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Technique: Hand-Painted
Vintage Japanese Watercolor Painting of Two Geisha, Signed, Late 20th Century
Located in Chatham, ON
Vintage watercolor painting of two Geisha under an umbrella - watercolor over graphite with gold gilt border - signed upper right (unidentified artist/maker) - unframed - Japan - lat...
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Late 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Paint, Paper

20th Century, Oriental Coromandel Lacquered Wood Screen
Located in IT
20th century, Oriental coromandel lacquered wood screen Measures: cm H 183,5 x W 40,5 a panel x D 2. Total W cm 162 Elegant four-panels screen ...
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Early 20th Century Asian Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Wood

Pair of Oil Paintings by Theo Hines
Located in Perth, GB
Pair of Oil Paintings by Theo Hines on Loch Katrine, Scotland.
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19th Century Scottish Antique Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Other

Japanese Silk Suijaku Scroll Nyorai-Kojin with Mixed Buddhism and Shinto Deities
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese silk Suijaku hanging scroll beautifully presented in a custom wood shadow box frame from Edo period (circa 18-19th century). The scroll, surmounted on golden brocade was painted in fine details with gouache, ink and gold powder highlight, served as a Suijaku mandala for the worshippers. Honji Suijaku is a complicated religious concept uniquely developed in Japan. It mixed and hybrid the Buddism deities with native shinto spirits (known as Kami), which were seen as local manifestations (the suijaku, literally means a "trace") of Buddhist deities (the honji literally the original ground). The original idea may lie with the synergetic strategy to spread Buddism by making it more relatable to the local population who had already worshiped Shinto gods. The paradigm, adopted in the 10th century from an orignal Chinese concept, remained a defining feature of Japanese religious life up to the end of the Edo period (1868). Instead of being confined to deities, its application was often extended to historical figures as shown on this scroll. This long hanging scroll depicts an arrangement of 21 figures including Buddhism and Shinto deities as well as two historical figures on the bottom. Each figure was name-tagged in Kanji for easy identification by the worshippers. It was used in the temple or shrine so that when the worshipper prayed in front the mandala, they prayed simultaneously to all the deities. On the very top, sits Nyorai-Kojin, a hybrid deity of Nyorai Buddha and Kojin, the kaki for fire, stove and kitchen. From the top to bottom and left to right, here is the list of the deities: Kanon with Thousand Hands, Kanon with Willow Branch, Monju Bosatsu...
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Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Silk, Wood

Early 20th Century Japanese 6-Panel Gouache and Gold Leaf Painted Table Screen
Located in Morristown, NJ
20th c., Showa period gouache and gold leaf Japanese screen. Depicting plum tree blossoms on a riverbank across 6 panels. Plum blossoms are often mentioned in Japanese poetry as a symbol of spring...
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20th Century Japanese Showa Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Pair Chinoiserie Hand-Painted Wallpaper Panels of Golden Grouse in Grasses
Located in 10 Chater Road, HK
The fine pair of wallpaper panels was hand-painted in gilt paint on rice paper, reproducing the 19th century Chinese export chinoiserie painti...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Paper

Chinoiserie Wallpaper Hand Painted Wallpaper on Silk, Accept Custom Size
Located in Wuxi, 32
If you love the look of De Gournay wallpaper but not the price, this is for you. Measures: 3ft W x 8ft H. The colorways in this sections present our latest colorways, which can be...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Silk

Silk Scroll Painting by Matsumura Keibun, 18th Century
By Matsumura Keibun
Located in New York, NY
A silk parchment scroll with a Camellia Flower painting, by Japanese artist Matsumura Keibun (1779-1843). The younger half-brother to Matsumura Goshun, founder of the Shijo schoo...
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1790s Asian Edo Antique Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Silk, Parchment Paper

Oil Painting by Genevieve Dael, Couple IV
Located in London, GB
A beautiful original oil painting by well known artist Genevieve Dael (French, born 1947). This is extremely well executed, it depicts a couple in a mysterious and atmospheric scene. This was created in 1993 and was originally in the Francis Kyle...
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1990s French Mid-Century Modern Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Canvas

