Lacquer

Antique Chinese Hardwood Panel Table Screen With Hardstone Carved Figures in a Garden Setting19th C. Measures - 15.5"h x 10.5"w x 5.25"d.

An elegant and refined Japanese lacquer koro, incense burner, in the form of a chaire, tea caddy, Edo Perio, mid 19th century, Japan. The barrel shaped koro formed as a traditional ...

Late 19th or early 20th century lacquer and bamboo offering vessel, Hsun Ok, Pagan, Burma A large offering vessel composed of four pieces, a base, a large food bowl with lid and the...

A rare and complete set of wood bucket with cinnabar lacquer and gold paint housing a pewter tea pot with a fabric pouch from Ryukyu Kingdom, Second Shō dynasty, circa 19th century. Located in nowadays Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. Ryukyu kingdom (1429 to 1879) was a tributary state of imperial Ming...

This stunning Chinese hand carved cinnabar lacquered plate has Intricate lacquer carving arts of Chinese traditional archetecture and landscape design. It named The Sense of Tough, a...

Black, Gold and Red Lacquer Japanese Document Fubako Box, Meiji period, late 19th C/Early 20th C. A Japanese lacquer box featuring hand decorated gold paint depicting scholars and sa...

This is a wooden bucket used by Japanese lacquerware craftsmen to store lacquer. It is believed to have been used from the Meiji period to the first half of the Showa era (1868-1940)...

Elegant folding screen painted in black Coromandel lacquer. It consists of four panels, the front of which depicts a scene from imperial life. We are in the playground of a school wh...

Beautiful Japanese Lacquered Tray with Raden Abalone Shell Decoration This beautiful Japanese lacquered tray is a stunning example of Japanese craftsmanship. It is made of high-quality wood and is decorated with abalone shell inlay, a technique known as raden. Raden is a centuries-old Japanese art form that involves inlaying mother-of-pearl, abalone shell, or other materials into a lacquer surface. The technique originated in China and was introduced to Japan in the Nara period...

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...

A good Japanese carved cinnabar three case inro with mixed metal ojime, Meiji period, late 19th century, Japan. The three case inro of standard form, comprised of three container se...

This stunning Chinese hand carved cinnabar lacquered plate has Intricate lacquer carving arts of Chinese traditional Floral scene design, an original works of art in the tradition of...

A Rare Negoro Lacquer Buddhist Stand This rare and historic Negoro lacquer Buddhist stand is a beautiful example of Japanese craftsmanship. It is made of wood with Negoro-style lacq...

An antique Japanese traveling altar of Aizen Myoo or Ragaraja. I believe the object to be older than the 'early 20th century' guess I offered, but I'm ...

Dinh Hanh is a Vietnamese painter known for his works which juxtapose a traditional technique of multi-layered lacquer on wood with modernist representations...

An exquisite Japanese tall lacquer box for incense implements, kobako, with a scene from The Tales of Ise, chapter 9, "The Ivy Way Through Mt. Utsu", Edo ...

A fine antique Chinese red cinnabar lacquer lidded round box carved with a scene with a young boy and a seated elderly bearded sage within a rocky landscape with trees. The "dragon's...

Image without original frame 13.5 by 19.5 inches Pham Chinh Trung is a Vietnamese lacquer born in 1955 in Vietnam. ...

This lacquer is decorated with deers in a lush environnement in lavish reds with a waterfall in silver leaf. It has a seal and is signed by the artist. Lacquer is an ancestral Viet...

Japanese Inro from the Meiji Period (1868-1912). Beautiful Inro, created in Japan during the Meiji imperial period, circa 1870. It was carefully crafted in carved precious wood with...

A Beautiful Kanshitsu Bachi Lacquer Mixing Bowl. This beautiful Kanshitsu Bachi lacquer mixing bowl is a stunning example of Japanese craftsmanship. It is dated to the Showa period,...

