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Material: Metal
Antique Japanese Meiji Bronze Figural Eagle Open Bottom Vase c1900
Located in Big Flats, NY
Antique Japanese Meiji Bronze Figural Eagle Open Bottom Vase Unsigned C1900.
$800-$1,50017" x 8 1/8" x 8 1/8".
A stunning antique bronze vase from the Japanese Meiji period, circa...
Category
Early 20th Century Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
$520 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Pair Famille Rose Medallion Canton Cantonese Chinese Fo Dog Vases Urns
Located in Dublin, Ireland
An Exceptionally Fine Pair of Chinese Cantonese Hand Decorated Porcelain Vases of traditional baluster outline, of unusually quite good size proportions, (see last image in situ) mid...
Category
19th Century Chinese Early Victorian Antique Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Large Gilt Bronze Buddha Young Shakyimuni Statue 31 Lb
Located in Somis, CA
The magnificent 31 lb bronze Buddha statue, crafted in the Ming dynasty style, captivates with its timeless beauty and serene presence. Depicting a young Shakyamuni, the statue exude...
Category
20th Century Chinese Ming Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
$2,550 Sale Price
28% Off
Old Nepali Buddha Statue from Nepal Original Buddhas
Located in DEVENTER, NL
This antique bronze Buddha statue is a truly unique and special collectible piece. Standing at 30 cm high, 24 cm wide and 18 cm deep, it is made of bronze and it has been fire gilded...
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Mid-20th Century Nepalese Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Small Japanese Articulate Crab Jizai Okimono Meiji Period Signed
Located in Atlanta, GA
A small copper crab with articulated legs made by Myochin Hiroyoshi in the late Meiji Period circa 1890-1900s. One of the pair (the other one is listed separately LU945037876072, but...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Copper
Korean Medicine Chest with Drawers Yakchang
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Korean medicine or apothecary chest with curved leg support circa the first quarter of the 20th century. Known as Yakchang in Korea, the chest was used to sort and store herb medicines in its many small drawers. The prototype was originated in China, but this piece is distinctively Korean because of the classic style of the brass hardware. the configuration of the storage space in the lower part, the shape of the leg support and the wood paneling details. The upper part features thirty-six drawers with divided in six rows, each with a brass pull ring and two herb names in Hanja, carved and gilt. The lower part has a bi-door panels open to a storage compartment, which is flanked by four more drawers. Closer examination of the construction reveals that the frame and the drawers were made from Paulownia wood, which has an insect-repelling quality. The frame was painted and lacquered dark while the drawers remained natural. The front panels of the drawers and the doors were all made from Zelkova wood, showcasing its lovely linear dark grains.
The interiors of the drawers are very clean and free of odor (have not been extensively used to store medicine).
To compare with another Medicine Chest, see illustration on page 47 in "Korean Antique Furniture...
Category
Early 20th Century Korean Other Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Brass
Antique Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Meiji Vases Petite Pair
Located in Savannah, GA
This colorful striking pair of antique Japanese bronze vases from the Meiji period are decorated with enamel using the cloisonne technique. Two matched vases with a relief pattern of...
Category
Early 1900s Japanese Anglo-Japanese Antique Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Enamel
$475 Sale Price / set
46% Off
Antique Chinese Scholar's Mirrored Bookcase with Marble Insets
Located in Somis, CA
A highly sophisticated scholar's cabinet from turn of the century. Solid wood throughout, mitered, tenon and mortise construction. Contrast of dark rosewood and natural color elm woo...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Marble, Brass
$750 Sale Price
70% Off
Antique Korean Bandaji Chest Pyongan Do Joseon Dynasty
Located in Atlanta, GA
An antique Korean wood Bandaji circa 19th century of Joseon Dynasty. Relatively rare, this Bandaji was likely from the southern part of the Pyongan province near Hwanghae province (i...
Category
Mid-19th Century Korean Other Antique Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Metal
A Pair of Chinese Silver Filigree Enameled Foo Dogs on Carved Wood Stands
Located in New York, NY
A Pair of Chinese Silver Filigree Enameled Foo Dogs on Carved Wood Stands. Each foo dog is made up of very fine silver strands which have been weaved together creating an elaborate ...
