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Oceanic Art, The Arts of the Samurai & Asian Art — Art+Object

Auction House:Art+ObjectNumber of lots recorded:271
Sale Title:Oceanic Art, The Arts of the Samurai & Asian ArtLots with images:27
Auction Location:AucklandPrices available:130
Date:3-Mar-2011
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A Meiji period Japanese wood hibachi (‘fire bowl’) with gilt lacquer and mother-of-pearl decoration of flowering kiku sprays and butterflies. Diameter 30.5 cm
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A Japanese Meiji period copper charcoal pot, with twin loop handles and lid. Height 32 cm
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Three Japanese ceramic sake bottles. Height 27 cm each
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A Japanese SageJubako (picnic box) the five-tiered black lacquer box with gilt decoration of river landscapes to sides and cover, 43.5 x 24.5 cm
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A Japanese Sage Jubako (picnic box) the four-tiered black lacquer box with gilts decoration of landscapes and flying cranes. Some losses to the lacquer. Complete with original paulowina box
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A set of Japanese eight black lacquer trays with gilt decoration, 27 x 27 cm
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A black lacquer bunko (document box) with gilt mon to cover, 72.5 x 33 cm
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A Japanese black lacquer tray, painted in red and gilt lacquer to the centre with a Ju (longevity) character medallion, signed. Length 31.5 x H. 22 cm, wood box
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A small Japanese paulowina wood writing box with three drawers, 17.5 x 14 x 25 cm
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A Japanese album of black and white vintage photographs
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A Japanese Meiji period Katsura Kabuki wig in original stand and wooden box, 32.5 x 31.5 cm (the box)
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A Japanese Meiji period lacquered kimono stand. Length 151 cm
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Jin Baori kimono
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A Japanese silk kimono, ca. 1960
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A Japanese 1920’s Paulownia cedar kimono chest with copper fittings. Height 160 cm
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A Meiji period Japanese red lacquer double stand decorated in gilt with cranes and floral design, W. 14.7 cm max
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A Japanese Meiji period Keyaki wood kyodai (mirrored vanity chest), 81 x 37.5 cm
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A Japanese Meiji period two piece Kaidan Dansu (step chest) with sliding doors and drawers. Height 212 cm
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A Japanese solid macassar ebony Buddhist shrine with gilt deity, ca 1960, 171 x 67 x 58 cm
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A Japanese Tokogawa shrine bell complete with original box
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A Japanese gilt lacquer Buddhist figural group, mounted on a wood frame, 24 x 21 cm (few repairs and losses)
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Three similar Japanese carved gilt wood Buddhist shrine panels. Length 66 cm max
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A Meiji period Japanese bronze temple water jar with dragon spout and Buddhist Foo dog finial to the lid. Height 63 cm
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A Japanese bronze handled vase, with relief panels of shishi amongst flowers, inscription to the base. Height 30 cm
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A Japanese Usubata Ikebana flower vase, c. 1940’s. Height 27 cm
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A Japanese Usubata Ikebana flower vase, c. 1940’s. Height 26.5 cm
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A Japanese Usubata Ikebana flower vase, with silver inlaid decoration of flower design, c. 1940’s. Height 26.5 cm
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A Japanese turquoise glazed bottle vase, first quarter of the 20th Century. Height 25.5 cm; see Anthony J. Allen, ‘Allen’s Introduction to Later Chinese Porcelain’, Auckland, 1996, fig. 78, p. 147
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A Japanese ovoid pottery vase partially covered with white and grey glaze, impressed Shino mark near to base. Height 21.5 cm
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An Edo period (17th/18th Century) Japanese tanto blade with shirasaya mountings, shaped copper habaki. Length 35 cm
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A rare Koto period (15th/16th Century) Japanese armour piercing tanto blade with shirasaya mounting. Length 33.5 cm
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A Japanese wakizashi blade with shirasaya mounting, carved silver habaki. Length 62 cm
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A Japanese wakizashi blade signed Hiroyoshi and dated to the second month of the eighth year of the Tenshou Era (1580), with shirasaya mounting, gilt habaki. Length 42.5 cm
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A Taisho period (1912-1926) Japanese wakizashi blade with shirasaya mounting, signed, gilt carved habaki. Length 56 cm (excellent polish to blade made in Japan)
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A Japanese wakizashi blade with shirasaya mounting, signed. Length 67.5 cm
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A Japanese straight tanto blade with a groove on the back, with shirasaya mounting, the tang with possible later signature and inscription dating to the second month of the second year of the Bunmei era (1470), two-piece habaki. Length 47 cm
