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ICHIBAN STARTING TO CLOSE DOWN. We are starting to close down our business, a process that will take us a couple of years - age and health issues tell us it is time. We still have over 1300 items either currently listed on our website catalog or still to be posted onto it. So, from now on ALL ITEMS IN THE CATALOG MAY BE PURCHASED AT 40 % OFF THE LISTED PRICE. At these low prices, we do ask that you pay shipping and insurance charges for all items purchased. We reserve the right to require a 15 % re-stocking fee in cases where the reason for the return is suspect. With thanks for your years of patronage, we look forward to serving you until the last items are sold.

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A Five Mountain Brush Rest for Scholars Desk -Qing Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Scholar Art: Pre 1920   item# 982449 (stock# ICHI 4263)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 295.00  This is a pottery brush rest for the scholars desk made in the shape of five mountain peaks with flowers in low relief on the surface. A brush rest refers to the object used to hold the brush when one temporarily stops painting or writing, so that the wet brush will not smear other things. The piece is in a semi- circular form to that it will stand solidly when the brushes are place on it. The rest is glazed with a glaze that is a mix of gray, white and light blue – the base is unglazed and has ...click for details A Print by Utagawa Kunihisa II - Edo Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Woodblock Prints: Pre 1900   item# 982318 (stock# ICHI 43)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 595.00  This is a framed print by Utagawa Kunihisa II (1832-1891) - a pupil and son-in-law of Utagawa Kuniyoshi. It portrays two women by a stream that flows by a garden fence. One of the women is kneeling and the other is bent over as if to look for something in the water. (I seem to recall some legend about a shogun’s palace floating cups on saucers down stream once a year for people to collect – but I cannot find any reference to that so I am probably just having a “senior moment”). There are pine t ...click for details An Arita Shonsui-Style Zodiac Plate – Edo/Meiji Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1900   item# 981882 (stock# ICHI 4264)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 625.00  This is a great Japanese Arita plate in Shonsui-style to help celebrate the new Year of the Tiger. On the front of the plate are the twelve animals that make up the Chinese New Year zodiac. The border has a band of enclosed florets between dark blue circles. All twelve animals are very well painted and are enclosed in separate reserves against a blue background. ...click for details A Japanese Lacquer Hai Dai – Sake Cup Holder – Meiji Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Lacquer: Pre 1900   item# 981392 (stock# ICHI 4261)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 595.00  This is a stunning lacquer hai dai, a stand used for holding a guinomi (sake cup). The hai dai is decorated all over with a pattern of leaves falling on a flowing stream. These are executed in both gold and silver makie lacquer. Most interestingly, some of the leaves are filled with nashiji (pear skin) sprinkled gold makie – as are the lines in the streams. All the design in done on a dark black roiro lacquer base. The piece measures 5 5/8” diameter at the top, the stand flares to the base and ...click for details A Very Early Chinese Pottery Water Dropper – Frog Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Scholar Art: Pre 1700   item# 981221 (stock# ICHI 4260)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 595.00  This is a charming very early water dropper – used to moisten the caked ink when scholars were doing calligraphy and or painting. The dropper is in the shape of a frog with open mouth and with his legs is a position as if to he is about to jump. The piece measures 2 ¼” long by 2 ¼” wide by 1 5/8” high at the top of the head. It is in exce ...click for details A Woodblock Print by Utagawa Toyokuni – Samurai - Edo Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Woodblock Prints: Pre 1837 VR   item# 980959 (stock# ICHI 126)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 795.00  This is a superb print of a Samurai in full regalia by one of the greatest masters of Japanese woodblock printing. It is done in muted tones of browns, tans and a very faint pink (lower part of his garment). (The small yellow rectangle seen in the upper right corner of a few of the photos is an unfortunate reflection of a ceiling light while taking the photos.) ...click for details A Hirado Koro with Open Work Bronze Lid – Edo/Meiji Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1900   item# 980616 (stock# COLL1018)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 695.00  This is a fine Japanese Hirado porcelain koro (censer) with a design of chidori (plovers) flying over the waves on two sides of the body. It stands on tripod legs and has handles in the form of a mythical beast’s face. The decoration is executed in the traditional Hirado underglaze Hirado blue. The lid is an open domed lid of bronze in a stylized shape of a chrysanthemum. ...click for details An Arita Plate – Three Friends Design – Edo Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1900   item# 980351 (stock# COLL1017)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 350.00  This is an early 19th century, Edo period, Arita plate with a design of three bare branches in a reserve in the center of the plate. A circle of stylized leaves surrounds these branches. It is possible that this is meant to represent the Three Friends of Winter – plum, bamboo and pine – but the only stem that we can clearly identify is that of the bamboo. The outer border design is of two large blue on white leaves with two smaller white on blue flowers alternating with the larger leaves. The ba ...click for details A Ge Style Small Brush Pot – Qing Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Stoneware: Pre 1910   item# 980060 (stock# ICHI 1526)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 295.00  This is a very nice little Ge style brush pot with the large black and smaller brown crackles typical of the early Chinese pottery. (# - see footnote). The small squat round pot measures 2 ½” diameter and is 1 ¼” high. The piece is in excellent condition with no chips or cracks. We believe it dates from the late Qing period, circa 1875-1910. ...click for details A Makie Lacquer Kogo with Seashell Designs – Edo Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Lacquer: Pre 1900   item# 979882 (stock# ICHI 2472)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 1250.00  This is a handsome lacquer kogo with a very interesting design of seashells done in indented depressions. One seashell has a design of branch of plum blossoms with a distant scene of hills. The second shell has a design of what appear to be maple leaves – again with distant hills. The third shell has a design of random streaks. On the two ...click for details Return To Top View Next 10 Items PAGE: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  10  20  30  40  50  70