Antique japanese red and black lacquered Bamboo Food Carrier or Box, front side can be open Dimensions: Height 18'' x width 15.5" x depth 11". ...

Signed Japanese Carved Boxwood Dragon Inro Ojime with Netsuke Good condition overall. Four drawer. From a private collection. Free international shipping.

A Beautiful Japanese Wood Carving Tray with Carp Design. This beautiful Japanese wood carving tray is a stunning example of Japanese craftsmanship. It is dated 1937 and is in good o...

Japanese Carved Boxwood Inro Ojime with Netsuke Good condition overall. From a private collection. Free international shipping.

This a Lacquer on wood signed and dated in the lower left corner. Pham Chinh Trung was born in 1955 in Vietnam. He graduated from Hanoi university of industrial fine arts in 1979. Sp...

With frame Width 23, Height 16 inches This lacquer bt Pham Chun Trung is signed and dated 92 in the lower left corner. The artist was born in 1955 and was graduated in 1979 from Hanoi University of Industrial Fine Arts. He specialized in the technique of lacquer on wood and began to exhibit his works in the early nineties of the twentieth century. Lacquer is an ancestral traditional Vietnamese art...

Introducing an extraordinary and exceptionally rare pair of Chinese Cinnabar Carved Lacquer Vases from the Qianlong period. These monumental vases stand as magnificent examples of Ch...

Pham Chinh Trung is a Vietnamese artist born in 1955. This lacquer is signed and dated 93 in the lower left. Pham Chinh Trung graduated from Hanoi University of Industrial Fine Arts...

19th century Japanese chinoiserie painted gold lacquer. chest with brass handle. Chest depicts Japanese countryside and mountains in raised chinoi...

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Signed Japanese Carved Boxwood Inro Ojime with Netsuke Good condition overall. Four drawer. From a private collection. Free international shipping.

Signed Japanese Carved Boxwood Inro Ojime Meiji 19th Century with Netsuke Good condition overall. Four drawer. From a private collection. Free international shipping.

Pair of antique Japanese Lacquer Trays, Taisho period (1912-1926) beautifully decorated with a miniature landscape of pea pods on the vine and a gold cricket set...

Signed Japanese Carved Boxwood Monkey Inro Ojime with Netsuke Good condition overall. Four drawer. From a private collection. Free international shipping.

Signed Japanese Carved Boxwood Inro Ojime with Netsuke Good condition overall. Three drawer. From a private collection. Free international shipping.

Japanese Gilt Lacquered Inro Ojime Meiji 19th Century Netsuke Holder Good condition overall. Four drawer. From a private collection. Free inter...

Chinese Coromandel figural red lacquer 12-panel screen depicting pagoda and landscape scenes, decorative gilt floral border panels, gilt carved lower panels, and reverse side depicti...

Japanese lacquered box decorated with birds and foliage signed Lacquered inside and outside Late 19th Century Without key Some scratches and losses Ideal for storing jewelry.

An extremely rare, possibly unique, Chinese export lacquer bureau for the Dutch market Canton, circa 1737 H. 118 x W. 102.5 x D. 63 cm Provenance: - Private collection, The Netherlands - J.K. Driessen Antiques, Arnhem (Art Fair Breda, 1989) - Noble collection, Belgium Literature: - C.J.A. Jörg, ’De handel van de V.O.C. in Oosters lakwerk in de 18de eeuw’ in: Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek , Jr. 31 (1980), pp. 355-363 (ill.) - Annigje Hofstede, Nederlandse meubelen van Barok tot Biedermeier, 1700-1830, Waanders, Zwolle 2004, pp. 35-37 (ill.) This lacquer bureau is one of the four writing desks purchased in Canton in 1737, and as far as is known, this is the only remaining bureau of its type from the period. As the VOC believed that large pieces of import took up too much valuable space in their trading ships...

