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.
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
Japanese Antique Drawer Storage 1880s-1900s Shelf Chest Drawers Wabi-Sabi
Located in Chiba, Chiba
This is an old Japanese drawer storage shelf.
This was made during the Meiji period.
All the shelves are made from solid chestnut wood.
After more than 100 years, it has become more ...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Wood
$950 Sale Price
20% Off
Japanese Antique Wooden Board, "Abstract Sculptures", Wabi-Sabi, Mingei
Located in Katori-Shi, 12
This wooden antique board is from the Meiji period.
It is made of lauan wood.
Years of use and age have given it a beautiful appearance.
Hang it o...
Category
Early 20th Century Meiji Furniture
Materials
Wood
(3) Fine Quality Meiji Era "Nippon" Vessels, (Moriage). Japan, Circa 1910
Located in Incline Village, NV
Three fine quality "Nippon" AUTHENTIC vases from the Meiji dynasty; Japan, Circa 1910. All are in excellent and all original condition with no repairs and no restoration, chips, or touch up of any kind. They are all hand painted with moriage accents to two of them; indicative and representative of the prime era of fine quality Japanese porcelain makers during the turn of the 19th century, say 1891 through 1921. Colors are crisp and not faded. The stein or mug is particularly difficult to come by. Measurements of each are below:
1) Hand painted Nippon...
Category
1910s Japanese Vintage Meiji Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
18 inch Large Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Charger Naturalistic Crane
Located in Long Island City, NY
An extra large antique Japanese Meiji era enamel over brass charger plate. The plate is enameled with a polychrome image of naturalistic cranes in blossoming flowers and trees on blu...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Brass
1860s-1910s Meiji Japanese antique wabi sabi Urushi mid Tansu chest of drawers
Located in 常陸大宮市, JP
From Kanto or Tohoku area, Japan.
This mid tall size, Urushi lacquered Tansu chest of drawers is a product of Meiji era (circa 1860s - 1910s) , estimate from the style & conditions....
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Wood
$1,088 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Meiji Period Bronze Twin Handled Urn with Decoration
Located in Redding, CT
Large Meiji period bronze twin handled urn with decoration. Decoration consists of raised birds, branches with cherry blossoms and a dragon. Nice patina to this gorgeous vase that ca...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
$605 Sale Price
72% Off
Japanese antique wooden large penis / folk belief / 1868-1920
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This item is a giant wooden penis that was used in old Japanese houses from the late 19th century to the early 20th century (Meiji to Taisho eras). This i...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Cedar
Large 31 cm Japanese Meiji Period Bronze Vase With Cloud Motiff Japan
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
BRONZE top level Japanese vase
Condition
Perfect. Size 31cm
Period
19th century Meiji Periode (1867-1912)
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Large 30 cm Showa Period Bronze Japanese Lobster Okimono Statue Japan
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
BRONZE top level Japanese statue. Lobster
Condition
Perfect. Size: 30x18cm
Period
Showa Period
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Meiji Floral Box
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese, late Meiji era, covered enamel over brass jewelry or trinket box. The exterior of the ware is enameled with polychrome images of blossoming flowers surrounded by...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Enamel, Brass
Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Turquoise Enamel Crane Vase Signed OTA
Located in Long Island City, NY
A fine antique Japanese enamel brass vase featuring an elongated body with rounded shoulders and wide short neck. The surface is skillfully decorated with a polychrome cloisonne enam...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Enamel
High Quality Antique Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Blossoming Iris’s Vase
Located in Long Island City, NY
A high quality antique Japanese, late Meiji period, enamel over gilt copper vase. The vase has an urn shaped body and a fluted neck. The ware is enameled with a polychrome image of b...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Enamel, Copper
$1,170 Sale Price
35% Off
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...
Category
1890s Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Cabinet Vase with Wisteria
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique Japanese cloisonne enamel cabinet vase.
With polychrome enamel on a brass base.
Decorated with an enameled tree branches with blue & purple wisteria blossoms on a ...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Enamel
Japanese Pair of Large Antique Meiji Period Bronze and Mixed Metal Vases
Located in Newark, England
Inlaid with Gold and Silver
From our Japanese collection, we are thrilled to offer a Japanese Pair of Meiji Period Bronze Vases. The Japanese Bronze Vases of elongated form each sur...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Metal, Gold, Silver, Bronze
Massive Museum Pair of Meiji Period Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Chargers Plates
Located in Queens, NY
A massive Museum pair of Meiji Period Japanese Cloisonne Enamel chargers plates, attributed to Hayashi Kodenji Studio, 19th century.
