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Item Ships From: Amsterdam
17th Century Japanese Export Lacquer Cabinet with Depiction the Dutch Tradepost
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A highly important Japanese export lacquer cabinet with depiction of the Dutch East India Company tradepost Deshima and the annual Dutch delegation on its way to the Shogun in Edo
Edo period, circa 1660-1680
H. 88 x W. 100.5 x D. 54 cm
This cabinet includes a later European japanned stand, but also a modern powder-coated steel frame.
The latter can be designed and added to your specific needs.
The sides and front of the rectangular two-door cabinet are embellished in gold and silver hiramaki-e and takamaki-e on a black roiro lacquer ground with a continuous design. The two doors depict a long procession of numerous figures travelling on foot and horseback along buildings and a pagoda into a mountainous landscape. This is the annual court journey, Hofreis, of the Dutch from Nagasaki to the Shogun’s court in Edo. Three horseback riders are dressed as Dutch merchants and a fourth figure, probably het Opperhoofd, is seen inside a palanquin, norimon. Just about to cross the bridge, two men are carrying a cabinet like the present one.
Many Japanese figures on either side of the procession are engaged in various activities; some play musical instruments on board of small boats, others are fishing; figures inside buildings are depicted playing go, and farmers are tending to their rice paddocks. The upper part of the right door shows a large mansion, probably the local daimyo’s castle, with men kneeling before a man in the central courtyard.
The court journey fits in with the foreign policy of the shogunate which accorded a role to the VOC alongside China, Korea, and the Ryukyu Islands who also had to pay tribute. However, the VOC employees were traders, having low status in Japan’s social hierarchy, and they were received with less deference than were the state embassies from Korea and the Ryukyu Islands. Nevertheless, the contacts with the Dutch were a welcome source of information to the Shogun about Europe and European science and technology.
The left side of the cabinet depicts, in mirror image, a rare view of the artificial fan-shaped Deshima Island, the trading post for the Dutch in Japan. The island, where the Dutch flag flies, is surrounded by small Japanese boats and an anchored three-masted fluyt (cargo ship), flying Dutch flags, with on the stern the VOC monogram. On the bottom right a busy street of Nagasaki is shown, bordered by shops and leading up to the stone bridge. On the island the trees are beautifully painted, two cows can be seen, and the flagpole, all in very fine detail. Dutchmen and enslaved Malay are visible outside the buildings and two Japanese figures, probably guards, sit in a small hut in the centre.
A maximum of fifteen to twenty Dutchmen lived on the island at any time and soldiers or women were not allowed. Restrictions on Deshima were tight, and the merchants were only allowed to leave the island by special permission. The Opperhoofd had to be replaced every year, and each new Opperhoofd had to make a court journey to pay tribute, present gifts, and to obtain permission to Margaret Barclay eep on trading. In the distance, many birds fly above the hills and a four-story pagoda can be seen. The right side of the cabinet is painted with other horse riders and their retinue journeying through mountains.
The pair of doors to the front open to reveal ten rectangular drawers. The drawers are decorated with scenes of birds in flight and landscapes with trees and plants. The reverse of the left door with two thatched buildings, one with a ladder, underneath a camelia tree with large blooms; the right door with a three-story pagoda nestled among trees and both doors with a flying phoenix, ho-oo bird. The cabinet, with elaborately engraved gilt copper mounts, hinges, lock plates and brass handles, is raised on an 18th-century English japanned wood stand.
A pair of large cabinets...
Category
17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Copper, Gold
Mother-of-Pearl Black Lacquer Japanese Export Table with Feet Shaped as Bats
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Japanese export lacquer tripod table with feet shaped as bats
Nagasaki, 1850-1860
H. 73 x diam. 108 cm
The six-lobbed top is decorated with reverse-painted mother-of-pearl in a sprawling motif of plum blossom, bamboo, and peonies, surrounded by fluttering sparrows enhanced by details in maki-e.
