Japonisme Furniture
JAPONISME STYLE
In the late 19th and early 20th century, France developed an enduring passion for Japanese aesthetics and craftsmanship. Not only did this interpretation of Japanese culture — which became known as Japonisme — infuse fresh energy into French art and design, but it also radically transformed how Europeans, and subsequently the world, would come to understand visual culture.
Until 1853, Japan had been closely guarded against foreign visitors for over two centuries. However, American Commodore Matthew C. Perry sailed into Japan that year and initiated the first of its treaties with the United States and Europe, thereby opening its borders and giving the West its first-ever look at Japanese design.
For the next few decades, taken with Japonisme, sophisticated collectors in Paris, New York and elsewhere gorged themselves on lacquered screens, celadon ceramics and netsuke ornaments, along with artworks depicting various aspects of Japanese life. The East Asian country’s influence on Europe, particularly France, contributed to one of the most creatively prosperous periods in history, leaving an imprint on the Impressionist, Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements, and inspiring artists like Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, Vincent van Gogh as well as luxury houses such as Louis Vuitton and Hermès. Japonisme emerged at the time when the ornate Renaissance Revival style was the most prominent mode of decorating in Europe, and Japanese aesthetics seemed strikingly modern and elegant in comparison.
In addition to everyday practical objects from Japan, such as vases, tableware and decorative boxes, Japanese art, especially Japanese woodblock prints by masters of the ukiyo-e school, caught the eye of many artists — particularly those in the Art Nouveau poster community in 1880s Paris. The luscious organic colors associated with traditional Japanese design, motifs like cherry blossoms and carp and the vivid patterns found in woodblock prints, silks and more were adopted and appropriated by painters as well as ceramicists and those working in other fields of the decorative arts. Today, demand for Japanese lacquerware — furniture, trays, writing boxes, screens, incense burners — from the Edo period (1615–1868) and the late 19th century continues to be very strong among collectors.
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Style: Japonisme
Large Flowery Japanese Porcelain Plate, 19th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Large circular Japanese porcelain plate, painted with a basket filled of cherry branches, peonies, dahlias, daisies and three little birds. Blue, re...
Category
Mid-19th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Japanese Silk Wall Covering JS-41
Located in Staunton, VA
Japanese silk wall coverings by Paul Montgomery Studio are available in a wide variety of colors. Characterized by irregular thickness of weave and ...
Category
2010s Japanese Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Silk
Japanese Rinpa Style Lacquer Box Meiji Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
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 ...
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1890s Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Monumental Japanese Bas Relief Carving on Natural Wood Slab
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Monumental Japanese bas relief carving on natural wood slab
Palatial sized Japanese wood carving from the Meiji Period (1868-1912). This stunning sc...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Antique Japanese Export Silk Embroidery Panel of American Union
Located in Atlanta, GA
A rather fascinating silk embroidery panel that depicts an American eagle perched on a shield, with laurel branches and shooting arrows under the...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Silk, Wood
Imari Porcelain Bowl, Meiji Period, Japan, 19th c.
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Hand decorated Japanese Meiji period porcelain bowl. The interior hand painted scene depicts three birds sitting on the limb of a tree. The reverse is hand painted with underglaze bl...
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1880s Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Enamel
20th Century Pair of Small Porcelain Satsuma Vases
By Satsuma
Located in Paris, FR
Two porcelain hexagonal Satsuma vases painted in polychrome enamels and gold. The paunch is decorated with intricate Japanese characters in a landscape, the neck and the shoulder wit...
Category
Early 19th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Japanese Gourd Shape Bamboo Ikebana Basket
Located in Atlanta, GA
A lovely Japanese bamboo ikebana basket in the shape of gourd with an open mouth and a body circa 1920s-1940s. The piece was woven in great details and styles with mostly irregular a...
