Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
MEIJI STYLE
From 1868 to 1912, Emperor Mutsuhito oversaw an era of transformation in Japan. Formerly a country of feudalism and isolation, Japan entered an age of modernization influenced by newly established trade and exchange with the West. The Meiji period, or period of “enlightened rule,” also saw the global impact of the East Asian country’s culture. Japanese Meiji furniture was exhibited at expositions from Paris to San Francisco and created for export.
Prior to the Meiji era, furniture was mostly made by commission for the ruling class; now there were new domestic and international markets. European styles like Japonisme appropriated Japanese design while craftsmen in places like Wales and England employed japanning, a varnishing technique that approximated the appearance of lacquer for the surfaces of furnishings.
Meiji furniture made for Japanese homes and buildings constructed in Western styles resulted in taller tables, chairs, cabinets with large drawers and other features. The government invested in areas such as transportation and communication, and because people could freely choose occupations after the restrictions of feudalism, industries of various types were energized by expressive new ideas during those years. Art schools were formed and, for the first time, design was an area of study in the country, leading to the evolution of professional design as a career by the 1890s.
The work of Japanese designers was transmitted widely through lavishly illustrated pattern books that included designs for screens and lacquerware for the home. While screens today may be of use as decorative accents or partitions to ensure privacy in one’s space, Japanese screens were adorned with paintings and were featured in performing arts such as concerts, tea ceremonies and more. The color illustrations that characterize Meiji woodblock prints, a genre of Japanese art that grew out of 17th-century developments in printing and book publishing, depicted the sweeping changes that the era brought to East Asia.
Although it was a time of societal and cultural shifts, a bolstered interest in art and design elevated Japanese craft traditions. From colorful porcelain table lamps with silk shades and hardwood tables decorated with dark lacquer to cabinets featuring iron hardware and inlaid with mother-of-pearl, Meiji furniture showcased Japan’s artistic heritage to the world.
Find a collection of antique Japanese Meiji period case pieces and storage cabinets, decorative objects, wall decorations and more furniture on 1stDibs.
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Style: Meiji
Signed Ando Jubei Green Wireless Cloisonné Vase 8.5"
By Ando Jubei
Located in Somis, CA
An exquisite Ando Jubei wireless cloisonné vase. In his signature green enamel, portraying an intricate arabesque design of a blooming clematis vine under the glaze. On Musen-jippo b...
Category
20th Century Japanese Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Metal, Enamel
Large Antique Japanese Meiji Period Imari Porcelain Charger Marked Wanshan Zao
Located in Morristown, NJ
Late 19th C. large, decorative Japanese Imari plate featuring intricate hand-painted designs in blue, red, and gold. The central motif includes blue floral patterns with accents of r...
Category
1870s Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Clay, Porcelain, Paint
JAPAN 1890 Meiji Sculptural Polychromate Netsuke Of a Yamabushi
Located in Miami, FL
Japanese Meiji period netsuke. of a Yamabushi.
This is an exceedingly beautiful and intricate carved netsuke, created during the imperial Japan in the Meiji period, back in he 1890....
Category
1890s Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bone
JAPAN 1900 Meiji Carved Letter Opener With Sculpted Monkeys
Located in Miami, FL
Japanese Meiji period letter opener.
An exceptional letter opener, created during the imperial Japan in the Meiji period, back in he 1900. The letter opener has been carefully carve...
Category
Early 1900s Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Gold Leaf
Pair of 19th Century Imari Vases
Located in London, GB
A fine pair of Meigi period with painted panels of birds and flowers on a pentagon background.
...
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1890s Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Extraordinary Meiji Satsuma Cup & Saucer, Raised Gilt Enamel Signature, Kozan Zo
By Kozan Zo
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Extraordinary Meiji Satsuma Cup & Saucer, Raised Gilt Enamel Signature, Kozan Zo, Japan, circa 1900s
This extraordinary Meiji-era Satsuma cabinet cup and saucer set, crafted by the ...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Pottery
Iga-ware Earthenware Flower Container
Located in Hudson, NY
Meiji period (1868-1912) vase with characteristic Iga-ware ears and rough, sandy clay. Comes in original storage box with silk jacket and drawstring.