The table, made to appeal to a foreign audience, incorporates a curious mixture of seasonal references. In addition to the decoration of foliage from late winter and spring, the column is decorated with grapes and a rabbit pounding rice, both Japanese motifs for autumn and the month of September. The feet, shaped like bats that almost appear to wake up from hibernation, symbolise luck and happiness in Japan.
The present flamboyant Nagasaki-style table is depicted in the Asada workshop drawings of 1856. These drawings, titled Aogai makie hiinagata hikae (memorandum of designs for lacquer with inlaid pearl...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Lacquer
Antique Edo/Meiji 19C Fish Incense Burner/Vase Okimono Bronze Japanese
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Nicely made Okimono.
Good condition. Size: 20.5CM high
Condition
No damages, just some very minimal ware. Size: 20.5CM high
Period
19th century
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
16th-Century Indo-Portuguese Colonial Mother-of-pearl Gujarat Casket
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An exceptional Indo-Portuguese colonial mother-of-pearl veneered casket with silver mounts
India, Gujarat, 2nd half of the 16th century, the silver mounts Goa or probably Lisbon
Measures: H. 16 x W. 24.6 x D. 16.1 cm
An exceptional Gujarati casket with a rectangular box and truncated pyramidal lid (with slopes on each side and a flat top) made from exotic wood, probably teak (Tectona grandis), covered with a mother-of-pearl mosaic. The tesserae, cut from the shell of the green turban sea snail (Turbo marmoratus, a marine gastropod) in the shape of fish scales, are pinned to the wooden structure with silver ball-headed nails. The casket is set on bracket feet on the corners. The masterfully engraved decoration of the silver mounts follows the most refined and erudite Mannerist repertoire of rinceaux and ferroneries dating from the mid-16th century. The high quality and refinement of the silver mounts and, likewise, the silver nails that replaced the original brass pins used to hold the mother-of-pearl tesserae in place indicate the work of a silversmith probably working in Lisbon in the second half of the 16th century.
The Indian origin of this production, namely from Cambay (Khambhat) and Surat in the present state of Gujarat in north India, is, as for the last three decades, consensual and fully demonstrated, not only by documentary and literary evidence - such as descriptions, travelogues and contemporary archival documentation - but also by the survival in situ of 16th-century wooden structures covered in mother-of-pearl tesserae. A fine example is a canopy decorating the tomb (dargah) of the Sufi saint, Sheik Salim Chisti (1478-1572) in Fatehpur Sikri in Agra district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, north India. This is an artistic production, geometric in character and Islamic in nature, where usually the mother-of-pearl tesserae form complex designs of fish scales or, similar to the dishes also made using the same technique, with the thin brass sheets and pins, stylized lotus flowers. The truncated pyramidal shape corresponds, like their contemporary tortoiseshell counterparts also made in Gujarat, to a piece of furniture used in the Indian subcontinent within the Islamic world prior to the arrival of the first Portuguese. This shape, in fact, is very old and peculiar to East-Asian caskets, chests or boxes used to contain and protect Buddhist texts, the sutras.
A similar chest is the famous and large reliquary chest from Lisbon cathedral that once contained the relics of the city's patron saint, Saint Vincent. Both match in shape, having the same kind of socle or pedestal and bracket feet, and in their engraved silver mountings, featuring the same type of refined, erudite decoration. Their differences lie in the silver borders that frame the entire length of the edges of the chest (both the box and the lid), pinned with silver nails, and on the lock plate, shaped like a coat of arms in the Lisbon example. Given the exceptional dimensions of the reliquary casket...
Category
16th Century Indian Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Silver
Antique Doll House Miniature Kangxi Period Chinese Porcelain Lidded Jar
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this fantastic miniature Chinese porcelain Lidded jar, made for a Dutch Doll house. Stunning and rare piece
Similar piece in the V&A museum. See images.
