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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.

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

A Japanese Mystery Covered Jar – Meiji/Taisho Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1950   item# 843972 (stock# ICHI 1274)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $295.00  This is a piece that we just could not resist – even though we have no idea at all what pottery it might have come from. The jar is a squared shape with rounded edges and creases dividing the design on the body into different but related scenes. The lid has a scene of a village with a rounded twig shaped handle in the middle. On the sides ...click for details

A Lovely Studio Platter Plate - Tamura Shogetsu – Showa Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1980   item# 823911 (stock# Coll 8033)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $495.00  This is a striking Kutani studio plate by the well-known Hagi potter Tamura Shogetsu.The design is executed in thick overglaze enamel over a finely grained crackle white base and depicts five large gold and orange daffodils with there bright green leaves. The edge of the plate has a brown enamel rim in the same thick enamel. The rim is slightly scalloped and divides the edge into nine segments. The plate measures 10” diameter and is 1 ½” deep. There is a red potters signature on the foot that tr ...click for details

A Pretty Little Sake Bottle - Marked - Showa Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1980   item# 821918 (stock# ICHI 1963)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $95.00  This is a pretty little sake bottle done in a tan glaze with an overglaze of turquoise in a drip pattern. The bottle measures 5" tall and is 2 2/2" at its widest. We date it to the mid Showa period, circa 1950-1970s. It is in excellent condition. There is a two character mark on the base that has been translated as "Kotobuki" also as "Ju" - both of which mean Happiness and Long Life.

A Kutani Leaf or Pear Shaped Blue and White Dish Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1950   item# 821386 (stock# ICHI 1688)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $135.00  This is an interesting shape for a Mokuzuke dish - (Mokuzuke were used to serve food during a formal tea gathering) - in a shape reminiscent of a pear or a leaf. This Kutani dish is decorated in an underglaze blue with a three-petal flower and a large leaf with gradually smaller sizes. On the right side of the dish is a geometric design in low relief with a white on white motif. The rim of the dish is lightly scalloped and is painted with an overglaze golden brown enamel line. The underside has ...click for details

A Modern Japanese Studio Vase, Celadon Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1980   item# 821015 (stock# ICHI 1325)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $275.00  This is a handsome modern Japanese globular shaped bud vase with a tiny top. It is glazed in a soft celadon glaze in the finest tradition of Japanese simplicity. The vase measures 4 ½” high by 5” diameter at the waist and the flared top is ¾” in diameter. It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, or restorations. We date it to the second half of the last century, circa 1950-1975. There is a two character mark in cobalt blue on the base. I have had the mark read by two different people ...click for details

A Fine Kutani Hexagonal Dish - Late Meiji-Early Showa Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1940   item# 820433 (stock# ICHI 2069)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $225.00  A very vividly painted Kutani dish in a hexagonal shape with vertical sides. The dish is decorated in over the glaze enamels in the traditional Kutani colors of green, brownish purple, red, blue and yellow. The design is of a fisherman in a partly covered boat that is floating near the shoreline. In the distance is an island - or part of the ...click for details

A Late Meiji/Taisho Blue & White Oval Bowl - Mt. Fuji Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1940   item# 818413  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $135.00  This is an Japanese blue and white oval shallow shaped bowl decorated by a transfer design of a dragon on the side of – or inside of – Fujiyama. The bowl is more of a squared end oval in shape. The dragon flies amidst several clouds – in one of which is a chip about ¼” diameter. It measures 8” long and is 5 ¾” wide by 1” deep. Excellent condition with the exception of the one chip in the one of the clouds. It dates from the late Meiji period, circa 1915-1925. ...click for details

A Japanese Blue and White Plate - Waterfall Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Porcelain: Pre 1960   item# 811730  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $225.00  A fine Japanese blue and white plate with a low relief decoration of a large waterfall along the right side. In the lower part and right side of the design is a painting of leaning trees and large rocks - executed in dark cobalt blue and trees and rock in shadows. It measure 10” diameter and is 1 1/2" deep. Condition is excellent with no chips or cracks - one minuscule rim frit that occurred during the firing. We date it to the early Showa period, circa 1930-1960.

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