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An Imperial Japanese Meiji Shibayama Tea Cabinet by The Tokugawa Samurai Clan
Located in Queens, NY
An Imperial Japanese Meiji Shibayama Tea Ceremony Cabinet by The Tokugawa Samurai Clan.
This extraordinary Meiji-period shibayama cabinet, attributed to the Tokugawa samurai clan, s...
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19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood, Lacquer
$409,500 Sale Price
30% Off
Antique Japanese Lacquer Inlaid Hardwood Meiji Period Shibayama Shodana Cabinet
Located in Portland, OR
An exquisite antique Japanese Meiji period Shibayama Shodana cabinet, circa 1880.
One of the finest antique Shibayama cabinets one will see, ...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Gold
Antique metal Pill Box with Mother-of-Pearl inlay to lid, English Edwardian
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a small oval shaped antique metal Pill Box with Mother-of Pearl Inlay dating to the Edwardian or late Victorian period.
The box is made...
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Late 19th Century English Edwardian Antique Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Antique Chinoiserie Cabinet
Located in New York, NY
A circa 1920's black-laquered Chinese cabinet with inlayed stone and mother-of-pearl figures.
Measurements:
Height: 36"
Width: 38"
Depth: 19".
Category
1920s Chinese Vintage Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
Chinese Export Four Panel Carved Soapstone Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Amazing Chinese export four panel coromandel screen featuring beauties in a pagoda pavilion landscape. Beautifully crafted from intricately carved soapstone in vivid colors and fasci...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Soapstone, Brass
Rare and Magnificent Thai Silver, Gold & Jeweled Palace Mirror for Indian Palace
Located in Queens, NY
A rare and magnificent silver, gold & jeweled palace mirror, certainly made for an Indian Maharaja, circa 1900.
A special commission for an Indian palace from the late Victorian era, likely produced in Thailand.
This palace size hand-hammered Indian mirror is made from pure silver. A truly exceptional work of art with floral design topped with miniatures structures...
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Early 1900s Indian Antique Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Lapis Lazuli, Malachite, Multi-gemstone, Gold, Silver
$199,500 Sale Price
30% Off
Chinese Export Four Panel Carved Soapstone Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Charming Chinese export four panel coromandel screen featuring carved soapstone decoration. The panels are crafted from lacquered wood expertly fitted into frames with mortise and te...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Soapstone, Brass
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...
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Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bone, Mother-of-Pearl, Wood, Lacquer
Chinese Export Four Panel Carved Soapstone Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Impressive Chinese export four panel lacquered coromandel screen featuring hand-carved soapstone beauties in a floral landscape with gilt clo...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Soapstone, Brass
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...
Category
19th Century Korean Other Antique Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Brass
Magnificent And Fine Chinese Six-Panel Screen
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A six panel screen in black paint with overall gilt scrolled and carved and painted wood applied low relief decoration with some Mother-of-Pearl details. Scenes with pavilions and fi...
Category
19th Century Qing Antique Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood, Lacquer
Korean Lacquered Wood and Mother of Pearl Inlay Chest, Joseon Dynasty, 19th c
Located in Austin, TX
A charming Korean keyaki (Japanese elm), lacquer, and mother-of-pearl inlaid personal accessory chest for a woman, Joseon Dynasty, early 19th century or earlier, Korea.
The small ac...
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Early 19th Century Korean Antique Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Brass
Japanese lacquer suzuri’bako 硯箱 (writing box) with ‘Rinpa School’-style design
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Superb rectangular ‘Rinpa School’-style black lacquer suzuri’bako (writing box) with a slightly arched well-fitted overhanging cover with rounded corners.
The lid with a design of a gosho’guruma (ox-drawn carriage for Heian-era nobles) featuring golden hiramaki-e (low-relief lacquer design) and takamaki-e (high-relief lacquer design), inlays of lead and shiny mother-of-pearl (raden). The design continues along the sides.
The reverse of the lid decorated with two large curving pine trees (matsu) executed in the same way, but also with intricate dots of tiny pieces of inlaid blue mother-of-pearl along the golden trunk.
