Meiji Furniture

A refined and technically accomplished Japanese cloisonné enamel vase by Kumeno Teitaro, one of the leading innovators of cloisonné production in Nagoya...

This exquisite Japanese Meiji cloisonné vase showcases delicate white and blue irises worked in fine silver wire against a shimmering karakusa gro...

An antique Japanese, Early Edo period, enamel copper tray. The oval shaped tray is enameled with a polychrome image of a Phoenix bird with flowers and leaves made in the Cloisonne te...

An exceptional and highly decorative pair of Japanese cloisonné enamel vases from the Meiji period, attributed to the Ando Jubei Company—among the most important and technically acco...

Description A Japanese Satsuma vase and cover marked base Condition Overall Condition: 1 restuck chip to rim. Size 190mm high Period 19th century Meiji Periode (1867-1912).

This is an antique wooden netsuke made in Japan around Meiji period 1900s. The signature is written on the back side 'Sekisen'. Netsuke is a miniature sculpture, originating in 17th...

An antique Japanese, late Meiji period, enamel over gilt copper vase. with silver wire The unusual shaped vase has a long fluted neck. The ware is enameled with a polychrome image o...

A large and magnificently decorated Japanese lacquer document box, ryoshibako, signed Umeboshi/Baikyo, late Edo or early Meiji Period, mid 19th century, Japan. The large document box, ryoshibako, of tall, rectangular shape with rounded corners, and fitted with an inrobuta (flush-fitting) cover with beveled edges. The exterior of this exquisite box is decorated all over with fifteen different raised reserves shaped as uchiwa (paddle) fans against a lush and intricate krikane ground imitating shagreen. The uchiwa shaped reserves all of takamaki-e, and exquisitely painted with designs of animals, flowers, and landscapes in silver, gold, maki-e, hiramaki-e, and takamaki-e, with kirikane, nashiji, and polychrome embellishments, upon gold lacquer fudame grounds. The interior of the lid is nothing short of spectacular, featuring a large design of a magnificent and beautifully detailed rooster and hen with chicks gathered around a lazy stream. Large stalks of chrysanthemum bloom behind them. All against an ethereal nashiji ground. The cover of the box features five reserves: 1. Three minogame (turtles with long tails), symbolizing longevity 2. "Narihira Crossing the Sumida" from The Tales of Ise...

This elegant pipe of white brass and bamboo dates to early 20th century Japan and was used for smoking finely shredded tobacco (kizami-tabako). Known as a rao-kiseru, these short smo...

Japanese Wireless Cloisonné Enamel Vase, likely from the Meiji period (1868–1912) or possibly the early Taisho period (1912–1926). The vase features a dynamic depiction of a Japanese...

19th Century Japanese Imari Plate ,shell shape. 7.5 inches diameter.

A fantastic and rare early Japanese Kendo (The Samurai Way/Path of the Sword) fencing martial arts protective armor/armour Men (mask). The piece is made of a steel-grid face guard, t...

19th Century Japanese Imari Plate. 8.5 inches diameter.

Antique Japanese large pagoda form bronze kiln furnace for melting shaping metal w/ the original fire clay insert - signed at two places at top of insert. As found old surface with o...

19th century antique Japanese Meiji bronze floor lamp. This finely cast, well composed, pedestal lamp depicts mythical creatures on the base, cranes in high relief on the stem are...

Used daily for quick calculations, a wooden abacus such as this was an essential tool for the average shop-keeper in Meiji-era Japan. Known as a soroban, suanpan or counting frame, t...

A high quality late 19th century Japanese bud vase featuring a globular body and a tall, everted neck. The vase is enameled with a polychrome image of b...

This is an antique Japanese folding Zaisu chair made entirely of iron. Its form, stripped down to the absolute essentials, possesses a quiet beauty and tension, as though a single li...

A fine antique Japanese cloisonne enamel cabinet vase. With polychrome enamel on a brass base. Decorated with an enameled tree branches with blue & purple wisteria blossoms on a ...

Circa 1860-80 Japanese Imari Grand Scale Charger. Meiji period. Superbly decorated with naturalistic reserves & asymmetric diapered panels; note the foo dog pair. 24.25" dia., 3 3/8"...

JAPANESE SATSUMA PROCESSIONAL VASE From our Japanese collection, we are delighted to introduce to the market this Japanese Satsuma Vase by Kinkozan. The vase with a compressed body ...

A large antique Japanese Meiji period enamel vase. The vase has an amphora shaped body and a narrow neck. The vase is enameled with a polychrome image of butterflies made in the Cloi...

