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Item Ships From: Amsterdam
Unique 17th Century Miniature Japanese Namban Lacquer Miniature Dollhouse Chest
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A unique and exceptional Japanese miniature or dollhouse export lacquered chest
Kyoto, circa 1620-1640
The chest of rectangular shape with a domed lid, decorated in Transition-style, in gold hiramaki-e on a black background within reserved lobed cartouches decorated with landscapes animated with birds and rabbits, on a shagreen or samegawa background. The borders are decorated with geometric friezes, the box with gilt-copper mounts, the interior decorated in red lacquer.
Measures: H 9.2 x W 14.5 x D 7.2 cm
This miniature is of exceptional quality and a perfect copy of the famous large size Transition-style coffers. It was most likely ordered by a Dutch lady for her dollhouse (poppenhuis), like the famous Petronella Oortman (1656-1716) doll-house, which is now one of the highlights in the collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, or Petronella Oortmans-de la Court’s (1624-1707) dollhouse in the collection of the Centraal Museum Utrecht. Sara Rothé of Amsterdam in 1743 ordered a miniature black lacquered ivory tripod table with gold chinoiserie decoration by Jurriaan Buttner (Monika Kopplin, European Lacquer, 2010, p. 56).
Other Japanned dollhouse...
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17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Shagreen, Cypress
A Japanese Nagasaki-e print depicting the arrival of Dutch ships in Nagasaki
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Published by Bunkindõ han, circa 1801
Colour woodblock print, H. 32.5 x W. 48 cm
Under this view of Nagasaki Bay, the text states that the first Dutch ships arrived in Nagasaki in ...
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18th Century Japanese Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Paper
Actors in Dance / Theatre Scene 20th Century Scroll Painting Japan Artist
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
It is a work of 2 scrolls figure in a Theatre/Dance Noh style.
it is a very tasty work combined with the hymns spelled at the top.
¦ Silk books and handwriting.
¦ State
There ...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Silk
$2,046 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Chinese Porcelain Jar 18th Century SE Asian Thai Market Bencharong Peony
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very nicely decorated jar. 18th century Chinese made for the SE Asian / Thai Market. Very rare!
Condition
Overall condition very good only some enamel loss. 190 x 183 mm
Pe...
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19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
$3,616 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of Fine Islamic Silver Filigree Rosewater Sprinklers, Early 18th Century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A pair of very fine silver filigree rosewater sprinklers
Possibly India, Karimnagar, early 18th century
Height 31.6 cm and 31.7 cm, weight 39...
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Early 18th Century Indian Islamic Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Silver
Artists Norikuni Kawamura, Showa Period Scroll Japan 20c Artist Nihonga
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
As you can see, it is a double box and a box with "Shokakuzu" written by Norikuni Kawamura.
The
"Shokaku-zu", which is composed of graceful textures, spreads its wings and flies, i...
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20th Century Japanese Showa Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Silk
$1,132 Sale Price
20% Off
Perfect 20th-21st Century Japanese Porcelain Charger Birds Gooses in Landscape
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very nicely decorated Japanese Porcelain plate, stunning colors. Marked at base.
17-12-19-1-16
Condition
Overall condition perfect; size: 262 x 23mm
Perio...
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20th Century Japanese Meiji Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Earthenware
$713 Sale Price
20% Off
Lovely circa 1900 C-Scroll Woodblock Japan Handcolored Buddhist 500
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A handcolored woodblock print on silk hanging
Measures: Axis ... vertical 155cm, horizontal 42cm
in ... vertical 90.5cm, horizontal 28.5cm.
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Fabric
$1,094 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Early 20th Century Japanese Satsuma Tea Caddy Figures Decorated Marked
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Lovely detailed pieces. Marked on base.
Condition:
Overall condition almost perfect, with loss of gilding. Size: 170 mm
Period:
Meiji Periode (1867-1912).
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Earthenware
$809 Sale Price / set
20% Off
18C Japanese Porcelain Charger Edo Period Garden Scene Shou Lao Ladies Dogs
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you a large Japanese Porcelain dish (37cm) with a quite unusual Imari scene of a women in a garden scene with 4 children and dogs. On the right...
