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Period: Late 19th Century
Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Pink And Purple Plate With Children
Located in New York, NY
An antique Japanese plate adorned with a polychrome cloisonne enamel design. The central scene features several children. The background is a v...
Category
Japanese Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Enamel
Articulated iron sculpture or Jizai (articulated) in the form of a butterfly
Located in PARIS, FR
Fine iron jizai of an articulated butterfly with fascinating openwork on its wings.
The butterfly (choho) in Japan is perceived as "the soul of the living and the dead", the spirits ...
Category
Japanese Meiji Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Antique Japanese Meiji Era Cloisonne Enamel Plate Goto
Located in New York, NY
An antique Japanese, probably Goto school, enamel over copper charger plate.
The exterior of the plate is adorned with a polychrome image of ducks flying over a pond with blossomin...
Category
Japanese Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Antique Tibetan Silver Ceremonial Ewer
Located in Montreal, QC
This is a water ewer used in Tibetan ritual offerings to the "hungry ghosts". They have been reborn so, as a result of greed and avarice and are condemned to wander as spirits with b...
Category
Tibetan Tibetan Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Silver
Japanese Bronze sculpture representing a puppy lying down
Located in PARIS, FR
Bronze okimono sculpture with a deep brown patina, representing a lying puppy, probably of shiba inu breed. This kind of subject is common in traditional Nippon sculptures, this spec...
Category
Japanese Meiji Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Antique Signed Islamic Ottoman or Persian Repousse Silver Vases
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
A fine Pair of Islamic silver vases.
Richly decorated with Ishafan (Eshafan) style repousse decoration throughout including gryphon heads, flowers & vines, birds of paradise, foliage...
Category
Unknown Islamic Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Silver
Japanese Mixed Metal Shakudo Vase Silver Irises on Bronze, Meiji Period
Located in Sarasota, FL
Japanese mixed metal shakudo vase from Meiji Period. The vase depicts silver iris flowers on bronze base. Signed on the side by the maker, and marked on t...
Category
Japanese Other Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Silver
Antique 19th Century Brass Islamic Middle Eastern Floor Lamp
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Extremely fine antique Islamic floor brass lamp with Kufic Mamluke revival pierced foliate openwork’s chased and chiselled with arabic calligraphy and figures.
Antique 19th century Middle Eastern Egyptian floor decorative candle lamp,
Rising from wide trumpet foot through to slightly tapering cylindrical shaft with two pronounced collars to gently flaring mouth and flat rim, the shaft with pierced openwork lattice containing scrolling vine issuing from cusped palmettes, bordered above and below by bands of engraved scrolling floral vine, the upper section of the foot and the body below the mouth with further pierced openwork sections in rectangular cusped cartouches with similar design set in a ground of engraved scrolling floral vine, interlocking palmettes and stylized cloud bands, band of verses.
This large floor Moorish Syrian Middle Eastern...
Category
Egyptian Moorish Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Brass
Bronze sculpture of two cicadas on a bamboo, used by calligraphs to hold paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Two cicadas in bronze facing each other on a bamboo segment
One is an adult while the other is at the nymph phase. Three foundry stamps, one underneath and one alongside each insect...
Category
Japanese Meiji Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Antique Pair of Early Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Goldstone Phoenix Bird Vas
Located in New York, NY
An antique Czech Bohemian blue overlay cut to clear opaline glass vase with a fluted mouth. The ware is adorned with hand enamel polychrome panels depicting medallions surrounded by ...
Category
Czech Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Brass, Enamel
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...
Category
Turkish Other Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Lead
Large Meiji Period Cloisonne Enamel Koro
Located in London, GB
Large Meiji Period Cloisonne Enamel Koro
Japanese, late 19th Century
Height 88cm, width 76cm, depth 53cm
This superb cloisonne enamel koro was made during...
