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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.

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

A Japanese Arita Kogo – Cracked Ice Design - Meiji Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1920   item# 971726 (stock# COLL1008)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 275.00  This sweet small kogo (covered box) has an overall design called "cracked ice" and is done in blue on white. That motif was design based on an old Chinese motif called "cracked ice". The theme is meant to symbolize Spring with the design on plum blossoms (prunus) falling on an ice covered pond or lake that is beginning to thaw and crack. The top of the kogo has a finial shaped as a white flower bud just starting to open. The piece measures 3” diameter and is 2 ¼” high. It is ...click for details

A Meiji Blue and White Arita Dish – Man on Bridge Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1910   item# 971135 (stock# COLL1007)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 325.00  A nice early Meiji blue and white dish with the design done in underglaze blue and iron. It pictures a narrow rickety wooden bridge across two hills. The man is done in underglaze iron as are some tree trunks on the left hill and three birds soaring above the scene. The dish measures 6 ¼” diameter by 1 1/8” deep and is in excellent condition. We date it to the early Meiji period, circa 1870-1880s.

An Imari Shell Shaped Oval Plate – Meiji Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1900   item# 970369 (stock# ICHI 1446)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 325.00  This is a very finely painted Imari shell shaped Imari dish with a scalloped edge. There is a relief embossed fan shaped reserve in the middle. The lower half of the dish has a series of three large flowers – while the upper half has an intricate but well-balanced geometrical design. On the back of the dish there are two phoenix (ho-o birds) and two floral patterns on a pure white background glaze. ...click for details

A Japanese Blue and White Matsugatani Plate – 17th Cty Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1800   item# 969814 (stock# ICHI 1303)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 895.00  This beautiful blue and white plate came from the Matsugatani kiln in about 1720. It has an underglaze cobalt blue painting of three small herons wading in a winding stream looking for fish. Way overhead there is flock of birds. A small hillock is on the side of the stream. The dish measures 8 3.4” diameter and is ¾” deep. The dish is mad ...click for details

A Charming Japanese Brush Washer – Celadon – Meiji Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1920   item# 967782 (stock# ICHI 3147)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 295.00  This is a small brush washer on tripod legs glazed in a lovely soft turquoise/celadon glaze. On the side and top of the rim is a design of low relief flowers connected with vines. The top opening of the piece has an evert rim – probably useful in rubbing the excess ink off the brush as it emerges from inside. The inside is white glazed and shows signs of old ink from brushes having been dipped into the washer. ...click for details

A Pair of Blue and White Imari Dishes - EDO Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1837 VR   item# 966659 (stock# ICHI 1077)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 495.00  A fine matched pair of Japanese blue and white Imari dishes – each with a painting of the Three Friends of Winter in the center. In Japanese art, the pine tree, the bamboo, and the plum blossom (song zhú méi ) are admired for their perseverance under harsh conditions, and are together known as the "Three Friends of Winter". The "Three Friends" is traditionally used as a system of ranking in Japan, for example in sushi sets or accommodations at a traditional Ryokan (inn). Pin ...click for details

A Nabeshima Plate, Men Crossing Stream - Edo/Meiji Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1900   item# 965963 (stock# ICHI 1103)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 SOLD - 995.00  This is a handsome Japanese Nabeshima dish with a design of two men crossing a stream. The men must have been important affluent personages as they are being carried across the stream on the shoulders of porters. A third porter follows the men carrying a large bundle of their possessions. There are distant hills on the far side of the river. ...click for details

A Hirado Sake Cup Holder – Relief Design – Meiji Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1910   item# 963078 (stock# ICHI 2038)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 1500.00  This is an unusually shaped Japanese Hirado porcelain sake cup holder known as a Haidai. The sides of the Haidai are decorated in a very rare relief manner with karako playing under pine trees; the karako - the pine trees – and the top design are all molded in this relief style. The top of the Haidai has five intricately formed petals with a low relief design of stylized wavy lines in the classic Japanese style. Just below the top is a band of Greek key geometric design and then a series of hang ...click for details

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