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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. We still have over 900 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.(This discount does NOT apply to items purchased at auction.) At these low prices, we do ask that you pay shipping and insurance charges for all items purchased.

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Powerful Scholars Rootwood Brushpot - Qing Catalogue: Archives: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Pre 1900   item# 196461 (stock# IchiV10117)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 SOLD - $1,395.00  This is one of the largest rootwood brushpots we have ever had - a truly powerful and fine example of the genre. This brushpot measures 8" high and is 9" wide x 5 1/2" wide at the top and 7 1/2" wide x 5" wide at the base. Excellent condition with no cracks or restorations anywhere - soft warm patina - the base is solid as the pot was carved from a single piece of highly burled wood. We date this piece from the mid to late 19th century. A host of beautiful lighter color ...click for details Huanghuali Brushpot - 18th Century Catalogue: Archives: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Pre 1800   item# 195994 (stock# IchiV1015)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 SOLD  We have just acquired a very important collection of rare scholars brush pots and other scholars items dating from late Ming to early Qing dynasties. This is one of those fine brushpots - made from Huanghuali and measuring 5 1/4"(13.3cm)high x 4 1/2" (11.43cm) diameter at the top and 4 3/16" diameter at the base. This pot has at least 7 guilian-er throughout the pot, the little whorls on the side which look like "ghost faces". The color is a soft honey tone. The bottom ...click for details 18th Cty Scholars Box - Burl Wood ( Hua Mu) Catalogue: Archives: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Pre 1800   item# 195806 (stock# IchiV1114)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 SOLD - $1,595.00  This is an exquisite nearly perfect cube shape 18th century box for the scholars desk. It is made of the most wonderfully grained burl wood one could ask for and is in outstanding condition. The box measures 4 1/2" square and stands 4" tall. No cracks, chips or restorations - just beautiful grain and patina. A renowned expert on Chinese woods and furniture had this to say about Hua Mu - " Much used for embellishing pieces often framed with the finest of the hard- woods, and the ...click for details 18th Cty Chinese Cinnabar Marriage Box Catalogue: Archives: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Pre 1800   item# 195196 (stock# IchiV1009)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 SOLD - $2,495.00  A fine Chinese carved lacquer cinnabar marriage box with the symbols for double happiness on the top. Each corner of the top lid has a different floral design within a ruyi shape. The center of the lid has a very complex flower design of four single peonie flowers surrounding a two flower spray on a stem of leaves. The sides are decorated multiple floral designs in reserves and four reserves - one per side - with Buddhistic symbols. The piece dates from the 18th century - circa 1750-1800. Excel ...click for details Shunzhi Pd. Ink Stone and Box - dtd. 1646 Catalogue: Archives: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Pre 1700   item# 194581 (stock# IchiV1005)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 SOLD - $2,495.00  Shunzhi Pd. Ink Stone and Box dating from 1646. This is a classic Scholars Inkstone in a patinated wooden box dating to the Shunzhi period, early Qing Dynasty, 1646. The box is inscribed “Owned by Sun Jiuchen” and the back of the inkstone bears extensive calligraphy that has been incised into the stone. The top of the stone – below the area where the ink was ground - is an elaborate carving of a dragon in waves. We are not sure what the wooden box is made of – it has the characteristic hair-li ...click for details Pair - Ming Dynasty Tixi Lacquer Cup Rests Catalogue: Archives: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Pre 1700   item# 194386 (stock# IchiV1005)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 SOLD - $1,995.00  These very rare incised lacquer cup rests are made of Tixi lacquer wherein the surface is deeply carved through multiple layers of red and black lacquer. (The Japanese refer to this technique as nuri guri).Each dish has a design of eight ruyi scrolls surrounding the raised middle that would have held the small cup. On the bottom rim there are ten ruyi heads that miror the design from the top. The pieces average 5 1.2" diameter and are slightly over 5/8" tall from the bottom of the dish ...click for details Rare Chinese Six Dynasties Mythical Creature Catalogue: Archives: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Pre AD 1000   item# 177811 (stock# 3799)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 SOLD - $795.00  Rare Chinese Six Dynasties Mythical Creature - This very rare and strange looking creature was made some 1,500 years ago during the Six Dynasties period (AD 220 - 589). Made from a fine-grained grey earthenware, it is finely modeled with the surface having been "cold painted" in white, yellow-ochre, black and red pigments, much of which still remains. Presumably it represents some sort of mythical creature. It has a slightly sinister face that borders on wolverine appearance - yet th ...click for details 19th Century Celadon Glazed Porcelain JUE Catalogue: Archives: Regional Art: Pre 1900   item# 158632 (stock# 3699)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 SOLD - $295.00  A most unusual 19th Century Chinese miniature Jue executed in a soft celadon glazed porcelain and modelled in archaistic style. Size - 2.5 iches high.Condition - one tiny nick to 1 foot. There are molded relief Chinese characters on the sides, but we are not able to translate them. The JUE form originated in the Shang dynasty - 1766-1050 BC. The JUE is named after its shape - a sparrow (or que in Chinese). The ancient Chinese character JUE had the same pronunciation as QUE and these two names we ...click for details Korean Carved Wooden Tiger - 18th Century Catalogue: Archives: Regional Art: Asian: Korean: Pre 1800   item# 148965 (stock# JMNG108)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 SOLD - $1,695.00  Another great folk tiger - this one an eighteenth century wooden folk carving from Korea. The piece measures 10 1/2" high and is 9" wide. Very dynamic pose with the tiger looking up and back - very much the same pose as is frequently found in traditional Korean scrolls wherein the tiger is looking up at the scolding magpie located in a tree. An example of such a painting is included in photo # 8 below - taken from a website on Korean folk art - http://www.san-shin.org/Zo-05.html. ...click for details Rare Published Blanc de Chine Phoenix-17th C. Catalogue: Archives: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Pre 1920   item# 141948  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 SOLD - $1,695.00  A rare published miniature blanc de chine ewer moulded and incised in the form of an archaistic phoenix and covered with an white ivory glaze by the famous potter HO CH'AO - CH'UN.. A photo of a nearly identical piece can be seen in plate # 151A of Donnelly's classic book " Blanc de Chine", Faber and Faber, 1969. Donnelly has this to say about that piece - "Ho Ch'ao--ch'un was the younger brother of the famed Ho Ch'ao-tsung. He was a very different type of ...click for details Return To Top View Next 10 Items PAGE: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8