Category
1940s Chinese Chinese Export Vintage Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Silver, Enamel
$2,200 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Large Pair Of Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Geometric And Floral Vases
Located in Long Island City, NY
A pair of identical Japanese enamel over copper vases. Each vase has a globular shaped body and a wide neck with a fluted mouth. Each vase is enameled with a polychrome design repres...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Japanese Traditional Design Exhibition Stand / Japanese Old Wooden Shelves
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
It is a shelf made of very beautiful traditional Japanese decoration and wood.
The wood is paulownia and ebony.
Paulownia is a material often used for tansu.
It's a soft tree, but it...
Category
20th Century Japanese Showa Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Other
Thai Bronze Buddha Head from the 9th/10th C, Museum Piece 8346
Located in Ukiah, CA
Very early Thai bronze Buddha head from the 9th/10thC. It has a sensitivity and finesse not often found in such early SE Asian sculptures. It ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Thai Antique Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Early 20th Century, Showa, Japanese Bronze Vase with Artist Sign
Located in Sampantawong, TH
Japanese bronze vase with artist sign, used to decorate single flower arrangement in Japanese traditional tea ceremony.
Artist signature is on the last photo.
Age: Japan, Showa Pe...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
$760 Sale Price
20% Off
Brass Indian Betel Nut Cutter Collectible Asian Mughal Antique Artifact 19th C.
Located in North Hollywood, CA
A late 19th century Indian Mughal brass betel nut cutter from the North Western regions.
This is a betel-nut cutter made of brass using casting technique with bird motifs and rosette...
Category
Late 19th Century Indian Islamic Antique Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Brass armchair model "Leda" By Salvador Dalí 20th Century Spanish design
Located in Barcelona, ES
Armchair model "Leda"
Structure in polished cast brass varnish.
Salvador Dali
Taken from “Femme à tête de roses" (1935)” 1935 (Woman with a head of roses). It was sufficient for this sculpture to be made as a three dimensional piece, remaining faithful to every detail in Dalí’s painting.
Dalí affirmed: “A chair can be used even to sit on, but only on one condition: That we sit uncomfortably.” We can sit on the Leda, but due to the fact that it only has three legs and that the chair is heavy, it being made of solid brass, is more a work of art than a functional piece of furniture.
© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2022
Artworks by Salvador Dalí: © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, VEGAP, Barcelona, 2022
Salvador Dalí is the most versatile and prolific artists of the 20th century and the most famous Surrealist. Though chiefly remembered for his painterly output, in the course of his long career he successfully turned to sculpture, printmaking, fashion, advertising, writing, filmmaking and design.
Born in Figueres, Catalonia, Dalí received his formal education in fine arts in Madrid. Influenced by Impressionism and the Renaissance masters from a young age, he became increasingly attracted to Cubism and avant-garde movements. He moved closer to Surrealism in the late 1920s and joined the Surrealist group in 1929, soon becoming one of its leading exponents.
In the Paris of the 1930s, Dalí surrounded himself with a circle of friends working in the application of art to a number of varied disciplines, beyond the study of purely pictorial art. One of these, Jean-Michel Frank, an acclaimed furniture designer and decorator in Paris at that time, got on extremely well with Dalí, and together they developed a number of ideas. One example of this is the Bracelli lamp, a classic design in Jean-Michel’s manner of designing and working that Dalí adopted for his home in Portlligat.
Among Dalí’s projects, which add to his CV as a designer, are the garden furniture for his home in Portlligat, the complete architecture of the Night Club (in the shape of a hedgehog) for the Hotel Presidente in Acapulco (1957) and a project for a bar in California in the 1940s.
His creations were not limited to traditional furniture elements, but included taps, handles, knobs, prints and objects of indeterminate use. In 1933, Dalí even registered the patent for the design of a bench as an outdoor seat. In the 1990s, a team of experts led by Oscar Tusquets set out to bring to life the furniture that Dalí had sketched for Jean-Michel Frank, including the Leda chair and low table taken from the 1935 painting “Femme...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Brass
Qing Dynasty 19th Century Elmwood Reddish Brown Lacquered Compound Cabinet
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Qing Dynasty period compound elmwood cabinet from the 19th century, with reddish brown lacquer and traditional brass hardware. This Qing Dynasty period compound elm cabinet from th...
