Meiji 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.
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Style: Meiji
Fine Japanese Meiji Bronze Okimono Sculpture of Tiger by Mitani
Located in Shippensburg, PA
An exceedingly fine Japanese bronze okimono of a Roaring Tiger from the Meiji period, it exhibits the finest chiseling and articulating of detail. The sleek beast is cast in a way th...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Yellow Ground Incense Burner with Flowers and Birds Cloisonné Enamel Meiji Era
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Top quality incense burner
Meiji era (1868-1912), 19th century
Additional information:
Material: Bronze & Metal
Primary Material: Bronze & Cloisonne
Region of Origin: Japan
Period: ...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Meiji Bronze Basketweave Pattern Sake Pot
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An exceptional quality Japanese Meiji bronze sake pot decorated with a basket weave patterning dating between 1868 and 1912 and probably made around 1890. The...
Category
1890s Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Contemporary Red Blue Green Gold Porcelain Lucky Cat Sculpture, 2
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Exquisite Japanese Contemporary porcelain beckoning cat, a uniquely and intricately gilded and hand painted porcelain sculpture from the Kutani region of Japan. The cat raising his left paw is adorned with multiple golden medallions and is covered with raised loops characteristic of the Kutani “mori” style. While the origins of the Japanese beckoning cat are unclear, contemporary woodblock prints show they were being widely sold as good luck charms by the 1850s. The beckoning cat comes in two varieties. The more common right-handed beckoning cat (with right paw raised) is said to bring money and wealth to its owner, and are to this day frequently seen in shops and restaurants in Japan. The less common left-handed cat is said to be inviting friends and acquaintances to hearth and home.
The “mori” style refers to raised loops and other decorative motifs applied by squeezing a tube of slip onto the body of the cat much like applying frosting to a cake.
The cat boasts the traditional Kutani colors of bright green, red and yellow presented against an dark blue background, and is generously accentuated with gold. The red kerchief with a knotted amulet in the back and two bells on the side also identify this as a traditional Kutani piece, as do the perked ears turned outward.
A stamp indicating it is produced in Kutani region of Japan appears at reverse side of this beckoning cat scultures...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Gold
Pair of Black Bronze Japanese Candleholders Incense Burner
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Pair of black cast bronze Japanese candleholders censer.
Oriental antique late 19th century Meiji period Japanese heavy black bronze candlesticks...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Late 19th Century Japanese Imari Charger
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Late 19th century Imari charger, Japanese. Boldly decorated with lobed border. Three primary reserves of humorous man with fan. Small reserves of flowers, cranes & turtles. Chop impr...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Japanese Karamono Style Hinged Hitsu for Kimono Storage
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Large Japanese hinged hitsu (kimono storage coffer) woven of bamboo in the Chinese style with broad expanses of two layers of woven mats as the siding and the convex lid trimmed in t...
Category
Early 1900s Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bamboo
Japanese Tagasode (Whose Sleeves?) Lacquer Incense Box, Kobako, Meiji Period
Located in Austin, TX
A fine and unusual Japanese lacquer box for incense accessories, kobako, featuring a tagasode (whose sleeves?) design, Meiji Period, circa 1900, Japan.
The exquisite box of simple rectangular shape worked in maki-e lacquer, taka-maki-e, and raden, all against a lush ground of gold nashiji. Fitted with silver rims.
The main decorative element of the box depicts a six panel folding screen, byobu, showing an interior scene with kimono strewn over a rack, a motif known as tagasode (whose sleeves), all in raised taka-maki-e lacquer and inlaid raden.
The screen depicts an intimate room with tatami mats on the floor and sliding shoji doors in the background. The foreground depicts a large clothing...
Category
Early 1900s Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Silver
Antique Japanese Brocade Monk's Robe Kesa Meiji Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese Kesa (Monk's Vestment) made from thirteen columns of patchworks of shimmering woven brocades. The elaborate motifs feature repetitive elaborat...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Brocade, Silk
Pair Antique Edo/Meiji 19th c Vases Bronze Japanese Heavy elephant ears
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Nicely made and carved pair of Bronze vases.