Category
Japanese Meiji Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Japanese bronze sculpture of a ginseng root, ganodermas mushrooms growing on it
Located in PARIS, FR
Bronze sculpture representing a group of genoderma mushrooms developing on the long stem of a Ginseng root that is standing on two kakis. Logically this root would be Panax ginseng, ...
Category
Japanese Meiji Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Chinese Export Silver Card Case
Located in London, GB
Chinese Export Silver Case embossed and chased with a dragon playing with a fireball on one side, and decorated on the other side with a poem — “亲向罗浮伴月痕，至怜花尽冷霜根” (Qin Xiang Luo Fu Ba...
Category
Chinese Chinese Export Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Silver
Chinese Export Silver Card Case
Located in London, GB
Chinese Export Silver Card Case, circa 1890, embossed and chased with a dragon among clouds on one side, featuring a single vacant shield-shaped cartouche; the reverse decorated with...
Category
Chinese Chinese Export Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Silver
Japan 1890 Meiji Period Bronze Koro Censer in Cloisonne Enamel with Jade Lid
Located in Miami, FL
Japanese Koro from the Meiji Period (1868-1912).
Beautiful antique ten sides fluted koro censer, created in Japan during the Meiji period (1868-1912), ci...
Category
Japanese Meiji Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Jade, Gold, Silver, Bronze, Enamel
Large Patinated Bronze Japanese Koro Incense Burner
Located in London, GB
Large patinated bronze Japanese koro incense burner
Japanese, late 19th Century
Dimensions: Height 221cm, width 97cm, depth 57cm
This monumental koro...
Category
Japanese Meiji Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Genryusai Seiya Japanese Meiji Man & Water Buffalo Sculpture on Stand
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An exceptional Japanese Meiji bronze sculpture of a man and water buffalo on a natural polished oak stand by renowned Japanese master craftsman Genryusai Seiya and dating from around 1880/90. The large bronze depicts an elderly man holding a pipe and tobacco pouch...
Category
Japanese Anglo-Japanese Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Antique china bronze incense burner
Located in Berlin, DE
Fantastically beautiful 2-piece incense burner
with lid and pedestal.
This incense burner is extremely finely decorated
with a patinated bronze fu-dog as the lid handle
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Antique Japanese Meiji Era (c1880) Cloisonné Vase Floral Motif Soft Green 8"
Located in Portland, OR
Available from Shogun's Gallery in Portland, Oregon for over 40 years specializing in Asian Arts & Antiques.
This is a beautiful Japanese Meiji era (c. 1870-90's) ornate cloisonné v...
Category
Japanese Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Pair of japanese bronze vase imitating hay and decorated with a grass hopper
Located in PARIS, FR
Detailed pair of vases in bronze of baluster form, textured to represent straws of hay, bound together by three knots that divide each vase in three, just under le second ring, a well detailed grasshopper is detached from the rest of the composition.
Insects (mushi) occupy an important place in Japanese culture. Hunting for insects is a popular pastime, especially among children. Using plastic nets and cages, they catch cicadas and beetles to observe them.
Between 1830 and 1832, Hokusai composed an untitled series of ten large horizontal prints...
Category
Japanese Meiji Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Chinese Qing Dynasty Silver Tea Strainer, Late 19th Century, China
Located in Austin, TX
A wonderful Chinese silver tea strainer, Qing Dynasty, possibly Tong Zhi period (1861 to 1875), late 19th century, China.
The silver tea strainer elegantl...
Category
Chinese Qing Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Silver
A Pair of Chinese Cloisonne Baluster Vases, Late 19th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Pair of Chinese Cloisonne Baluster Vases, Late 19th Century
Each of baluster form with an everted lip and trumpet neck descending to broad shoulders and a flared base, the enamelw...
Category
Chinese Qing Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Bronze sculpture of a standing Mouse holding an Hazelnut
Located in PARIS, FR
It is a very convincing bronze sculpture of a mouse with a light brown patina, represented with an astonishing set of detail on its eyes, nose and fur. She is seated on her rear paws...
