Japonisme Decorative Objects

Superb Japanese-style mantel / fireplace mirror in lacquered wood, carved with an imposing dragon and decorative motifs. Japonism, France, circa 1880. Attributed to Gabriel Viard...

This extraordinary vase by French designer Vanessa Mitrani exemplifies her innovative approach to glass, merging traditional craftsmanship with contemporary artistry. The hand-blown ...

Théodore Deck (1823-1891) Exceptional Pair of Japonisme Faience Vases France, circa 1875 An exceptional museum quality and very rare pair of enamelled faience vases by Théodore Deck ...

A delicate and rare Japanese ceramic vase by the important Meiji imperial potter Makuzu Kozan (1842-1916) circa 1890s. Dated to his underglaze phase post 1887 after he successfully m...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely pair of vintage Meji Style Bronze Vases depicting Bats and Dragons. A good looking and decorative pair, these are export pieces so mad...

A wonderful Japanese Meiji period (1868-1912) Bronze overlay vase. Having exquisite and amusing scenes in relief, patinated and overlay of a Dog of Foo, a Frog fishing in a Lotus lea...

A porcelain vase with dragon design by Japanese imperial potter Makuzu Kozan (1842-1916), circa 1900s. The vase is made in what is considered early phase of his underglaze period during late Meiji era. In a classic baluster form, the surface of the vase was decorated with a slithering dragon in underglaze iron red circulating the exterior among pink clouds. The animated rendering of the dragon is fine and detailed, with five claws, scales, long tails and highlighted eyes. The pink cloud is misty and called Morotai or the hazy style, created with a unique technique developed in Kozan's studio called fuki-e by blowing the pigment powders onto the surface. Kozan Studio experimented with newly available colors from the west starting in the 1880s, which resulted in the expansion of the palette and style that bridged the east and west aesthetic tradition. Marked in underglaze blue on the base. Known also as Miyagawa Kozan...

A rare porcelain vase by Makuzu Kozan (1842-1916) circa 1870-81 (late Meiji period). The vase is dated to the earlier work from Kozan's studio during his early period (Takauki-ware p...

Japanese Meiji Period Koransha Olive Green & Gold Glaze Porcelain Vase, Ca. 1880 DIMENSIONS Height: 4.5 inches Diameter: 5 inches ABOUT Meiji Period (1868–1912) Koransha Porcelain ...

This monumental Japanese-style bronze fish sculpture is an extraordinary decorative work that captures both the natural grace of aquatic life and the enduring symbolism found through...

A charming and high quality pair of French 19th century Japonisme st. Cloisonné and Ormolu vases. Each stunning vase is raised by a square pierced Ormolu base supporting the sumptuou...

Rare Japanese clock in double patina bronze with suspended dial. The portico and dial, with calligraphic Kanji numerals complemented by hands featuring an undulating dragon, are deco...

A Japanese black lacquer box with mother of pearl inlays circa early 20th century, end of Meiji period. It was likely to be used to store inkstone or other scholarly items. The piece displays several interesting characteristics that appear puzzling initially. First, the form is not typical Japanese, but more Chinese and Korean, with its scalloped base. Second, the decoration of MOP inlays also suggests a Korean and Chinese affiliation, especially with the linear borders and the scrolling cloud patters on the sides of the box. These two observations suggest that the box may be from Ryukyu Island instead of Japanese mainland. Third, strikingly in the center of the cover, a bold quarterly floral pattern outlined with MOP was filled with a striking mottled red lacquer using tsugaru nuri...

A Rare and Quite Unusual Pair of Signed 19th Century French Japonisme/Chinoiserie/Orientalist Ormolu Mounted Champleve Enameled Onyx Urns by Eugène Cornu. Each is made from champlev...

A fine quality large pair of Japanese Meiji period (1868-1912) Fukagawa porcelain vases. Each with wonderful bold Imari colours, the tapering bands of classical motifs from top to bo...

A ceramic vase with iridescent glaze in the shape of an elephant foot cache pot by the legendary French ceramist Pierre Clement Massier (1845-1917). Massier is widely considered as t...

THREE FIGURES HINA MATSURI Japanese, Meiji period (1868-1912) in painted plaster, eggshell, silk and other materials. Height: (largest) 50 cm good condit...

A porcelain vase with dragon motif by Japanese imperial potter Makuzu Kozan (1842-1916), circa 1900s. The vase is made in what is considered early phase of his underglaze period during late Meiji era. In a classic elongated baluster form, the surface of the vase was decorated in an unusual pink mist on a white and aubergine background (called Morotai, the Hazy style), on which a flying dragon is showcased on the center. The dragon was outlined in iron red and filled with the aubergine color and was artistically emphasized on its bulging eyes, claws, scales and a long tail. It was the sole focus of the design circumventing the entire body of the vase. The imagery calls in mind the dragon decoration found in Korean...