Condition
just some ware and some small scratches/dents. As pictures Size: 16CM high
Period
19th century
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Japanese 19th Century Lacquered Sendai Clothing Tansu with Elaborate Hardware
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Japanese Meiji 19th century double-section Sendai clothing tansu (Isho-dansu) with drawers and elaborate hand cut iron hardware. Born during the 19th ...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Iron
Early 20th Century Meiji Period Japanese Export Center Table with Dragons
Located in Austin, TX
A powerfully carved Japanese export dragon center table, Meiji Period, early 20th century.
Made for the export market, the rectangular table features a...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Softwood
Pair Of Japanese Wood Shokudai with Chrysanthemum Base And Brass Prickets
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Pair of Japanese wood Shokudai with chrysanthemum shaped base, brass prickets and gold leaf
Shokudai or candlesticks are prevalent in homes and temples during the Meiji period and w...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Brass
Japanese bamboo and rosewood display stand
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Japanese bamboo and rosewood display stand, used for Ikebana or an Okimono in the Tokonoma, center floating panel with upright bamboo veneer dec...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bamboo, Rosewood
A Pair of Meiji Era Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Cherry Blossom and Geometric Patte
Located in New York, NY
A pair of antique Japanese copper vases with cloisonne enamel design. Late Meiji period, before 1912. Cylindrical shape with pronounced base and ...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Enamel, Copper
Antique Japanese Meiji Bronze Mirror 19th Century
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An exceptional and stunning Japanese bronze handled mirror within a fitted black lacquered case. The mirror is polished to one side with the other s...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Antique 19th c. Japanese Shaku Dokei Hanging Stick Pillar Wall Clock
Located in Danville, CA
Antique 19th c. Japanese Shaku Dokei Hanging Stick Pillar Wall Clock
Here I'm offering a very old Japanese stick clock or Shaku-Dokei. The wood case has a...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Brass
Late 19th century (Meiji period) painting depicting tiger
Located in Fukuoka, JP
Antique Tiger Painting on Paper – Meiji Period
A striking depiction of a tiger, painted on paper and signed by the artist. This work was originally part of a Japanese byobu folding ...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Gold Leaf
Antique Meiji Period Imari Porcelain Lamp
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Classic iron red and cobalt blue Imari Porcelain vase now as a lamp/ The circa 1900 Japanese vase, handprinted in the traditional colors, elec...
Category
Early 1900s Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Framed Antique Japanese Embroidery Fukusa Panel
Located in Atlanta, GA
A finely embroidered Japanese silk Fukusa panel presented in a beautiful brocade-wrapped fame. Circa late 19th century of Meiji Period, Fukusa is a traditional Japanese textile...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Silk, Wood
Early 20th century (Meiji period) crane scroll. Original storing box
Located in Fukuoka, JP
This Meji -Taisho period painting captures a serene moment in nature, depicting graceful bird resting. Painted on silk . Signed. Includes original storage box
Size: Overall 138/...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Silk, Paper
19th Century Japanese Six Panel Screen: Silver Moon Rising Over Summer Field
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese Six Panel Screen: Silver Moon Rising Over Summer Field. Rimpa Style painting of a moon rising over summer flowers and grasses, including cockscomb and blue bellflowers. Pa...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Gold Leaf
Early Porcelain Underglaze Dragon Ewer by Makuzu Kozan Meiji Period
By Makuzu Kozan
Located in Atlanta, GA
A porcelain ewer with fine underglaze iron red, brown and blue decoration made by the legendary Japanese imperial potter Makuzu Kozan (1842-1916), this relatively rare piece is dated to circa Meiji 23rd to 26th year (1890-1893) based on the mark used on the base. This is the starting period when the artists departed from his high-relief and gold gilt period and started focusing on making porcelain pieces with underglaze paint and experimented new colors. The ewer form is also relatively rare in the artist's survived repertoire compared to other forms.