Each measuring ...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Enamel
Large Antique Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Vase Attributed to Kyoto Shibata
Located in Long Island City, NY
A large antique Japanese Meiji period vase attributed to Kyoto Shibata. Features vivid depictions of birds and floral motifs, showcasing the meticulous application of cloisonne ename...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Enamel, Brass
Japanese Merchant’s chest (choba-dansu), Toyama
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Japanese Merchant’s chest (choba-dansu), Toyama, the front entirely constructed of keyaki (Zelkova serrata), original fuki-urushi lacquer fini...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Hardwood
Pair Of Japanese Cloisonne Plates Flowers On Turquoise Background Meiji Period
Located in Milano, MI
Pair Of Japanese Cloisonne Dishes Meiji Period 1868-1912 with turquoise bottom, in good condition. On the perimeter, a circular border of 1.7 cm dark background composed of geometri...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Antique Japanese Printmaking 'Hanga' of Mr. Taira no Atsumori 1900s
Located in Paris, FR
This is a printmaking called Hanga in Japanese. This Hanga was made around 1900s in Japan. As this is made with a paper and getting damaged, there is a new paper sticked on the back....
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Paper
$414 Sale Price
30% Off
Antique Japanese Cloisonne Yellow Enamel with Flying Sparrows Plate
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese late Meiji era decorative enamel over copper plate.
The interior of the plate is adorned with a polychrome image of sparrows on the yellow ground made in the Cloi...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Enamel
$1,950 Sale Price
35% Off
Japanese Connoisseurs Collection Fine Antique Smoking Pipes Kiseru
Located in South Burlington, VT
Rare one-of-a-kind collection
Japanese Connoisseurs Collection of Five (5) Fine Antique Smoking Pipes, Kiseru.
You dont need to be a conn...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Gold, Sterling Silver, Copper
$1,440 Sale Price / set
80% Off
Antique Japanese Meiji Silver Box with Birds & Blossoming Branches
Located in New York, NY
Japanese Meiji silver box, ca 1890. Rectangular with curved corners. Box sides have chased and engraved birds amidst blossoming branches and bamboo in rectangular frames. Cover top h...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Silver
Meiji Japanese Totai Cloisonne Enamel Ceramic Jar
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese late Meiji era covered Totai enamel on ceramic ginger jar. Circa: late 19th century to early 20th century. The ware is enameled with a polychrome fan shaped medallions with blossoming flowers, bamboo trees, grapes, surrounded by a geometrical pattern made in the Cloisonne technique. The cover of the ware is decorated with polychrome fan shaped medallions with blossoming flowers. The neck and the lid are adorned with polychrome geometrical, and swirl motifs made in the same technique. Signed with red ink hieroglyphs, on the bottom. Totai Shippo...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Enamel
Meiji Period Diminutive Satsuma Baluster Vase.
By Satsuma
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Meiji Period Diminutive Satsuma Baluster Vase.
This Japanese Satsuma vase from the late Meiji period is hand painted and gilt decorated with a Japanese landscape in exquisite detail...
Category
20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$680 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Japanese Meiji Silver & Enamel Box Three Wise Monkeys Komyo, Uyeda
By K. Uyeda
Located in Newark, England
Japanese Silver & Enamel
From our Japanese collection, we are delighted to offer this Japanese Silver Box by Komyo 光明. The Silver box of rectangular form with rounded corners featur...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Silver, Enamel
A Pair of High Quality Meiji Japanese Era Black Cloisonne Enamel Wisteria and Bi
Located in Long Island City, NY
A pair of antique Japanese copper vases with cloisonne enamel design. Late Meiji era, before 1912. Elongated shape with pronounced neck. The piec...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Enamel, Copper
Japan Rare Antique Hand Carved Stone Flower Or Display Base 19thc Hard To Find
Located in South Burlington, VT
From Japan comes this seldom found , one of a kind large granite stone display base featuring four sets of altar steps- an impressive and spiritually significant object for displayin...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Limestone
$1,280 Sale Price
54% Off
Japanese Gold Lacquer Inro with Deer Image, Ojime, Wood Frog Netsuke, Makie Box
Located in Point Richmond, CA
The Inro is comprised of three stacked compartments and features a deer motif with mother of pearl accents, an ojime and a wooden frog netsuke. Inros were used to store items like m...
Category
1890s Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Framed Antique Japanese Silk Embroidery Fukusa Textile Panel
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese Fukusa Panel with tassels displayed in a gilt frame circa Meiji Period. Fukusa is a traditional Japanese textile art used as a...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Silk, Wood
Japanese Sumida-Gawa sculpture of a man distributing peaches to its monkeys
Located in PARIS, FR
Polychrome sculpture in Sumida-gawa stoneware, also called Sumida-yaki, representing an old man surrounded by five monkeys in front of a basket containing two nuts. Glazed clothes an...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Enamel
Antique Japanese lacquered glass table/19th-early 20th century/center table
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This is a tool used by lacquerware craftsmen from around 1868 to 1950.