Country o...
Category
17th Century Chinese Qing Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Bronze Vase Cloisonné Japan Meiji 19th Century Japanese
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Absolute top Quality vase with superb decoration of flowers
Cloisonné is a way of enamelling an object, (typically made of copper) whereby fine wires are used to delineate the dec...
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
Set of Japanese & Chinese Imari Plates Wall Decoration Porcelain, China
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Perfect for interior wall decoration. We offer sets of 18-19th century Chinese/Japanese Imari plates in different sizes. Available in every quantity needed. The selection in the pictures might not be available due to stock changes, but we have around 100 Japanese/Chinese Imari plates...
Category
Early 18th Century Chinese Qing Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Japanese Woodblock - Utagawa Toyokuni l - 1816 (Honjo, Edo Period 1780
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Antique Japanese Woodblock - Utagawa Toyokuni l - 1816 (Honjo, Edo Period 1786-1865 Edo),
Diptych,
Actors Bandô Mitsugorô R) and Ichikawa Danjûrô (L)
日付: Japanese, Edo period
Pro...
Category
19th Century Chinese Meiji Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Bronze
Antique cup Chinese Porcelain London Bont Yongzheng Blue White China
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this fantastic Chinese Porcelain set of cups with redecoration done in London.
The flower mark at the base is also added later. All 4 pieces have one.
11-3-25
Co...
Category
17th Century Chinese Qing Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century Chinese Export Lacquer Chinoiserie Bureau Desk for the Dutch Market
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An extremely rare, possibly unique, Chinese export lacquer bureau for the Dutch market
Canton, circa 1737
H. 118 x W. 102.5 x D. 63 cm
Provenance:
- Private collection, The Netherlands
- J.K. Driessen Antiques, Arnhem (Art Fair Breda, 1989)
- Noble collection, Belgium
Literature:
- C.J.A. Jörg, ’De handel van de V.O.C. in Oosters lakwerk in de 18de eeuw’ in: Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek , Jr. 31 (1980), pp. 355-363 (ill.)
- Annigje Hofstede, Nederlandse meubelen van Barok tot Biedermeier, 1700-1830, Waanders, Zwolle 2004, pp. 35-37 (ill.)
This lacquer bureau is one of the four writing desks purchased in Canton in 1737, and as far as is known, this is the only remaining bureau of its type from the period. As the VOC believed that large pieces of import took up too much valuable space in their trading ships...
Category
Mid-18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Wood, Cypress, Lacquer
A large Dutch colonial ebony cabinet with brass mounts
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Dutch colonial ebony cabinet with brass mounts on contemporary black steel frame
Batavia (Jakarta), 2nd half 17th century
The cabinet has two ...
Category
Mid-17th Century Indonesian Dutch Colonial Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Brass
A Dutch-colonial Sri Lankan nedun wood and Indian padouk miniature chiffonier
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Apart from being a highly decorative object and a status symbol, these miniature pieces of furniture also functioned as collector’s items. Just like the dollhouses were for rich wome...
Category
18th Century Sri Lankan Dutch Colonial Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Silver
Antique Chinese 17th C Wanli Ming Dynasty Plate Dish Porcelain Chenghua Marked
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Description
A rare Ming blue and white Porcelain dish. Great quality decoration Three Friends of Winter. Chenghua marked.
Box included.
Condit...
Category
17th Century Chinese Ming Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
Rare 17th Century Japanese Export Lacquer Medical Instrument Box
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A rare Japanese export lacquer medical instrument box
Edo-period, 1650-1700
L. 19 x W. 6 x H. 8.5 cm
This unconventionally shaped lacquer b...
Category
17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Gold
Top Quality Antique Chinese Porcelain Dish Kangxi Period Chenghua Marked
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this exceptionally nice Chinese porcelain Plate from the Kangxi period. It has a dark cobalt blue scene with geometric design, objects and symbols.
