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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.

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

An Early Chinese Vase in Deep Mazarin Blue Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Stoneware: Pre 1837 VR   item# 972978 (stock# ICHI 3633)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 495.00  This is a beautiful Chinese vase made sometime after the late 17th century, Qing Dynasty. The shape is tall and faceted with a striking presence. The blue glaze is a Mazarin blue - a deep blue color, named in honor of Cardinal Mazarin, prime minister of France, 1643-1661. It is similar to a cobalt blue but still has its own distinctive color. ...click for details

A Ming Celadon Deep Dish with Embossed Design Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Stoneware: Pre 1800   item# 970621 (stock# ICHI 2845)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 595.00  This is a fine Ming dynasty celadon deep dish with a well executed impressed design of a small boy with flowers. The celadon is a particularly pretty blue/green color. We date it to the mid to late Ming dynasty, circa 1450s – 1500s. The piece measures 4 3/8” diameter and is 2 ¾” deep. It is in very good condition with one small chip on the rim – see photo – and normal usage light scratches in the bottom of the bowl. One tiny firing bubble of brown grit in the interior.

A Ming Dynasty Celadon Bowl – 15th-16th Cty. Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Stoneware: Pre 1800   item# 968079 (stock# COLL1004)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 495.00  This is a Chinese celadon glazed bowl with three spurs in cavetto. (Spur marks are caused by the practice of separating items to be fired in the kiln with small pyramids of clay to cause the heat to distribute evenly). The medium celadon green/tan glaze has a crackle finish. The bowl measures 6” diameter and is 2 ¼” deep. It is simply decorated with a couple of incised circles in the bottom of the bowl.The foot and base are unglazed and the base rim show signs of usage. It is in excellent condit ...click for details

A Country Ming Oil Jar with Cover Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Stoneware: Pre 1700   item# 965254 (stock# COLL1001)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 295.00  This is a small Country Ming pitcher that was probably used as an oil jar. This oil jar is from the transitional early to mid Ming period and is in the style known as kitchen Ming – or country Ming - for its lack of sophistication in execution and purity. It has an underglaze blue design on the outside loosely drawn geometric figure - circles, lines, etc. There are two flower like figures – one on each side – and these are framed with loose vines and circlets. The handle and the spout are not d ...click for details

A Chinese Qing Dynasty Roof Tile - Yellow Dragon Carp Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Stoneware: Pre 1837 VR   item# 924370 (stock# ICHI 1536)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $895.00  Hand crafted as part of a roof ornament, this is a dramatic ceramic figure depicting a Dragon Carp with golden yellow glazing. It was used to ward off evil spirits from buildings. This piece would originally have adorned the rooftop of a Qing Dynasty dwelling.It was considered good luck to place a figure such as this on top of ones house, where it could be viewed from a considerable distance. Similar roof tiles can still be seen in parts of China's famous Forbidden City, Beijing. ...click for details

An early Qing Blue and White Scholars Brush Washer Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Stoneware: Pre 1837 VR   item# 872823 (stock# COLL 9013)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $425.00  Here we have an interesting Chinese blue and white brush washer in a crescent shape. On the widest front curve in front, there is a relief of a man on a horse with two attendants in front and back of the horseman. The right side has a relief of a man walking with a pole with ribbons on it. The left side has a relief of another man on foot who is blowing into a long curved horn. The top and sides are glazed in a thick white glaze with the cobalt blue characters and highlights to the costumes do ...click for details

A Late Ming/Qing Dynasty Blue and White Jarlet Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Stoneware: Pre 1800   item# 808195  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $325.00  A globular jarlet made in underglaze blue and white - dating from the late Ming to early Qing dynasties, circa 1625-1750. The jarlet is decorated with a soft blue underglaze design of blue flowers – the cover glaze has a crackle finish to it. The piece measures 2 ½” high by 2 ¾” diameter at the waist. It is in excellent condition – some kiln grit is on the rim of the base.

An Early Ming Celadon Dish Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Stoneware: Pre 1800   item# 803152  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $795.00  This is a Northern Ming celadon dish with a very faintly impressed design of a bird in the center. The top and most of the bottom are glazed in a thick celadon glaze whilst the bottom is mainly unglazed with some spill over of the glaze. The dish measures 7 5/8” diameter and is 1 ¾” deep. The celadon glaze has a crackle finish. It is in excellent condition – one tiny ½” long area on the rim where the glaze did not take. There are two very small brown dots that are firing flaws. We believe it dat ...click for details

A Pale Blue Qingbai (Yingqing) Jarlet – Song Dynasty Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Stoneware: Pre 1900   item# 715412  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $325.00  A nice little Qingbai globular shaped jarlet measuring 2 ¼” by 2 ¼”. The piece has been dated as the Song dynasty (960-1270)– however we will be conservative and attribute a date of 18th/19th century as so many later reproductions were made. It is in excellent condition. Qingbai wares were made at Jingdezhen and at many other southern kilns from the time of the Northern Song Dynasty until they were eclipsed in the 14th century by underglaze-decorated blue and white wares. Qingbai in Chinese lit ...click for details

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