Category
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Brass
Large buffet by Fritz Nagel School of Josef Hoffmann ca. 1910
By Fritz Nagel
Located in Klosterneuburg, AT
This large buffet is part of a whole dining room set designed by Fritz Nagel and executed by Adolf Nagel in Vienna ca. 1910.
Bib.: Innendekoration, Mein Heim mein Stolz, Band 21, 19...
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Jugendstil Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Brass
A 19th Century Chinese Lacquered Elm Wood Console Table
Located in Dallas, TX
A very handsome Chinese lacquered elm wood console, serving table with four drawers. This functional table has a wonderful old patina and would be useful in many areas around the ho...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Brass
Pair of Chinese Bronzed Metal Buddhist Temple Foo Dogs Lions
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Spectacular pair of Chinese Buddhist guardian temple foo dogs or foo lions intricately crafted from bronzed metal. The lions are depicted sitting with one having a paw on a ball or o...
Category
20th Century Chinese Qing Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Metal
Pomegranate Shaped Copper Red Glazed Vase, Yuan-Ming Period
Located in seoul, KR
This piece is a small ceramic vessel with a distinctive silhouette modeled after a pomegranate, notable for its full, well-balanced curves. The mouth, reminiscent of the fruit’s caly...
Category
16th Century Hong Kong Ming Antique Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Copper
17th Century Japanese Export Lacquer Cabinet with Depiction the Dutch Tradepost
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A highly important Japanese export lacquer cabinet with depiction of the Dutch East India Company tradepost Deshima and the annual Dutch delegation on its way to the Shogun in Edo
Edo period, circa 1660-1680
H. 88 x W. 100.5 x D. 54 cm
This cabinet includes a later European japanned stand, but also a modern powder-coated steel frame.
The latter can be designed and added to your specific needs.
The sides and front of the rectangular two-door cabinet are embellished in gold and silver hiramaki-e and takamaki-e on a black roiro lacquer ground with a continuous design. The two doors depict a long procession of numerous figures travelling on foot and horseback along buildings and a pagoda into a mountainous landscape. This is the annual court journey, Hofreis, of the Dutch from Nagasaki to the Shogun’s court in Edo. Three horseback riders are dressed as Dutch merchants and a fourth figure, probably het Opperhoofd, is seen inside a palanquin, norimon. Just about to cross the bridge, two men are carrying a cabinet like the present one.
Many Japanese figures on either side of the procession are engaged in various activities; some play musical instruments on board of small boats, others are fishing; figures inside buildings are depicted playing go, and farmers are tending to their rice paddocks. The upper part of the right door shows a large mansion, probably the local daimyo’s castle, with men kneeling before a man in the central courtyard.
The court journey fits in with the foreign policy of the shogunate which accorded a role to the VOC alongside China, Korea, and the Ryukyu Islands who also had to pay tribute. However, the VOC employees were traders, having low status in Japan’s social hierarchy, and they were received with less deference than were the state embassies from Korea and the Ryukyu Islands. Nevertheless, the contacts with the Dutch were a welcome source of information to the Shogun about Europe and European science and technology.
The left side of the cabinet depicts, in mirror image, a rare view of the artificial fan-shaped Deshima Island, the trading post for the Dutch in Japan. The island, where the Dutch flag flies, is surrounded by small Japanese boats and an anchored three-masted fluyt (cargo ship), flying Dutch flags, with on the stern the VOC monogram. On the bottom right a busy street of Nagasaki is shown, bordered by shops and leading up to the stone bridge. On the island the trees are beautifully painted, two cows can be seen, and the flagpole, all in very fine detail. Dutchmen and enslaved Malay are visible outside the buildings and two Japanese figures, probably guards, sit in a small hut in the centre.
