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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.

Year of the Tiger - Blue and White Tiger Bowl Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1920   item# 983809 (stock# COLL 1021)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 395.00  A deep Arita footed bowl with a scalloped edge dating from the late Meiji to early Taisho era - circa 1890-1920. The inner design is that of a wonderfully goofy looking tiger in a bamboo grove - his long tail curling up over his back. The bowl measures 9" diameter at the top - 4" diameter at the foot and is 3 1/2" deep. The ...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 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 Pair of Arita Tea Bowls - Chawan – Edo Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1900   item# 978758 (stock# ICHI 152)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 895.00  This is a lovely pair of thin walled chawan – tea cups – from the Arita kilns. Each of the two cups has a fine relief design on the inside walls. The designs appear to be fans and bows – hard to photograph with clarity. In the bottom of the cups is a dark cobalt blue design that we cannot make out – there do appear to be some elongated scales so it could be a curled dragon. Just below the upper rim the inside of the cups at the very top there is a band of blue geometric figures like linked vine ...click for details

A Hirado Vase with Relief Characters and Pomegranates Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1900   item# 977883 (stock# ICHI 3673)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 2295.00  This is a superb Hirado vase with relief and underglaze blue paintings of two pomegranates on their vines. Some of the fruit and leaves are low relief. There are also two raised characters that translate as "Kin Bana" or could read "Kinka". The other two other two raised characters read “Hyakusha”. Presumably at least one of the set of two is the artist’s name. The vase is round – with an indented neck that then flares out to a white rim. The base is also indented and then fl ...click for details

An Edo Arita Plate – Bird in Landscape – Kraak Style Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1837 VR   item# 977700 (stock# ICHI 1071)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 995.00  This is a very fine 17th –18th century Arita dish made by the Japanese in the Kraak style of design. This is a particularly elegant example with the wide border of dimpled depressions, a band of separated blue squares and its ruffled rim. Inside this lovely white frame is the main design in underglaze cobalt blue of a bird – eagle? phoenix ? – flying amongst very thick underbrush and trees with a small swirling pool of water at the bottom. ...click for details

A Hirado Cup with Karako Chasing Butterflies Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1900   item# 976444 (stock# ICHI 2239)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 325.00  This is a fine Hirado handleless cup with a slightly ruffled rim. On the outside and inside of the rim is a band of blue lappets in the classic Hirado blue. The outside of the cup has a scene of five young boys – karako – chasing butterflies under pine trees. The base of the cup has a band of geometric squiggly lines. On the bottom there is a three-character mark that translates as "Hirado Mikawachi" in Japanese kanji characters. The cup measures 2 ¼” high by 3 ½” diameter at the top ...click for details

An Arita Blue and White Plate – Cranes and Lotus Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1910   item# 974423 (stock# ICHI 1369)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 295.00  This is a Japanese blue and white plate with a design of two cranes standing in a pool of water. Large lotus leaves and flowers emerge from the water in which they stand. Around the border of the plate is a band of squiggly blue figures that look amazingly like a long band of tadpoles. The underside of the plate completely undecorated wit ...click for details

A Japanese Arita Bowl – Unusual Shape - Meiji Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1910   item# 973415 (stock# ICHI 1114)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 250.00  This is a nice little Arita blue and white bowl with a design of two fishermen sitting in a boat and drinking tea at a low table in the bottom of the boat. There appears to be a sail above the fishermen on the left and two distant boats can be seen on the interior of the bowl. What makes the piece so unusual is that at a point midway in the design, the clay was folded over and buttoned together with a clay dot. ...click for details

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