Category
17th Century Chinese Edo Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
$2,550 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage, Calligraphy, Watercolor Paintings, Chinese Art, China, 20th Century
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A set of Chinese paintings
Perfect for vintage interiors
Condition
Yomiuri Shimbun (the size of one view double-page spread) 43.0. × 32.0 c...
Category
20th Century Chinese Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Paper
$2,427 Sale Price
20% Off
#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
$2,094 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Rare Kangxi Period Chinese Porcelain Dish Amsterdam Bont Parrot
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very nicely decorated cup and saucer. Kangxi period Chinese porcelain small dish, over decorated in the Netherlands. Amsterdams Bont.
Condition
Ove...
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Early 18th Century Chinese Qing Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
$2,094 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique 17th c Kangxi period Dish Chinese porcelain Famille Verte Landscapes
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Large deep Famille Verte palette, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period. Nice with different kind of landscapes in the wall. The centre with different kind of flowers and Ruyi.
Marked with a l...
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17th Century Chinese Qing Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
Pair Qing Dynasty Blue & White Porcelain Strainers Lady in Garden Scene 18th C
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Description
Fine Pair of Qing Dynasty Blue & White Porcelain Strainers – Elegant Lady in Garden
A beautiful and delicate pair of porcelain strain...
Category
17th Century Chinese Qing Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
Dutch Colonial Japanese Scroll Painting of Chief Merchant Doeff
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Nagasaki School (EARLY 19TH CENTURY)
Opperhoofd Hendrik Doeff with Javanese servant
Kakemono, watercolor on paper, mounted on silk and textile covered paper scroll, not signed....
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Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Silk, Paper
Antique Chinese Porcelain 17th C Kosometsuke Umbrella Romantic Meeting Plate
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very nicely decorated kosometsuke plate with a rare scene suggesting an secret romantic meeting, a lady and umbrella-bearing gentleman closely together beneath a long overhanging p...
Category
17th Century Chinese Ming Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
$3,141 Sale Price
20% Off
Japanese Export Nagasaki Lacquer Box with the Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Japanese export Nagasaki lacquer tobacco box with the portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte
Edo-period, circa 1810
The box in black lacquer on copper, ...
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19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Copper, Gold
Pair of Japanese hinagata byôbu 雛形屏風 (small folding screens) with flower carts
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An amazing pair of six-panel hinagata byôbu (doll festival folding screens) with a continuous painting on gold leaf showcasing flower carts (hana’guruma) at the edge of a winding river.
Both laden with a large bamboo basket...
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Early 19th Century Japanese Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Gold Leaf
Antique Kutani 19C Edo/Meiji Period Japanese Bowl Japan ca Elephant Figural
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very nice shaped polychrome large bowl. Unusual shape and painting. Absolute top quality. Marked at base.
Condition
Perfect condition. just some crackle lines in the base. Size...
Category
19th Century Meiji Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
Antique 18th century Antique Kangxi Yongzheng Chinese Porcelain Imari Plate
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A Chinese porcelain dish from the first half of the 18th century.
Condition
Perfect condition. Size: 22.8CM Diameter
Period
18th century
Category
17th Century Chinese Qing Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
Japanese Painting Depicting Commodore Perry’s Ship with Buddhist Monks Aboard
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Japanese painting depicting Commodore Matthew Perry’s flagship USS Mississippi bringing the coffin with the remains of US marine private Robert Williams who died while serving on t...
Category
Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Paint, Paper
Pair of Japanese Carved Wooden Temple Ornaments 木鼻 'Kibana' Shaped like Baku 獏
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A lovely pair of very detailed carved wooden temple ornaments (kibana) in the shape of elephant-like mythical creatures known as ‘Baku’.
Baku are Japan...
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Early 19th Century Japanese Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Wood
Antique Woodblock Print Ukiyo-e Utagawa Kuniyoshi Prince Shôtoku attack on Mo
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A lovely figural print by
Print artist. Pupil of Utagawa Toyokuni. One of the three principal 'Ukiyo-e' artists of the late Edo period, together with Kunisada (Toyokuni III) and Hir...