Category
20th Century Japanese Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Bamboo, Rattan
Early Japanese Hand Basket with Brocade Interior by Suzuki Gengensai
Located in Atlanta, GA
This small elegant woven bamboo basket was meant to be a hand-hold bag with its brocade interior (which appears original). It was made by Suzuki Gengensai (1891-1950) circa 1910-20s. Suzuki Gengensai was from Kansai region and active in Osaka. He studied bamboo art under Yamashita Kochikusai (1876-1947) and became an independent artist in 1913. He received his artist name Gengensai in 1914 and in 1923 he changed the characters to Gen, a slight written variation of the character. This basket was signed in the former way, which helps to date the piece to the early part of the artist's career circa 1914-1923.
The basket is tightly woven in variation of twill plating that creates contrasting bands on the surface. The base was constructed with short bamboo stripes on the corners and side with ornamental knots.
A closely related piece (Object Number: 2006.3.651) with slight different surface twill patterns is in the collection of Asian Art Museum San Francisco. Comparing the two, they show almost identical form as well as the base construction. Both also have brocade interior and most likely were woven during the same period.
Another documented example can be found on page 180 in "Baskets Masterpieces of Japanese Bamboo Art...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Brocade, Bamboo
Japanese Imari Bowl Centerpiece with French Ormolu Mounts, circa 1900
Located in Austin, TX
An elegant French Louis XVI style Japonisme centerpiece comprised of a large 19th century Meiji Period Japanese Imari Porcelain bowl with French gilt metal ormolu mounts, late 19th-e...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Lacquer and Gilt Bronze Cabinet in the Japonisme Style by Rosel
By Rosel
Located in London, GB
Lacquer and gilt bronze cabinet in the Japonisme style by Rosel
Belgian, late 19th century
Measures: Height 185cm, width 94cm, depth 43cm
The ...
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Late 19th Century Belgian Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Onyx, Ormolu
Imari Porcelain Charger-Japan, Meiji Period-18.25" Diameter
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Large finely decorated Japanese Meiji period Imari porcelain charger. The decoration consists of shaped panels overlayed...
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1880s Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Enamel
Framed Antique Japanese Embroidered Silk Panel Signed
Located in Atlanta, GA
An exquisite Japanese embroidery piece circa end of 19th-early 20th century of Meiji period. The silk panel depicts an idyllic water scenery, in which three mandarin ducks swim in th...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Silk, Wood
Japanese Silk Wall Covering SL-07
Located in Staunton, VA
Japanese silk wall coverings by Paul Montgomery Studio are available in a wide variety of colors. Characterized by irregular thickness of weave and a rus...
Category
2010s Japanese Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Silk
Japanese Lacquer Tray with Maki-e and Inlay Hara Yoyusai Edo Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
A lovely Japanese lacquer rectangular lacquer tray with a slightly scalloped corner and four L shape supporting feet by one of the most celebrated lacquer artist active in Edo period Hara Yoyusai (1772-1845). Yoyusai lived in Edo (Tokyo) and worked under the patronage of Lord Matsudaira. He operated a large workshop and had a very prolific output of lacquer objects. Most survived pieces being inro...
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19th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
French Japonisme Lacquered Metal Jardinière on Ormolu Stand Signed Marnyhac
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Jardinière Médicis vase shape in copper with gold lacquered decoration on a burgundy background of a Japanese landscape with a volcano and an eagle ...
Category
1870s French Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Set of Three Japanese Wood Netsukes
Located in Atlanta, GA
Set of three Japanese netsukes carved out of wood with a reddish stained finish, appear to be circa mid-20th century. One depicts a frog holding a trumpet; one a rooster eating grain...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Wood
Japanese Inro by Koma Koryu Edo Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
A four-case lacquered inro by Koma Koryu circa 19th century late Edo period. The inro features a pair of Chinese mandarin duck resting under a bundle of blooming irises on the pond. ...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Rare Japanese Lacquer Writing Box Suzuribako Meiji Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese Lacquer writing box Suzuribako Meiji Period (1868-1912), likely circa late 19th century. This suzuribako is one of the most unusual boxe...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Lacquer
Fine Japanese Lacquered Inro with Inlays by Kajikawa
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese four-case lacquer inro by a member of Kajikawa family circa 19th century (late Edo to early Meiji period). It depicts a nocturnal scenery of a meandering stream surrounded by bush clovers, where a full moon is reflected on the water. It was masterfully decorated in gold and silver maki-e using a combination of techniques including takamakie, togidashi and kirigane as well as aogai (abalone shell) inlays. The stream was set between the slightly elevated banks, adding to this piece a already strong three-dimensional composition. The interior was decorated in gold nashiji. It was signed on the bottom "Kajikawa Zou" (made by Kajikawa and a pot seal centered with "Ei" in Kanji. In one of the compartment, there is a katakana mark, appears to be a name, possibly the owner.
