[China] Marionettes

6 marionettes, 19th century. Porcelain heads with wooden limbs and orig. gilt and decorated clothes. Height approx. 28 cm (5x) and 13 cm (1x).

[Japan] Clipping art

3 Japanese works of clipping art depicting faces. Each with signature.

[Chinese & Japanese art. Deluxe copy] Over Chineesche en Japansche kunst

Ir G. Knuttel Jr. Amsterdam, H.J. Paris, 1936. Small 8vo, orig. publ. full vellum, gilt-lettered and decorated front boards and spine, gilt top edge. 139 pp. Ills. on 16 plates,...

[Japan] Netsuke

Walnut. With finely carved decoration of a roaring tiger. Unsigned. Japan, Edo period. Height 2.8 cm.

[Japan/China. Arts/design] Taisho Chic: Japanese modernity, nostalgia, and deco

Kendall H. Brown/ Sharon A. Minichiello. Honolulu, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2003. 2nd ed. Sewn + Barry Davies Oriental Art. Masterpieces of Meiji metalwork. Malcolm Fairley. London,...

[Art reference works] Catalogue de la collection de porcelaines anciennes

de la Chine et du Japon. A. Revilliod de Muralt. Geneva, Ch. Eggimann & Cie, 1901. 40 b/w plates. Sewn with dust jacket. Jacket edgeworn + Meisterwerke Chinesischer und Japanischer...

Kiyoshi Saito (1907-1997)

Colour woodblock print. 30 x 16 cm. Framed in passe-partout under glass.

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)

Mitsuke. Colour woodblock print from the series The Fifty-three Famous Places of Tokaido, no. 29. The Tenryu river near Mitsuke. 37 x 25 cm. Framed under glass.

Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865)

2 woodblock prints: "Rihei the Marchant" and 1 untitled. Each 36 x 24 cm. and framed in passe-partout under glass.

Porcelain teapot

19th-century blue and white teapot with parsley decor. Bottom with 4-character mark. Height 12 cm. With a plate with decor of parsley and landscape divided in planes. Rear with...

[Japan] Leporello photo album

consisting of 8 leaves, with 27 handcoloured albumen photos mounted on board with cloth borders. Yokohama, Studio R. Baron von Stillfried, 1880. Photo size 27 x 20.5 cm. Wooden...

[Japan] Four colour woodcuts: (1) (Dutchman and Japanese woman sitting at a table)

Colour woodcut, c. 1850, with several text and signature/censor cartouches, sheet size 36.5 x 25 cm.

[Woodblock printing] Heroes & Ghosts

Japanese prints by Kuniyoshi. 1797-1861. Robert Schaap. Leiden, Hotei Publishing, 1998 + The new wave. Twentieth-century Japanese prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection. Amy...

[Japanese woodblock prints etc.] 8 items: (1) Wang Gai (18th cent). (Landscape)

Col. woodcut in round fan shape, two attached sheets, total size 26 x 30 cm, from the Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual (Kaishien garden), 1753, under passe-partout.

Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900)

Triptych of three actors as the imperial bodyguards. Woodblock print. Published by Iseya Rihei (1866). 72 x 34.5 cm. Framed under passe-partout, frame 86 x 50 cm.

[Chinese ceramics] Ceramic Art of the World

3 vols.: vol. 11: Sui and T'ang dynasties. Masahiko Sato, Gakuji Hasebe & the Zauho Press; vol. 12: Sung Dynasty. Gakuji Hasebe & the Zauho Press; vol. 13: Liao, Chin and Yüan...

[China] Handpainted fan + pith-paper paintings

Fan with flower design. Watercolour on paper, 19th cent. 20 x 43.5 cm. Mounted on ornamental fabric sheet. Mild vertical fold, sl. foxed + birds and flowers fan with calligraphy....