The interior shaped to hold various scholar’s accessories, including a partially gold lacquered inkstone (suzuri) and a bronze waterdropper (suiteki) shaped like a mythical minogame.
The interior inscribed ‘Hokkyô Kôrin zô’ (Made by Hokkyô Kôrin). Referring to the design being in style of the master Ogata Kôrin, but the actual lacquer artist is unknown. It is a homage to Kôrin by an artist that followed the school of Rinpa.
Including black lacquer wooden tomobako (tomobako).
The Rinpa School was a key part of the Edo period revival of indigenous Japanese artistic interests described by the term yamato-e. Paintings, textiles, ceramics, and lacquerwares were decorated by Rinpa artists with vibrant colours applied in a highly decorative and patterned manner. Favoured themes, which often contained evocative references to nature and the seasons, were drawn from Japanese literature, notably The Tale of Genji, The Tales of Ise...
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19th Century Japanese Antique Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Brass, Lead
Lacquered Korean Low Coffee Table with Elaborate Inlays
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Korean black lacquered wood low table with elaborate inlay works circa late Joseon dynasty (late 19th century to turn of 20th century). The low table, supported by slightly curved ...
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Late 19th Century Korean Other Antique Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Brass
Northern Thai Lan Na Bronze Buddha Seated in Meditation, 15th-16th Century
Located in Austin, TX
A lovely northern Thai cast bronze seated meditating Buddha statue with shell inlaid eyes, style of Wat Chedi Luang, Lan Na Kingdom, region of Chiang Mai, 15th-16th century.
The statue of the historical Buddha, Shakyamuni, is portrayed in dhyanasana, seated upon a double lotus pedestal atop a raised platform. His legs in virasana, the half lotus position, hands in dhyana mudra, the gesture of meditation.
The Buddha's face is youthful and pleasant, reminiscent of faces of contemporaneous Sukhothai Buddha...
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16th Century Thai Antique Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Chinese Laquer and Hardstone Cabinets, Late 19th - Early 20th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Excellent pair of Chinese lacquered cabinets or nightstands decorated with hardstone and mother of pearl carvings of flora and fauna. These dark brown chests...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Stone
Antique Korean Sutra Desk Lacquer with Mother of Pearl Inlays Joseon Dynasty
Located in Atlanta, GA
An antique lacquered wood desk (Gyeongsang) with mother of pearl inlays from Korea circa mid-19th century. The form of this small table is typical of a sutra reading desk with the en...
Category
Mid-19th Century Korean Other Antique Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood, Lacquer
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 Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Abalone, Mother-of-Pearl, Silk, Lacquer
Lacquered Wood Mother of Pearl Chinese Oriental 4 Panel Room Divider Screen
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Lacquered wood Mother of Pearl Chinese oriental 4 panel room divider screen.
Category
20th Century Chinese Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Hardwood
Altar Table with Mother of Pearl Inlay, China, 19th Century
Located in Toronto, CA
This is a gorgeous late Qing Dynasty Chinese altar table made of Rosewood. Scroll ends carved with dragons and beautiful mother-of-pearl inlay on all sides, including top, back, legs...
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19th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Antique Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Rosewood
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...
Category
18th Century Chinese Antique Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl
Lacquered wood screen and soapstone decoration, first half of the 20th century
Located in SAN PIETRO MOSEZZO, NO
Very elegant screen made of lacquered wood and soapstone chinoiserie decorations from the first half of the 20th century.
Mother-of-pearl inlays and brass details.
The condition of...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
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...
Category
Early 1900s Japanese Meiji Antique Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Silver
Japanese Carved and Lacquered Shibayama Cabinet, Meiji Period
Located in San Francisco, CA
An elaborate and finely detailed carved wood, and gold lacquered Shibayama cabinet (Chigaidansu). Having beautifully applied semi-precious stone and ...