Kajikawa clan was one of the most famous lacquer artisanal family established in the 17th century. Many well known members over the generations produced lacquer art in a wide range of formats, but two third were signed only with the family name such as this one. It is therefore not possible to pinpoint the exact author of this piece.
Provenance: This inro was purchased as lot 349 in Christie's New York sale Japanese...
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19th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Shell, Wood, Lacquer
Pair of Framed Japanese Embroidery Art Portraits
Located in Atlanta, GA
Artistically framed for display in a slight shadow frame with non-reflective pixie glass, these pair of embroidery art panels from Japan are dated circa 1910-1930s, end of Meiji to early Taisho period. This period was the peak of the Japanese oversea expositions, when all things Japonisme took Europe and America by storm and left long-lasting impact on western art and design. The influence, however, was clearly not one-directional; As when Japanese artists, artisans and dealers experienced western art, it in turn inspired and impacted on the aesthetics of the Japanese art made for the western tastes. An interesting crop of art forms quickly emerged with a particular outlook that bridged the east and west, with the fundamental techniques still rooted in Japanese traditions. These rare hyper-realistic embroidered portraits were such an example. They took the essential format of the western portrait that permeated the Victoria and Edwardian Society, but substituted with exotic Japanese subjects and executed in traditional embroidery techniques which had been perfected for centuries by the natives.
The two portraits on offer, one an elder man with long white beards and a pair of round spectacles lighting a pipe, and the other a grinning man with a peasant attire, were both set in black background, stimulating an appearance of Classic western oil painting or perhaps even the photograph. The fine stiches were maneuvered into an impressively hyper-realistic imagery that was far removed from the traditional Japanese embroidery...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Silk, Wood
Set of Five Ceramic Tea Cups by Otagaki Rengetsu
Located in Atlanta, GA
A set of five stoneware sencha tea cups by Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875). These miniature cups were simply molded in the classic form, glazed in off white and incised with cursive waka poems, a signature decorative style by the artist. Accompanies the cups is a wood storage box and paper slip label inscribed "Rengetsu sencha, tea cups"
Purportedly purchased from Tessai-do Co. Ltd., Japan in 1991.
Otagaki Rengetsu was a famous Buddhist nun in Edo period who is widely regarded to have been one of the greatest Japanese poets...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Wood
Pair of Large 19th Century Satsuma Lidded Vases, circa 1890
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive pair of Japanese Meiji period (1868-1912) Satsuma lidded Koros (Vases) Each with a bold turquoise ground, classical gilded decoration,...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Earthenware
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
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Glazed Ceramic and Gilt Bronze Vases, France, Late 19th Century
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Pair of glazed ceramic and gilt bronze vases, France, late 19th century.
Category
1890s French Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Kyoto Ware Vase Attributed to Ninsei
Located in Atlanta, GA
An elegant vase made in Kyoto, Japan, circa 1920s. With a graceful elongated Mei-Ping form, it was likely used as a flower holder during the tea ceremony. The stoneware body has an incised and raised design of Irises in an over glazed indigo blue, an subject matter and composition found in the contemporary paintings and screens, cherished by the literati of the Kyoto society.
The vase has a white glazed background sprinkled with dust for a rustic effect. The blue glaze displays some burst of bubbles upon close inspection, suggesting its age. Under the base, there is a small impressed mark of Ninsei (born Nonomura Seisuke) a famous potter from the 17th century, who was considered the founder the Kyoto ware...
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1920s Japanese Vintage Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Japanese Lacquered Wood Wabi-Sabi Bowl
Located in Atlanta, GA
What can we say about this bowl? Perhaps we can start by describing the unique Japanese aesthetic concept of "Wabi-Sabi". In contrast to the western concept of beauty that is centere...
