Large Tin Container for Japanese Tea, Chase and Sanborn Company, Boston, 1920s

Antique Japanese bronze hanging flower arranging container in the shape of a boat, sharp angular form with flat bottom hull base and center water receptacle sitting within a removabl...

Japanese Head Bucket (Kubi-Oke), Lacquer, Meiji period. The head bucket was used for storing and transporting severed heads. During the Samurai era cla...

An elegant pair of Japanese cast and lacquered bronze pagoda lanterns, Taisho Period, circa 1920, Japan. The lanterns a true pair, with mirrored decorations and lantern doors opening in opposite directions. The lanterns of traditional toro form, cast in bronze, and lacquered. Each lantern comprised of three parts - the "roof", the "fire box", and the pedestal. This type of pedestal lantern is called a dai-doro, as opposed to the hanging lantern type, tsuri-doro. The hexagonal roof of the lantern, reminiscent of temples or pagodas, features a wonderful, dense cloud pattern with three heart-shaped cutouts, known as inome, or boar's eye. The roof topped by a hoju, the Buddhist flaming Jewel of Wisdom. Each of the six corners feature a fantastic shachihoko, mythical beasts with the face of a tiger and body of a fish. Bells are suspended from the shachihoko. The globular body of the lantern features four pierced panels with the three leaf hollyhock mon of the Tokugawa clan surrounded by a karakusa pattern of scrolling vines. One panel serving as a hinged door with a lock stylized as the Three Jewels...

Chinese Pewter Tea or Tobacco Container with Engraved Scene Around, 19th Century