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Hikite Door Handle
Located in New York, NY
An antique Japanese gilt copper Fusuma Hikite sliding door handle with polychrome cloisonne enamel design. Late Meiji period, before 1912. The door...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Japanese Two-Panel Screen Ikebana on Gold
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese two-panel screen: Ikebana on gold. Meiji period (1868-1912) painting of a basket with beautifully arranged spring flowers in the style of ikebana (Japanese traditional flowe...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Gold Leaf
Circa 1890s Japanese Signed Imari Plate
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Circa 1890s signed Imari plate, Japanese. With reserves of white pine trees with their colorful Spring cones alternating with burnt orange cartouches with naturalistic motif.
8 7/16"...
Category
1890s Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Large and Impressive Meiji Period Bronze Bison by Sano Takachika for the Kakuh
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A large and impressive Meiji period bronze bison by Sano Takachika for the Kakuha Company, the animal powerfully modelled with his head low and turned s...
Category
Early 1900s Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Mizuno Toshikata Japanese Woodblock Print First Call of the Warbler, 36 Beauties
Located in Studio City, CA
An absolutely gorgeous and relatively rare original woodblock print by Japanese artist/printmaker Mizuno Toshikata titled "First Call of the Warbler" from his series Thirty-Six Selected Beauties (“Sanju Rokka Sen”) which he created to illustrate the daily activities of various Japanese women from different time periods and walks of life. This work features a geisha practicing the shamisen under the bright light of a full moon as the night's first warbler songbird joins her on a cherry tree branch just outside her window. It is a quite beautiful and serene scene and one of Toshikata most coveted images.
This work was created circa 1892 during the Mejia period (1868-1912). It is signed and sealed by the artist with the image.
Mizuno Toshikata was born on March 6, 1866 as Mizuno Kumejiro in Tokyo. When he was 13 years old, his father sent him to the printmaking school of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi. Later Toshikata Mizuno...
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1890s Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Paper
Circa 1880 Scalloped Japanese Imari Plate
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Circa 1880 scalloped Imari plate, Japanese. Hexagonal shape. Floral urn on stand central reserve. Well scalloped; cartouches with floral decoration. Underside chip.
9 5/8" x 9 1/4" x...
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1880s Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
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
1890s Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Framed Antique Japanese Embroidery Fukusa Panel Takasago Legend
Located in Atlanta, GA
A finely embroidered Japanese silk Fukusa panel presented in a beautiful silk-lined giltwood frame (newly framed and glazed), circa late 19th century of Meiji Period. Fukusa is a traditional Japanese textile art used to wrap and present gifts at important occasions. Depending on the occasion, the panel itself can be a very fine textile art on its own.
On the deep blue background, this elaborate textile art depicts an old couple standing on a bridge with three bystanders, flanked by pine trees with hills afar. The couple is Jotomba (Joo and Uba are their respective names), characters in the Legend of Takasago, one of the oldest Japanese mythologies, who are associated with old pines. The legend goes as: "At Takasago Shrine there is a very old pine tree, the trunk of which is bifurcated; in it dwells the spirit of the Maiden of Takasago who was seen once by the son of Izanagi who fell in love and wedded her. Both lived to a very great age, dying at the same hour on the same day, and since then their spirits abide in the tree, but on moonlight nights they return to human shape to revisit the scene of their earthly felicity and pursue their work of gathering pine needles. His pine tree is called “The Pine of Suminoe” while hers is "Takasago pine".
In Japan, Takasago couple...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Silk, Wood
Antique Japanese Imari Porcelain Plate or Dish
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique Japanese (or Chinese) porcelain plate.
With a white ground decorated with an ocean landscape scene along with flowers and birds in tones of green, red, yellow, and br...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Japanese Meiji Period Satsuma Pottery Bowl Imperial Figures Kizan 1890
Located in Portland, OR
A very fine antique Japanese Meiji period Satsuma pottery bowl, circa 1890.