Impressive Imperial Japanese Meiji period Elm Dragon storage bench. Features high relief carved accents and under seat storage. From top to bottom this piece is adorned with three to...

A miniature vase in elegant upright form reminiscent of the Chinese imperial Willow Leaf form made by Japanese studio Seikozan circa 1890-1910s (late Meiji Period). One of the many a...

A rare antique Japanese late Meiji Era tripod and covered enamel copper censer. Circa: late 19th century to early 20th century. The sphere form censer koro is enameled with polychrom...

A high quality Japanese, Meiji era, Cloisonné enamel and silver wire vase. The vase has an amphora shaped body and a narrow neck. The ware is enameled with a polychrome image of blos...

An exceptional Japanese antique cotton textile panel dating from the late Edo (Bakumatsu) to the Meiji period (mid-to-late 19th century). Measuring a substantial 146 x 146 cm, this s...

Japanese Mitsuore ningyo of a girl, a jointed costume doll crafted of wood and covered in multiple layers of burnished gofun, made to stand as well as kneel, fabric and wire upper arms to facilitate costuming, a beautiful modeled face...

An imaginary garden with flowers from all seasons including spring lilies, summer hibiscuses, autumn chrysanthemums, and winter berries. Wild autumn grasses move in a soft breeze wit...

An antique Japanese cloisonne enameled vase with a slender, curved body and a flared neck. The vase is decorated with medallions depicting nature scenes, including birds perched amon...

Circa 1860 pair of Imari plates, Japan. Boldly decorated rosette centers surrounded by scrolling floral tendrils, central bamboo medallion. Exquisitely decorated in the Persian taste...

A fine antique Japanese Meiji period Kutani porcelain vase. By Matsumoto Sahei/Shoundo. In an aka-e style decorated throughout in iron red with extensive gilt accents. There are cartouches to either side both with branches of red flower with a backdrop of clouds on a white ground. With 2 figural dragon finial handles. Marked to the base with '九谷松雲堂製' which translates as 'Made by Shoundo of Kutani' Matsumoto Sahei (1851-1918) was a master potter who enjoyed success & recognition during his era. In 1876, Sahei received the artist name Shoundo from the nanga painter Tokuda Kansho - he would use that title for nearly 20 years until passing it onto his son as his successor in 1893. Sahei also has the distinction of taking Tokuda Yasokichi I as an apprentice when the latter was 17-years-old. The Tokuda family is perhaps one of the most famous families of Japanese ceramics: Yasokichi I is credited with revitalizing the lost art of ko-Kutani and Yasokichi I, II, & III were all recognized as "Living National Treasures" during their lifetimes. Shoundo exhibited internationally numerous times at the tail end of the 19th Century. The Keisei Isogaya Museum of Art (which specializes in Meiji Kutani) has a vase of Sahei's that was exhibited in the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876. He is listed as exhibiting a wide variety of porcelain goods at the 1878, 1889, and 1900 Paris World Exhibitions. He is also listed as exhibiting 'incense burners & porcelain' at the World's Columbian Exhibition held in 1893 in Chicago. The pair of vases that Sahei exhibited in Paris in 1900 bear a strong resemblance to this pair. Simply a wonderfully rare Japanese porcelain...

Awaji Pottery plate in sancai (three color) glaze with hand incised pair of circling dragons. Meiji Period. Circa 1900. From the Danto Kiln, successor to the famous Minpei Kiln. Impr...

A fine and elegant Japanese Satsuma tripod incense burner, koro, with pierced metal lid, signed Eizan (?) Meiji Period, late 19th century, Japan. The koro, or censer, features a stoneware body of slightly compressed globular form, supported on three short and squat legs. The wide mouth with a recessed metal rim, and topped by an openwork metal lid topped with overlapping chrysanthemum blossoms of silver repousse. The body of the koro finely painted with fan shaped cartouches. The fans in the foreground with sprays of blossoming chrysanthemum. The fans in the background with intricate geometric brocade designs. The shoulder of the incense burner decorated with cartouches formed as stylized chrysanthemum petals, and intricately decorated with geometric and floral brocade designs. The painting finely done in raised gilt and polychrome enamels, including the highly desirable gosu blue...

Large Meiji Period Imari Porcelain Garden Landscape Vase, Attributed to Fukagawa, Japan A beautifully painted Meiji period Imari porcelain vase, attributed to Fukagawa, Japan, circa...

A fine antique Japanese enamel brass vase featuring an elongated body with rounded shoulders and wide short neck. The surface is skillfully decorated with a polychrome cloisonne enam...

