and hen with chicks gathered around a lazy stream. Large stalks of chrysanthemum bloom behind them. All against an ethereal nashiji ground. The cover of the box features five reserves: 1. Three minogame (turtles with long tails), symbolizing longevity 2. "Narihira Crossing the Sumida" from The Tales of Ise...

A Japanese lacquered wood fubako (a box used to store document or small scroll painting), circa second half of 19th century late Edo period. The rectangular box features an unusually deep lipped lid with slightly rounded corners, a conforming lower box that is almost entirely covered by the lid which has two bronze medallion rings with tasseled...

Exceptionally large and rare lacquer cabinet. According to the heraldry, visible on the headgear in one of the panels, it was made for the Inaba family, a high ranking Daimyo family,...

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...

A fine and elegant Japanese lacquer box for writing implements or stationery, suzuribako, with an image of a Shinto shrine, Edo Period, mid-19th century, circa 1840, Japan. The exqu...

Complete with a lacquered surface and original silk straps, this Japanese Edo-period traveling hat, or jingasa, first emerged during the illustrious period between 1603 and 1868, a t...