The base with a...
Category
17th Century Chinese Qing Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
37.8CM Yongzheng Antique Chinese Porcelain Plate with a Pencilled Floral Scene
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this beautiful Chinese porcelain plate from the Kangxi/Yongzheng period.
in beautiful cobalt blue colors.
Country of origin: China
Period: Kangxi/Yonzheng period
Co...
Category
17th Century Chinese Qing Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Unusual Chinese 18c Famille Rose Landscape Plate Qianlong China
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A lovely Qianlong rooster plate. With a very unsual scene of the Roosters hunting a grasshopper. Very nice.
Condition
some chips/frits to rim, chips mainly visible underside rim....
Category
18th Century Chinese Qing Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
A 17th century Dutch-colonial ebony two-door VOC cabinet with silver mounts
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Dutch-colonial ebony two-door cabinet with silver mounts
Coromandel Coast, probably Masulipatnam, circa 1650-1680, the silver later
H. 64.5 x W. 75 x D. 46 cm
The present cabinet...
Category
17th Century Indian Dutch Colonial Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Silver
Antique 19th Century Satsuma Pair of Mini Vases Japan Figures Meiji Period
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Fabulous Japanese Satsuma vases. Marked base
Condition
Overall condition perfect. Measure: 80mm height
Period
Meiji Periode (1867-1912).
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Earthenware
Kangxi/Yongzheng Antique Chinese Porcelain Plate Romance of the Western Chamber
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this beautiful Chinese porcelain plate from the Kangxi/Yongzheng period. It depicts a story from the Romance of the Western Chamber (Xixiang Ji)
in beautiful cobalt...
Category
17th Century Chinese Qing Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
Japanese Satsuma Vase with Birds, 20th Century Taisho Period
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Nice quality with superb decoration
Condition:
Overall condition perfect. Size 325cm.
Period:
20th century.
Category
19th Century Japanese Taisho Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Earthenware
Colonial Islamic Arabian Market Jewelry Box, 18th Century, India/Malabar Coast
Located in Amsterdam, NL
AN INDIAN ROSEWOOD AND EBONY BRASS MOUNTED BOX FOR THE ISLAMIC MARKET
Malabar Coast, 18th century
With a large drawer with several compartm...
Category
18th Century Indian Islamic Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Brass
Lovely Nihonga Scene Meiji/Taisho Period Scroll Japan Artist Landscape Boats
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Axis: Vertical 192 cm, Horizontal 38.3 cm
Inside: Vertical 130 cm, Horizontal 35 cm *Some errors will occur in the dimensions. Please understand.
I don't know the details of the au...
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Silk
Antique 1740-1750 Chinese Porcelain Dish China Figural Rose Qianlong Period
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this very nice example of 18th century Mandarin ware. Dating to around 1740-1750.
Absolutely top quality scene
Very richly decorated. The border has nice puce, gil...
Category
18th Century Chinese Qing Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
Antique 19th Century Japanese Porcelain Yoshidaya Kutani Large Dish, Japan
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this lovely and unusal Kutani porcelain large dish. The dish is of circular form and has a scene of a wise man and his apprentice in a landscape scene. With beautiful colors and very nicely painted.
Base marked with a Fuku mark...
Category
19th Century Japanese Qing Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
Japanese lacquered 5-tiered jûbako 重箱 (picnic box) with banana leaf design
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Elegant lacquered tiered jûbako (picnic box) comprising five stackable tiers, two covers, and a raised tray. Each bearing an attractive deep chestnut brown ground and lacquered in ta...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Giltwood, Lacquer
Early Papua Korwar Ancestor Figure, Early 19th Century, Deep Black-Brown Patina
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An extremely rare Papua wood sculpture of a Korwar
Papua New Guinea, Cendrawasih Bay, Wandammen, early 19th century
Measures: Height 24 x Diameter 18 cm
Finely carved in th...