The piece takes its shape from the prototype Chinese...
Category
1890s Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Japanese Contemporary Red Black Cream Folding Screen Silk Brocade Kimono Art, 3
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Exceptional Japanese contemporary two panel "byobu" or folding screen featuring genryoku style handcrafted silk raised kimono Japanese decorative art in crimson red, black and gold o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Gold
Meiji Japanese Cast Bronze Relief Chrysanthemum & Birds Lamps 'Pair'
Located in San Francisco, CA
A pair of large, cast bronze, urn-shaped lamps made circa 1885-1890, during the Meiji period (1868-1912) in Japan. They are decorated in both relief and applique with chrysanthemums,...
Category
1880s Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Meiji Period Bronze Sculpture of a Mother and Son by Atsuyoshi
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Meiji period bronze sculpture of a mother and son by Atsuyoshi, she is shown seated on a gnarled rootwood base, with her arm round a crying boy standing by her knee and offering her breast, wearing a short robe, trousers and a cloth incised with Mount Fuji around her head, and bare feet. Signed Atsuyoshi saku, Maruki Shachu seisaku (??????????? (??????????). Japanese, circa 1880.
Footnote: Atsuyoshi is known for a number of finely modelled bronze studies of both wild and domesticated animals, almost all of them made for the Tokyo based Maruki Company. This is therefore an unusual subject matter for him and Japanese bronzes in general , however Oliver Impey and Joyce Seaman, in ‘Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period’ (in the Ashmolean Museum Collections), pp. 68-69, include a bronze group of a woman who has just finished breast feeding...
Category
1880s Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Contemporary Blue Red Green Porcelain Vase by Master Artist, 5
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Exquisite contemporary signed decorative porcelain vase, a stunning piece in an elegant shape hand-painted by highly acclaimed porcelain artist of Japan’s Imari-Arita region. The art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Japanese Woodblock - Dutch Lady with Child and Servant - Meiji Period
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Antique Japanese Woodblock - Dutch Lady with Child and Servant - Meiji Period
attributed to Utagawa Kuniteru II
Yokohama-e - Yokohama-e are prints depicting foreigners in Yokoha...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Paper
Tansu Sideboard I
Located in New York, US
Tansu Sideboard I
Sourced in Japan
Paneled Sliding Doors
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Cedar
Vintage Chinese Green and Brown Serpentine Foo Dog Chop Seal
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting a stunning and rare vintage Chinese green and brown serpentine foo dog chop seal,
Hong Kong/Chinese, circa 1950s or 1960s
A fantastically carved...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Serpentine
19th Century Pair of Japanese Bronze Lions Bookends, Meiji Period
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
This superb and rare pair of Japanese Meiji period bronze bookends are cast in solid bronze and depict a pair of Lions, with their heads raised. These finely sculpted pieces are beau...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Imperial Imari Charger with Large Gilded Eagle and Gilded Flying Crane
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Imperial Imari 14.25" charger with large gilded eagle and gilded flying crane, Japanese, Meiji period, circa 1870.
Category
1870s Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Japanese Antique Low Table / Sofa Table Coffee Table / 1868-1912s Wabi-Sabi
Located in Iwate-gun Shizukuishi-cho, Iwate Prefecture
This is a low table that combines old Japanese trees.
The detailed tree species of the upper board is unknown, but it is considered to be katsura wood, and the color has become dark...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Wood, Cedar
Japanese Meiji Period Late 19th Century Isho-Dansu Chest with Iron Hardware
Located in Yonkers, NY
An antique Japanese Meiji period two-part tansu chest from the late 19th century with dark red lacquer, iron hardware, small safe and carrying handles. Created in Japan during the Meiji period (1868-1912), this wooden chest called an Isho-Dansu chest is a fine example of Japan's traditional mobile cabinetry. Tansus were portable chests...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Iron
Early 20th Century Japanese Bamboo Cabinet With Sliding Doors
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The sis the bottom piece of an early 20th c. bamboo and hinoki wood Japanese shop cabinet. Sliding doors. All original including interior shelf. Would be i...