Japanese Inro from the Edo period (1615-1868) created by Kajikawa. Beautiful Inro, created in Japan by one of the Kajikawa family during the Edo period (1615-1868), circa 1810. Has been carefully crafted in carved precious wood with applications of gilding maki-e and decorated with Japonism patterns. All dan trays are attached together with a himo cord. The detailed craftsmanship was a true pleasure to behold. Period: Edo period (1615-1868). Shogunate. Approximate Date: 1790-1810 Motif: A family of birds consisting of a cockerel, the hen and three chicks. Drawers: Five. Shape: Rectangular navette. Technique: Carved wood, lacquer and decorated in iroe-hiramaki-e on a gold ground. Ojime: 15mm 20mm, oval carved from natural translucent agate. Netsuke: None Weight: 47.70 Grams. Measurements: Inro is 78 mm by 55 mm by 18 mm (3.07 x 2.17 x 0.71 Inches). Signatures: Kajikawa Saku, in the underside with the signature KAJIKAWA. By a member of the Kajikawa family, signed Kajikawa 梶川 Japan, late 18th century to early 19th century, Edo period (1615-1868). The Kajikawa family Kajikawa family, flourished in the 19th century, they was Japanese lacquerware artists whose school in Edo (now Tokyo) flourished for more than 200 years. This family is perhaps the most famous of all the dynasties of Japanese lacquer artists, and certainly the name most often found on inro. The family is said to have been founded by Hikobei at Edo in the early 17th century, although some claim that the family’s great reputation really stemmed from his son and pupil Kyujiro. In any event, Hikobei worked for the shogunate, as did his successors until well into the 19th century. Kijirō excelled in designing particularly delicate lacquer inrō, portable medicine cases...

A Fine Lacquer Incense Burner with Makie Gold Design. This fine lacquer incense burner is a stunning example of Japanese craftsmanship. It is dated to the Edo-Meiji period, 19th cen...

Chinese Carved Lacquered Dragon Ink Desk Stand Sculpture Very good condition overall, with some very slight chips to lacquer in parts. From a p...

Chinese Qing Dynasty Carved Cinnabar Lacquer Circular Lidded Box circa 1900 Good condition From a private collection. Free international shipping.

Japanese Gilt Lacquered Five Drawer Inro Ojime Meiji 19th Century Very good condition. From a private collection. Free international shipping.

Betel Box, Kun It Burma Late 19th/early 20th century Bamboo, lacquer H: 7.5 in x D: 8.5 in :: 19 cm x 21.5 cm Intricately painted motifs (including chili seed pattern, Nga Y...

This is a beautifully designed and fabricated Japanese pagoda-shaped tall chest of drawers. The chest dates to the late 20th or early 21st century and is in very good to excellent ov...

Japanese Inro from the Edo Period (1603-1867). Beautiful Inro, created in Japan during the Edo period (Shogunate), circa 1800. It was carefully crafted in carved precious wood with ...

Japanese Gilt Lacquered Dragon Inro Ojime Meiji 19th Century Netsuke Holder Good condition overall. Five drawer. From a private collection. Free international shipping.

Superb late 16th century signed colonial Japanese Namban export lacquer coffer Momoyama period, late 16th/early 17th century, inscribed 'Arisato' on the bottom H. 30.5 x W. 43...

Japanese Gilt Lacquered Inro Ojime Meiji 19th Century Netsuke Holder Good condition overall. One of the gilt cows appears to have lost some of the gilt gold colour. Five drawer. Fro...

Japanese Gilt Lacquered Carved Inro Ojime Meiji 19th Century Netsuke Holder Good condition overall. Five drawer. From a private collection. Free international shipping.

Japanese Gilt Lacquered Dragon Inro Ojime Meiji 19th Century Netsuke Holder Good condition. Five drawer. From a private collection. Free interna...

Japanese Gilt Lacquered Pagodas Inro Ojime Meiji 19th Century Netsuke Holder Good condition, but a very slight crack to base of top drawer. Four drawer inro. From a private collecti...