Category
19th Century Chinese Meiji Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Bronze
$1,265 Sale Price
20% Off
Charming carved gilt-wood Chinese export mirror frame watch-stand with Europeans
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A charming carved giltwood Chinese export mirror frame with a watch-stand
Canton, Qing Dynasty, early 19th century
H. 65 x W. 34.5 cm
At the top of the frame, two angels are suppo...
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19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Giltwood
Rare Chinese Tonkin Ware Cup-and-Saucer, Early 18th Century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Chinese made tonkin ware gilt- and lacquer cup and saucer
China or Japan, Chinese artisans, early 18th century
The black-lacquered cup with gilt handles in the shape of sculptured chrysanthemums and a lobbed edge decorated with gilt engraved border, with a gilt foot-ring that fits into the saucer ring, with two cartouches showing partly undercut gilt relief trees and birds on a gilt granulated background, black lacquered bracket-lobed edge, depicting gilt engraved peony scrolls and three cartouches decorated with high relief gilt trees and birds on a gilt granulated background, the centre with engraved chrysanthemum, enclosed by a raised ring upon which the cup fits, around which a circular panel decorated with high gilt relief trees, flowers, birds and a butterfly on a gilt granulated background.
Measures: Cup: H. 5.7 x W. 8.5 cm
Saucer: Diameter 13 cm
Provenance:
Collection Felix Schäfer
Note:
The decoration of the cup and saucer is identical to the slightly smaller cup and saucer...
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Early 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Other
An Indian miniature painting depicting a prince surprising bathing maidens
Located in Amsterdam, NL
India, Punjab, circa 1755
Signed by the artist Swami 'Ram Rikh' of Seopur and dated Samvat 1812 (1755)
Opaque watercolour and gold on paper,
H. 23.8 x W. 16.2 cm (image)
H. 28.3 x ...
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18th Century Indian Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Gold
Antique Chinese Snuff Bottle 1984 Dong Xue Inside Painted Wang Xisan Student
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Dong Xue was a student of the great Master Wang Xisan and in the 1980 they painted many similar scenes after the scroll by the famous 19th century artist Re...
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Late 20th Century Chinese Qing Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Glass
$11,231 Sale Price
20% Off
Fine Japanese Export Red Lacquer Box with Masonic Symbols, circa 1800
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A fine Japanese export red lacquer box with Masonic symbols
Kyoto/Nagasaki, 1800-1820
Red lacquer decorated with scattered flowers and flying birds with long tails in gold, wit...
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Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Gold
Extremely Japanese Rare Lacquer Plaque Depicting Russian St. Petersburg
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An important Japanese lacquer Maki-É Panel Depicting St. Petersburg on the River Neva, with the winter palace on the left and the academy of science on the right, 18th century.
Nagasaki, 1780-1800
In black lacquer on copper, the front decorated in maki-é, the back inscribed, Vue Perspective des Bords de la Neva en descendant la Rivière entre le Palais d'hyver de sa Majesté Impériale et les batiments de l'Académie des Sciences à St Petersburg in gold and inlaid with flowers in mother of pearl.
Measures: H 23 x W 39 cm
The present plaque is identical to one in the Museum of Japanese History in Sakura and another one in the Museum of Peter the Great in St. Petersburg. (see: Oliver Impey & Christiaan Jörg, Japanese Export Lacquer, 1580-1850, p. 52-53)
This last one was given to Catherine the Great in 1794 by the Swedish medical doctor Johan Arnold Stutzer who had served with the VOC in Deshima in 1787-1788. Apparently, such plaques were not unique and may have been made in several copies. This was certainly the case with the smaller lacquer oval portrait medallions (see for instance Uit Verre Streken, June 2017, no. 62)
The scene of St. Petersburg was copied from an optical print taken by Stutzer to Japan, as shown by Yasumasa Oka of the Kobe City Museum. Stutzer in his diary writes: “I am the first to bring them (i.e. the Japanese) original pictures such as a view of St Petersburg and of Rudolf XV on horseback and try to have them made (in lacquer). According to the Japanese, it is the first time that these two pictures will be copied. Other products that I also ordered, for example, pictures of sea battles, are also appreciated as absolute masterpieces”.