Category
20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bamboo
Old or Antique Japanese Imari Porcelain Covered Jar or Urn
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine Japanese Imari porcelain lidded jar or urn.
Decorated throughout with painted red floral devices with blue underglaze and gilt highlights against a white ground.
Simply ...
Category
20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
19th C. Early Meiji Period Paper Tansu Wabi Sabi
Located in London, GB
An early 19th C. Meiji period paper tansu.
Heavily patinated Japanese pine & cedar.
two sets of sliding doors with plenty of drawers.
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We offer free s...
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19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Cedar, Pine, Paper
Antique Signed Japanese Meiji Period Mixed Metals Bronze Double Gourd Form Vase
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique Japanese bronze vase.
From the Meiji Period.
With copper and silver floral and vine and butterfly inlay as well a kanji symbol to the neck (possibly a stylized f...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Silver, Copper, Bronze
Japanese Contemporary Silk Red Black Cream Hand-Crafted Two Panel Folding Screen
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Exceptional Japanese contemporary two panel "byobu" or folding screen featuring genryoku style handcrafted silk raised kimono Japanese decorative art in crimson red, cream and gold o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Gold
Japanese Contemporary Gold Blue Green Porcelain bowl by Master Artist, 2
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Extraordinary Japanese contemporary museum-quality highly collectible decorative porcelain bowl/centerpiece in a stunningly flared shape with circular movements on its surface featur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Gold, Platinum, Silver, Foil
Japanese Meiji Art Nouveau Silver Ginger Jar with Iris Flowers
Located in New York, NY
Japanese Meiji Art Nouveau silver covered ginger jar, ca 1890. Iris flowers in full bloom with splayed and overlapping tendrils applied to spot-hammered ground. Double walled. Fin-de...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Silver
Antique Japanese Meiji Bronze Censer Insence Koro Hand Warmer Brazier 1890
Located in Portland, OR
A good & large antique Meiji period Japanese bronze brazier, koro or handwarmer, circa 1890.
The twin handled koro having a reticulated lid dec...
Category
1890s Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Signed Japanese Black Glaze Kutani Porcelain Vase by Mitsui Tamekichi III
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine vintage Japanese Kutani porcelain vase.
By Mitsui Tamekichi the 3rd (?????3?).
Born Mitsui Eiichi in 1935. He met his wife while apprenticing under Kutani master Torijo...
Category
20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Meiji Two-Part Japanese Tansu in Cypress & Kiriwood from the Yamagata Prefecture
Located in Milford, NH
A fine two part Japanese tansu chest in cypress and kiriwood, the upper part with oxblood stained top, two fitted large drawers, and a single fitted small drawer, over a single fitte...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Metal, Iron
Late 19th Century Japanese Hardwood Desk
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive fine quality Japanese hardwood desk from the Meiji era, having a bridge like structure to the top, shelves, cupboards and drawers all with wonderful carved floral a...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Hardwood
Bronze sculpture of a rat standing on a radish (Okimono)
Located in PARIS, FR
This beautiful bronze okimono depicts a mouse delicately perched on a leafy radish. The mouse, resting on its two hind legs, has a long tail that wraps around the radish. Each elemen...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Lovely Ando Jubei Early 20th C Antique Period Japanese Vase Flower Cloisonne
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Description
Made By Ando Jubei, early 20th century
Worked in copper wire with stalks of flowering spider chrysanthemums and plum and narcissus reserved on a pale-green ground, th...
Category
20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Japanese Contemporary Red Porcelain Bowl by Master Artist, 2
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Extraordinary Japanese contemporary museum-quality porcelain bowl/centerpiece in silver based foil in three stunning shades of red on a elegantly shaped body. This is a masterpiece b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Silver, Foil
Large Framed Japanese Buddhist Amida Temple Hall Painting, Mid-19th Century
Located in Austin, TX
A large and incredible Japanese painting of a Buddhist temple hall with Amida Nyorai, late Edo or early Meiji period, mid-19th century, Japan. Mounted wit...