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19th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Wood
Japanese Antique Textile Panel of American Historical Great White Fleet
Located in Atlanta, GA
Nicknamed Great White Fleet, the sailing of the United States Navy battleships around the globe from December 16, 1907 to February 22, 1909 by order of Uni...
Category
Early 1900s Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Brocade, Silk, Wood
Set of Four Japanese Maki-e Lacquered Pedestal Dishes
Located in Atlanta, GA
A set of four Japanese shallow footed bowls or dishes in red lacquer with predominantly gold Makie design circa 1920s-1930s Taisho period. Each was decorated with hiramakie painting of different motifs, mostly gold, black and pewter color. One with a temple drum...
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1920s Japanese Vintage Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Baluster Mug, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1753
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Pint mug of baluster form with flared base and grooved strap-handle with heart-shaped termination. The face of the mug painted after the Kakiemon with the two Quail pattern. The reve...
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Mid-18th Century English Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Blue and White Japanese Porcelain Dish Meiji Period
Located in Brea, CA
19th century blue and white Japanese porcelain dish Meiji period decorated with prunus on the cobalt blue ground, inscription to base, Ex Bonhams lot 268 diameter 12 inch.
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Tsumikasanattamono by Wataru Hatano BK
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
Japan / 2021s
Size : W1200 D25 H1550 mm
Kuroya Washi artist Hatano Wataru's masterpiece "Stacked Things" series. Japanese paper, soil, pigments, etc. are layered on top of each other to express the beauty of what has been accumulated over the years.
[Wataru Hatano...
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2010s Japanese Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Sandstone
Japanese Yoshidaya Saiko Kutani Ceramic Dish
By Yoshidaya
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese Ao-Kutani stoneware dish with overglaze decoration in the shape of barbed quatrefoil shape from late Edo period, circa early mid-19th century. Around 1804, 100 years after Ko-Kutani (old-Kutani) ware disappeared abruptly after thriving from 1655-early 1700s, saiko-kutani (revived-kutani) was attempted by many kilns and several distinguished styles developed. Among them, Yoshidaya kiln attempted to revive the original style of Ko-Kutani known as Aote, which employed four dark colors: green, yellow, dark blue/black and aubergine to create bold and striking design. The Yoshidaya production was short-lived and lasted roughly from 1823-1831. This dish is likely dated from this period or shortly after. The overglaze design centered around a crouching tiger under a black bamboo grove in a deep green background, surrounded by luxuriant banana leaves in green and aubergine with black outlines. The base of a similar concentric barbed quatrefoil design is further decorated with black foliage outlines and marked with a square Fuku mark.
For a Yoshidaya dish with identical shape but different landscape decoration, see lot 79 of sale 6547 Christie's London. Important Japanese and Chinese Art...
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19th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Rare Japanese Ceramic Glazed Bowl Makuzu Kozan Meiji Period
By Makuzu Kozan
Located in Atlanta, GA
On offer is a rare ceramic bowl with overglazed design by the famed Japanese ceramic artist Makuzu Kozan (1842-1916), circa 1906-1916. The bowl is rather unusual from the potter's repertoire with its unique glaze colors and decoration, and it likely belonged to a small series that Kozan made in and after 1906. A bowl of similar glaze and nearly identical dragon motif was recorded as a diplomatic present to the British royalty Arthur Connaught (1883-1932) when he represented King Gorge V in Japan in 1906. Other pieces, such as this bowl, were likely made with similar materials and designs afterwards.
Essentially round in form, the bowl has a generous volume with six harmonious lobes. The bottom of the interior showcases a coiled dragon in red, green and gold slithering on a cobalt blue background. The roundel shares an echoing lobed perimeter, which is further outlined by red and turquois bands and rising sun design. The exterior of the bowl features six stylized Japanese camellias...
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Early 1900s Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Pair of Cloisonné Bronze Vases, Japan, Circa 1900
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Pair of cloisonné bronze vases, Japan, circa 1900, accident on one, slight depression
Measures: H 19cm, D 10cm.