The bowl having a lobed rim and finely decorated & gilt to the outside with a 'thousand flowers' decoratio...
Category
1890s Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Pottery
Meiji Period Bronze of a Boy Carrying Twigs
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Meiji period bronze of a boy carrying twigs, they are strapped onto his back on a carrying frame and he carries a gourd water bottle in his right hand, signed in a seal. Japanese, ...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Large Japanese Patinated Bronze Mixed Metal Charger Meiji Period, circa 1880
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A large Japanese patinated bronze
Mixed metal charger
Meiji period
Finely decorated in gold, silver, copper and bronze.
Naturalistically accurate...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Gold, Silver, Copper, Bronze
Satsuma Japanese Meiji Pair Diamond Shaped Pottery Vases
By Satsuma
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A good and unusual pair antique Japanese Satsuma Meiji diamond shaped pottery vases decorated with monk figures with a scrolling dragon dating from the 1...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Pottery
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
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Antique Japanese Satsuma Pottery Bud Vase
By Makuzu Kozan
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique Japanese Satsuma pottery vase.
In the form of a bud vase with a round base and narrow, tapered neck.
Decorated throug...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Pottery
Japanese Six Panel Screen, Ancient Pines on the Shore under Silver Moon
Located in Hudson, NY
Venerable pine trees supported and cared for by temple Arborists. Artist signature reads: Koka Sugibayashi. Meiji period painting (1868-1912) in mineral pigments on silk with a silk ...
Category
Early 1900s Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Silk
Japanese Meiji Mixed Metals Plate with Birds and Foliage
Located in Louisville, KY
This stunning work of Japanese metal work is brilliant in detail and craftsmanship. Made of copper, bronze and perhaps other metals, the imagery cr...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Metal, Bronze, Copper
Antique Meiji Large Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Geometric Pattern Plate Charger
Located in New York, NY
An antique Japanese Meiji era decorative enamel over copper plate. The plate is made in a swirl panel design. The panels are adorned with polychrome images of blossoming flowers, and...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Framed Antique Japanese Embroidery Fukusa Textile Panel
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese silk Fukusa Panel housed in a gilt frame circa late 19th century of Meiji Period. Fukusa is a traditional Japanese textile art used as a wrap for presenting gifts at important occasions. On the deep blue background, the elaborate embroidery work depicts a historical scene where street vendors selling goods to a royal household or an aristocratic residence. The scene focuses on the activities at the front gate where the couriers and servants were busying carrying the goods in. A peasant with straw coat...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Silk, Wood
Japanese Cloisonné Vases Butterflies & Flowers, 19th Century Meiji Period, Pair
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
These are a very decorative pair of cloisonné vases, made in Japan and dating to the 19th Meiji Period, circa 1875.
The vases have a good baluster shape with a circular form. They...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Japanese Cloisonne Flying Geese Enamel Plate Goto
Located in New York, NY
An antique Japanese late Meiji era decorative enamel over copper plate or charger. Attributed to Goto
The interior of the plate is adorned with a polychrome design of flying geese ...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Enamel, Copper
Large Japanese Meiji Period Imari Vase, 19th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
A large and impressive fine quality 19th century Imari vase, with hand painted classical floral motif and inset panels painting of playful Foo Dogs.
Japan, Meiji period, late 19th c...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Japanese Lacquer Tray
Located in New Orleans, LA
Hailing from illustrious Meiji-period Japan, this lacquer tray showcases the mastery of Japanese craftsmen. Precious materials are precisely inlaid in the lacquer base, creating an a...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Silver
Antique Early 20th Century Japanese Sumida Gawa Pottery Tea Set Monkeys Figure
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Ovely Liu Hai porcelain statue.
Condition:
Overall condition A (Very Good), small chip. Size: 255mm high
Period:
20th century Republic / Minguo (1912-1949).