A Pair of French Japanism Signed CP & Co Pate Sur Pate and Gilt Porcelain Vases. This elegant pair of vases, crafted by CP & Co, exemplifies the aesthetic influences of Japanism in ...

Japanese Lacquer Rhino Sculpture by Someya Satoshi (1983-). A hand-molded lacquer sculpture that depicts a fantasy beast "Rhino". The artist uses century-old traditional techniques and symbols but with an innovative contemporary energy that borders mysticism, shamanism and surrealism. Found objects were equally treated as part of the meticulous designs as the elaborate Maki-e and shell inlays. According to the press of Honolulu Museum of Art: "Someya Satoshi has been described as “one of the most significant contemporary lacquer artists working in Japan today.” (Japan Times, 12 Dec. 2013) His work combines objects of daily use, such as bathing buckets, serving trays, and soup bowls, with a wide array of natural materials, including animal bones, horns and antlers, sand, stones, leaves and branches. In the process, he implements a range of traditional lacquer methods passed down from pre-modern eras, such as the kanshitsu or “dry lacquer” technique, the origins of which date to Japan’s Nara period (710–784). After creating his forms, he embellishes them with designs inspired by calligraphy, traditional Japanese textile patterns, and even contemporary manga or comic books. His work defies ordinary definitions of lacquer art and successfully challenges the perceived limits of this extremely difficult and, in some ways, most conservative of traditional Japanese art forms". His work was exhibited in US such as Honolulu Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Morikami Museum etc. For a complete resume of the artist, see the artist's page in Imura Art Gallery. Reference: For a very similar Bull Sculpture see Hard Bodies Contemporary Japanese Lacquer...

This is a bonsai creation by Japanese artist Yumiko Kuwahata. It is made from washi paper, clay, and fabric. The ceramic vessels are personally selected by the artist, who visits ki...

This is a bonsai creation by Japanese artist Yumiko Kuwahata. It is made from washi paper, clay, and fabric. The ceramic vessels are personally selected by the artist, who visits ki...

This elegant ceramic bowl was created by Edmond Lachenal for L’Escalier de Cristal around 1890. It bears his signature. A ceramist and painter, Edmond Lachenal is known for his past...

Vintage Fabienne Jouvin French designer decorative Imari Asian wall plates. from the French Parisian designer Fabienne Jouvin the plates with irregular shapes and quite shallow with a beautiful Oriental Asian Japanese style depicting a man and woman portrait on each plate. The portrait are period Imperial style, with Japanese kimono and hair style, vivid colors on each panel of the plate depicting different Asian traditional design motifs. Colorful modern Asian motif decorative plates or shallow bowls made by Fabienne Jouvin Paris...

On offer is a truly impressive blue and white porcelain plate of Hizen ware, from Arita in Japan, circa mid to late-19th century. The plate was made by Kajiwara Kikujiro (菊次郎, the second Kiku son) and/or Kajiwara Kikusaburo (菊三郎, the third Kiku son who died in 1883) of the Kajiware Family Kiln of in Arita. It was decorated in a superb design with blue under-glaze, clearly out of a hand of a master. In a Classic Japanese composition that was popular in the Meiji Period, the plate displays a riot of auspicious elements, arranged still in a surprisingly harmonious manner. Anchoring the center of the design is an eagle perched on the branch of a blooming cherry tree, its talons clenching the bark and its wings about to open. The motion of the its immediate taking off is palpable. The trunk and the branches of the old cherry tree provide a spacial frame for the arrangement of large peonies with foliage, bundles of chrysanthemums, Chinese bell...

This is a small antique seamstress' button box. A Japanese, brass decorative tin, dating to the early Victorian period, circa 1850. Delicately crafted bo...

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...

This large Japanese Kutani charger, measuring 18 " in diameter, was created during the late 19th-century Meiji period. Its decoration features intricate hand-painted designs depictin...

ANDO CLOISONNÉ COMPANY - Extraordinary cloisonné vase with roses and transparent green enamel over raised bamboo decoration - green enamel to the interi...

This is a vase made by the Japanese ceramic artist unit "Scarlet Pottery." It is a piece of pottery made using Amakusa pottery stone. Amakusa pottery stone is famous as the raw mater...

This is a 19th century pair of Japanese Bronze Vases. These are an urn shaped vases that their bodies depicts a high relief scene of some Phoenix birds around some foliage together w...

A fine quality pair of Japanese Meiji period (1868-1912) green and red patinated bronze vases, each having pierced decoration, having wonderful raised carp swimming around the center...

This is a bonsai creation by Japanese artist Yumiko Kuwahata. It is made from washi paper, clay, and fabric. The ceramic vessels are personally selected by the artist, who visits ki...

This is a bonsai creation by Japanese artist Yumiko Kuwahata. It is made from washi paper, clay, and fabric. The ceramic vessels are personally selected by the artist, who visits ki...

A beautiful French polychrome patinated dore bronze and silvered bronze with Algerian onyx mounted centerpiece, attributed to Eugene Cornu. This beautifu...