Category
20th Century Japanese Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Bronze
French Japonisme Ormolu, Patinated Bronze, and Cloisonne Enamel Mantel Clock
Located in New York, NY
A French Japonisme Chinoiserie Ormolu, patinated bronze, and cloisonne enamel mantel clock, Attributed to Escalier De Cristal and Edouard...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Tsumikasanattamono by Wataru Hatano BK Small_B
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
Japan / 2021s
Size : W900 D25 H1150 mm
Kuroya Washi artist Hatano Wataru's masterpiece "Stacked Things" series. Japanese paper, soil, pigments, etc. are layered on top of each other to express the beauty of what has been accumulated over the years.
[Wataru Hatano...
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2010s Japanese Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Sandstone
Tsumikasanattamono by Wataru Hatano BK Small_A
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
Japan / 2021s
Size : W900 D25 H1200 mm
Kuroya Washi artist Hatano Wataru's masterpiece "Stacked Things" series. Japanese paper, soil, pigments, etc. are layered on top of each other to express the beauty of what has been accumulated over the years.
[Wataru Hatano...
Category
2010s Japanese Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Sandstone
Pair of Japanese late 19th Century Jardinières
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality pair of late 19th Century Japanese jardinieres. Each having exotic brightly colored birds and flowers.
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Framed Japanese Fukusa Textile Art Meiji Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese Fukusa textile panel circa late 19th-early 20th century of Meiji Period. On the woven brocade background with gold thread forming clouds and...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Silk, Giltwood
Pair of Bronze and Enamel Japanese Garden Lanterns, circa 1900
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality pair of Japanese bronze and enamel pagoda shaped garden lanterns. Each with a patinated bright bronze finish and multicolored classical enamel decoration, circa 1900.
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Tsumikasanattamono by Wataru Hatano
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
Japan / 2021s
Size : W1200 D25 H1600 mm
Kuroya Washi artist Hatano Wataru's masterpiece "Stacked Things" series. Japanese paper, soil, pigments, etc. are layered on top of each other to express the beauty of what has been accumulated over the years.
[Wataru Hatano...
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2010s Japanese Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Sandstone
Antique Hand-Painted Japanese Porcelain Satsuma & Silver Ladies Belt
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique silver and porcelain belt was made in Japan in approximately 1900 in the period Satsuma style. The belt is a series of hand painted medallions set in silver portraying J...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Silver
Theodore Deck '1823-1891', a Japonisme Polychromed Faience Quadrangular Vase
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Theodore Deck (1823-1891)
A Polychromed Faience quadrangular vase, decorated in a cartouche with butterfly and birds on branches of prunus and peonies in the Japanese Taste on a pu...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Faience
Schumacher Lotus Garden Wallpaper in Parchment
By Schumacher
Located in New York, NY
This enchanting pattern, recreated from a 1920s document in our archives, is an ode to Japanese natural motifs.
Since Schumacher was founded in 1889, our family-owned company has ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Paper
Mid-Century Modern Black Lacquer Low Japanese Stool with Gold Leaf Accents
Located in San Diego, CA
1950s solid black lacquer wood and gold leaf accents low stool/table, stamped made in Japan solid construction with a polished finish that shows natural wear age soft scratches, a co...
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20th Century Japanese Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Japanese Antique Fusuka Textile Art Meiji Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese silk Fukusa panel circa late 19th-early 20th century of Meiji Period. The front was beautifully decorated with Yuzen-zome, a labor intensive resist-dye technique invested by an artist monk Miyazaki Yuzensai (1654 -1736) of Edo period. The auspicious composition features a group of red-crown cranes, the symbol of longevity. Three of them perch on the rock by the ocean (East Sea) an two of them are in flight. Additionally, two egrets frolic in the wave. Yuzen dying was used extensively to showcase the amazing details such as the waves and the gradual coloring effect. Embroidery was used sparsely to highlight areas such as the legs of the crane to render it more dimensional details.
The piece has a red silk backing and still retains four blue tassels on corners as well as decorative stitches along the edges.
Fukusa is a traditional Japanese textile...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Brocade, Silk
Large Japanese Lacquer Plate with Elaborate Maki-e Design by Kajikawa
Located in Atlanta, GA
A large circular plate with a short stem base in Vermillion lacquer color. The surface was decorated with a stunning maki-e picture that depicts a...