Category
Japanese Meiji Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
A Pair of Patinated Bronze Meiji Period Figural Tall Vases
Located in Lambertville, NJ
A Pair of patinated bronze figurative tall Meiji Period garniture vases, the original bark brown patination with very detailed surface and handles. 19 inches tall
Category
Japanese Meiji Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Wireless Cloisonné Serving Tray Meiji After Namikawa Sosuke
Located in New York, NY
A rare 19th Century Japanese copper serving tray with cloisonne enamel design. The central part of the tray depicts a wireless cloisonne picture, a coastal landscape view with a full moon. The hieroglyphical signature of the artist is in the lower right. The rims and the backside are decorated with floral ornaments. Blue and black color palette. Collectible Oriental Decor And Applied Arts For Interior Design.
Namikawa Sosuke (1847–1910) was a Japanese cloisonné artist,[1] known for innovations that developed cloisonné enamel into an artistic medium sharing many features with paintings.[2][3] He and Namikawa Yasuyuki (no relation)[notes 1] were the most famous cloisonné artists of the 1890 to 1910 period, known as the "golden age" of Japanese enamels.[1] Around 1880 he set up and ran the Tokyo branch of the Nagoya Cloisonné Company.[1] He exhibited his artworks at national and international expositions, where he took an organising role.[2] He was recognised as an Imperial Household Artist and created art works for imperial residences. He sometimes signed his works with the character sakigake (Pioneer)
the art work is based off a art work done by Sesshu Toyo
Sesshu Toyo (?? ??, c. 1420 – August 26, 1506), also known simply as Sesshu (??), was a Japanese Zen monk and painter who is considered a great master of Japanese ink painting. Initially inspired by Chinese landscapes, Sesshu's work holds a distinctively Japanese style that reflects Zen Buddhist aesthetics.[1] His prominent work captured images of landscapes, portraits, and birds and flowers paintings, infused with Zen Buddhist beliefs, flattened perspective, and emphatic lines.[2]
Sesshu was born into the samurai Oda family (???) and trained at Shokoku-ji temple in Kyoto, Japan, as a Zen monk.[1] From his early childhood, Sesshu showed a talent for painting and eventually became widely revered throughout Japan as a wise, reputable Zen scholar, and the greatest painter priest of Zen-Shu.[3]
Sesshu worked in a painting atelier whilst training under Tensho Shubun (c. 1418–1463). But upon visiting China, his work betook a distinctive Chinese influence, merging Japanese and Chinese styles to develop his individualistic style of Zen paintings.[3] Sesshu's influence on painting was so wide that many schools of art appointed him their founder.[4] Sesshu's most acclaimed works are Winter Landscape (c. 1470s), Birds and Flowers (1420–1506) and Four Landscape Scrolls...
Category
Japanese Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Yellow Bronze Lamp with Inlay Red Bronze and Silver, Japanese Meiji Period 1890
Located in San Francisco, CA
A solid yellow bronze with inlaid red bronze and silver vase converted to a lamp. The body of the vase would have originally had a dark green p...
Category
Japanese Meiji Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Silver, Bronze
Pair of Japanese Meiji Period Bronze and Gilt Vases
By Zo Miyao 1
Located in Brighton, Sussex
Pair of fine quality Japanese Meiji period (1868-1912) patinated bronze Miyao style gold and silver overlay two handled vases, each with twin handles, classical motif decoration with...
Category
Japanese Japonisme Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
A Cloisonné hexagonal potiche
Located in Milano, IT
Cloisonné potiche with a hexagonal shape, embellished with delicate floral decorations on reserves held by silver threads with geometric motifs. The lid features a spherical socket.
...
Category
Japanese Japonisme Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Metal
Japanese Bronze Ikebana 'Flower Arranging' Basket with Frog
Located in Hudson, NY
Meiji period (1868-1912) bronze flower arranging basket with a small frog climbing up the side. Excellently rendered details in the basket weaving. Signature on the bottom reads: Eiho.