A maximum of fifteen to twenty Dutchmen lived on the island at any time and soldiers or women were not allowed. Restrictions on Deshima were tight, and the merchants were only allowed to leave the island by special permission. The Opperhoofd had to be replaced every year, and each new Opperhoofd had to make a court journey to pay tribute, present gifts, and to obtain permission to Margaret Barclay eep on trading. In the distance, many birds fly above the hills and a four-story pagoda can be seen. The right side of the cabinet is painted with other horse riders and their retinue journeying through mountains.
The pair of doors to the front open to reveal ten rectangular drawers. The drawers are decorated with scenes of birds in flight and landscapes with trees and plants. The reverse of the left door with two thatched buildings, one with a ladder, underneath a camelia tree with large blooms; the right door with a three-story pagoda nestled among trees and both doors with a flying phoenix, ho-oo bird. The cabinet, with elaborately engraved gilt copper mounts, hinges, lock plates and brass handles, is raised on an 18th-century English japanned wood stand.
A pair of large cabinets...
Category
17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Copper, Gold
Antique Islamic 15th Century Mamluk Qalamdan Gold Silver Inlaid Brass Pen Box
Located in Portland, OR
A fine and important late 15th century Mamluk period inlaid penbox (Qalamdan), possibly Syria or Mosul, late 1400's.
The slightly domed penbox is lavishly inlaid with gold and silver...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Syrian Islamic Antique Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Gold, Silver, Brass
$15,000 Sale Price
25% Off
Antique Japanese Meiji Silver & Enamel Box Three Wise Monkeys Komyo, Uyeda
By K. Uyeda
Located in Newark, England
Japanese Silver & Enamel
From our Japanese collection, we are delighted to offer this Japanese Silver Box by Komyo 光明. The Silver box of rectangular form with rounded corners featur...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Chinese Cloisonne Covered Chicken Boxes
Located in Pasadena, CA
These are two very detailed cloisonne boxes in the form of nesting chickens. The principal color of one box is a pale green; the second box is a traditional Chinese turquoise. The li...
Category
Late 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Gold Plate, Brass
$3,250 / set
Chinese Lao Tian Li Cloisonne Cylindrical Box, Late Qing Dynasty, China
Located in Austin, TX
A delightful antique Chinese cloisonné cylindrical box and cover by Lao Tian Li, late Qing Dynasty, circa 1900, China.
The box of cylindrical form and w...
Category
Early 1900s Chinese Qing Antique Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Brass, Copper, Enamel
Oil Can from USA
Located in Sagaponack, NY
An original New York Central System railway oiler can.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Metal
$350
Enamel Brass Vases Flowers and Butterflies Cloisonné́, Pair
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful pair of predominantly black, 'Emerald' green and orange, Asian cloisonné´ and brass vases, circa early to mid-20th century, Japan....
Category
20th Century Japanese Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Brass
Japanese Tin Plate Toy Blue MotorCycle 1960s
Located in Paris, FR
This is a Japanese Toy which was made around 1960s in Japan.
This motorcycle object was made with some tin plates (Buriki in Japanese).
These kind of toy got inspired by American vin...
Category
1960s Japanese Showa Vintage Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Tin
Special antique bronze Thai Buddha statue from Thailand
Located in DEVENTER, NL
Material: bronze
42,4 cm high
23,9 cm wide and 14,6 cm deep
Weight: 6.982 kgs
Bhumisparsha mudra
Originating from Thailand
Late 15th / early 16th century
Lanna style
Very sp...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Thai Antique Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Antique Chinese Cloisonne Scalloped Edge & Reticulated Floral Charger c1920
Located in Big Flats, NY
Antique Chinese Cloisonne Scalloped Edge & Reticulated Floral Charger c1920.
15 1/8" x 15 1/8' x 1 1/2".
An antique Chinese cloisonné charger...
Category
Early 20th Century Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Metal, Enamel
$760 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid-Century Art Brutalist Aluminum Copper Large Wall Sculpture Don Freedman
By Don Freedman
Located in Baltimore, MD
A stunning large, Mid Century modern abstract, mixed metal, brutalist wall sculpture by Don Freedman, circa 1970's. Stunning organic abstract mixed metal form. Features a stylized fl...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Gilt Bronze Tibetan Water Moon Guan Yin Avalokiteshvara Statue
Located in Somis, CA
A magnificent gilt bronze statue of Tibetan Avalokiteshvara, the compassionate Bodhisattva Water Moon Guan Yin. Seated on a lotus base in rajalilasana, the "posture of royal ease...