For two lacquered plaques depicting the sea battle of Dogger Bank in 1781 between the Dutch and the English navies, see Uit Verre Streken, December 2013, nr. 39 and March 2015, nr 56. Johan Strutzer at the same time also presented six beautiful Japanese glass telescopes to Catherine the Great of Russia, like the two Japanese glass telescopes illustrated in Uit Verre Streken, March 2015, item 59 and 60 and the one in the Kobe City Museum (illustrated in: Japan Envisions the West, 16th-19th Century Japanese Art...
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Late 18th Century Japanese Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Copper
'Two Dutch Ships Anchored in the Bay of Nagasaki' by Kawahara Keiga '1786-1860'
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Kawahara Keiga (1786 - c. 1860)
Two Dutch ships anchored in the bay of Nagasaki
Sumi ink and pigment on silk, H. 27 x W. 41 cm (excl. frame)
Comes framed, see image.
?Based o...
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Early 19th Century Japanese Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Silk
Fabulous Indonesian Yogya-Silver Plate
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An Indonesian Yogya-silver plate
Yogyakarta or Kotagede, 1935-1940, marked, (alloy) 800 and maker’s mark PH (Prawirohardjo, act. from 1935)
Diam. 27.2 cm Weight 454 grams
Th...
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Early 20th Century Indonesian Art Deco Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Silver
A superb Japanese giltwood sculpture of Kannon Bosatzu
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Japanese giltwood sculpture of Kannon Bosatzu
Japan, Edo period, Early 19th century
H. 50 X W. 58.3 cm
Provenance:
- The Somerwil Collection of ...
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Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Giltwood
Pair of Japanese Lacquer and Mother-of-Pearl Inlaid Knife Urns, circa 1800-1815
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A rare pair of Kyoto-Nagasaki style lacquer and mother-of-pearl inlaid knife urns
Edo period, early 19th century
Measures: Height 71 x diameter 30 cm
?Formed as urns with vertically lifting covers and elongated finials, revealing fitted green velvet lined interiors for knives, decorated overall with birds, flowering stems, faux-fluting and oval panels with landscapes. The square plinth is raised on four bracket feet. Inside the lifting cover of one of the urns are Japanese characters, supposedly indications of some code by the craftsman.
A closely related knife urn, now in the collection of the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem (inv. E 73115), was acquired in Nagasaki by Captain Samuel Gardner Derby of the Margareth of Salem in 1801. Captain Gardner Derby traded in Nagasaki under charter from the VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie), the Dutch East India Company. Between 1797 and 1814 Holland was occupied by the French and from 1811 until 1816 Java by
the English. During these periods practically no Dutch shipping was possible between Holland and Batavia (Jakarta) or between Batavia (Jakarta) and Nagasaki. To maintain a minimum amount of shipping between Batavia (Jakarta) and Nagasaki, between 1797 and 1807, the VOC chartered mainly American ships. American captains and officers ordered and bought mainly lacquered furniture in an American-English style, completely different from what the Dutch up till then had ordered. The present knife urns were possibly also ordered and acquired by Captain Gardner Derby during his stay in Deshima/Nagasaki in 1801.
Another similarly neoclassical shaped knife urn in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum Oxford (inv. 1996.17) appears to be signed by woodworker Kiyotomo koreo tsukuru (Kiyomoto made this). The same name, together with an address in the Sanjo-Teramachi District of Kyoto, has been found inside a fragmentary urn in a private collection. This is an indication that European-style furniture was not only lacquered in Japan but made there as well. This undoubtedly is not only true for knife-urns, but all European- style furniture lacquered in Japan after circa 1800 was made by Japanese furniture makers...
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Early 19th Century Japanese Anglo-Japanese Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Brass
Fine Mughal Painting of a ‘Lion at Rest’, North India, Early 19th Century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Mughal painting of a ‘Lion at rest’
North India, early 19th century
?
Watercolour on paper, H. 46.5 x W. 68 cm
?The present painting is a large...