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Earthenware
Japanese Nashiji Lacquer Tray with Crane and Wave Design
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese Nashiji lacquer tray with crane and wave design, this exquisite tray is a masterful example of multiple lacquer techniques using gold (including maki-e and takamaki-e). This...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Gold
Antique Early Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Phoenix Bird Tray
Located in New York, NY
An antique Japanese, Early Edo period, enamel copper tray. The oval shaped tray is enameled with a polychrome image of a Phoenix bird with flowers and leaves made in the Cloisonne te...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Enamel, Copper
19th Century Meiji Period Bronze of a Boy Collecting Sweet Chestnuts by Seiya
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A charming Meiji period bronze of a boy collecting sweet chestnuts by Seiya, he carries a basket and is looking down at an insect crawling over his hand, he is also evidently wearing...
Category
1880s Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Antique Stone Statue Kappa 1860s-1900s / Figurine Wabi Sabi
Located in Chōsei District Nagara, JP
This is an old stone carved kappa statue made in Japan.
It was made during the Meiji period (1860s-1900s) and has a unique presence rooted in traditional Japanese culture.
Kappa are...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Stone
Antique Edo/Meiji 19C Wildboar / Sanglier Okimono Bronze Japanese Japan
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Nicely made Okimono.
Good condition, just some ware.
Size: 14.5x9.8CM LengthxHeight
Condition
Good condition, just some ware. Size: 14.5x9.8CM LengthxHeight
Period
19th century
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
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
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Enamel, Copper
Signed Mid 19th C. Edo/Meiji Period Miniature Lacquer Stacking Cabinet, Japan
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
The highly decorated tray in the form of a table frames a series of three stacking boxes, a further three lidded boxes and a tray concealed within, raised on ogee bracket feet.
This...
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19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Lacquer
Circa 1860-80 Japanese Imari Grand Scale Charger
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Circa 1860-80 Japanese Imari Grand Scale Charger. Meiji period. Superbly decorated with naturalistic reserves & asymmetric diapered panels; note the foo dog pair. 24.25" dia., 3 3/8"...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Yoshitoshi Tsukioka Japanese Woodblock Print Iron Cauldron and the Moon at Night
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful and somewhat comical/whimsical Meiji Period woodblock print by revered Japanese artist/ printmaker Yoshitoshi Tsukioka (1839 - 1892 ) t...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Paper
Antique Early Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Plate with Geometric Patterns
Located in New York, NY
An antique Japanese, Meiji era, enamel plate.
The interior of the plate is adorned with a polychrome enamel image of a butterfly in blossoming flowers surrounded by a cloud motif, r...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Copper, Enamel
19th Century 'Meiji Period' Japanese Bronze Vase
Located in North Miami, FL
19th Century (Meiji Period) Japanese bronze vase. It is realistically cast as a gnarled pine tree trunk with vines growing around it.
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Antique Japanese Meiji Satsuma Hand Painted & Gilt Porcelain Vase C1910
Located in Big Flats, NY
Antique Japanese Meiji Satsuma Hand Painted & Gilt Porcelain Vase with Flowers, Butterfly & Bamboo, C1910
Measures- 8.75''H x 4.5''W x 4.5''D
Category
Early 20th Century Asian Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Japanese Cast Iron Tea Kettle Water Pot Tetsubin, Late 19th Century
Located in Studio City, CA
A large, heavy and uniquely shaped Japanese cast iron teapot tetsubin without top.
Likely late 19th-early 20th century.
From a collecti...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Iron
Japanese Lacquer Tea Box 'Chabako' with Flower Design
Located in Hudson, NY
Meiji period lacquer box with nashiji ground interior with tray that has an opening for the tea whisk. Comes with silk period jacket with ties and sugi wood collector's box. Artist s...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Lacquer
Japanese Three Panel Framed Gold Black White Porcelain Artwork by Master Artist
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Extraordinary Japanese contemporary three-panel framed porcelain artwork in gold, black and white. This is a masterpiece by a third generation master porcelain artist in the Imari-Arita region of Japan who is the descendant of an extended family of prolific porcelain and ceramic artists. The artist's profile is available upon request.