Category
20th Century Chinese Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Massive Chinese Cloisonné Vase with Phoenix, Magnolia, Lotus and Chrysanthemums
Located in New York, NY
A massive Chinese blue cloisonné vase or urn depicting a colorful imperial phoenix with gilt bronze wires among birds and butterflies in an imperia...
Category
1920s Chinese Vintage Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Enamel
$22,400 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century, Antique Burmese Bronze Elephant Bell with Stand
Located in Sampantawong, TH
Burmese bronze elephant bell with stand.
Age: Burma, 19th Century
Size: Height 12.5 C.M. / Width 9 C.M.
Size including stand: Height 23.5 C.M.
Condition: Nice condition overall...
Category
19th Century Burmese Antique Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
$384 Sale Price
20% Off
Asian Brass Elephant Head Urn Table Lamp by Marbro
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Fantastic Asian brass urn or vase featuring elephant head handles converted into a table lamp by Marbro Lamp Co. The urn is mounted on a brass base with a lotus blossom form and topp...
Category
20th Century American Hollywood Regency Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Metal, Brass
Japanese Edo Six Panel Screen Merrymaking in the Chinese Countryside
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Large 19th century Japanese Edo period six panel folding byobu screen made in the Kano school style. Beautifully crafted with signature after Kano Tan'yu. Ink and natural color pigme...
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19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Gold Leaf
Marlin Sailfish-Swordfish Bronze Sculpture
Located in Dallas, TX
Sailfish-Swordfish bronze sculpture of a Sailfish-Swordfish with a smaller fish jumping out of the water.
Stamped with the foundry sea.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
$3,040 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Tibetan Singing Bowl Crescent Moon
Located in Somis, CA
A beautiful, 19th century singing bowl from Bhutan. The hand made piece is free of extravagant decorations except a row of hand cut crescent motifs under the exterior rim. The crescent moon symbolizes clarity and modesty. A meaningful ceremonial piece and an amazing instrument for meditation and therapy in achieving personal wellness. Brocade cushion...
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19th Century Bhutanese Antique Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Brass
$1,400 / set
Pair of Japanese Late Meiji Period Fukagawa Porcelain Vases, circa 1900
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Superb pair of Japanese large Meiji period Fukagawa signed porcelain vases (circa 1900). Intricately hand-painted in cobalt blue underglaze with polychrome and gold overglaze on a st...
Category
Early 1900s Japanese Meiji Antique Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Gold
Cast Iron Indian Game with Rider and Horses
Located in Milano, IT
Welded cast iron toy from the Indian 900s depicting a chariot with a square canopy and conical dome. We can identify this toy-statue as a depiction of Krishna’s Rath Gita (Bhagavad Gita...
Category
Early 1900s Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Iron
$1,518 Sale Price
20% Off
Japanese Satsuma Incense Burner, Koro, Meiji Period, Late 19th Century, Japan
Located in Austin, TX
A fine and elegant Japanese Satsuma tripod incense burner, koro, with pierced metal lid, signed Eizan (?) Meiji Period, late 19th century, Japan.
The koro, or censer, features a stoneware body of slightly compressed globular form, supported on three short and squat legs. The wide mouth with a recessed metal rim, and topped by an openwork metal lid topped with overlapping chrysanthemum blossoms of silver repousse.
The body of the koro finely painted with fan shaped cartouches. The fans in the foreground with sprays of blossoming chrysanthemum. The fans in the background with intricate geometric brocade designs.
The shoulder of the incense burner decorated with cartouches formed as stylized chrysanthemum petals, and intricately decorated with geometric and floral brocade designs.
The painting finely done in raised gilt and polychrome enamels, including the highly desirable gosu blue...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Silver, Metal
White Brass Five Blessings Chinese Brazier, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Filled with burning coals, this finely crafted 19th-century brazier once warmed the hands of a wealthy lady on a cold winter's night in northern China. The portable brazier is hand-w...