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A 17th/18th century Japanese hand tachi, signed Kaneyuki, with matching fuchi kashira, koiguchi and kojiri with gilt scrolls, iron tsuba with shishi and peony, crane shaped menuki. Length 96 cm (good polished blade with very minor flaws)
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A Koto period Japanese naginata blade turned into a wakizashi blade with shirasaya mounting. Length 64 cm
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A 17th century Japanese wakizashi with matching shakudo nanako fuchi kashira with playing cards, flower shaped menuki, signed tsuba with incised and gilt decoration of birds and trees, silver habaki and seppa, black lacquer scabbard. Length 67 cm (good polish to blade)
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A late Koto period (16th Century) wakizashi, signed Kiyotsugu from Chosu province, with shakudo nanako fuchi kashira decorated with chrysanthemum and dragon flies, gilt dragon fly shaped menuki, tsuba detailed in gilt with a man amongst waves, black lacquer sheath. Length 63.5 cm
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A Shinto period (ca. 1660) Japanese wakazashi, signed ‘Soshu ise daijo tsunahiro’ 5th generation, with complete fittings comprising matching fuchi kashira and menuki with gold plain shishi, solid gold top plate on kazuka with relief shishi and peony. Length 47.4 cm
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A 16th Century Japanese wakizashi, signed, fuchi kashira and menuki detailed in gilt, black lacquer sheath. Length 69 cm (the tang has been shorten and polished; the blade is polished but with few flaws)
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A rare 18th/19th century Japanese large flat sided wakizashi signed on blade, the fuchi incised with cranes, the menuki of shishi form, black lacquer scabbard with iron kojiri. Length 64 cm
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A Japanese buke-zukuri katana dated on its certificate to 1789, maker Kanehisa, the tsuba with pierced and carved prunus design, matching shakudo fuchi kashira decorated with samurai in rural setting, black lacquer scabbard with horn fittings. Length 627 mm (blade papered with flaws that show infront of the habaki)
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A Japanese katana with iron tsuba decorated with kiku heads, copper habaki carved with birds and prunus sprays, gilt menuki, black lacquer scabbard. Length 73 cm
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A Late Koto period (16th century) straight katana with unusually straight two handed handle; pierced iron tsuba with stylized bats and floral design, black lacquer sheath. Length 85.5 cm
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A Japanese buke-zukuri katana, iron tsuba with gold and silver inlaid decoration of rodent and turnips, plain shakudo fuchi kashira, garden vegetable shaped menuki finished with gold and silver alloys, solid copper habaki with carved hatched pattern, black lacquer scabbard with buffalo horn fittings. Length 61.6 cm
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A c. 1926-1941 Japanese Shin-Gunto katana with regulation army style metal fittings (carved un-pierced gilt brass tsuba, brass fuchi kashira and habaki, steel menuki, steel 1938 pattern scabbard), inscription to tang reading No Shu Ju I Do Hide Toshi Saku Kore (made by Hide Toshi from No Shu), Sho army inspection stamp. Length 65.8 cm
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A Koto period Japanese tachi remounted as katana, matching copper and silver fuchi kashira carved with waves, shell shaped menuki, matching iron and silver kojiri and koiguchi; iron tsuba with gilt inlaid, silver plated habaki. Length 72 cm
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A Koto period Japanese short katana, signed Kaneyasu from Seki in Noshu (Mino) province, with koshirae mountings, red lacquer scabbard with copper fittings. Length 72 cm
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A Japanese tanto with tsuba carved in relief with dragons, shakudo nanako fuchi kashira with relief gilt shishi and bamboo, shishi shaped menuki, black lacquer scabbard worked with wisteria sprays. Length 28.5 cm (possible overlay missing to scabbard decoration, good polish to blade)
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A c. 1860’s Japanese tanto with unusual kanmuriotoshi blade, silver inlaid metal fittings and matching kozuka and kogai, black and red lacquer scabbard. Length 39 cm
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A Koto period (15th/16th Century) tanto mounted with black lacquer mountings, gilt habaki, ken horimono to both sides of blade. Length 47.5 cm
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A Japanese tanto made from a cut down tachi, with copper and blackened silver fittings, the handle with dragon-carp shaped menuki, the kozuka with figures in relief detailed in copper and gilt, brown lacquer scabbard. Length 56.5 cm
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A Japanese tanto with bone mountings carved with figures on village settings. Length 35 cm
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A Japanese tanto with black lacquer scabbard. Length 50 cm (the blade needs polishing, kogatana and kojiri missing)
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A 18th/19th century Japanese tanto with koshirae mountings, signed, fuchi carved with butterflies, kozuka with figural design, mother-of-pearl black lacquer scabbard. Length 35 cm
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Japanese matching shakudo nanako fuchi kashira and menuki cast in relief with gold chickens and cockerels, signed Yanagawa Naoyoshi with kao. Length 3.5 cm (fuchi), wood box
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A Japanese single shibuichi fuchi with shakudo ants pulling gilt juice drops, signed Yoshi Hoka - Tsuku. Length 3.5 cm
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Japanese fuchi kashira incised respectively with a tiger and cub and a waterfall landscape, signed Takasei Eijyu. Length 4 cm max