Category
Early 19th Century Indian Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Paper
Dutch Colonial Silver Dish with the Von Pfeffel Coat-of-arms, 17th Century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An unusual Indonesian lobbed silver dish
Jakarta (Batavia) or Coromandel coast, third quarter 17th century, apparently unmarked
The eight lobbed dish exuberantly decorated with floral motifs, with the middle section replaced, consisting of indistinctly marked German silver from the early 19th century, bearing the coat-of-arms of the Von Pfeffel family.
Diam. 30.5 cm
Weight 461 grams
Note:
Lobbed silver dishes with exuberant floral decorations were characteristic of the decorative arts in the Netherlands in the first half of the 17th century. This style of floral decoration was adopted by silversmiths as well as by furniture makers working on the Coromandel Coast and in Batavia, often by workers who had fled the Coromandel Coast because of war and famine. In Batavia this style was known as “Custwerck” (work from the Bengal coast).
These lobbed dishes are seldom marked. Only after 1667 the use of the town mark became obligatory in Batavia but only for silver made in Batavia not for silver imported in Batavia from other VOC settlements. The engraved coat of arms in the centre is a replacement of the original centre.
The coat of arms can be identified as those of Christian Hubert von Pfeffel (1765- 1834). As a diplomat, statesman, ambassador of Bavaria in London and Saxony and councillor to the King of Bavaria, he was made “Freiherr” in 1828 and since then used this coat of arms. His son Karl Maximilian Friederich Hubert Freiherr von Pfeffel (1811-1890) in 1836 married Karoline Adelheid Pauline von Rottenburg (1805-1872), the natural daughter of Prins Paul von Württemberg (1785-1852) and his mistress Margrethe Porth. Paul was the jounger brother of the King Wilhelm I of Württemberg (1781-1864). The heraldic motto of the von Pfeffels Vur Schande habe den Huot means as much as “Beware of Shame”. Christian Hubert Theodoor Marie Karl von Pfeffel Karl Maximilian’s grandson was the last male in the von Pfeffel line. His daughter, Marie Louise (Paris in 1882 - Cornwall 1944), born and grown-up in France, changed her name in de Pfeffel. She was the great grandmother of Boris Alexander de Pfeffel Johnson, the present British Secretary of State. None of the members of the von Pfeffel family had any direct links with the Dutch East Indies but indirectly by way of the Royal House of Württemberg they did.
Sophia Frederika Mathilda von Württemberg (1818-1877), daughter of Wilhelm I King of Württemberg, in 1839 married Willem III...
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Late 17th Century Indonesian Dutch Colonial Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Silver
A Chinese export reverse-glass painting after an English print in original frame
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Canton, late 18th century
In original hardwood frame with ruyi-shaped metal mount for suspension.
H. 38.7 x W. 44.3 cm (incl. frame)
H. 31.8 x W. 37.5 cm (image)
Chinese reverse glass paintings for export are known since mid 18th century. By the 1780's the copying of European, mainly English, engravings came into vogue in Chinese paintings on glass...
Category
Late 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Glass, Hardwood
Antique 18th century Antique Kangxi Yongzheng Chinese Porcelain Imari Plate
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A Chinese porcelain dish from the first half of the 18th century.
Condition
1 line from rim, 3 chips and rimfritting. Size: 22.8CM Diameter
Period
18th century
Category
17th Century Chinese Qing Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
Rare Chinese Tonkin Ware Shakudo Sawasa Erotic Tobacco Box
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A ruyi-shaped Shakudo-style erotic tobacco or snuff box, relief-decorated with silvered applied figures
Possibly Jakarta (Batavia), first half 18th century
Measures: H. 2.2 x L. 12.1 x W. 8 cm
This box is very much in the Dutch taste, for the illustration is after a print with a legend reading “L’oiseau sans cage. Prenez, belle, mon oiseau. C’est le plus doux présent que je puisse vous faire. Pour les autres oiseaux, la cage d’ordinaire est une espèce de tombeau. Mais le mien semble prendre une nouvelle vie, Lorsqu’il sera dans la cage de mon aimable Silvie.” The erotic message is as clear as can be.
In Dutch culture the verb ‘vogelen’ (catching a bird) is another word for having sex and a bird escaping from his cage indicates loss of chastity. The lady with the bare breasts, while making the sign of sealed lips to the lady behind her, who is pointing towards heaven, seems to be caressing the bird held in the sleeping man’s groin. 17th century Dutch pictures...
