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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 Japanese Pottery Plate by Tosa – Meiji Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1900   item# 966472 (stock# ICHI 1042)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 375.00  This is a fine Japanese Kyoto Kiyomizu-yake plate by the artist known as Tosa, early Meiji period, circa 1870-1895. Tosa was a potter who lived in Gosjosaka and learned his art from the Rokubei Family. He follows typical Kiyomizu style and his work shows taste and originality. The plate has a lovely low relief design of white flowers (dai ...click for details

A Japanese Brown Pottery Figure of Daruma – Edo/Meiji Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1800   item# 957374 (stock# ICHI 117)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 495.00  This is a handsome dark chocolate pottery figure of the Bodhidharma– more commonly known in Japan as Daruma. The face of this Daruma is particularly well defined and reflects the dignity and serenity of the man, The figure measures 11” high by 4’wide by 3 12” deep and dates to the 19th century, circa 1850 – 1880s. It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks or restorations. ...click for details

A Japanese Round Covered Box with Carp Finial – Meiji Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1910   item# 949596 (stock# ICHI 1427)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 450.00  This is a handsome round covered box – kogo – with an unusual, and quite lovely, matte green glaze. The lid of the box has a curling carp as its finial. The box measures 3 ½” diameter at the top and is 3 ½” high to the top of the finial. We date it to the mid Meiji period, circa 1880s –1900. It is in excellent condition. On the base another carp is seen as a signature made with the same matte green glaze. ...click for details

A Japanese Pottery Figure of Ebisu – Edo Period Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1837 VR   item# 943819 (stock# COLL 9081)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 150.00  This is a mid Edo period pottery figure – okimono – of the Japanese Household God, Ebisu. The piece is in decent condition for its age – numerous nicks and loss of paint – but still an interesting rendition of this character. The Ebisu measures 2 ½” high by 2” wide by 1 1/8” deep. We date it to the 18th century of the Edo period. Ebisu , a ...click for details

A Japanese Studio Vase - Moriage Flowers - Meiji Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1920   item# 925084 (stock# ICHI 320)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $350.00  This is a beautiful Japanese studio vase dating from the late Meiji period, circa 1890-1910. The base glaze is a with mottled colors of a dark brown - shading into a near black - with splotches of tan and other colors. The vase is then decorated in a moriage style of thick slip forming a lovely group of colorful flowers on the shoulder and the top near the narrow neck. These are then repeated in a band of flowers near the foot. The base in glazed in the dark brown glaze while the base rim is un ...click for details

A Pear Shaped Oribe Dish with Pomegranate - Meiji Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1920   item# 913811 (stock# COLL 9050)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $175.00  An unusually shaped Oribe dish made in the form of an elongated pear. In the left center there is a green fruit which we believe is probably a pomegranate with brown stem and small leaves. The edges have the traditional dark green heavy glaze drip hanging over the sides of the dish. The back of the dish has a very unusual pattern of chocol ...click for details

A Small Kutani Sake Bottle - Tokkuri - Meiji Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1920   item# 909816 (stock# COLL 9045)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $275.00  A very handsome small tokkuri sake bottle with a dark forest green base glaze and two white glazed Japanese cranes on the sides. The bottle measures 5" high and is 2 1/2" diameter at it widest. There is a mark on the bottom that identifies is as Kutani ware. It is in excellent condition. We date it to the late Meiji period, circa 1880s- 1910.

A Japanese Tan Pottery Pouring Bowl – Edo Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1837 VR   item# 904884 (stock# ICHI 2170)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $225.00  This is an early Japanese tan glazed pouring bowl with a short spout. The glaze is lightly crackled – whether deliberately or from age we cannot say for sure. The foot is not glazed. The bowl measures 4 ½” diameter by 1 ½” high. We are not sure of the pottery kiln from which it came – probably one of the many folk kilns in the countryside. The bowl is in very good condition with a couple of tiny rubs to the glaze and gold lacquer repairs to some small chips on the rim. The lacquer repair is qui ...click for details

A Boat Shaped Yellow Bowl in Fahua Style – Eiraku Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1900   item# 892528 (stock# ICHI 2342)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $295.00  The exterior of this bowl decorated with raised Fahua style karakusa vines in green and aubergine (eggplant purple) flowers all on a beautiful egg yolk yellow ground glaze. The interior of the bowl is just the pure lovely yellow. The bowl has two indents in the sides that give it additional character. There is an impressed mark that has blurred in the firing and we have been unable to translate. We believe it to be the mark of the Eiraku line of potters. This unusual fahua style of Eiraku ware i ...click for details

A Pair of Triangular Japanese Oribe Ware Mukozuke Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1900   item# 892261 (stock# ICHI 995)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $725.00 the pair  This is a nicely executed pair of matching mirror image Oribe Ware Mukozuke. They are in the traditional Oribe colors of pale tan crackle glaze with areas of thick dark green/blue overglaze enamel. In the corners of the triangle is an iron brown spray of plant shoots. The bowls measure 7” wide by 5” long bt 2” deep and are in excellent condition. We date them to the Meiji period, circa 1880-1910. There is a three character impressed potters mark on the base; however, it ran and blurred in the f ...click for details

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