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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 1,500 items either currently listed on our website catalog or still to be posted onto it. So, starting now, Oct.1, 2008, 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. With thanks for your years of patronage, we look forward to serving you until the last items are sold. Cheers ~ Ichiban Antiques.

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A Japanese Arita Dish- Landscape Design-Edo/Meiji Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1837 VR   item# 821573 (stock# ICHI 1028)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $235.00  A small early Japanese Arita dish with a fairly complex design in underglaze light blue cobalt. On the right side of the dish we find a three story house or temple nestled against a tall cliff. In the center of the dish is a willow tree on the bank of a small lake. A bridge spans an inlet in the lake and two people can be seen walking across the bridge. Out on the lake can be seen two small fishing boats. At the upper right we see a distant pagoda half hidden by some foothills. Overhead are two ...click for details A Large Dynamic Imari Carp Platter – Edo/ Meiji Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1900   item# 820725 (stock# ICHI 1101)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $725.00  This is a superb rectangular platter by the Imari potters with a very unusual design of a large Golden Carp in a curled position. A border of geometric designs in green, reds and pale yellow or tan surrounds the fish. The carp itself has slightly raised fins in a low relief. On the back of the platter is a blue underglaze design on the fou ...click for details A Japanese Edo Pd. Komai Dish – Two Tigers Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Metalwork: Pre 1900   item# 819351 (stock# ICHI 3616)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $895.00  This is an extraordinary Japanese Komai dish with decoration of two tigers lying down. The metals are gold, silver, and copper with the gold shading from a coppery color to a yellow gold. The detailing is as fine as you will see. The noses are reddish copper, claws are silver, silver used for shading on face and underneath on the throat and chest. It is signed on the back with Komai's mark. This large dish measures 7 1/4” diameter and is ½” deep with tripod legs under the dish. The dish is ...click for details A Kutani Vase - Shape of the Ancient Chinese Gu – Edo Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1900   item# 819097 (stock# ICHI 1650)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $425.00  A lovely Japanese Kutani Ware vase in the shape of one of the most copied of early Chinese bronze forms – the GU. This Gu has the expected wide opening at the top – it narrows to a slimmer waist, which has a raised band decorated with designs of dragons and pines – and widening again towards the base. These reserves on the raised band at the middle are on a background of geometric yellow and brown grid lines. The upper and lower sections of the gu are decorated with a design of evergreen trees i ...click for details A Dainty Imari Shallow Bowl with a Complex Design – Edo Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1900   item# 818837 (stock# Coll 8031)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $295.00  This is a charming little shallow bowl/dish with a complex design. The outer rim has a scalloped edge. The center reserve shows a three-clawed dragon curled around itself and partly hidden by blue clouds. There is a very nice complimentary pallet of colors used in the design - red, orange dark cobalt blue, yellow, pale blue and light green. Surrounding the central dragon are four reserves with smaller designs of dragons and four reserves of a yellow design surrounded by dark blue karakusa vines ...click for details A Meiji Period Bronze Koro – Three Scenes and a Shi Shi Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Metalwork: Pre 1900   item# 817425 (stock# ICHI 726)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $295.00  A very well cast bronze koro with a slightly rounded flat base. The koro shows some very detailed hand chasing to get the clearly defined scenes shown. There are three separate scenes in reserves and the rest of the body design in made up of Greek Key design. The first scene is that of a pagoda and a temple high on a mountain or tall hills. A second scene shows a seated elder holding a gourd in his hand – he sits under a spreading prunus (plum) tree. The third scene is of a spreading prunus tree ...click for details A Japanese Blue and White Double Gourd – Dragon – Meiji Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1900   item# 816548 (stock# ICHI 2955)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $550.00  This is a strongly designed and potted Japanese porcelain double gourd vase with a transfer design of a dragon amidst the clouds. Transfer ware was one of the techniques that were first introduced in Japan after the end of the Edo period of isolation. The vase is believed to be transfer ware because of the presence of several horizontal lines on the design that would have been caused by wrinkles in the paper during the transfer process. The dragon is hidden partly by some of the clouds, as many ...click for details A Japanese Dyptich by Barei Kono - Early Meiiji Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Woodblock Prints: Pre 1900   item# 814359 (stock# Coll 8030)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $225.00  A Japanese diptych by Bairei,Kono(1844-1895). The print depicts two butterflies done in blacks and grays – flying over two pink lily blossoms with full stem and leaves. It is in very good condition with light wrinkles and is a protected by a clear plastic wrap over the black mounting mat paperboard. The print has a three character mark at the top right that translates to “"Yuri Ni Cho"(Lily and Butterfly). The diptych measures 11 ½” wide by 7 ½” tall – the fully matted diptych measures ...click for details A Scalloped Edge Blue & White Arita Shallow Bowl- Meiji Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1900   item# 813972 (stock# ICHI 851)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $325.00  A mid Meiji period Arita blue and white shallow bowl with a scalloped edge and an underglaze design of geometrically stylized vines and flowers on the inside – a simple design of a band of karakusa vines on the upper side of the back of the bowl. The bowl has a few minor glazes flaws in the form of frits on one edge and some tiny spots on the interior where the glaze did not adhere. The bowl measures 5 ¾” diameter and is 2” high at the rim. We date it to the early to mid Meiji period, circa 1870 ...click for details A Meiji Period Japanese Cloisonne Vase - Complex Design Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Enamel: Pre 1900   item# 813127 (stock# Coll 8029)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $425.00  A fine early Japanese cloisonne vase with a very complicated design. It is clearly an early Meiji example because of the many tiny cloisons used to hold the ground glass in place during the firing process. The vase has two large reserves – one a picture of a flower on a blue gin bari ground. (Gin Bari is a use of foil under the glass to produce the shiny effect and was introduced at a later date – this is probably one of the earliest examples of its use). The other reserve is in standard cloison ...click for details Return To Top View Next 10 Items PAGE: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  10  20  30  40  41