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Early 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Gold, Silver, Bronze
Antique Kangxi Period Thinly potted Chinese porcelain Tea Set Figural Pagode
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this lovely tea set in Blue and white. Very thinly potted porcelain, the light shines trough.
Kangxi period pieces in underglaze blue. Both with a pagode scene with ...
Category
17th Century Chinese Qing Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
A Chinese huanghuali, wumu and mother-of-pearl watch holder
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Canton, 2nd half 19th century
H. 22.5 x W. 30 x D. 12.5 cm
The pocket watch, an antique Swiss triple calendar Moon phace pocket watch in gunmetal case, dating from around 1860-1900, is marked Acier Garanti, Oxidage Inalterable, and is numbered. The stand, made of huanghuali (Dalbergia odorifera...
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19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Wood
Fabulous Lacquer Pagoda Chinoiserie Sculpture with Original Wooden Box
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Wajima lacquer model of a five story-pagoda by the contemporary lacquer master Miyasaki Masahiro.
In the original signed box, including a wooden disp...
Category
Late 20th Century Japanese Showa Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Lacquer
Antique 19th c Woodblock Print by Mizuno Toshikata - Sino Japan Battle_of_Son.
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very strong woodblock print
Long live the Great Japanese Empire! Our army's victorious attack on Seonghwan, Mizuno Toshikata 1866–1908
or
Hurrah and Hurrah Again for the Great E...
Category
19th Century Chinese Meiji Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Bronze
$1,265 Sale Price
20% Off
Reference Chinese Porcelain Book - Kraak Porcelain: A Moment in the History o
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Maura Rinaldi Kraak Porcelain: A Moment in the History of Trade
98 colour and black and white plates, maps and drawings, bibliography and index. Foreword by Dr. Christian J.A. Jorg,...
Category
17th Century Chinese Ming Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
Edo Period Japanese Porcelain Plate Antique Ko-Kutani, Top Quality
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very nice Ko-Kutani plate, circa 1660-1680.
See: Shibata collection
Condition:
Overall condition rim fritting and hairline. Size 205 x 132 mm
...
Category
17th Century Chinese Edo Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
$4,759 Sale Price
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Japanese Nagasaki Export Lacquer Box with Depiction of the 'Trippenhuis'
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Japanese Nagasaki export lacquer box with mother-of-pearl depiction of the Amsterdam ‘Trippenhuis’
Edo-period, circa 1830
H. 12.5 x W. 24...
Category
19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Lacquer
Two Palembang Peranakan Lacquerware Bridal Boxes and a Tray
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Two Palembang Peranakan lacquerware bridal boxes and a tray
South Sumatra, Palembang, lacquer work by Chinese Peranakan artisans, mid 20th century
Woo...
Category
1950s Indonesian Vintage Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Japanese American Cypresswood or Hirohi ‘Walsh, Hall & Co, Yokohama’ Tea Chest
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Japanese Cypresswood or hirohi ‘Walsh, Hall & Co, Yokohama’ tea chest
Yokohama, 1862-1897, with inscription reading: Choicest Natural Leaf Yamashiro Tea, Packed by Walsh, Hall & Co, Yokohama
Measures: H. 53.5 x W. 61.5 x D. 41.5 cm
Including original wood box
The chest gold, silver and red lacquered on a black lacquer ground, the top decorated with an eagle sitting on a branch, looking at a small escaping bird, the front with a pheasant under a chestnut, one side with a cockerel amongst foliage, the back decorated with an argus pheasant...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Wood
Dutch-Colonial Sri Lankan Coromandel Wood Document Box with Silver Mounts
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Dutch-colonial Sri Lankan coromandel wood document box with silver mounts
Probably Galle, 18th century
H. 19 x W. 49 x D. 33 cm
The ches...
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18th Century Sri Lankan Dutch Colonial Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Silver
Antique Japanese 19th Century Blockprint in Frame Japan Edo or Meiji
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very nice blockprint
10-9-18-rof-300
Condition:
Overall condition perfect. Size frame: 535 x 362 mm
Period:
19th century Edo period (1603-1867)
Meiji Periode(1867-1912).
