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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.

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A Japanese Vase – Dark Crackle Green – Raffia Wrap Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1980   item# 974890 (stock# ICHI 339)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 100.00  This is an interesting dark green glazed vase with a crackle glaze. It is wrapped in a raffia carrying “cage”. The vase measures 7” high and is 4” diameter at its widest. It is in excellent condition and dates from the mid Showa period, circa 1940s – 50s. A Small Koransha Dish – Cherry Tree – Showa Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1980   item# 974889 (stock# ICHI 1259)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 95.00  A nice little Japanese Koransha dish with a design in dark blue of a cheery tree with red cherries. It measures 2 ½” long by 2” wide and is 1” deep. We date it to the late Showa period, 1960s-1980s. It is signed by the Koransha (Scented Orchid) workshop on the base. The piece is in excellent condition. Over three hundred years ago, Eizae ...click for details A Chinese Low Rim Rectangular Dish - Perfect for Bonsai Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Pottery: Pre 1940   item# 974186 (stock# COLL1010)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 295.00  This is a very simple by elegant long rectangular pottery dish with a matte finish light turquoise green colored rim. The inside of the dish has a light tan glaze and even some splashes from the turquoise green rim's glazing. The base is not glazed. There are no signatures. We date the piece to the late 19th to early 20th century, Qing ...click for details A Japanese Studio Bowl – Dimpled Sides - Meiji/Taisho Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1950   item# 973938 (stock# ICHI 1246)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 325.00  This is a handsome studio bowl with a series of four dimpled impressions and a wonderful blend of glaze colors. The base color is a crackled tan glaze – then around the sides there are area of soft green – chocolate brown and a light brown rim. The interior has the same light brown crackled glaze as the rim, The glazing stops about 1” above the base, which reveals the dark brown clay from which the bowl was made covered with a light clear glaze. The lower section has a series of five raised ring ...click for details A Japanese Studio Brush Pot on Three Legs - Signed Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1980   item# 972716 (stock# COLL1009)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 695.00  This is a strikingly handsome Japanese brush pot mounted on three legs. The interior appears to have been made with the techniques known as salt glazing as is a soft greenish gray color. The outside appears to be ash glazed with the typical uneven colors caused by the placement of the piece in the kiln as the ash blows through the kiln. Or, it could be a variety of Raku-ware. ...click for details A Japanese Soft Turquoise Glazed Koro – Taisho/Showa Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1980   item# 972335 (stock# ICHI 1211)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 150.00  A very pretty small soft turquoise celadon koro (incense burner) with three flame like handles on the sides. It sits on tripod legs – the top has ten small almost heart shaped holes for the incense smoke to emerge. The piece measures 3 ¾” diameter and is 4” high to the top of the flame-like handles. It is early to mid Taisho/Showa period. It is in excellent condition. A Studio Tea Bowl (Chawan) – Signed – Showa Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1980   item# 965026 (stock# ICHI 1884)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 495.00  This is a fine Japanese chawan – tea bowl – with a very simple but lovely grayish blue crackle glaze. On one side there are two horizontal stripes in underglaze iron rust color. The chawan measures 4 12” diameter at the mouth and is 2 3/8 diameter at the foot and stands 2 ½” high. There is an impressed raised signature on the inner side of the raised foot which is either SH or HS depending on which way one holds the piece. The piece is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks or restorations ...click for details A Pair of Japanese Mingei Baskets – Meiji/Showa Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Baskets: Pre 1970   item# 963870 (stock# COLL 9110)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 395.00  This is a fine pair of handmade Japanese folk art basket containers. They are made of tightly woven rattan reeds and bound by strips of thin bamboo that are reinforced with bronze straps bradded into the basket. The smaller basket looks like it could have been a sewing basket or even a bento box (lunch box). It measures 7” long by 5” wide ...click for details A Japanese Studio Bowl w/ Crackled Glass Inside Bottom Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1980   item# 962513 (stock# COLL 9107)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 395.00  This is an interesting and unusual Japanese studio bowl made by a modern potter, “Kasen”. The bowl is glazed in a rough and grainy white glaze and the top of the bowl is carved with regular ripples. It has an evert rim. The sides of the bowl shade down from top to bottom – first the grainy white glaze – then a band of medium grey glaze – and then a bottom band of the natural brown/tan clay. ...click for details A Taisho-Showa Lacquered Natsume – Tea Caddy Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Tea Articles: Pre 1980   item# 962339 (stock# ICHI 2657)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 1295.00  This is a classic example of modern Japanese lacquer ware. It is a metal interior tapered round box with lid in the characteristic natsume style. On the exterior, there are two slanted and connected areas of nashiji - pear skin – lacquer in a light gold and a darker gold shade. On top of the nashiji ground there are two deer – the standing deer is executed entirely in mother-of-pearl (aogi) lacquer with gold makie spots on the body. The deer that is lying down is done totally in gold makie lacq ...click for details Return To Top View Next 10 Items PAGE: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  10  20  23