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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.

Testimonials Guest Book Sales Policy Travel Message Privacy Policy Featured Items  (15) Rare Macaroni Agate (Dendrical Chalcedony) Snuff Bottle A Mid to Late Meiji Hirado Water Dropper Akita Pup 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

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 Nineteenth Century Carved Hexagonal Box Catalogue: Archives: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Pre 1900   item# 105195  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 SOLD - $2,395.00  A spectacular large hexagonal Zitan box - the top and all six sides feature deep relief carving of birds - flying, sitting, perching in trees - apparently plum trees - it is made of separate pieces however the joinery is so superb that it is almost impossible to determine where the joints occur - the stand is an integral part of the piece and is reticulated - excellent condition with no breaks or nicks - 19th century. This is easily one of the finest Zitan boxes we have ever had in our collect ...click for details Magnificent Large Zitan Brush Pot - 19th Cty Catalogue: Archives: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Pre 1900   item# 87170 (stock# 3450)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 SOLD - $3,950.00  Incredible Large Zitan Brush Pot - decorated over entire surface with highly intricate designed carving of four dragons in the clouds - two are chasing the tamba , sacred pearl - the others facing head on in the classic Imperial Chinese Dragon posture and clutching the tamba in one claw. The dragons claws have five toes - another feature supposedly reserved for the Imperial art. Amazingly, this large brush pot is made from a single block of wood - not with the usual plug in the base found on th ...click for details Fine Chinese Imari Teapot C.1730 Catalogue: Archives: Regional Art: Pre 1800   item# 85202 (stock# 3396)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 SOLD - $895.00  Very attractive Chinese Imari Teapot and Cover. Decorated in typical palette of bright colours with Carnations issueing from rocks. The cover, spout and handle with floral sprays. C.1730 Ht. 5.0" Handle to spout 7.1". Condition is very good, some wear to the gilding, a tiny frit to the tip of the spout and a 0.7" shallow flake to the underside of the lid.See photo. The European taste for Chinese porcelains was interrupted during the struggle leading to the fall of the Ming dyna ...click for details Chinese Imari Ribbed Teapot-K'ang Hsi Period Catalogue: Archives: Regional Art: Pre 1800   item# 78775 (stock# 3387)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 SOLD  A second Chinese imari teapot and cover dating from the K'ang Hsi period of the early Qing Dynasty (1661-1722). Of rounded form with a dome shaped cover, the body is ribbed and decorated with peonies and chrysanthemums. It would appear that the gilding on the finial and touches of the body were "European cobbling" touches added in the late 18th century. Height: 4 " inches, diameter of the body is 3 " and the width including the handle and spout is 5 ". Condition is ...click for details Return To Top View Next 10 Items PAGE: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8