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Paper
$856 Sale Price
20% Off
Lovely Edo Period Scroll Paintings Japan Artist Saeki Kishi Ganku Dragon Clouds
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Saeki Kishi Ganku "NoboriRyuzu" silk painting hanging scroll with box
Size Axis ... vertical 163.5cm horizontal 43cm
picture ... vertical 96cm horizont...
Category
19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Silk
$1,293 Sale Price
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Antique Chinese Statue Porcelain Immortal Camel Qianlong/Jiaqing Period
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Description
An unusual Chinese export porcelain Famille Rose model of an immortal on the back of a sitting camel. It seems to be a water dropper considering the hole in the mouth ...
Category
18th Century Chinese Qing Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
$1,618 Sale Price
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Antique Bronze/Copper Cloisonné Koro Incense Burner with Foo Lion Shape, 19th C.
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Nice Quality with superb decoration.
Additional information:
Material: Bronze & Metal
Region of Origin: Japan
Period: 19th century, 20th century
Condition: Some usual age signs like...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Copper
$902 Sale Price
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Antique Kangxi Period Chinese porcelain Tea Set Elegant Ladies Lizas Zotje Marke
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this lovely tea set in Blue and white, it's a marriage. Combination of 2 sets. The bowl is very thinly potted.
Kangxi period pieces in underglaze blue and very thinl...
Category
17th Century Chinese Qing Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
Japanese Sado ishô dansu 衣装箪笥 (cabinet of drawers) with elaborate hardware
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Exceptional, rare and completely restored wooden Sado ishô dansu (cabinet of drawers) with elaborately decorated open work iron hardware, in two sections. Fully restored, cleaned and waxed.
The exterior is made of hinoki cypress wood. Only slightly varnished, giving it a tad warmer colour. This soft underground lets the refined hardware stand out even more.
The upper part consists of two large drawers. The lower part with two drawers of different size and a hinged door. The interior behind the door with three small drawers. All the drawers are very deep and have a lot of volume, for easy storage. They run very smoothly as well.
The cabinet has extensively decorated hardware. The corner pieces of the drawers with stylized pine trees. The large decorative lock plates each with their own unique design of different auspicious animals; a peacock, a phoenix, a crane and a minogame. The hinged door decorated with different attributes of the Seven Gods of Fortune...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Iron
Antique 19th Century Japanese Porcelain Kutani Footed Bowl Birds Sotheby's
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this lovely and unusal Kutani porcelain footed bowl. The bowl has a lobed rim and central scene of a two birds on a branch. The ribbed curve with wickerwork and wave motifs. 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
$6,186 Sale Price
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Antique Early 1900s Japanese Kinkozan Satsuma Picture Frame Japan Flowers
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Description
A Japanese Satsuma photograph frame, Kinkozan, Meiji/Taisho period
Of gourd outline and painted with the 'three abundances' of peaches, pomegranate and finger citron wi...
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
$3,805 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique 19th c Woodblock Print - Kitagawa Utamuro - Nyobo no aiko
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Utamara Kitagawo
This is a print I am not sure how to intepret. Its around 15x10 so pretty small. There is a There is a larger Identical one in the Rijksmuseum lacking part of the i...
Category
19th Century Chinese Meiji Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Bronze
$513 Sale Price
20% Off
Japanese Colonial Nagsaki Lacquer Box with Depiction of Amsterdam, 1830-1840
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An important Japanese lacquer box with a view of The 'Nieuwe Stadsherberg Van Amsterdam
Nagasaki, Edo-period, 1830-1840
The black lacquered wood box, decorated in gold and inla...
Category
Early 19th Century Japanese Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
Antique Kangxi Period Thinly potted Chinese porcelain Tea Set Cuckoo in the
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this lovely tea set in Blue and white. Very thinly potted porcelain, the light shines trough.
Kangxi period pieces in underglaze blue. Both with a the well known Cuc...
Category
17th Century Chinese Qing Antique Asian Art and Furniture in Amsterdam
Materials
Porcelain
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