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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, from now on ALL ITEMS IN THE CATALOG MAY BE PURCHASED AT 40 % OFF THE LISTED PRICE. (Please note - any Ichiban listing that is at auction on EBAY sells for the final bid price and the 40 % discount does not apply). 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.

A Tall Japanese Lime Green Vase - Cranes - Meiji Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1920   item# 911492 (stock# ICHI 3020)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $150.00  A tall Japanese porcelain flower vase in a tubular form and a flared base with five feet and a design in gold on the base. The top half of the vase is a lovely lime green. From the base we find a number of stylized Japanese white cranes. The vase measures a tall 11 1/2" and is 3 1/2" diameter at the tubular part and then the base ...click for details

An Early Blue and White Kakiemon Dish – late Edo Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1837 VR   item# 905228 (stock# ICHI 1267)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $325.00  This is an early Kakiemon dish with a sparse design that would appeal to the Japanese preference for wabi, or simplicity, in its design. The center of the dish has the characteristic small design of a small chrysanthemum with five flared stems evenly spaced around the flower. The outer rim is a simple band of stylized flowers in underglaze blue. On the outer rim the bottom of the dish is a band of karakusa vines. There is a single spur mark in the center of the bottom – caused by a small clay s ...click for details

A Late Edo Imari Rectangular Dish – Landscape Scene Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1900   item# 903383 (stock# ICHI 1009)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $295.00  This is an Imari dish that has been dated as from 1860 by a previous owner. The dish has all the classic overglaze enamel colors in its design – reds, greens, yellow and browns. The reserve design in the bottom of the dish depicts an inland sea scene of boats on the water and fishing huts on stilts sticking out over the water. In the background we find low hills nearby and taller mountains further away. The scene is surrounded by triangular geometric designs in three of the corners. The sides of ...click for details

A Japanese Celadon Bowl with Tripod Feet - Meiji Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1900   item# 900083 (stock# COLL 9039)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $495.00  A lovely soft celadon glazed bowl resting of tripod feet. On the sides of the bowl are several evenly spaced protruding knobs. These give the bowl a look of a flattened drum. It is possible that the piece is of Hirado origin as the Hirado potters did make some pieces in almost this exact color of celadon. We just are not sure - so will simply identify it as celadon glazed porcelain. The interior of the shallow foot is unglazed and the clay shows a circular swirl pattern. There is s firing crack ...click for details

A Japanese Blue and Light Celadon Dish with Horse Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1900   item# 894620 (stock# ICHI 3035)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $295.00  This is a fine small Japanese light celadon dish with underglaze light cobalt blue design of a horse under an encircling evergreen tree. The design is loosely drawn giving it a folk look. On the underside, the bottom within the short foot is unglazed and there is a four-character mark in underglaze blue. The characters have been translated as "Manreki Nensei" (Japanese), "Wanli Year made"(Chinese). The Wanli period was 1563-1620, however we believe the reign mark to be an hon ...click for details

A Shell Shaped Dish with Lakeside Scene – Meiji Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1900   item# 891911 (stock# ICHI 521)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $525.00  This is an interesting shell shaped small dish – mukozuke – on tripod legs. The upper side of the dish has a scene in underglaze blue and white of a lake scene with a house on a hill – distant fishing boats and low waves – and trees on hills. There is a row of raised dots on the side of the shell that curls upward. On the base, we find an unusual bark shaped brown glaze. We have seen this color of a few Hirado pieces; and the white glaze on the upper side of the dish could easily the soft Hirad ...click for details

A Kutani Censer with Pines and Boats Scene – Meiji Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1900   item# 890791 (stock# ICHI 647)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $295.00  This is a fine Meiji period censer from the Kutani kilns – done in the typical Kutani color pallete of overglaze enamels in eggplant, green yellow and reds. The censer measures 2 ½” square and is 3 ½” tall to the top of the finial. On the sides are scenes of a sailing boat – the finial is a slightly defined eggplant purple shi shi. On bottom of the censer is a marks that translates as “Fuku” meaning Good Luck of Fortune. We date the censer to the mid Meiji period, circa 1870s-80s. It is in excel ...click for details

A Hirado Covered Bowl with Kiku Mum Cut-Outs – Meiji Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1920   item# 888749 (stock# ICHI 2859)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $695.00  This is a lovely Hirado porcelain covered bowl with underglaze blue decorations of multiple flowers, leaves and vines. There are three large cut out reticulated designs of the sixteen petal Kiku mon. The knob in the center used to raise the lid is also a reticulated flower design. On the bottom of the inside of the bowl is yet another floral design executed in underglaze blue – this one is a spray of mums with two butterflies hovering overhead and below. The bowl measures 6 ½” diameter and is 1 ...click for details

A Japanese Celadon, Blue & White Boat Shaped Bowl Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1910   item# 887708 (stock# ICHI 2908)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $395.00  This is a handsome Japanese pottery shallow bowl in the shape of a boat. On the inside of the boat is an elaborate underglaze design in cobalt blue of a Buddhist symbol and two sets of hanging wisteria. The prow of the boat has a small blue flower on it and the stern has a dark cobalt design with a loosely drawn flower. (I particularly like the fact that the small bulbous prow of the boat is slightly off center.) The entire upper body of the bowl has a soft celadon glaze that offsets the dark bl ...click for details

A Late Edo -Early Meiji Imari Bowl Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1900   item# 883959 (stock# ICHI 1143)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $295.00  A nice little Imari shallow bowl with a ruffled edge. The outer rim of the bowl has a landscape waterside village - there are two blue rings setting off a reserve in the middle that has a stylized iris flower in underglaze blue - the edge has an overglaze brown enamel. The outer side of the rim has a simple underglaze blue band of karakusa vines. ...click for details

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