[China. Fashion/costume] Silk coat

with embroidered flowers, sleeves with scene of geisha with fans. Length 70 cm. With matching trousers and red cap, length 91 cm. Circa 1930. (total 3)

[Japanese graphic art] Illustration in Japan

(Tokyo), Kodansha, 1980-1984. 5 vols. Ills. dustjackets, 1983 ed. with bellyband + Graphic design in Japan. N.pl., Japan Graphic Designers Associaton, 1982-1983. 2 vols. Ills....

[Game manual] Okigo Jizai

Hattori inshuku. No pl., Seireikaku, 1824. 2 (of 10) vols.: vol. 3 (4 stones, part 1) and vol. 6 (5 stones, part 1). Traditionally bound, with many diagrams.

[Shunga. Japan] Set of 2 coloured drawings with a copulating couple

Silk on cardboard. Late Meiji era (1868-1912). Drawings each 15 x 9 cm. Added: Shunga woodblock print of a copulating couple. Japanese paper on black cardboard. Early 20th century. 14 x 10 cm.

[Japan] 5 handcoloured scroll paintings

Silk. With songbirds and doves. Signature unknown. Early 20th century. Each 43 x 105 cm.

Katsuyuki Nishijima (1945-)

"Good day" and "Risshun". Woodblock prints. Each 20 x 27 cm. Framed in passe-partout. Signed in pencil on passe-partout.

[Japan] 3 photo albums, c. 1900

(1) Tokyo and Yokohama. (2) Occupations of Japan. (3) Manners of Japan and a marriage ceremony. 124 gelatin silver photos on black cardboard, most 5 x 7 cm. Traditional Japanese...

[China. Erotica] "Scènes de la vie des chanteuses aujourd'hui et autrefois à Shang-haï"

Blockbook, 2 vols. with woodcuts. Shanghai, c. 1909. Added: "Scènes intimes de la vie des chanteuses" with 11 mounted b/w photos of erotic drawings. Together in purple cloth case.

Nobukazu Yosai (1872-1944)

Woodblock print related to the Sino-Japanese war. Negotiations between the Japanese, Korean and Chinese commanders to end the Sino-Japanese war. Japan, 1894. Handcoloured. 70 x 34 cm. Framed.

[Southeast Asia/Dutch East Indies] 2 photo albums

Both c. 1920. (1) Travel album containing 90 gelatin silver photos related to Southeast Asia and Tibet. Incl. temples, market scenes, Buddhist monks, trains, views of rice paddies...

[China] Leporello consisting of 19 leaves

Each leaf with handcoloured woodblock print on one side (verso blank), one end with decorated board. China, c. 1900. Depictions incl. numerals (both Chinese and Arabic), costume,...

White porcelain Buddha

19th century. 14 x 15 x 7 cm.

White porcelain sculpture

Man with bag. Loose on dark wooden base. 19th century. 17 x 13 x 8 cm.

Blue and white porcelain bowl

with loose insert and lid. Signature on bottom. Diameter 7.5 cm + 2 small bowls. Signature on bottom. Diameter 5.5 cm. All with ticket on bottom "Hatcher Collection, Christies...

[China] Rice or pith paper paintings

19th century. Two large Chinese pith rice paper paintings, Canton, 19th century. Both scenes of a group gathering of men and women. Each 31 x 19 cm behind passe-partout.

Kunisada Utegawa (1786-1865)

Kabuki Actor in female caracter. Woodblock print. 35,5 x 25 cm. + Yanagawa Shigenobu (1787 – 1832). Man with tiger. Two-page woodblock print. Small wormholes to edges, else good....

Kuniyoshi Utagawa (1797-1861)

This item contains no English description. See the Dutch description: Yabuhara- Sue Harukata (Yabuhara-juku in Shinano Province). Japan, 19th cent. Woodblock print. 36 x 24,5 cm. Under passe-partout.

[Japan] 5 Japanese photo albums

First half 20th century. 1 album with printed photos of the Imperial Japanese Army, 4 with many original photographs of people, cities and some street scenes, mounted on cardboard...