Japanese Antique Hand Cast Pair "Owl" Wall Lanterns, Rare Birds

From our recent Japanese acquisitions Birds and dragonflies A rare bronze 90 year old lantern find with all hanging bells intact. This trapezoidal roof shaped hand cast bronze lan...

A lovely antique pair (2) Japanese hand-painted six-panel folding screens byobu- each conceived in an attractive birds, trees, and blue waters motif. Likely given as a wedding gift...

Best In Class From our recent Japanese acquisitions travels. This unusual hard to find old Japanese red kurama stone lantern is known as an Obakedouro "Spirit lantern...

Hand carved from early 20th century Japan, an early tall hand carved Peach motif lantern “Momo” stone, 55 inches high and 23 inches wide at top, six pieces. The Peach or "Momo" in...

Antique Japanese hand carved puppy. Expertly carved, showing a poised and alert puppy. Comes in original storage box with dedication, artist sign...

Stunning and unique pair of matching horse sculptures. With a combined experience of almost 30 years in the antiques trade, we were thrilled to once again find beautifully hand-crafted and decorative antiques that we had never seen before. From the density and the weight we can see and feel that these highly decorative horse sculptures are made of a tropical hardwood. Like, for example, with antique mirror frames or church sculptures these horses too were first covered with a mixture of chalk and glue so that the paint would hold longer. And, as so often is the case with antiques, the colors that were used for painting these horses are so much more beautiful than anything you find in this day and age that they truly are an absolute joy to look at. From the colors, the wear, the materials and the techniques that were used to create these horses we can see that these are 19th century antiques. However and unfortunately we lack the knowledge to be able to tell you from which country these highly decorative and sizeable works of art originate. We just can't find matching style horse sculptures anywhere on the worldwide web. They could be Chinese or Nepalese, but they could also be Persian or Arabian. We just have not been able to find out. What we do know is that they are definitely antique, they are in beautiful condition (with some wear, consistent with their age), they are highly decorative, probably unique and they have a look and feel that will instantly change the atmosphere of the room they are in. Mind you, our sharp price for this wonderful pair of horse sculptures...

I would like to introduce an old Japanese figurine covered with paper. This is probably a duck figurine that was originally made as a decoy. Decoys are not only found in Northern Eur...

A powerful pair of Japanese bronze sculptures of dragonfish, shachihoko, Taisho period, circa 1920, Japan. The pair of bronze shachihoko heavily cast with a good sense of motion. Th...