Ceramic Textiles

Pair of Japanese contemporary porcelain scroll weights (fuchin), hand painted in green and red on a beautiful egg shaped body with gold details. Each piece bears the mark of Kutani and the artist's signature on the reverse side. Traditional Japanese rooms are often decorated with scrolls. A “fuchin” or scroll weight is a pair of tasselled weights made of porcelain or stone that is hung on the scroll's bottom end roller to straighten the scroll and steady it in the breeze. Fuchins are used as curtain tie-backs and look stunning hanging on the knobs, keys and locks of armoires and cabinets...

Pair of Japanese porcelain scroll weights (fuchin), extremely intricately gilded and hand painted on a beautiful square-shaped body in "chibu" technique in dark blue on the top and a...

Pair of Japanese porcelain scroll weights (fuchin), extremely intricately gilded and hand painted on a beautiful square-shaped body in "chibu" technique in dark blue. First developed in the early years of the 19th century, the “chibu” technique tasks the artist with painstakingly creating patterns with minute raised pigmented drops of equal size placed at precise intervals to generate a highly textured and mesmerizing field of raised dots that are most frequently done in a bluish-green hue as in the piece, but also in white and gold. This pair is from the Kutani region of Japan and each piece bears the mark of Kutani on the reverse side. Traditional Japanese rooms are often decorated with scrolls. A “fuchin” or scroll weight is a pair of tasseled weights made of porcelain or stone that is hung on the scroll's bottom end roller to straighten the scroll and steady it in the breeze. Fuchin also accentuates the beauty of the scroll. Fuchins are used as curtain tie-backs and look stunning hanging on the knobs, keys and locks of armoires and cabinets...

Pair of Japanese porcelain scroll weights (fuchin), intricately hand painted on a beautiful egg-shaped body in green, purple and yellow, from the five d...

Pair of Japanese Kutani gilded porcelain scroll weights (fuchin), extremely intricately hand painted in gold on a beautiful hexagonal shaped body in blue purple. Each piece bears the...

Pair of Japanese contemporary gilded porcelain scroll weights (fuchin), hand painted in blue, green and red on a beautiful porcelain body in white. Each piece bears the mark of Kutani on the reverse side. A “fuchin” or scroll weight is a pair of tasseled weights made of porcelain or stone that is hung on the scroll's bottom end roller to straighten the scroll and steady it in the breeze. Fuchins can be used as curtain tie-backs and also to decorate the knobs, keys and locks of armoires and cabinets...

Pair of Japanese porcelain scroll weights (fuchin), intricately hand painted on a beautiful egg-shaped body in green, from the Kutani region of Japan. E...

Pair of porcelain scroll weights (fuchin), intricately hand painted on a beautiful hexagonal shaped body in red, blue and green, from the Kutani region of Japan. Each piece bears the mark of Kutani on the bottom. Traditional Japanese rooms are often decorated with scrolls. A “fuchin” or scroll weight is a pair of tasseled weights made of porcelain or stone that is hung on the scroll's bottom end roller to straighten the scroll and steady it in the breeze. Fuchin also accentuates the beauty of the scroll. Fuchin also accentuates the beauty of the scroll. Fuchins are used as curtain tie-backs and look stunning hanging on the knobs, keys and locks of armoires and cabinets...

Pair of vintage porcelain scroll weights (fuchin) in orange from the Kutani region of Japan. Dating from the prewar Showa period of circa 1960, these egg-shaped scroll weights are gi...

Pair of vintage porcelain scroll weights (fuchin) from the Kutani region of Japan. Dating from the prewar Showa period of circa 1960, these egg-shaped scroll weights are hand painted in the traditional Kutani style. Each piece bears the mark of Kutani (??) on the reverse side. Traditional Japanese rooms are often decorated with scrolls. A “fuchin” or scroll weight is a pair of tasseled weights made of porcelain or stone that is hung on the scroll's bottom end roller to straighten the scroll and steady it in the breeze. Fuchin also accentuates the beauty of the scroll. Fuchin also accentuates the beauty of the scroll. Fuchins are used as curtain tie-backs and look stunning hanging on the knobs, keys and locks of armoires and cabinets...

Elegant pair of vintage Japanese porcelain scroll weights (fuchin) in underglaze blue on white. Dating from the prewar Showa period of circa 1960, these rectangular-shaped scroll we...

This attractive pair of vintage porcelain scroll weights (fuchin) is from the Kutani region of Japan. Dating from the prewar Showa period of circa 1930, these egg-shaped scroll weig...