Skip to content
Home
About Us
Meiji Period
Services
Valuations
Private Collections
News
News
Events
Publications
Contact
Product Categories
New Arrivals
Japanese Bronze
Japanese Bronze, the highly collected miniature carvings from 17th, 18th and 19th Century Japan were originally and primarily very simple functional objects that evolved over time to the level of truly superb works of art produced by master carvers. This evolution began towards the end of the 16th Century, reaching (in the minds of many) its artistic zenith in the second half of the 18th Century and continuing throughout the 19th C until its decline in the early Meiji period. Throughout this time, many individual “schools” developed across Japan often with unique and instantly recognisable styles and subject matter. Naturally there was a greater concentration of schools and master carvers in and around the major cities especially Kyoto, Osaka and Tokyo. Early Japanese bronze are thought to have mostly been the work of carvers serving primarily the numerous shrines and temples across Japan. A clue to the function of a Japanese Bronze can be gleaned from the two Japanese characters used to form the word – namely “root” and “fasten” or “fix”. From this we can infer that early Japanese bronze could have been fashioned simply from small pieces of rootwood and used to anchor something in place. The need…
Japanese Metalwork
Japanese Ceramics
Japanese Okimono
Japanese Enamels
Japanese Shibayama
Japanese Lacquer
Miscellaneous
Archive
Search for:
Search Button
basket
0
Navigation Menu
Navigation Menu
Home
About Us
Meiji Period
Services
Valuations
Private Collections
News
News
Events
Publications
Contact
Product Categories
New Arrivals
Archive
Japanese Bronze
Japanese Metalwork
Japanese Ceramics
Japanese Okimono
Japanese Enamels
Japanese Shibayama
Japanese Lacquer
Miscellaneous
Cart
Search for:
Search Button
Home
\
Archive
\
Page 36
Showing 561–576 of 658 results
Filter Your Results
Sort by latest
Sort by price: low to high
Sort by price: high to low
Sold
Japanese Mokko Shaped Shakudo Tsuba- Shi Shi Dog
Sold
View Now
Sold
HIGHLY DECORATIVE JAPANESE CLOISONNE ENAMEL VASE BY TAMURA
Sold
View Now
Sold
JAPANESE CLOISONNE ENAMEL VASE BY ANDO COMPANY
Sold
View Now
Sold
JAPANESE CLOISONNE ENAMEL VASE BY ANDO COMPANY
Sold
View Now
Sold
JAPANESE EDO PERIOD CARVED IVORY CRAB & SHELLS NETSUKE
Sold
View Now
Sold
JAPANESE NETSUKE RARE CARVED IVORY EAGLE HEAD
Sold
View Now
Sold
Large Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Vase Ando Company
Sold
View Now
Sold
COMICAL JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE OF ASHINAGA AS AN ACROBAT – GYOKUYOSAI
Sold
View Now
Sold
FINE QUALITY JAPANESE IVORY OKIMONO OF KANNON BODHISATTVA – SIGNED
Sold
View Now
Sold
HUMOROUS JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE DEPICTING KARAKO ACROBATS – HIDECHIKA
Sold
View Now
Sold
RARE JAPANESE EDO PERIOD IRON TINDER BOX LIGHTER – HIUCHIBAKO NETSUKE
Sold
View Now
Sold
A WELL CARVED JAPANESE CARVED WOODEN NETSUKE – ABURA BOZU – THE OIL THIEF
Sold
View Now
Sold
JAPANESE EDO PERIOD IVORY NETSUKE – MAN & DOG UPON TREASURE SACK
Sold
View Now
Sold
Fine Quality 18th Century ( Edo Period ) Japanese Ivory Manju Netsuke
Sold
View Now
Sold
JAPANESE MEIJI PERIOD KUTANI MODEL OF AN OWL ON TREE STUMP
Sold
View Now
Sold
A JAPANESE MEIJI PERIOD IVORY NETSUKE OF RAIDEN – GOD OF THUNDER & LIGHTNING
Sold
View Now
←
1
2
3
…
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
→