Category
Early 19th Century Indonesian Tribal Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Wood
Antique Ming Period Kosometsuke Landscape Chinese Porcelain Kaiseki Dish
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Very happy and delighted with this new arrival. A very nicely potted, shaped and painted blue and white Kosometsuke piece in nice cobalt blue!
Visible in the pictures is a lidded box...
Category
17th Century Chinese Ming Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
Sharing with you this amazing Japanese Kutani model of a recumbent Cat
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this amazing Japanese Kutani model of a recumbent sleeping cat, 19th Century. The details and facial expression are amazing. With with gilt fur detail and enamel rib...
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
#11 Antique Meiji Period Japanese Satsuma Autumn Tea Set 19th Century Wisteria
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Fabulous Tea set Satsuma of 11 pieces. Meiji period, 19th century
Marked:
Condition
1 cup with small frits/fleebites rim, rest perfect. Size jugs 110-140mm high cups 90x45mm DXH and...
Category
19th Century Japanese Qing Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
Japanese lacquer inrô 印籠 with golden maki-e firefly design with matching netsuke
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A lacquered 4-piece inrô with a covering design of fireflies (hotaru) flying over helms of grass and around a lantern (andon), shining attractively for the fireflies. Surrounded by rims embellished with a scrolling vine design (karakusa).
Executed in golden hiramaki-e (low-relief lacquer design) and takamaki-e (high-relief lacquer design) with small red accents on the wings and kirigane, (cut and inlaid pieces of gold leaf) at the tails of the fireflies to accentuate the ‘light’ they exude. Set on a glossy black lacquer background.
The compartmentalized interior coated with nashiji (sprinkled gold lacquer)finished with fundame rims (matt gold lacquer).
Laced with purple silk cords, with a brown glass bead ojime, and 2-part manjû netsuke...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Silk, Glass, Lacquer
Very Rare Antique Chinese Qianlong Period Dinner Plate Qing, Set of 4
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very nicely decorated set of dinner plates plate. Very rare type of decoration. Dating to circa 1760
Condition
Overall condition B (Good Use...
Category
Mid-18th Century Chinese Qing Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
Dutch Colonial 17th Century Ebony Armchair, India/Indonesia/Sri Lanka
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An unusual Indian half-relief carved ebony armchair
Coromandel coast, 1680-1700
?
Throughout carved with floral and vine motifs, the back rail with a central peony and ...
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Late 17th Century Indian Dutch Colonial Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Rattan, Ebony
Large Seiji Saku Bronze Archer Figure Statue Japan Meiji era (1868-1912)
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
BRONZE ARCHER FIGURE Japan, Meiji Bronze period. H. ca. 38cm. The figure is kneeling, dressed in a haramaki and robes decorated with kamon and wheels, wi...
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Antique Pair 19C Japanese Satsuma High Quality Black Vases Landscape Uchida
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Description
A pair of Japanese Satsuma black-ground vases, Uchida marks, Meiji/Taisho period
Of ovoid form with everted rims, painted in gilt with scenes of Mount Fuji against a bl...
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Japanese cast iron chôshi 銚子 (sake kettles) with lacquered lids
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Pair of enticing cast iron chôshi (sake kettles) with a detailed lacquered lid, raised by three low feet. Its rotund body with a subtle embossed design of stylized symbols, like myth...
Category
Early 19th Century Japanese Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Silver, Iron
An extremely rare Chinese export famille rose armorial porcelain charger
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An extremely rare and large Chinese export famille rose armorial porcelain charger with the Amsterdam coat-of-arms
Qianlong period, circa 1720-1...
Category
Early 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Enamel
Wanli Antique Ming Period Chinese Porcelain Kraak Plate CHENGHUA MARKED
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very nicely potted and painted kraak plate of a desirable cobalt blue! Stunning piece with beautiful and typical landscape scene. Visible is a grasshopper on a rock
Moulded in the ...