Category
Japanese Meiji Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Very Rare Antique Japanese Meiji Era (late 1800's) Cloisonné Vase 24"
Located in Portland, OR
Available from Shogun's Gallery in Portland, Oregon for over 40 years specializing in Asian Arts & Antiques.
This is a unique Japanese Meiji era (c. 1890) ornate Cloisonné vase. Mad...
Category
Japanese Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Japanese Silver Enamel Incese Burner (Koro) Meiji Period
By Sanju Saku
Located in Sarasota, FL
Japanese silver and enamel Incense Burner (Koro) Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th century. The koro is set on tripod feet, The body decorated with three panels of birds and flowers w...
Category
Japanese Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Silver
Chinese Export Sterling Silver Creamer and Sugar by Cutshing
Located in Atlanta, GA
A two-piece set sterling silver creamer and sugar signed "CUT" and "TienXing" in Chinese, circa second half of 19th century. Cutshing was a Chinese silversmith located at 8 New China...
Category
Chinese Chinese Export Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Sterling Silver
Turkish Tin Copper Tray Table on Wooden Folding Stand
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Turkish tin copper tray table on wooden folding stand
Turkish Persian Mameluke style tinned copper tray table.
Very nice unusual Asian dark bron...
Category
Turkish Moorish Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Metal, Copper
Chinese Export Silver Jardiniere with Dragons and Figures
Located in London, GB
A Chinese Export Silver Jardiniere circa 1890, of rectangular form and variously pierced to all four sides. The side with the vacant cartouche has two opposing dragons separated by a...
Category
Chinese Chinese Export Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Silver
Antique Early Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Goldstone Enamel Double Dragon Lidded Jar
Located in New York, NY
Antique Early Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Goldstone Enamel Double Dragon Lidded Jar
An antique Japanese copper ginger jar with polychrome cloisonne enamel design. Early Meiji period, ca...
Category
Japanese Meiji Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Outstanding Meiji Period Mixed Metal Bell Casket by the Nogowa Foundary
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
Of typical form with a shibuichi ground worked in shakudo, silver and gold with a central continuous frieze showing a 3-toed dragon amongst roiling clouds and spume-flecked waves, the shoulders with fields of shakudo bosses between triple vertical lines, the knop formed by paired dragons...
Category
Japanese Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Metal
Japanese Bronze sculpture of a Mouse holding a korn knob
Located in PARIS, FR
An interesting bronze sculpture of a seated mouse holding a small corn knob. Realistic treatment of the fur, eyes, hears nose and mouth, its tail is curving on the left side of the s...
Category
Japanese Meiji Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Ikebana in bronze of an Hawk designed to display flowers hanged on the wall
Located in PARIS, FR
Bronze intentded for hanging (銅掛斜生, dô kakenanaike, « hanging bronze ») depicting a hawk, placed on a branch. The inside is hollow so a bouquet a flowers can be put inside and thus, ...
Category
Japanese Meiji Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Middle Eastern Dallah Arabic Coffee Pot
Located in North Hollywood, CA
19th century Middle Eastern traditional Arabian tinned copper and brass Dallah coffee pot.
Coffee pot hand-hammered and chased copper with riveted brass...
Category
Omani Islamic Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Brass, Copper
Large Antique Japanese Bronze Koro or Incense Burner
Located in Stamford, CT
Dating from the Meiji period this standing Japanese Koro or incense burner has a circular stepped base. Three legs topped with horned and other demons st...
Category
Japanese Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
A Large Meiji Period Bronze Temple Lantern
Located in Lincolnshire, GB
A 19th century Japanese Bronze temple lantern decorated with finely cast animals and bells. The pagoda top above the open fret work lantern section with a door that opens.