Hand painted Japanese porcelain miniature ginger jar with handled top. Old Japan motifs of a peacock with chrysanthemum flower, dogwood trees, clouds and and butterfly. Stamped with signature on bottom, T & T Made in Japan Hand paint.

This is a bonsai creation by Japanese artist Yumiko Kuwahata. It is made from washi paper, clay, and fabric. The ceramic vessels are personally selected by the artist, who visits ki...

A wonderful 19th century life-size cold painted bronzed statue of a young Japanese girl dressed in a traditional Kimono, standing on a carved hardwood stand, after 'Louis Hottot' HO...

Large Royal Crown Derby style 'Imari' pattern centerpiece, profusely hand-painted decorated with rich, vibrant colors and gilt, unusual seaweed and floral ...

This is a bonsai creation by Japanese artist Yumiko Kuwahata. It is made from washi paper, clay, and fabric. The ceramic vessels are personally selected by the artist, who visits ki...

A Japonisme Dragon Motif Copper Clad Vase by Bretby Pottery England, Circa 1890s A large and unusual work by the famed British pottery works, Bretby. The tapering gourd shape vas...

Large vintage Japanese shallow footed bowl in red lacquer with gold calligraphy design. This beautiful lacquerware were made to serve foods during elaborate banquet. Great decorative...

This is a bonsai creation by Japanese artist Yumiko Kuwahata. It is made from washi paper, clay, and fabric. The ceramic vessels are personally selected by the artist, who visits ki...

Dedicated to moments of tranquillity and serenity, Hikari Oil Burner is a living object that embodies a form within the balance of the Japandi style and the 1980s deconstructivism movement. It defines a sculptural volume of conic pieces that complete each other distinctively. Crafted with softly brushed aluminium, Hikari Oil Burner is designed by Gökhan Eryaman and İsmail Dağlı...

This is an antique decorative bowl. A Japanese, cloisonne bonbon or grape dish, dating to the early 20th century, circa 1920. Delightful cloisonne decor with vibrant colours Display...

This is a bonsai creation by Japanese artist Yumiko Kuwahata. It is made from washi paper, clay, and fabric. The ceramic vessels are personally selected by the artist, who visits ki...

This is a bonsai creation by Japanese artist Yumiko Kuwahata. It is made from washi paper, clay, and fabric. The ceramic vessels are personally selected by the artist, who visits ki...

This is a bonsai creation by Japanese artist Yumiko Kuwahata. It is made from washi paper, clay, and fabric. The ceramic vessels are personally selected by the artist, who visits ki...

Bernard Moore, signed to the base. A small red Flambe vase decorated with a dragon in the Japanese style.

Contemporary Japanese style floor light. Rather sculpture than lighting. Made of rusted steel, ceramic, and wood. Base is metal. Ivory part is ceramic in Japanese traditional style. Top twin panels...

This pair of large candlesticks was made by the highly renowned Royal Crown Derby factory of England in approximately 1920 in their traditional 2451 Imari pattern. The candlesticks a...

Vintage Japanese decorative porcelain plate beautifully decorated with gorgeous colors and peony design typical of Toyo of Japan, circa 1950s. It is absolut...

Huge Imari vase with email painted with birds and kiku flowers.

Coalport Porcelain (English, 1795-1926 then part of the Wedgwood company), circa 1885. An Exhibition quality porcelain moon flask style vase featuring a cobalt ground and grouping of highly detailed enamel cranes to one side grazing around a pond with 24kt gold calla lilies in the background. The verso with a similar scene of two cranes likely a mating pair. Each side is surrounded by masterfully detailed sunflowers and furthermore by Rococo motifs and enameled scrollwork of polychrome enamel embellishments. Please note, unfortunately at one point this vase was made into a lamp and the base has been replaced with a gilt metal foot. Measuring: 19" h, 13.5" w, 7.5" d. Provenance: An important Cape Cod...

Early 19th century Japanese Imari porcelain vide-poche dish with hand painted floral decorations in the traditional Imari colors of cobalt blue and coral red with small green accents...

Vintage Satsuma Ceramic Decorated Fish Bowl This large early 20th Century fish bowl is decorated in enamel both inside and out, from beneath a long hairline crack is visible, this...

Japanese Showa Period Porcelain Standing Old Man Holding Staff & Scroll, Ca. 1960 MARKINGS Signed on bottom. DIMENSIONS: Height: 19 inches Width: 7.5 inches Depth: 7 inches

This antique engraved sterling silver cigarette or decorative box was made in Japan in approximately 1900 in the period Japonisme style. The box is composed of an ebonized hardwood c...

A black lacquer tebako (hand box) with maki-e decoration and silver trim, circa late 19th century, Meiji period. The surface of the lid features a Rinpa style maki-e paint depicting ...

Set of five vintage nesting Japanese tea caddy / canisters. Made of tin, cylindrical form painted black and embellished with a word in gold. Two sti...