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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.

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 Japanese Cobalt Blue Brush Pot - Meiji -Showa Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1980   item# 961210 (stock# ICHI 2372)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 225.00  A handsome Japanese porcelain brush pot used by scholars to store their brushes while working with calligraphic scrolls and ink paintings. This brush pot has an outer glaze of a shiny dark cobalt blue with some relief designs of chidori birds and leaves in white glaze. The inside of the piece has an lovely scene in lighter underglaze blue ...click for details

A Lovely Fluted Studio Celadon Tea Bowl – Chawan Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1980   item# 960561 (stock# COLL 9105)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 495.00  This is quite stunning Japanese chawan done in a soft celadon green glaze which pools in the ribs. The bowl has a classically simple design of vertical ribs all around the piece, which taper to the base. In those rib creases one can see the darker celadon glaze where pooling occurred. We have seen similar examples of this color and ribbing style in early Chinese Longquan ware. ...click for details

A Modern Japanese Studio Double Gourd Vase – Signed Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1970   item# 954330 (stock# ICHI 1490)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 250.00  This is a handsome Japanese double gourd porcelain vase with a soft turquoise to lime green glaze and a carefully controlled drip pattern of golden yellow glaze flowing down from the top of the vase. The vase measures 8” high – the top bulb is 3” diameter and the bottom bulb is 4 3/8” diameter. There is a two character impressed mark on the base that translates as “DOKAN”. It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks or restorations. We date it to the early to mid 20th century, circa 1930 ...click for details

An Imari Dish – Three Friends of Winter Design Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1950   item# 950810 (stock# COLL 9091)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 150.00  This in an unusual Imari dish in that it combines both a transfer design and overglaze enamel painting. In the center of the dish is a blue transfer design of the Three Friends of Winter. Around the edges is an overglaze enamel design rather sloppily painted. The dish measures 6” diameter and is 2” high. It is in excellent condition. We date it to the late Meiji to early Showa period, circa 1910-1940s. ...click for details

A Japanese Arita Koro in Pure White - Taisho/Showa Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1960   item# 944570 (stock# ICHI 862)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 195.00  This is a nice little white porcelain koro - incense burner - from the Arita area. The koro has three shi shi on it - two for handles and one on the lid for a finial. The tripod feet look like softly molded animal heads. One of the interesting aspects of the piece is the opening in the shape of a circle with a cross in the middle. That i ...click for details

A Blue and White Arita Dish with European Figures Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1940   item# 935750 (stock# COLL 9071)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 450.00  This is a puzzling Japanese blue and white dish – it has some of the characteristics of Namban art – the three cash designs typical of Nabeshima ware – and some of the style of Kraak porcelain. Let us suffice to say that it is a fascinating piece and let it go. The transfer design has a central reserve of two Dutchmen with a little boy located in a landscape next to a lake. It then has two outer bands – the innermost band is a stylized floral design within a double blue line. The outer band has ...click for details

A Set of Four Fluted Arita Cups - Showa Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1980   item# 920141 (stock# ICHI 1675)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $175.00  A very pretty set of four delicate porcelain cups from Arita kilns. They are shaped like flowering lilies or morning glories. The porcelain is very thin and delicate - with tiny grooves providing the floral detail. each of the four measures 2 1/2" high - the diameter at the top is 3 1/2" and at the base is 1 1/8". On the inside of the foot, there is a double circle in underglaze blue and an impressed potters mark. We have not been able to get a translation of the mark. We date the ...click for details

An Arita Blue and White Dish – Taisho/Showa Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1950   item# 887039 (stock# ICHI 2208)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $135.00  A pretty little oblong boat shaped Arita dish with a lovely lakeside scene in underglaze cobalt blue. In the lower right we see some tall trees on a peninsula with a small village of huts in the background. In the lower left we find a fisherman poling his boat and behind him a group of low foothills descending to the lake with another lakeside village. In the far background we can see taller mountains and a boat with at large sail coming into view. ...click for details

A Japanese Blue & White Pitcher – Taisho/Showa Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1970   item# 846123 (stock# COLL 8062)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $135.00  This is a cute little blue and white pitcher – possibly used as a sake pitcher – and decorated in underglaze cobalt blue with a design of a large house surrounded by trees and under a full moon. The pitcher is double gourd shaped and has a raised design of a rope tied at the point where the two sections meet. The pitcher measures 4 1/3” h ...click for details

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