Category
17th Century Chinese Ming Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
Pair Antique Chinese Porcelain 18th C QIanlong Fencai Set Dinner Plates
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very nicely decorated SET of 2 deep dishes.
Condition
both dishes only with some very minimal fleebites to the brown rim, nothing serious. 1 dish with a small firing flaw to rim....
Category
18th Century Chinese Regency Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
Rare Charming 17th Century Japanese Lacquer Cabinet with Gilt-Bronze Mounts
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A fine Japanese pictoral style lacquer cabinet with gilt-metal mounts
Kyoto, Edo period, 1670-1690
Decorated in Japanese relief lacquer work, black lacquer ground decorated...
Category
Late 17th Century Japanese Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Bronze
Antique Kraak Edo Period 1680-1690 Japanese Porcelain Huge Charger Arita
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this very nice edo period, 1680-1700, example. With a garden floral scene.
Marked at base:
made in the Hua Qing period of the great Ming Dynasty
Arita ware, also known as Arita-yaki, has its origins in 1616, when a Korean farmer, Yi Sam-pyeong, discovered white clay kaolin in Arita and used it to create Japan’s first porcelain. Arita was the first place to produce ceramics in Japan. After the discovery, a number of kilns opened in the area and it soon became a source for Japanese export porcelain...
Category
17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
Old Wooden Netsuke 19/20th C Japanese Japan Animal on Turtle Meiji Period
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
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Pair of Fine Japanese Export Lacquer Cutlery Knife Boxes, 18th Century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A pair of fine Japanese export lacquered cutlery boxes
Kyoto or Nagasaki, late 18th century
H. 33.5 x W. 24 x D. 21 cm
The bow-fronted boxes with sloping lids flat at the top are made of hinoki wood (Cypress), coated with Japanese paper and decorated in lacquer with scattered gold birds and flowers on a nashiji background. The Japanese mounts are made of copper and both boxes still have internal partitions to keep the cutlery upright.
The form of these boxes is similar to a pictorial-style knife box in the collection of the Groninger Museum (inv. 1989- 347), dated between 1730 and 1780, but the style of the decoration is more like that on a knife box in the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem (inv. E62271), which was brought to Salem by James Devereux, Captain of the Franklin, in 1799.
Provenance:
Henriette Jeane Christine van Neukirchen, called Nyvenheim (1807- 1849) and Nicolaas Johan Steengracht van Oostcapelle (1806-1866), thence by descent to the last owners, Ludolphine Emilie baronesse Schimmelpenninck van der Oye (1944) married in 1969 to Roland Daniel van Haersma Buma (1944), the last residents of castle Duivenvoorden near Voorschoten and the great-great-granddaughter of Nicolaas Johan Steengracht van Oostcapelle.
There is no evidence that Nicolaas Johan himself, or any of his or his wife’s ancestors had ever been in Japan. However, Nicolaas’ grandfather (Nicolaas Steengracht, 1754-1840) was a director of both the VOC and WIC (West Indies Company...
Category
Late 18th Century Japanese Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Silver
Japanese lacquer tebako 手箱 (box for personal accessories) with book design
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Superb rectangular black lacquer tebako (box for personal accessories) with a slightly domed well-fitted lid.
The lid has a continuous soft-tone multicoloured hiramaki-e (low-relief...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Lacquer
Huge Antique Meiji Japanese Bronze Bird of Prey On a Rock Gold Elements Marked
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Huge Antique Meiji Japanese Bronze Bird of Prey On a Rock Gold Elements Marked
Condition
Close to perfect condition, just some ware. 40 x 45CM LengthxWidexHeight (including base)
P...
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Dutch Colonial Teak Round Back Chair, Late 18th Century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
AN INDONESIAN TEAK WOOD ROUND-BACK CHAIR
Indonesia/Jakarta (Batavia), late 18th century
The wood elegantly carved and curved, the round-back and seating with cane.