The kiln started in the 19th century with traditional kinrande techniques (gold enameled porcelain), but in accordance with the philosophy of the kiln’s founder, each subsequent generation pioneered in a field of the master’s choosing. Thus, the second generation is known for its yuri-kinsai (gold foil underglaze) and the third generation for its haku-yui (intertwining of precious-metal foils).
Yuri-kinsai was termed in the 1950s as a new glazing technique. The main feature is a highly transparent overglaze on the gilded porcelain, cutting out stencils of gold foil for underglaze decorations.
In this exceptional work, the artist has used gold leaf, black and white for expressing the dramatic scene of Tawaraya Sotatsu's influential "Wind God and Thunder God" that is considered a Japanese National Treasure. It is a pair of two-folded screens using...
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21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Gold Leaf
6# Antique Japanese Meiji Period Set Of Cups or Tea Bowls Porcelain Eggshell
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very nice set of 6 Cups. Very nicely decorated. They are marked on the base.
Condition
1 dish with a chip from rim, 1 dish with a line from rim. 1 bowl with a small frit, rest pe...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Small Japanese Bamboo and Black Lacquer Utility Stand
Located in Hudson, NY
Small Japanese bamboo and black lacquer utility stand. Meiji period (1868 - 1912) furniture with one small shelf.
Category
Early 1900s Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bamboo, Lacquer
Japanese Antique Edo Meiji Wabi-Sabi Tanba Tamba Art Pottery Vase Jar Pot
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautifully shaped, glazed (a lava crater glaze reminiscent of such modern western potters as Beatrice Wood, Glenn Lukens and Otto and Gertrud Natzler), and complexly textured Tamb...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Earthenware, Pottery
Japanese Meiji Cloisonne Lidded Jar Decorated with Flowers & Butterflies
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very fine Japanese Meiji cloisonne lidded jar decorated with butterflies amidst bamboo and flowering shrubs dating from the latter 19th Century...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Metal
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
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Enamel, Copper
Large Old or Antique Japanese Imari Porcelain Platter or Tray
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine old or antique Japanese Imari porcelain tray.
With red, blue and green painted decoration and gilt accents throughout.
The bowl has three panels depicting a pair of mandarin...
Category
20th Century Japanese Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Japanese Antique Meiji Period Satsuma Vase Pair Hand Painted by Gyokuzan
Located in Newark, England
Painted with Continuous Scenes
From our Japanese collection, we are delighted to offer this Japanese Satsuma Vase Pair by Gyokuzan. The Satsuma vase pair of squat bulbous form with ...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery
Japanese Meiji Riverside Scroll Painting, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Although western painting was initially embraced during Japan’s Meiji period (1868-1912), artists brought on a revival of traditional painting styles as they sought to create a modern Japanese style with roots in the past. This exquisite hanging scroll demonstrates the preference for soft layering of gray tones with judicious use of color. The landscape is rendered in soft ink washes that subtly distinguish between water, mountain, and sky. The scroll painting...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Paper
A Japanese Bronze Vase With Applied Lotus Leaf Design
Located in Stamford, CT
A Japanese patinated bronze vase with alternating lotus leaf design. Meiji Period
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
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
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Copper
Antique Japanese Meiji Bronze Lobster, Seashell, Basketweave, Bamboo Planter
Located in New York, NY
Unusual rhombus shaped Japanese Meiji period bronze sea-life motif bonsai, bamboo planter, ikebana. The body in the form of a densely woven basket of fine detail, with a large lobster, clam shell, cockle, conch, crab, pearl oyster and whelk sculptural motifs on the sides, set upon bamboo form bronze feet.
The base signed in Japanese within an ornate seal.
Perfectly sized for an artistic bonzai tree...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Meiji Totai Cloisonne Enamel Ceramic Jar
Located in New York, NY
An antique Japanese late Meiji era covered Totai enamel on ceramic ginger jar. Circa: late 19th century to early 20th century. The body and the lid of the ware are enameled with poly...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Enamel
Meiji asian art and furniture for sale on 1stDibs.
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