Mountain Mural Hand Painted Wallpaper on Silk Panel, Accept Custom Size
Located in Wuxi, 32
If you love the look of De Gournay wallpaper but not the price, this is for you. The colorways in this sections present our latest colorways, which can be applied to any designs a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Silk

17th Century Japanese Screen Pair, Cranes
Located in Kyoto, JP
Cranes Anonymous, Kano School. Edo period, second half of the 17th century. Pair of six-panel screens. Ink, pigment gofun and gold l...
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1670s Japanese Edo Antique Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Japanese Magnificent Koi Fish Silk Scroll Hand Painting Signed & Boxed
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japan, a stunning large scroll painting of Koi lazily swimming in a placid pond among Momiji fallen leaves. Hand painted in vibrant colors- an auspicious art composition rendered on ...
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Silk

Japanese Asian Large Edo Six-Panel Folding Byobu Screen Landscape Monkeys Trees
Located in Studio City, CA
An absolutely gorgeous, wonderfully composed six-panel Japanese byobu folding screen / room divider depicting a family of playful monkeys among the blooming trees and mountainous lan...
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Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Chinese Six Panel Hand Painted Folding Screen Room Divider
Located in West Hartford, CT
Exquisite six panel Chinese room divider folding screen features intricate handpainted landscape scenery with fighting scenes of warriors on ho...
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Wood, Paper

17th Century Japanese Screen Pair. Tiger & Dragon by Kaiho Yusetsu
Located in Kyoto, JP
Kaiho Yusetsu (1598-1677) Tiger and Dragon Early Edo Period, Circa 1650 A Pair of Six-fold Japanese Screens. Ink and slight color on paper. Dimensions: Each screen: H. 171 cm x W. 380 cm (67.5’’ x 149.5’’) In this pair of early Edo period Japanese screens a group of tigers prowl in a bamboo grove whipped with fierce wind, while a dragon claws through clouds and mist. The dragon embodies elemental qualities - looming out of the mist, the coils of its body disappearing in the clouds. The dragon is calling for rain, symbolizing spring which is considered the fountain of life. On the other side, the tigers calls for the wind, symbolizing autumn which is considered the end of life. Tigers were familiar motifs within Japanese art from ancient times though the animals were imaginary to the people in the 17th century. While dragons and tigers are usually associated as sacred and ferocious, in this painting, both animals have rather amusing expressions. The tigers appear to glare at the dragon with cat-like eyes, and the look on the swirling dragon’s face appears almost affectionate - lending a playful flair to an otherwise magnificent theme. The tiger and dragon are cosmological symbols of the balancing forces in the world. Screens such as this were originally meant to express the fluctuating nature of the world. For Japanese in the early Edo period, they likely suggested the powers of the cosmos. In Japan the tiger and dragon motif was originally absorbed into the circles of Zen monasteries before spreading into the secular world. The theme especially appealed to the military classes with the Kano school, the official painters to the Shogun and the samurai, being the leading contributors. The painter of this pair of screens, Kaiho Yusetsu (1598-1677), was closely patronized by the third Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu. In his later years he worked with Kano school artists...
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Mid-17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Silk, Wood, Paper

Antique hanging scroll of Japanese cat/Late Edo-Meiji period/Cat painting
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This is a picture of a cat drawn by a person named "Toshizumi Nitta" from the end of the Edo period to the beginning of the Meiji period. She is a very simple and cute cat. He is a vassal of the Tokugawa Shogunate, born in Ota City, Gunma Prefecture (southern part of Gunma Prefecture). He was related to the Tokugawa family and lived in a large mansion in the Ota clan in Gunma prefecture. However, the Nitta family's territory was very small, and they were by no means a wealthy vassal. He seems to have lived quite poorly. So he painted cats and sold them to people. The Nitta family continued to draw pictures of this cat for four generations. "Nitta toshizumi" is equivalent to the fourth generation. During the Edo period, sericulture was thriving in the Kanto region. Cats were said to be the gods of silkworms, as they drive away mice, the natural enemies of silkworms. It was the Nitta family who drew such a cat on paper, pasted it in the silkworm chamber, and sold it as a mouse repellent. There were also other monks who painted pictures of cats, but the Nitta family in particular was related to the Tokugawa family, so people believed that paintings of cats had special powers. , a lot of paintings...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Paper