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19th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Lacquer
Fine Japanese Lacquered Inro by Yutokusai
Located in Atlanta, GA
A four-case lacquered Japanese inro by Yutokusai (Gyokkei), a lacquer artist active from 1845-1900 (end of Edo to Meiji period). The slightly round inro features a very intricate design with three unfolded fans on the front and two on the back: each reveals a vignette landscape scenery, likely real places in Japan. Using a combination of hiramaki-e and slight takamaki-e, the artist deftly created the pictures with fine details, rendering the inro as a miniature artwork...
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19th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Antique French Japonisme Mantel Clock with Floral Champlevé Enamel
Located in London, GB
Antique French Japonisme mantel clock with floral Champlevé enamel
French, late 19th century
Dimensions: Height 51cm, width 27.5cm, depth 22cm
Beautifully wrought from patinated bronze and champlevé enamel, this mantel clock is designed in the Japonisme style. The style was popular in 19th Century Europe following the opening of Japan to trade and cultural exchange.
The clock stands on four cabriole feet, with a pierced Japanese style apron to the bottom. The central case is stepped, with the main section of rectangular profile, and mounted with pierced patinated bronze vines...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Enamel, Ormolu
19th Century French Satsuma Urn Table Lamp
Located in Dallas, TX
19th century French Satsuma urn table Lamp features hand-painted artistry protected by a proprietary glaze that made such artifacts all the rage in 18th & ...
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Mid-19th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Large Japanese Lacquer Box Early Edo Period Ex-Christie's
Located in Atlanta, GA
A large lacquer Ryoshibako (Paper box in Japanese) finely decorated with Maki-e circa 17th century early Edo period. The box is of an impressive size and was used to store paper documents. Both sides of the lid were elaborately decorated with maki-e and the edge was befitted with lead rim, an early practice before the silver rim became common later. The interior and base were finished in Nashiji. The night scene on top surface of the lid depicts flocks of chidoris flying in formation from a sea shore swaying with reeds under a full moon, using hiramaki-e in both gold and silver. Ribbons of clouds were achieved with different densities of gold powder. The underside, in contrast, shows a crescent moon in takamakie-e above the sea with ferns and reeds. Chidoris, the plovers, are symbolic in Japanese culture as "thousands of blessings" and longevity. The Namichidori, the pattern in which the chidori flies in the nami (wave) represents the eternal love and safety of couples and families. For detailed references on the historical background and the use of chidoris on lacquerware, see the reference below.
This very lacquer box was featured for sale as lot 339 in Christie's London Sale Japanese Art...
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17th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Rare Triptych Scroll Paintings by Watanabe Seitei Meiji Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
A set of three paintings of ink and watercolor on silk mounted within brocade borders as scrolls by Watanabe Seitei (1851-1918). This is a very rare an...
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Early 1900s Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Brocade, Silk, Wood
Japanese Shinto Shrine
Located in Munich, Bavaria
This beautiful Shinto Shrine is called ´Yamako´ and represents a Japanese antique house altar. It is very elaborately carved by hand and decorated with m...
Category
20th Century Unknown Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Copper
Pair of Gilt Bronze and Enamel Sconces in the Japonisme Style
Located in London, GB
Pair of gilt bronze and enamel sconces in the Japonisme style
French, late 19th century
Measures: Height 48cm, width 38cm, depth 22cm
The sconces, or wall lights, in this pair a...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Enamel, Ormolu
Glass Wearing Ceramic Vase 01 Contemporary Zen Japonism Style
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Antique broken ceramic vase repaired with glass. Broken chips are welded by glass.
This work is study for relationship between object and decoration.
Subject is Destruction and coex...
Category
2010s Japanese Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Glass
Japanese Lacquer Ryoshibako Document Box Meiji Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
A large Japanese lacquer box with elaborate Maki-e design from Meiji period, (mid-late 19th century). The generous size of the box was reser...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Sumida Gawa Pottery Garniture, Japan, circa 1890-1900
By Sumida Gawa
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Sumida Gawa pottery garniture. Japan, circa 1890-1900.
Category
Early 1900s Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
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