Circa 1880
Category
Japanese Meiji Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Chinese Export Silver Bowl
By Luen Wo
Located in London, GB
A Chinese export silver bowl, profusely decorated with dragons among clouds on a matte background. The bowl has a vacant cartouche, and is fro...
Category
Chinese Chinese Export Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Silver
Chinese Export Silver Goblet
Located in London, GB
Chinese Export Silver Goblet, with prunus decoration. The goblet weighs 258g and dates from around 1885. Marked WH for Wang Hing '宏兴‘ whi...
Category
Chinese Chinese Export Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Silver
Opium Wieght in the Form of a Buddhist lion
Located in PARIS, FR
Tiny opium weight in bonze with brownish patina in the shape of a Buddhist guardian lion, also name Fo dog, characteristic with its exorbitated eyes and an embossed and wavy mane and...
Category
Cambodian Folk Art Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Pair 19th Century Chinese Lead Vases Inlayed with Bronze Lamps
Located in Hudson, NY
This pair of vases are from China. Made as part of a 19th century alter garniture set the pair are now lamps. Cast in lead which has been inlayed with bronze decorative elements incl...
Category
Chinese Archaistic Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Bronze, Lead
QING DYNASTY 1880 Seated Enthroned Mazu Quan-Yin In Solid Gilt Bronze
Located in Miami, FL
A 19th century enthroned Mazu Quan Ying from the Qing Dynasty.
This is a beautiful antique sculptural figure of an enthroned Mazu Quan Yin, cast in bronze in high relief in the late...
Category
Chinese Qing Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Bronze, Gold
A Japanese patinated bronze vase depicting a cricket
Located in Milano, IT
A slender shape patinated bronze vase depicting a naturalistic scene of a cricket sitting on iris leaves.
Signed Joun in relief within an oval reserve.
Origin: Japan
Period: Meiji ...
Category
Japanese Japonisme Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Meiji Period Japanese Bronze Vase with Koi Fishes and Flowers, 19th Century
Located in Bochum, NRW
A Japanese bronze vase from the Meiji Period (late 19th) signed on the bottom. The vase is beautifully decorated with two koi fishes and a floral motif, a branch with flowers and lea...
Category
Japanese Meiji Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Bronze, Copper
Silver Figures of Eight Immortals Yangqinghe Jiuji Marks, Late Qing Dynasty
Located in New York, NY
Important and rare silver figures of eight immortals Yangqinghe Jiuji marks, Late Qing dynasty. Each hollow figure portraying one of the immortals in an animated pose, with highly detailed facial features, four pierced with apertures for the insertion of facial hair, clad in finely chased robes, all but two with their characteristic attributes, their bases bearing either two seal marks reading Yangqinghe Jiuji gongyibu and Zhe'ning Hu Qiusheng zao, or three marks in regular script reading Yangqinghe Jiuji gongyibu, Shang and Sheng zuo, original hand-carved wood stands. Measures: 11 1/4in (28.5cm) high (tallest one).
The earliest records of the silver atelier known as Yangqinghe date to 1775 in Shanghai...
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Chinese Chinese Export Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Silver
Chinese Export Silver Goblet
Located in London, GB
A Chinese silver goblet profusely decorated with chased, richly defined chrysanthemum against a matte background and is supported by two intertwi...
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Chinese Chinese Export Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Silver
A Japanese Meiji Period Patinated Bronze Centerpiece/Bowl w/ Dragon in Relief
Located in New York, NY
A Fantastic and large Japanese Meiji Period Patinated Bronze Centerpiece/Bowl/jar denier with Dragon in Relief. This captivating and exquisite, hand-crafted, patinated bronze centerpiece serves as a remarkable focal point, adorned with marvelously hand-chassed and hand-chiseled dragons in relief, gracefully emerging and disappearing behind artfully stylized scrolling etched clouds. The centerpiece boasts a substantial and graceful curved base, complemented by a striking peaked and square-edged lip atop the vessel.
