Chinese and Japanese Works of Art

with deep rounded sides and flush-fitting cover, decorated in gold hiramaki-e on a black lacquer ground, with aoi mon (leaves of wild ginger crest...

the rectangular box with over-hanging cover, decorated in gold, silver, red and black hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, keuchi and kimpun on a black lacquer...

of globular form with loop handle, inlaid in gold, copper and silver with long-tailed birds amongst tree peony, the cover with knop finial, 17cm w...

each urn-shaped body set with a pair of simple lug handles and decorated with a treasure ship, lacking their original flat usubata rims, 23.5cm hi...

the separately cast bird perched on an upturned autumn leaf, 25.5cm wide Provenance: Acquired from Brian Harkins, London, 27 February 2002.

each urn-shaped body cast with deer in a landscape and set with a pair of animal mask handles, lacking the original flat usubata rim, 24.5cm high

naturalistically modelled, standing with head raised, all supported on an oval rockwork base, 121cm high Provenance: Michael Goedhuis, London.

ink and colour on paper, one seal of the artist, silk mount, 112 by 41cm Footnote: Takeuchi Seiho was a Japanese painter of the Nihonga genre, act...

ink, colour and gold leaf on paper, depicting scenes from The Tale of Genji, silk brocade border, lacquered end mounts with engraved metal fitting...

66 chuban tate-e, various artists, including Toyohara Chikanobu and Kobayashi Kiyochika

a woodblock print, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road, horizontal aiban, 23.4 by 36.3cm; together with another woodblock pri...

a woodblock print, from the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road, horizontal aiban, 23 by 34cm Provenance: The Property of a Gentle...

the irregular deep rounded sides covered overall in a crackled ivory glaze and decorated around the exterior in black enamel with a poem and a pin...

the irregular deep rounded sides incised around the exterior with a poem and covered overall in a crackled ivory glaze, 12cm diameter, tomobako

the deep rounded sides decorated around the interior and exterior in black enamel on a crackled glaze with a poem and further to the interior with...

the ovoid vase with contrasting tenmoku and nuka glazes, 25cm high, Japanese wood box

each plump bird standing on an oval base of vegetation, one with head raised looking straight ahead, the other pecking at the ground, 3.5 and 4cm ...

the shallow sides rising from a short tapering foot to a foliate rim, painted to the interior with a long tailed bird perched on a trellis off cli...

the robustly-potted dish brightly enamelled to the interior in aubergine, green and blue with large curling leaves reserved on a yellow ground, 36...

decorated to the interior with two large panels enclosing a bird perched on a tree, divided by two smaller prunus-filled lotus panels, all reserve...

the shallow rounded sides rising from a short tapering foot, painted to the interior in underglaze-blue and iron-red with a medallion enclosing a ...

the shallow rounded sides rising from a short tapering foot to a flaring rim, enamelled and gilt to the interior with a scroll depicting figures i...

the rounded sides rising from a short tapering foot, enamelled and gilt to the interior with a phoenix medallion encircled by six panels alternate...

the flaring sides rising from a short tapering foot, enamelled to the interior with a medallion enclosing Hotei and a fisherman, encircled by lotu...

the tapering baluster body rising from a recessed base to a short flaring neck, painted in iron-red and gilt around the exterior with two large pa...

the tapering baluster body rising from a recessed base to a short waisted neck and everted rolled rim, decorated around the exterior of the slende...

the globular body painted with four large panels enclosing birds and animals amidst flowers and foliage, 50cm diameter

the compressed globular body rising from a recessed base to a short neck with everted rim, richly enamelled and gilt to the exterior with Immortal...