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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 1,500 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. (Please note - any Ichiban listing that is at auction on EBAY sells for the final bid price and the 40 % discount does not apply). At these low prices, we do ask that you pay shipping and insurance charges for all items purchased. With thanks for your years of patronage, we look forward to serving you until the last items are sold.

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Decorated Art Deco Satsuma Bulb Bowl - Taisho/Showa Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Earthenware: Pre 1940   item# 914565 (stock# ICHI 3327)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $295.00  This is a very nice example of 1920's - 30's Art deco enameled ceramics - a Satsuma blank bulb bowl - measuring 8 3/4" in diameter and 2 1/4" high.After World War I, pottery decorators in the United States could not find European pottery blanks to decorate and turned to Satsuma blanks from Japan. This fine example is beautiful with its sparse design of groups of art deco stylized flowers in the center of the bowl and at four points on the outside rim of the bowl. Unsigned piece ...click for details A Japanese Crackle Glaze Leaf Shaped Pouring Bowl Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Porcelain: Pre 1960   item# 909069 (stock# COLL 9044)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $135.00  A sweet Japanese pouring with a small red pouring spout - the balance of the dish is in a light crackled celadon glaze. There is an impressed design of a leaf and the shape of the dish is of a broad leaf. The underside is also glazed in the pale celadon with some glaze not applied inside the foot ring. The dish measures 6 1/4" diameter and is 1 1/4" deep. Because it is of so shallow we cannot figure out what would have been used in the dish that one could pour. We date it to the mid 2 ...click for details A Japanese Pottery Daruma w/ Celadon Glaze – Showa Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1950   item# 907709 (stock# COLL 9043)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $195.00  This is a fun okimono of Daruma in a standing position and with a fierce glare on his face. The entire piece with the exception of his robe is glazed in a lovely thick celadon glaze. The face is unglazed and is very well carved to highlight Daruma’s expression. On the base of the okimono there is a two character impressed mark. It has been loosely translated as "Kyusetsu" or "Kyuwa" - second letter is hard to recognize. The piece measures 8 5/8” high by 3 ¼” wide by 3 ¼” d ...click for details A Chinese Blanc-de-Chine Kwanyin - late Qing Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Porcelain: Pre 1930   item# 906948 (stock# ICHI 987)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $175.00  A fine small Chinese blanc-de-chine figure of a seated Kwanyin, the Goddess of Mercy. This position is known as that of Royal Repose. The figure dates from the late Qing dynasty,circa 1890s - 1915. The Kwanyin is 3 3/4" high by 2 1/2" wide by 1 1/2" deep and is in excellent condition. There is kiln grit on the base which is typical in the earlier blanc-de-chine pieces. On the back there is an mark in the shape of a gourd - meaning not known. Lovely face and graceful posture. I com ...click for details A Superb Japanese Studio Bowl by Imai Hyoe Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1980   item# 906070 (stock# ICHI 3277)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $1,425.00  This is a fantastic studio pottery bowl with a bark like rim and a matte orange interior by the modern master - IMAI HYOE. This orange/ red bowl has the material feeling on its edge like the bark on the trunk of the a tree. The interior, although a matte color, give the impression of looking into the crater of a volcano with ite red hot magman. shoots the preponderant existence impression of making the crater and the magma. think. The bowl slopes slightly from the rear to the front giving it ...click for details A Chinese Cloisonne Bowl – Flowers in Net Design Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Pre 1940   item# 904524 (stock# ICHI 1862)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $150.00  An interesting cloisonne bowl with a design of red and white flowers – possibly peonies – surrounded by a net of tan net like design and a border of green half moon figures. The rim and foot are gold colored. The sides of the bowl have two more floral sprays which are also surrounded by the tan net like design. The interior of the foot has a grainy dark blue/turquoise color. The bowl is in excellent condition with no chips, hairlines or restorations. The bowl measures 5” diameter at the top and ...click for details Tall Bizen Figure of a Standing Daruma – Meiji/Taisho Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1940   item# 904118 (stock# ICHI 2580)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $395.00  This is a rather unusual figure of Daruma in that the background clay on the face, chest and hands is the chocolate brown color of Bizen pottery - yet the robe and scepter are done in a thin overglaze enamel in a dirty white color with tan and brown highlights. The Daruma has a particularly piercing look to his face as if he were mad about something. The figure measures 9” high by 4” wide by 3” deep. There is no signature – the base in not glazed and has the impression of cheesecloth that it st ...click for details A Showa Period Soft Green Cloisonne Vase Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Enamel: Pre 1970   item# 899737 (stock# ICHI 2196)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $235.00  This is a fairly good sized Japanese mid-Showa Period soft green cloisonne vase. It has a hidden design of a band of flowers under the green outer color which starts just under the shoulder of the vase and extends downward about 4” towards the base. The vase has chrome rims and is not signed. We date it to the middle Showa period, most probably around the 1950s. The vase measures 8 3/4"H by 4 1/2" diameter at its widest. It is in excellent condition. A Five Tiered Lacquer Jubako (Japanese Food Carrier) Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Lacquer: Pre 1980   item# 898029 (stock# ICHI 207)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $325.00  A very handsome and utilitarian Japanese lacquer Jubako with five tiers, which can be stacked in groups of three, four or five tiers as the situation required. This set is shown with all five stacked and also the five tiers grouped into two sets of two tiers and three tiers. The outside of the tiers and cover are covered with a number of fine makie gold lacquer designs on a black roiro ground – mostly of Buddhist symbols. When stacked as a five tier unit, it measures 7” high by 7” by 7 ½” near s ...click for details A Japanese Celadon Pitcher – Showa Period Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1980   item# 897573 (stock# ICHI 2090)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $195.00  This is a handsome ceramic pitcher glazed in a lovely soft celadon color. The pitcher measures 6 ¾” high to the top of the finial – is 7 ¾” diameter from the tip of the spout to the back of the handle and the main body of the pitcher is 3 ½” diameter. There is an impressed mark on the lower side of the piece which we have not been able to identify. The pitcher is in excellent condition. We date it to the mid 20th century, circa 1950-1970s. Return To Top View Next 10 Items PAGE: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  10  20  22