Lacquerware craftsmen used wooden barrels to mix lacquer by putting vermilion...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Glass, Lacquer
Antique Japanese Farmer's Pants, Indigo, Cotton, Meiji
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Japanese farmer’s indigo cotton pants. Woven and dyed cotton, worn by farmers working in the field. Narrow legs and ties around the waist. As shown, the pants have been well used ...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Cotton
Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Gold Stone Enamel Covered Jar with Dragon and C
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese, late Meiji era, covered enamel over brass pot or box. The body of the ware is enameled with polychrome images of cranes, medallions with blossoming flowers and b...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Brass, Enamel
Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Rooster Vase
Located in Long Island City, NY
A large Japanese amphora shaped enamel over brass vase. The vase is enameled with polychrome images of a rooster and a hen in flowers and leaves made in the Cloisonne technique on tu...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Enamel, Brass
Japanese Mixed Metal Sword Guard (Tsuba) Meiji period
Located in Sarasota, FL
Japanese mixed metal sword guard (tsuba) Meiji period. Fine shakudo and silver decoration.
Category
1890s Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Gold, Silver, Bronze, Copper
Japanese Satsuma Incense Burner, Koro, Meiji Period, Late 19th Century, Japan
Located in Austin, TX
A fine and elegant Japanese Satsuma tripod incense burner, koro, with pierced metal lid, signed Eizan (?) Meiji Period, late 19th century, Japan.
The koro, or censer, features a stoneware body of slightly compressed globular form, supported on three short and squat legs. The wide mouth with a recessed metal rim, and topped by an openwork metal lid topped with overlapping chrysanthemum blossoms of silver repousse.
The body of the koro finely painted with fan shaped cartouches. The fans in the foreground with sprays of blossoming chrysanthemum. The fans in the background with intricate geometric brocade designs.
The shoulder of the incense burner decorated with cartouches formed as stylized chrysanthemum petals, and intricately decorated with geometric and floral brocade designs.
The painting finely done in raised gilt and polychrome enamels, including the highly desirable gosu blue...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Silver, Metal
Rare 3 Piece Set of Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Silver Wire Vases wi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rare 3 Piece Set of Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Silver Wire Vases with Wisteria and Birds
antique Japanese copper vases with silver wire cloisonne...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Enamel, Silver
Pair Of Japanese Meiji Era Cloisonne Vases
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Pair of Japanese cloisonné vases with fine traditional form decorated with dragons and demons, geometric motifs and floral bands.
Dimensions: 5" W x 12" H
Condition: Please see detai...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Metal, Enamel
$1,400 / set
Japanese Antique Pair of Wood Rice Measure Vessels
Located in South Burlington, VT
Special find from our last Japanese Acquisition
Here's a beautiful and unique way to accent your indoor or outdoor garden space with these treasures from Japan!
This special ...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Metal
$316 Sale Price / set
36% Off
A Large and Exceptional Japanese Meiji Period Tokyo School Bronze Sculpture
Located in Queens, NY
Presenting an extraordinary Large and Exceptional Japanese Meiji Period Tokyo School Bronze Sculpture depicting a delightful ensemble of six energe...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
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
Japanese Antique Low Table, Wabi Sabi
Located in Katori-Shi, 12
This is an antique wooden low table from the Meiji period (1986-1912).
The curved legs are beautiful.
It was used as a workbench by craftsmen at the time.
The material is high-qual...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Wood
Meiji Fukagawa Imari Porcelain Hexagonal Vase with Factory Silver Collar
By Fukagawa
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Fukagawa Hexagonal Imari Porcelain Vase with Factory Silver Collar, Meiji Period, circa 1900
An exceptional Meiji-period Japanese porcelain vase attributed to the Fukagawa studio, f...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Sterling Silver
Vintage Japanese Carved & Lacquered Wood Vase
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine vintage wooden vase.
Carved in a hyperboloidal form.
With a dark red lacquer throughout.
Marked to the base with a stylized tensho-tai script seal.
Simply a wonderful Jap...
Category
20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Lacquer
Pair Of Japanese Meiji Period Satsuma Vases
Located in Norwood, NJ
Find pair of Meiji period Japanese Satsuma 4 panel vases. Each vase featuring one panel with scholars and one panel with samurai. The two side panels are floral. Wonderfully gilt and...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
$1,875 / set
Utagawa Toyonobu Shinsen Taikoki Japanese Woodblock Diptych Print, 19th Century
By Toyonobu Utagawa
Located in Studio City, CA
A Classic image by renowned Japanese printmaker Utagawa Toyonobu from his newly selected history of Toyotomi Hideyoshi series.