Category
Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Brass
Large Thai Bronze Buddha
Located in Greenwich, CT
Large Thai bronze sitting buddha.
Category
19th Century Thai Other Antique Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
$3,600 Sale Price
37% Off
Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Goldstone Enamel Plate with Butterflies
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Meiji period Japanese cloisonne enamel brass plate. The central part depicts an elegant motif with butterflies flying on a goldstone gr...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Enamel
Antique Japanese Meiji Cloissoné Charger Plate
Located in Miami, FL
Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Charger Plate
A fine Japanese Meiji style charger, plate or dish. Hand crafted, this charger plate is adorned with a polychrome scene with a beautiful yellow bird and a rose. There is also a blossoming flower and trees on the turquoise base made in the Cloisonne technique. The border features traditional foliage, and floral motifs made in the same technique. The backside is decorated with a swirl motif also made in the Cloisonne technique.
Unmarked.
Circa: Late 19th to the Early 20th Century.
Antique and Vintage Asian Collectibles, Oriental Enamel Plates, Home Decor And Collectibles.
This wonderfully hand crafted decorative Japanese Meiji Cloisonne charger...
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20th Century Japanese Meiji Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Rare Japanese Red Birds Cloisonne Enamel Censer Koro
Located in Long Island City, NY
A rare antique Japanese late Meiji Era tripod and covered enamel copper censer. Circa: late 19th century to early 20th century. The sphere form censer koro is enameled with polychrom...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Pair of Signed Antique Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Vases by Daikichi
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine pair of Japanese Meiji period cloisonne enamel vases.
By the Ohta Cloisonne workshop of Aichi Prefecture, Japan. T...
Category
20th Century Japanese Meiji Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Enamel
16th-Century Indo-Portuguese Colonial Mother-of-pearl Gujarat Casket
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An exceptional Indo-Portuguese colonial mother-of-pearl veneered casket with silver mounts
India, Gujarat, 2nd half of the 16th century, the silver mounts Goa or probably Lisbon
Measures: H. 16 x W. 24.6 x D. 16.1 cm
An exceptional Gujarati casket with a rectangular box and truncated pyramidal lid (with slopes on each side and a flat top) made from exotic wood, probably teak (Tectona grandis), covered with a mother-of-pearl mosaic. The tesserae, cut from the shell of the green turban sea snail (Turbo marmoratus, a marine gastropod) in the shape of fish scales, are pinned to the wooden structure with silver ball-headed nails. The casket is set on bracket feet on the corners. The masterfully engraved decoration of the silver mounts follows the most refined and erudite Mannerist repertoire of rinceaux and ferroneries dating from the mid-16th century. The high quality and refinement of the silver mounts and, likewise, the silver nails that replaced the original brass pins used to hold the mother-of-pearl tesserae in place indicate the work of a silversmith probably working in Lisbon in the second half of the 16th century.
The Indian origin of this production, namely from Cambay (Khambhat) and Surat in the present state of Gujarat in north India, is, as for the last three decades, consensual and fully demonstrated, not only by documentary and literary evidence - such as descriptions, travelogues and contemporary archival documentation - but also by the survival in situ of 16th-century wooden structures covered in mother-of-pearl tesserae. A fine example is a canopy decorating the tomb (dargah) of the Sufi saint, Sheik Salim Chisti (1478-1572) in Fatehpur Sikri in Agra district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, north India. This is an artistic production, geometric in character and Islamic in nature, where usually the mother-of-pearl tesserae form complex designs of fish scales or, similar to the dishes also made using the same technique, with the thin brass sheets and pins, stylized lotus flowers. The truncated pyramidal shape corresponds, like their contemporary tortoiseshell counterparts also made in Gujarat, to a piece of furniture used in the Indian subcontinent within the Islamic world prior to the arrival of the first Portuguese. This shape, in fact, is very old and peculiar to East-Asian caskets, chests or boxes used to contain and protect Buddhist texts, the sutras.