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
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 Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Lacquer
Korean Mother-of-Pearl Stool
Located in Chicago, IL
This ornate Korean stool was crafted in the early 20th century of lacquered papier-mâché with beautiful mother-of-pearl inlay, a decorative technique known as "najeonchilgi." During ...
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20th Century Korean Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Lacquer, Paper
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 Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Lacquer
Oriental Cabinet with Mother-of- Pearl, Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Located in Opole, PL
Oriental Cabinet Inlaid with Mother-of-Pearl, Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries
This exquisite antique cabinet is a masterpiece of craftsmanship, exuding timeless elegance and ref...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Wood, Mother-of-Pearl
$3,947 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of Antique Asian Mother of Pearl Inlaid Hardwood Panels
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair of Antique Asian Mother of Pearl Inlaid Hardwood Panels.
A pair or Vietnamese works Each one standing over 6-Feet tall, Intricately inlaid with numerous characters and threads, ...
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Late 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Hardwood
$1,920 Sale Price / set
20% Off
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...
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16th Century Indian Antique Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Silver
Handcrafted White Mother of Pearl Inlaid Moorish Octagonal Box
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Exquisite handcrafted white mother of pearl inlaid and hand carved lidded box.
Small octagonal Anglo Indian decorative box intricately decorated with Moorish motif designs which hav...
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Mid-20th Century Indian Moorish Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Shell, Fruitwood, Abalone, Mother-of-Pearl
19th Century Japanese Shibayama Lacquered Inlay Charger, Meiji Period
Located in London, GB
19th Century Shibayama Lacquered Inlay Charger, Meiji Period, Japan
A decorative 19th Century Japanese charger beautifully depicting herons and pi...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bone, Mother-of-Pearl, Lacquer
Korean Wedding Box on Stand Lacquer with MOP Inlays
Located in Atlanta, GA
A black lacquered wood wedding box known as Ham in Korea with a conforming stand. Based on the construction and design, the piece is likely dated to early 20th century (Korean Empire...
Category
Early 20th Century Korean Other Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood, Lacquer
Mother of Pearl French Colonial Vietnamese 2-Door Cabinet
Located in San Marino, CA
A solid rosewood cabinet with the front richly inlaid with mother of pearl depicting birds and a delicate floral motif. Made in Vietnam for the export market. The two doors open to r...
Category
20th Century Vietnamese British Colonial Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Rosewood
$5,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Japanese Hand Carved, Black Lacquer Table Top 4-Panel Folding Screen
Located in Pasadena, CA
Black lacquer panels decorated with carved Mother of Pearl + Bone Birds and cherry blossom branches.
Category
20th Century Japanese Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bone, 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 Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Lacquer, 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 Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood, Lacquer, Paint
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 Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Lacquer
Portuguese-colonial Japanese Namban lacquer Vargueno Cabinet, circa 1600
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Portuguese-colonial Japanese Namban lacquer vargueno cabinet
Momoyama period, circa 1600
H. 43 x W. 64.5 x D. 36 cm
Wood, black lacquered and deco...
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Early 1600s Japanese Antique Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Gold, Brass
19th Century Shibayama Four Panel Screen Meiji Period Japan, C.1880
Located in London, GB
19th century Shibayama four Panel screen Meiji Period Japan C.1880
Mother of pearl inlay in black lacquer depicting a bird in relief with cherry blossom. The lower section with gilt panels, and the reverse red lacquer with tree silhouettes.
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood, Lacquer
Vintage Moorish Box Mosaic Marquetry
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Exquisite handcrafted Middle Eastern Lebanese mosaic marquetry wood box.
Small octagonal walnut Syrian style box intricately decorated with Moorish...
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Mid-20th Century Lebanese Moorish Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Shell, Fruitwood, Abalone, Mother-of-Pearl
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 ...
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17th Century Japanese Antique Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Gold
Pair Levantine Mother of Pearl Inlaid Side Chairs
Located in Dallas, TX
Unique pair of Levantine black and mother of pearl inlaid side chairs. Both chairs are intricately inlaid with lustrous mother of pearl in sophisticated details.