A highly important Japanese export lacquer cabinet with depiction of the Dutch East India Company tradepost Deshima and the annual Dutch delegation on its way to the Shogun in Edo Edo period, circa 1660-1680 H. 88 x W. 100.5 x D. 54 cm This cabinet includes a later European japanned stand, but also a modern powder-coated steel frame. The latter can be designed and added to your specific needs. The sides and front of the rectangular two-door cabinet are embellished in gold and silver hiramaki-e and takamaki-e on a black roiro lacquer ground with a continuous design. The two doors depict a long procession of numerous figures travelling on foot and horseback along buildings and a pagoda into a mountainous landscape. This is the annual court journey, Hofreis, of the Dutch from Nagasaki to the Shogun’s court in Edo. Three horseback riders are dressed as Dutch merchants and a fourth figure, probably het Opperhoofd, is seen inside a palanquin, norimon. Just about to cross the bridge, two men are carrying a cabinet like the present one. Many Japanese figures on either side of the procession are engaged in various activities; some play musical instruments on board of small boats, others are fishing; figures inside buildings are depicted playing go, and farmers are tending to their rice paddocks. The upper part of the right door shows a large mansion, probably the local daimyo’s castle, with men kneeling before a man in the central courtyard. The court journey fits in with the foreign policy of the shogunate which accorded a role to the VOC alongside China, Korea, and the Ryukyu Islands who also had to pay tribute. However, the VOC employees were traders, having low status in Japan’s social hierarchy, and they were received with less deference than were the state embassies from Korea and the Ryukyu Islands. Nevertheless, the contacts with the Dutch were a welcome source of information to the Shogun about Europe and European science and technology. The left side of the cabinet depicts, in mirror image, a rare view of the artificial fan-shaped Deshima Island, the trading post for the Dutch in Japan. The island, where the Dutch flag flies, is surrounded by small Japanese boats and an anchored three-masted fluyt (cargo ship), flying Dutch flags, with on the stern the VOC monogram. On the bottom right a busy street of Nagasaki is shown, bordered by shops and leading up to the stone bridge. On the island the trees are beautifully painted, two cows can be seen, and the flagpole, all in very fine detail. Dutchmen and enslaved Malay are visible outside the buildings and two Japanese figures, probably guards, sit in a small hut in the centre. A maximum of fifteen to twenty Dutchmen lived on the island at any time and soldiers or women were not allowed. Restrictions on Deshima were tight, and the merchants were only allowed to leave the island by special permission. The Opperhoofd had to be replaced every year, and each new Opperhoofd had to make a court journey to pay tribute, present gifts, and to obtain permission to Margaret Barclay eep on trading. In the distance, many birds fly above the hills and a four-story pagoda can be seen. The right side of the cabinet is painted with other horse riders and their retinue journeying through mountains. The pair of doors to the front open to reveal ten rectangular drawers. The drawers are decorated with scenes of birds in flight and landscapes with trees and plants. The reverse of the left door with two thatched buildings, one with a ladder, underneath a camelia tree with large blooms; the right door with a three-story pagoda nestled among trees and both doors with a flying phoenix, ho-oo bird. The cabinet, with elaborately engraved gilt copper mounts, hinges, lock plates and brass handles, is raised on an 18th-century English japanned wood stand. A pair of large cabinets...

Japanese Gilt Lacquered Inro Ojime Meiji 19th Century Netsuke Holder Good condition overall. Four drawer. From a private collection. Free inter...

Japanese Gilt Lacquered Prunus Birds Inro Ojime Meiji 19th Century with Netsuke Good condition overall. Four drawer. From a private collection. Free international shipping.

A rare Japanese export lacquer medical instrument box Edo-period, 1650-1700 L. 19 x W. 6 x H. 8.5 cm This unconventionally shaped lacquer b...