A very good impres...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Paper
Antique Japanese Meiji Moriage Satsuma Wise Man Baluster Mantel Vase 17"
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique Meiji period Japanese satsuma style moriage vase featuring a multicolored floral enamel design in bold relief framing two scen...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$380 Sale Price
20% Off
A Large Pair of Japanese Cloisonne Pink-Ground Vases Featuring Sunset and Cranes
Located in Queens, NY
Presenting a truly captivating and highly collectible pair of Meiji Period Japanese Cloisonné Enamel Pink-Ground Vases, attributed to the renowned artist Hayashi Kodenji. These excep...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Enamel
19th Century Japanese Satsuma Porcelain Water Well Bucket, Wishing Well Vase
By Satsuma
Located in Vero Beach, FL
This Japanese porcelain vase is barrel shaped with a yolk handle. It is both finely and intricately hand painted. It pictures groups of scholars with scrolls dressed in elaborate brocade kimonos...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$600 Sale Price
20% Off
Japanese Meiji 19th Century Kuruma Tansu Lacquered Chest with Safe on Wheels
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Japanese Meiji period merchant's Kuruma tansu chest from the 19th century, with four large drawers and a lateral door concealing additional drawers. Created in Japan during the 19t...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Iron
Antique Pair Of Early Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Vases Namikawa School
Located in Long Island City, NY
A pair of Japanese cloisonne enamel early Meiji translucent enamel vases . Each vase has an urn shaped body, a wide neck, and a fluted base. The vases are adorned with polychrome ena...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Enamel
$4,680 Sale Price / set
35% Off
Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Fan Scenic Night And Day Plate
Located in Long Island City, NY
A highly decorative antique Japanese Meiji Era enamel plate. The central part of the plate is enameled with a polychrome design with images of two fans adorned with traditional lands...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Enamel
Antique Early Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Translucent Floral Black Vase
Located in Long Island City, NY
Antique Early Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Translucent Floral Black Vase
An antique Japanese copper vase with polychrome cloisonne enamel design. Early Meiji period, ca. 1870s. Sl...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Copper, Enamel
$780 Sale Price
35% Off
A Japanese Black Lacquer and Water-Gilt Altar Table, Late 19th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Japanese Black Lacquer and Water-Gilt Altar Table, Late 19th Century
Description:
The altar table or butsudan with a detachable black lacquer top, traditionally shaped upturned en...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Wood
Japanese small wooden antique low table with paper pasting/1868-1920
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
I would like to introduce you to a rare Japanese low table.
This is a small wooden table made from the Meiji period to the Taisho period (1868-1920).
The wood material is cedar.
This is finished by pasting washi paper on top and applying persimmon tannin.
I don't know why they put paper on it to cover it all...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Cedar, Paper
Large Japanese Lacquer Document Box, Ryoshibako, Edo/Meiji period, Japan
Located in Austin, TX
A large and magnificently decorated Japanese lacquer document box, ryoshibako, signed Umeboshi/Baikyo, late Edo or early Meiji Period, mid 19th century, Japan.
The large document box, ryoshibako, of tall, rectangular shape with rounded corners, and fitted with an inrobuta (flush-fitting) cover with beveled edges. The exterior of this exquisite box is decorated all over with fifteen different raised reserves shaped as uchiwa (paddle) fans against a lush and intricate krikane ground imitating shagreen.
The uchiwa shaped reserves all of takamaki-e, and exquisitely painted with designs of animals, flowers, and landscapes in silver, gold, maki-e, hiramaki-e, and takamaki-e, with kirikane, nashiji, and polychrome embellishments, upon gold lacquer fudame grounds.
The interior of the lid is nothing short of spectacular, featuring a large design of a magnificent and beautifully detailed rooster and hen with chicks gathered around a lazy stream. Large stalks of chrysanthemum bloom behind them. All against an ethereal nashiji ground.
The cover of the box features five reserves:
1. Three minogame (turtles with long tails), symbolizing longevity
2. "Narihira Crossing the Sumida" from The Tales of Ise...
Category
1860s Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Softwood, Lacquer
High Quality Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Silver Wire Vase Blossoming
Located in Long Island City, NY
High Quality Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Silver Wire Vase Blossoming Wisteria and Iris's
An antique Japanese, late Meiji period, ena...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Brass, Enamel
Antique Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Brush Geometric Patterns Brush Pot, style GOTO
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Japanese Cloisonne enamel over gilt copper brush pot. Circa: late 19th century The cylindrical form pot is adorned with polychrome floral, foliage and geometric motifs made in the...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Large Japanese Porcelain Dragon Vase by Makuzu Kozan Meiji Period
By Makuzu Kozan
Located in Atlanta, GA
Made by the studio of the legendary Japanese imperial potter Makuzu Kozan (1842-1916), this is a large porcelain vase glazed in a soft yellow color with a subtle gradient, on top of ...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
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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