Category
Late 19th Century African Antique Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl
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 Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Lacquer
Pair of Antique Chinese Horseshoe Back Armchairs with Mother of Pearl Inlay
Located in Pomona, CA
This gorgeous pair of Chinese antique Horseshoe Back Armchairs were made from solid rosewood with Mother of Pearl inlay around the armrest and back. Very solid and sturdy. It feature...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Rosewood
$1,610 Sale Price
30% Off
Middle Eastern Miniature Painting on Shell
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Hand Painted Asian Persian miniature painting on a sea oyster shell.
Middle Eastern Moorish design miniature painting on shell, very fine ...
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Mid-20th Century Asian Moorish Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Shell, Mother-of-Pearl
Pair of Korean Lacquer Wood Stacking Nong Cabinets with Striking Inlays
Located in Atlanta, GA
A fine pair of two-tier stacking cabinets, known as Nong in Korean, circa early 20th century (Korean Empire to Japanese Colonial Period). The square cabinet each is fitted with a pai...
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Early 20th Century Korean Other Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Brass
Andrianna Shamaris Antique Teak Wood Rice Pounder
Located in New York, NY
Antique rice pounder top made from aged teak. Hand cut pieces of mother of pearl shell are carefully cut into the teak wood. Various sizes available in p...
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2010s Indonesian Organic Modern Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Reclaimed Wood, Teak, Wood
Syrian Wedding Chest with Mother of Pearl Inlays and Marble Top, Mid Century
Located in Munich, DE
This handcrafted Syrian wedding chest is designed with mother-of-pearl inlays, three drawers and a marble top. It expresses the rich culture and a...
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Mid-20th Century Moroccan Islamic Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
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 Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
19th Century Turkish Bath Clog With Mother of Pearl Inlay
Located in Stamford, CT
19th century Turkish bath clog, or Nalin, walnut with mother of pearl and silver wire inlay. Ottoman Empire, worn to the public bath houses or Hamma...
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Late 19th Century Turkish Other Antique Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Lead
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 Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Brass
18th-century Dutch-colonial Peranakan mother-of-pearl casket with silver mounts
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An Indonesian Peranakan mother-of-pearl inlaid mastic sirih casket with silver mounts
Jakarta (Batavia), circa 1720-1730, the silver hinges marked for Batavia, maker’s mark HS or SH...
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Mid-18th Century Indonesian Dutch Colonial Antique Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Silver
Very Rare 19th Century Chinese Mother of Pearl Inlaid Cabinet Cupboard Drawers
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning exceptionally rare original circa 1820 Chinese Mother of Pearl inlaid cabinet
A ver...
Category
1820s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl
$5,608 Sale Price
20% Off
Chinese Mother-of-Pearl Rabbit Toggle Charm
Located in Chicago, IL
This petite mother-of-pearl carving is a delightful example of the button-like toggles worn by men and women throughout the Qing dynasty. Because traditional Chinese clothing didn't ...
Category
20th Century Chinese Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
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...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Gold
18th Century Chinese Lacquer Mother of Pearl Inlay Pewter Teapot
Located in Brea, CA
18th century Chinese lacquer mother of pearl inlay pewter teapot, height to handle top 8 inch, floral decoration as expected for age an...
Category
Early 18th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Antique Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl
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 Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Copper
French Mid-Century Modern Cerused Wood and Mother of Pearl Four Panel Screen
Located in Queens, NY
French Mid-Century 4-panel folding screen with a frame constructed from cerused wood in a grid pattern centering square mother of pearl panels.
Separation in frame, cracks and losse...
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20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
Thai Gilt Bronze Seated Buddha, Lan Na Kingdom, Chiang Mai, Late 15th Century
Located in Austin, TX
A rare and beautiful Thai cast and gilt bronze seated Buddha with shell inlaid eyes, style of Wat Chedi Luang, Lan Na Kingdom, Northern Thailand, region of Chiang Mai, late 15th cent...
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15th Century and Earlier Thai Antique Mother-of-Pearl Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
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