Meiji period large Japanese Imari bowl centerpiece This large, distinctive, octagonal porcelain Imari bowl is painted in rich, inky blue, co...

An antique Japanese enamel footed incense burner, Ota Kichisaburo School, Meiji period, 1868 to 1912. The lobed body is adorned with a polychrome design representing panels with blos...

This is a wooden fuzukue (low writing desk) made in Meiji 3 (1870). A fuzukue is a traditional low writing desk that has long been used in Japan. Rather than being used with chairs,...

JAPANESE BRONZE FIGURAL OKIMONO Japan, Meiji period, late 19th century 18" H x 7 5/8" D x 11 5/8" W ref. 512KST06P A very finely cast bronze okimono depicting a standing samurai a...

Antique Meiji period Wucai style hand painted porcelain jar and cover - featuring flowering branches of multicolor blossoms and leaves - all on a white ground with pale blue rim to t...

A super nice Meiji period 19th or early 20th c Japanese Chamber Screen. Two sided decoration. Also usuable as wall mounted screen. Stunning piece! 120 x 61cm

A highly impressive and unusually large Japanese cloisonné enamel lidded vase, standing 18 inches tall and constructed in three distinct parts comprising the lid, the central body, a...

Japanese Meiji period (1868-1912) painted screen with gold fleck paint. Remounted during Showa period (1926-1989).

This is a pair of antique decorative Meiji vases. A Japanese, bronze baluster urn, dating to the mid Victorian period, circa 1870. Traditional baluster urn form with superb bird det...

A Set of Ten Antique Japanese Imari Porcelain Dinner Plates. This set of fine porcelain china is decorated in three firings. The first firing in light and dark under glaze cobalt blu...

A miniature Japanese ceramic vase from the end of Meiji period circa 1880s- 1910s by Kinkozan (1645-1927). One of the largest studio manufacturers of the export ceramics at the time ...

Pair of Monumental Meiji Period Gilt Metal Censors/Vases An impressive and unusually large pair of Japanese Meiji period gilt metal ceremonial vessels, dating to the late 19th centu...

Early 20th century Japanese woodblock print in frame. Unsigned. From a series depicting the night attack and flight of Emperor Go-Shirakawa from the Sanjo Palace to escape the Minamo...

FREE WORLDWIDE SHIPPING Japanese bronze and mixed metals koro by Nogawa, dating to the Meiji period circa 1890. The koro is of octagonal form raised upon elongated bracket feet, ex...

19th century Japanese Imari Decorative centerpiece bowl. Measures 10" in diameter and 4.5" tall.

Medium size ginger jar or large tea caddy features a detailed decor of a bird sitting on a flowering branch, done in Totai Shippo technique in dark red and green colors. The shoulder...

Large Japanese Meiji period cloisonné enamel vase with a stand Japanese, Late 19th Century Vase: Height 155cm, diameter 70cm Base: Height 45cm, width 51cm, depth 51cm Total: Height 2...

A fabulous quality and impressive large Japanese hardwood Shodona from the Meiji period, the lovely carved pediment incorporating a large winged bird and having decorative C scrolls ...

Elegant contemporary Japanese Ko-Imari (old Imari) porcelain short stem cup, in bright red, blue and green colors and generous gold application that are chara...

An antique Japanese late Meiji era covered Totai enamel on ceramic ginger jar. Circa: late 19th century The ware is enameled with polychrome images of blossoming flowers, butterflies, and dragonflies made in the Cloisonne technique. The cover of the ware is made in the same design. The neck and the base are adorned with polychrome floral, and foliage motifs made in the same technique. Signed with red ink hieroglyphs, on the bottom. Totai Shippo is the name given to Japanese cloisonne on ceramics, both on earthenwares and on porcelain. It has a similar appearance to metallic cloisonne ware...

A Pair Of Japanese Shibayama Carved Panels C.1890 A pair of fine quality Meiji period Japanese carved, inlaid and lacquered oval panels. The oval form set within red lacquer frames...

FREE WORLDWIDE SHIPPING A FINELY DETAILED JAPANESE BRONZE FIGURE BY MIYAO EISUKE, MEIJI PERIOD, CIRCA 1890. From our Japanese collection, we a...

Japanese picnic container (jubako, food carrier) from the Meiji period (1868–1912), crafted in black lacquered wood and finely decorated in gold using the traditional maki-e techniqu...

Description Nicely made Incense burner. Good condition. Marked on foot Condition Great Condition. Size: 31x34cm Period 19th century