H. 87 x W. 61 cm
Seat height 42.5 cm
Note:
Round back chairs, starting with the burgomaster chairs...
Category
Late 18th Century Indian Dutch Colonial Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Rattan, Teak
Top Level Antique Kangxi Period Imari Tea Caddy Chinese China Porcelain
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A Chinese Imari porcelain tea caddies, Kangxi period, of canted corner form, painted in overglaze iron red and gilt and underglaze blue. With floral panels and original lids
Condit...
Category
17th Century Chinese Qing Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
Huge 20C Chinese Carved Wood Statue of a Laughing Buddha Great Carving
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Huge and beautifully carved statue of a Laughing Buddha. Nice artifact as home decoration.
Condition
Damage to 1 of the hands, part eye seems restuck (nicely done) and 1 frit/chi...
Category
20th Century Chinese Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Wood
Unique Antique Edo / Meiji Period Vase Green and Blue Japan 1830 Relief Hirado
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this very rare Japanese Edo / Meiji vase. Most likely Hirado
Condition
1 Bodyline : Size 30.5cm
Period
19th century Edo Period (1603–1867)
Category
19th Century Edo Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Meiji Period 19C Japanese Hirado Netsuke Sanbosa dancing monkey
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
This is a most unusually made antique Hirado porcelain netsuke form model of a mischievous monkey dressed as a Sanbosa dancer. The figure is crisply modelled with cobalt blue and iro...
Category
17th Century Edo Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Chinese Teapot and Pattipan with Relief Flowers Yongzheng Porcelain Chin
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A charming late Yongzheng period famille rose teapot with landscape scene and flowers. The dish and pot are appliqué-decorated with flowers and foliage in high relief.
This teapot b...
Category
18th Century Chinese Regency Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
Antique 19th c Woodblock Print - Hiroshige - Yoshiwara: The Fifty-Three Stati
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Yoshiwara: Mount Fuji on the Left (Yoshiwara, hidari Fuji), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tôkaidô ...
Category
19th Century Chinese Meiji Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Bronze
Lovely Nihonga Scene Meiji/Taisho Period Scroll Japan Artist Landscape Miyahara
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
It is a work drawn by Miyahara Yanagi as you can see.
It is a pine tree drawing of Karasaki that has a unique presence, and it is
very attractive as it goes well with smoke.
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Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Silk
Unusual 17th Century Chinese Porcelain Ming Period Incense Container Tianqi
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this lovely and unusual Chinese porcelain incense container from the late Ming period, Tianqi period most probably. Jingde...
Category
17th Century Chinese Ming Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
18th-century Dutch-colonial Peranakan mother-of-pearl casket with silver mounts
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An Indonesian Peranakan mother-of-pearl inlaid mastic sirih casket with silver mounts
Jakarta (Batavia), circa 1720-1730, the silver hinges marked for Batavia, maker’s mark HS or SH...
Category
Mid-18th Century Indonesian Dutch Colonial Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Silver
Antique 18C Chinese Porcelain Dish China Figural Landscape Puce Rose Qianlong
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this very nice example of 18th century porcelain in a rare color.
Country: China
Period : Qianlong
Material: Porcelain
Condition
some rimfritting. Size: 23.2x2.5...
Category
18th Century Chinese Regency Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
Antique 19th C Meiji Japanese Satsuma Vase with Marked Base
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A miniature Japanese Satsuma vase, Meiji Period. Incredible and very detailed piece. Just superb.
Marked:
?? "Setsuzan".
Condition
Neck has been restored. Size 88 x 52mm H ...
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
Pocket Wall Vase in Koi Carp Fish SHape Antique ca 1900 Japanese Kutani
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very nice wall pocket vase in the shape of a Koi Carp.
The wall vase has been manufactured from fine porcelain and hand painted in vibrant shades of orange, white and black. The...
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
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