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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 is telling us it is time. We still have over 1200 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.

Testimonials Guest Book Sales Policy Travel Message Gift Certificates Privacy Policy Featured Items  (15) Rare Macaroni Agate (Dendrical Chalcedony) Snuff Bottle A Yunomi by Tatsuzo Shimaoka Specializing in Japanese-Chinese-Korean Antiques Japanese Porcelain Japanese Stoneware Japanese Earthenware Japanese Netsuke Woodblock Prints Folk Art Lacquer Ware Asian Textiles Cloisonne Scholar Art Chinese Porcelain Chinese Snuff Bottles Chinese Wood netsuke Japanese Inro Korean Antiques Japanese Woodblock Prints

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 Finest Quality Hirado Reticulated Censer Catalogue: Archives: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Pre 1920   item# 135187 (stock# 1580)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 SOLD - $1,695.00  Hirado porcelain censers just do not come any better than this superb example. In fact, we just recently visited the Japanese ceramics exhibit at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the two Hirado censers they had on display did not come close to this one. This superb piece features a reticulated top with a perky shi shi on the top as a finial. The body of the censer is reticulated all over with a solid body within the reticulated outer shell. Two dragon handles with hanging rings complete the co ...click for details Kunisada Print - Bijin-ga - Lavender Kimono Catalogue: Archives: Regional Art: Pre 1900   item# 117658 (stock# 3527)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $895.00 - - Donated to Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival of Greater Philadelphia  A beautiful, crisp ukiyo-e print of a lovely court woman (bijin-ga) by renowned Edo period print maker Kunisada. The lady stands next to a kimono rack and under a temple bell which is surrounded with sprays of cherry blossoms. She wears a lovely Spring kimono decorated with scores of white ducks against a greyish lavender ground. It would appear that the lady has just stepped out of the bath as she is barefoot and the kimono is loosely arranged around her body. This could even be a portrayal of ...click for details Korean Choson Pd. Inlaid Lacquer Box Catalogue: Archives: Regional Art: Asian: Korean: Pre 1900   item# 111057 (stock# 3441)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 SOLD - $2,500.00  A great Korean Late Choson Inlaid lacquer box and cover circa late 19th century. This handsome box is made of the typical Korean brown lacquer. It is beautifully decorated with two dragons chasing a flaming pearl amidst clouds. The decoration is masterfully inlaid with mother of pearl forming the top scales of the dragons and the scrolling clouds, sharkskin stained in two different colors used for the softer scales on the underbelly and claws, and finally tortoise ...click for details Return To Top View Next 10 Items PAGE: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8