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An Edo period (ca. 1750) Japanese iron sukashi tsuba cast with a pierced leaping horse with bridle, signed Yoshi Haru. Length 7 cm, wood box
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A Japanese patined copper tsuba decorated with raised relief of a fisherman, the reverse with a carp, detailed in shakudo and gold, signed. Height 6 cm, wood box
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An Edo period (1800s) shakudo sakashi tsuba pierced and carved with two cockerels. Height 6 cm, wood box
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An Edo period (1800s) Japanese iron tsuba cast in relief and detailed in shakudo and gold with a cockerel and a chicken before wisteria sprays issuing from a bamboo fence. Length 7 cm, wood box
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A 19th century Japanese seven-sword wooden stand with a draw for fittings, 34.5 x 30 cm
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A Meiji period Japanese suit of armour
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A Japanese black and gilt lacquer jingasa (samurai hat). Depth40 cm (restored)
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An Edo period (17th/18th Century) Japanese yari spear head with lacquered scabbard. Length 34.5 cm (missing handle)
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A Japanese naginata (pole arm) with black and gilt lacquer handle and scabbard. Height 231 cm
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A Japanese sodegarami (long pole with many small hooks) with wooden handle. Height 214 cm
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An Edo period (18th/19th century) Japanese small yari (spear) for indoor use, with a mother-of-pearl black lacquer section to handle and black lacquer scabbard. Height 145 cm
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A Japanese sodegarami (long pole with many small hooks) with wooden handle. Height 223 cm
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An Edo period Japanese long yari (spear) with wooden handle and metal fittings, red paint to blade. Height 228.5 cm
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A Japanese tobikuchi (spike on wood handle) with rattan binding and re-enforced steel bands, the blade with an incised character, the handle with a black painted inscription. Height 51.5 cm
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A Meiji period Japanese wooden war hammer. Height 93.5 cm, the hammer W. 28.5 cm
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A Edo period Japanese wooden war club. Height 125 cm
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A Japanese hatchet with a hook, mark to blade and handle. Height 45 cm
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A Japanese hatchet adze with lacquered handle. Height 54.5 cm
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A Japanese battle axe. Height 40 cm
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A 19th century Japanese axe. Height 79.5 cm
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A Japanese manriki-kusari (lit. ten-thousand power chain), a weighed chain used to disarm criminals. Length 65.5 cm
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A Japanese tessen (iron fan), used by samurai as self defense weapon. Height 31.5 cm
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A Japanese shakuhachi (bamboo flute). Length 54.5 cm
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A Late Edo/Early Meiji period Japanese black lacquer quiver containing five arrows, the quiver H. 93.5 cm; the arrows H. 91 cm
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A Meiji period Japanese black lacquer yumi (bow) worked with rattan. Height 209 cm (string missing)
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A Japanese archery set, comprising a black lacquer double stand with twelve arrows and a wooden double stand with ten arrows, W. 92 cm max (lacquer stand) & H. 55.5 cm (arrows)
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A Japanese wood yumi (bow) with rattan work and string. Height 216 cm
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A 19th century Japanese firearm pump, with incised and black painted inscriptions. Height 144 cm
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A Japanese bronze model of a tiger with inset glass eyes. Length 53.5 cm
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A Japanese wooden rice pounding mallet. Height 90 cm
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A pair of Meiji period ceremonial Taru sake barrels. Height 74 cm
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A Japanese large wood jizai kagi (kettle hook hanger). Height 50 cm
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A Japanese Meiji period chestnut wood suzuribako (writing box) with writing tools on internal tray, 27.5 x 21 x 30 cm
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A small Japanese cedar and paulownia wood two drawer box, 17.5 x 21 x 25.5 cm
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A Japanese Meiji/Taisho period ebony tray with pierced shaped handles, 16.5 x 16.5 cm
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A Japanese chestnut and paulownia wood box with a single drawer, 10 x 14.5 x 27 cm
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A Japanese mother of pearl black lacquer stand with scroll end supports. Length 60.5 cm
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A Japanese Meiji period black and gilt lacquer stand with scroll feet, 56 x 32.5 cm
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A Japanese album after Utaga Hiroshige (1797-1858), containing the complete set of the Tokaido Gojusan-Tsugi series ('The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido'), Printed From Original Wood Blocks, second Edition, 1918, with Extra Prints and a Supplement to Life International with An Illustrated Guide to the Series, Each Leaf: 26 X 38 cm
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An 18th century Japanese pottery wasted cylindrical vase. Height 23 cm
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