Category
Mid-19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Wood, Paint, Brocade, Silk, Acrylic
Old Wooden Netsuke Japanese Frog Figure Meiji Period, 19/20th Century
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Lovely and very detailed piece. Unsigned. Japan 19th or 20th century.
Weight: 8 grams
Provenance: Collected in the 1980’s. From the collection of Clemens Merkelbach van Enkhuizen...
Category
20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Wood
Japan 1870 Meiji Period Round Five Drawer Inro Lacquered Wood With Flying Cranes
Located in Miami, FL
Japanese Inro from the Meiji Period (1868-1912).
Beautiful Inro, created in Japan during the Meiji imperial period, circa 1870. It was carefully crafted in carved precious wood with applications of lacquer and decorated with orientalism patterns. All dan trays are attached together with a himo cord. The detailed craftsmanship was a true pleasure to behold.
Period: Meiji 1868-1912, Period of Emperor Mutsuhito.
Approximate Date: 1870.
Motif: Organic design with cascade landscape scene and five flying cranes.
Drawers: Five.
Shape: Cylinder. Very unusual and rare shape.
Technique: Carved wood, Lacquer, hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, Gilding.
Ojime: 17mm, round with Ebony wood.
Netsuke: Carved dressed...
Category
1870s Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Wood, Ebony, Giltwood, Lacquer
Pair of Large Meiji Era Japanese Woodblock Prints
Located in London, GB
Pair of large Meiji Era Japanese woodblock prints
Japanese, Late 19th Century
Frames: height 42.5cm, width 78.5cm, depth 2cm
Prints: height 35cm, width 78.5cm
These excellent w...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Paper
Antique 19th Century Japanese Satsuma Covered Tripod Box Japan Yokohama Satsuma
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Fabulous Japanese Satsuma ware tripod lidded box.
Marked ??Nippon ??Yokohama ???Yasui-zo(made) which means that it is so called Yokohama-Satsuma
Condition:
Overall condition 1...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Earthenware
Miniature hokkai bako or kaioke, doll furniture replica of a traditional box
Located in PARIS, FR
Small hokkai bako or kaioke seashells game box, of circular form with its four feet, its bronzes and cordon, decorated with a motive of flowers of gold lacquer on a black lacquer bac...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Gold, Bronze
Japanese Kiseru Tobacco Pipe & Case, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This elegant pipe of white brass and bamboo dates to early 20th century Japan and was used for smoking finely shredded tobacco (kizami-tabako). Known as a rao-kiseru, these short smo...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Brass
Japanese Meiji Terracotta Wall Plaque Vantines Oriental Store New York
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A rare Japanese Meiji terracotta wall plaque depicting a traveller being attacked dating from around 1890. The plaque depicting a relief moulde...
Category
1890s Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Terracotta
Japanese Contemporary Purple Green Blue Gold Porcelain Vase by Master Artist, 4
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Exquisite Japanese contemporary gilded and intricately hand painted porcelain vase in a beautiful shape, intricately hand-painted in various hues of purple, a masterpiece by widely a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Gold
Pair of Japanese Meiji Period Porcelain 'Kutani' Foo Dogs
Located in Brisbane, QLD
A pair of fine quality Japanese Kutani foo dogs in rich polychrome enamels over porcelain. The pair date to the Meiji period (1868-1912) and are in lov...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Meiji furniture for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Meiji furniture for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage furniture created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include asian art and furniture, decorative objects, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, ceramic and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Meiji furniture made in a specific country, there are Asia, East Asia, and Japan pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original furniture, popular names associated with this style include Satsuma, Kinkozan, Ando Jubei, and Makuzu Kozan. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for furniture differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $65 and tops out at $190,804 while the average work can sell for $2,112.
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