Pair of Chinese Reverse Paintings on Glass
Located in Essex, MA
Each nicely painted in reverse. One depicting a boy playing a flute to a terrapin in a sea and the other a man in a sea rising over a man floating in a shell. Carved wood frames.
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19th Century Chinese Antique Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Glass

Chinese Antique Monumental Buddhist Wooden Pagoda Tower, 70 Inches
Located in South Burlington, VT
China antique monumental Wooden Pagoda, total height is 70 inches, hand carved and hand painted wood, seven hexagonal sections plus finial, late Qin...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Wood

Paresh Maity Watercolor on Board, Encounter I
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting a glorious contemporary piece of Art by a recognized Indian Master – Paresh Maity Watercolor on Board – Encounter I. This piece has impeccable Provenance! It was purchased by a Private Dallas Collector at Sotheby’s New York Auction on 18th September 2008. Lot No. 74. Sotheby’s operate a twice yearly auction of Southeast Asian Art & Antiquities in New York in the months of March and September. This sale was titled “Modern & Contemporary Indian Art”. The Lot consisted of a Group of 3 Watercolors by Babu Xavier, Paresh Maity and Ranjit Kurmi. (b.1960, b.1965, b.1970) Three Untitled Works. Signed and dated ‘Paresh Maity ’02 lower right, watercolor and ink on paper. …. 5.6 x 3.6 (14 x 9 cm)”. Exhibited: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Modern Indian Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, April 8 – June 11 2006. The Provenance is given as: “Property of Private Maryland Collectors”. The 3 watercolors carried an Auction estimate of USD 3,000 to USD 4,000 and Sold for USD 4,000 (not including Buyers Premium). Allowing for inflation alone this would be over $7,000 in today’s value. We have this watercolor by Paresh Maity and (listed separately) the Babu Xavier watercolor, but not the Ranjit Kurmi watercolor. As an added bonus and proof of authenticity the painting still retains it’s original Sotheby’s Lot No. Label. It has substantially increased in value over the years as a HIGHLY DESIRABLE piece from an exhibited and highly collected Modern Indian Master painter. We also possess the Babu Xavier watercolor in our Collection! Paresh Maity (born 1965) is an Indian painter...
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20th Century Indian Modern Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Paper

Antique Japanese Brass Framed Painting 'Wedding'
Located in Milano, IT
Antique and very rare Japanese painting made in the early 1900s by a fine Japanese manufacturer. The painting has a rectangular brass frame with rounded corners. Internally we see an...
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Early 1900s Japanese Anglo-Japanese Antique Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Brass

Japanese Screen of Spring on Gold Leaf
Located in Brescia, IT
It is a two-panel screen from the Taisho period, around 1920, beautifully painted in excellent detail. The best of Rinpa's school painting: large empty space that highlights a pair of mandarin ducks in the middle of the pond. On the right, flying birds give the painting a great lightness, under many multicolored flowers they celebrate spring. All very proportionate and pleasant, the dimension really interesting. Mineral pigments on gold leaf. It turns out Anonymous. Lucio Morini.
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Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Antique Chinese Export Reverse Painting on Glass-A Lady Seating in the Room
Located in Norton, MA
A charming late 19th-century to early 20th-century, Chinese export reverse glass painting, depicting a lady seating in the living room and an outdoor garden behind. The decoration in the room is presenting a very traditional Chinese character with paintings, lantain, bonsai, furniture, etc., playing with a bird. The painting comes with its original hardwood frame and the old pins...
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Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Glass, Wood

Chinese Export Eight-Panel Lacquered Coromandel Screen
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Beautifully hand painted and decorated grand scale Chinese export Eight-panel Coromandel screen featuring different hand painted Chinese scene on each side. One side depicting an hand painted and parcel gilded court scenes. The reverse features a Chinese landscape scene. The screen measures 96 inches...
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Brass

Antique Chinese Export Reverse Painting on Glass-A Lady in the Garden
Located in Norton, MA
A charming late 19th-century to early 20th-century, Chinese export reverse glass painting, depicting a lady in the garden, playing with a bird. The painting comes with its original hardwood frame and the old pins...
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Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Glass, Wood