The significance behind the depiction of the three-clawed dragons stems from the Japanese belief that Eastern dragons originated within their native land. According to their folklore, as these majestic creatures ventured away from Japan, they acquired additional toes. The Japanese Sky dragon...
Category
Japanese Meiji Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Large Antique Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Black Hawk in Cherry Blossom Tree Charge
Located in New York, NY
An antique Japanese late Meiji era decorative enamel over copper charger plate. The interior of the plate is adorned with a polychrome image of a hawk seated on a sakura tree branch,...
Category
Japanese Meiji Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Enamel, Copper
Large Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Covered Jar with Butterflies Goto
Located in New York, NY
An antique Japanese gilt copper lidded jar with cloisonne enamel design.
Large Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Covered Jar with Butterflies...
Category
Japanese Meiji Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Enamel, Copper
An Indian part-gilt silver-clad ceremonial sceptre or mace with a tiger’s head
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Northern India or Deccan, late 19th century
L. approx. 82 cm (excl. stand)
Provenance:
Private collection, United Kingdom
This remarkable gilt-silver soonta (ceremonial sceptre) also known as choba (ceremonial mace) with a tiger's head stands out as an unparalleled example. It has a wooden base, clad with thick sheet part-gilt silver and has fine details such as teeth and a curling tongue. Especially with the inlaid glass eyes, in combination with the grand sculptural design, it would have been integral to an Indian maharaja’s attire, known as lawajama in North India and biruthus in South India, as referenced by Jackson & Jaffer. They would symbolise authority, power, and sometimes an attribute of various deities, particularly those associated with strength or combat. For instance, the Hindu god Hanuman, known for his immense strength, is often depicted holding a mace (*chob* or gada in Sanskrit). Similarly, the god Vishnu and his avatar Krishna are also frequently depicted with a mace among their other attributes.
Courtiers would raise these sceptres wrapped in rich brocades, with the head visible, during processions, signalling their association with the monarch. Alongside fly-whisks and standards, they were indispensable in ceremonial parades, underscoring the ruler's prestige. Terlinden notes that a soonta berdar was tasked with carrying the sceptre. These individuals, proficient in courtly manners, played key roles during audiences, from managing entrances to introducing guests. Their esteemed position often earned them generous rewards, including land grants. See for a depiction of sceptres in use the top right of a painting in the collection of the V&A, titled Processional scene with Amar Singh, ruler of Thanjavur (Tanjore), and Sarabhoji, from circa 1797.
For a very comparable piece, but with an elephant’s head, see the collection of the Indian Museum, Kolkata. For other less similar examples, see the V&A Museum London.
Sources:
A. Jackson & A. Jaffer, Maharaja: The Splendour of India’s Royal Courts, London, V&A Publishing, 1999
Christiane Terlinden Serra, Mughal Silver...
Category
Indian Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Silver
Antique Japanese Meiji Era (c1880) Cloisonné Vase Phoenix & Dragon 8”
Located in Portland, OR
Available from Shogun's Gallery in Portland, Oregon for over 40 years specializing in Asian Arts & Antiques.
This is a beautiful Japanese Meiji era (c. 1870-90's) ornate cloisonné v...
Category
Japanese Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Antique Chinese Qing Dynasty Archaic Style Bronze Enamel Champlevé Censer 1900
Located in Portland, OR
Antique Chinese archaic style bronze enamel Champlevé Censer / Incense Burner, circa 1900.
The lidded censer having a male Foo dog finial, below the ...
Category
Chinese Qing Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Pair of Japanese Bronze Grasshopper Vases
Located in PARIS, FR
Insects (mushi) occupy an important place in Japanese culture. Hunting for insects is a popular pastime, especially among children. Using plastic nets and cages, they catch cicadas and beetles to observe them.
Between 1830 and 1832, Hokusai composed an untitled series of ten large horizontal prints...
Category
Japanese Antique Late 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