A similar chest is the famous and large reliquary chest from Lisbon cathedral that once contained the relics of the city's patron saint, Saint Vincent. Both match in shape, having the same kind of socle or pedestal and bracket feet, and in their engraved silver mountings, featuring the same type of refined, erudite decoration. Their differences lie in the silver borders that frame the entire length of the edges of the chest (both the box and the lid), pinned with silver nails, and on the lock plate, shaped like a coat of arms in the Lisbon example. Given the exceptional dimensions of the reliquary casket...
Category
16th Century Indian Antique Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Silver
Asian Tansu Banded Burl Top Side Tables Cabinets, a Pair
Located in Germantown, MD
A beautiful and versatile pair of Asian Tansu side tables cabinets, bedside table in very good vintage condition. Banded Burlwood top. Cabinet has a s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Hong Kong Tang Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Brass
Indian Antique Smelting Pot with Back Handle, Front Spout and Weathered Patina
Located in Yonkers, NY
An Indian antique smelting pot from the 19th century, with back handle, front spout and nice patina. Created in India during the 19th century, th...
Category
19th Century Indian Antique Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Iron
Pair of cloisonné vases attributed to Hayashi Kodenji
Located in Milano, IT
Pair of vases decorated with polychrome cloisonné enamels on a midnight blue ground, worked in silver and gold thread attributed to Hayashi Kodenji. The hexagonal body depicts sparro...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Enamel
Thai Siam Bronze Gilt Rattanakosin Kingdom Seated Temple Shrine Buddha, 1800s
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful gem of a piece. This beautifully sculpted and adorned bronze and gilt seated meditation Buddha is from the Thai Rattanakosin Kingdom period (1782-1932) and has a nice patina acquired through age. The Buddha is in the Bhumisparsha (calling the earth to witness) mudra position symbolizing the moment when he attained enlightenment under the Bodhi tree...
Category
Early 19th Century Thai Antique Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Fine Japanese Kyoto Shippo Cloisonne Enamel Vase, 19th C
Located in London, GB
A fine Japanese Kyoto Shippo Cloisonne enamel vase 19th C
Meiji Period
JAPANESE CLOISONNE ENAMEL VASE,?decorated with cranes and butterflies amongst lotus and iris blooms reser...
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Enamel
19th Century Japanese Bronze Vase
Located in Stamford, CT
19th century Japanese bronze vase of classic form with a lovely rich patina. The vase has been drilled for wiring as a lamp. It will make ...
Category
Late 18th Century Japanese Japonisme Antique Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Chinese Modernist Red Cloisonné Ginger Jars and Stands, Circa 1960s
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair of Chinese Modernist Red Cloisonné Ginger Jars and Stands, Circa 1960s
China, 20th Century
A stunning pair of Chinese Modernist red cloi...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Brass, Copper
$2,366 Sale Price / set
20% Off
20th Century Korean Elmwood Rice Chest Storage Bin Tansu Altar Cabinet Locks
Located in Dayton, OH
20th century Korean elm rice bin or cabinet. A rectangular form made from elm with a removable top for storage. The interior is paper lined with calligraphy. ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinoiserie Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Iron
$1,280 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Pair Of Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Green Floral Cherry Blossom Vases
Located in Long Island City, NY
A pair of identical Japanese enamel over copper vases. Each vase has a globular shaped body and a wide neck with a fluted mouth. Each vase is enameled with a polychrome design repres...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Asian Handcrafted Oval Betel Box in Metal Silvered
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Asian decorative trinket lidded box in metal silvered hammered and etched with organic floral design.
Anglo Raj style oval form betel box.
Dimensio...
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Mid-20th Century Indian Anglo Raj Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Metal
Bronze Thai Siam Asian Temple Shrine Buddha Head Bust Fragment 18th-19th Century
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautifully sculpted Thai/ Siam Southeast Asian bronze Buddha head on a custom wood stand. The Buddha's eyes are closed in serene meditation. The piece has a wonderful feel and heft to it. Very well well crafted with a gorgeous natural organic patina acquired over age. This bust/fragment likely belonged to a larger Buddha statue...
Category
18th Century Thai Antique Metal Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
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