Chinese Reverse Glass Table Screen with Floral Still Life, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Prevalent in fine Chinese interiors as early as the Tang dynasty (618-906), standing screens with decorative panels served numerous functions as portable architecture. Used to sectio...
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19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Glass, Wood

Japanese Old "Heart Kokoro" Hand Painted Scroll, Signed
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japan, an unusual and attractive hand painting on paper scroll of a calligraphy Heart -" Kokoro Heart", signed, 20th century Accompanied by it signed wood collector storage box to...
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Paper

Pair of Vintage Asian 3 Panel Screens with Intricate Hand Painted Detail
Located in Locust Valley, NY
Super Chic pair of vintage Asian 3 Panel black lacquered screens with beautiful carved intricate detail and hand painted. Each side is displayin...
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Mid-20th Century Unknown Chinese Export Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Wood

Babu Xavier Watercolor on Paper Bird & Woman
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING a GLORIOUS Contemporary piece of Art by a recognized Indian Master – Babu Xavier Watercolor on Paper Bird & Woman . This piece has impeccable...
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20th Century Indian Modern Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Paper

Early View of India, Panoramic Mural Hand Painted Wallpaper on Scenic Paper
Located in Wuxi, 32
If you love the look of De Gournay wallpaper but not the price, this is for you. The colorways in this sections present our latest colorways, which can be applied to any designs a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Paper

Japanese Screen Painting, circa 1700 'Horses' by Kano Tanshin
Located in Kyoto, JP
Horses Kano Tanshin Morimasa (1653-1718) Two-panel tea-ceremony Japanese screen or furosaki Ink on gold leaf, late 17th-early 18th century Measures: H 55 cm x W 182 cm The Kano school was closely aligned with the warrior class in Japan. The samurai, who lived in a closed and rigid hierarchical society established by the Shogunate, were drawn to the energy and freedom horses symbolize; Kano school artists commonly depicted the equine creatures as they are here, in unfettered and carefree family groups. China originally introduced horse paintings to Japan; the works typically focused on capturing the essence of horses in their various environments and often involved integrating human figures into the images. Kano Tanshin Morimasa (1653-1718) was the son of Kano Tanyu...
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1690s Japanese Edo Antique Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Early 19th Century Japanese Screen. Cherry Blossom & Pheasants by Mori Tetsuzan
Located in Kyoto, JP
Mori Tetsuzan (1775-1841) Pheasants and Cherry Blossoms Two-fold Japanese screen. Ink, color, gofun, gold and silver on paper. A two-fold Japanese bir...
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Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Contemporary Chinese Ink Wash Painting by Li Jin
Located in Atlanta, GA
A contemporary ink painting on paper by Chinese artist Li Jin (1958-) presented in a white shadowbox frame. Entitled in English "Morning Practice in California", this series of work was painted in 2017 when the artist resided in US. The Chinese title inscription is "Blossom Branch" with artist's name signed in both Chinese and English. The painting is considered "Expressionistic-abstract". Using only various shades of ink, the poetic work depicts a large lotus flower with the pistil in the center composed of clusters of mediating arhats, the beings who have gained nirvana through Buddhism practice (known as Luohans in Chinese). There is a strong association of lotus flower and purity in Buddhism. The wisdom one can possibly achieve may be considered omnipresent and morphogenetical quantum and be part of everything around us. The image size is 13.5" x 13.5". Provenance: Purchased in 2017 from the Ink Studio at West Bund Art and Design Fair, Shanghai, China. Li Jin (1958-, Tianjin, China) is an ink master who draws from the tradition of Chinese literati ink painting and creates contemporary works celebrating all aspects of everyday life. Having explored color washes for two decades, Li Jin has translated them into a masterful control of tonality-the "five colors of ink"-in a series of monochrome paintings in the expressionistic-abstract "Da Xie Yi" manner. Through the ink medium's inherent sensitivity and ambiguity, they evoke the nuances of human existence and raise profound questions about self-representation and subjectivity. Trained at Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts (graduated in 1983) and has been a leading figure in contemporary Chinese ink art...
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2010s Chinese Modern Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Wood, Paper

Chinese Reverse Painted Glass and Hardwood Table Screen
Located in Austin, TX
An unusual table screen featuring a reverse glass painted portrait of a young noble lady set into a hardwood frame and stand. The beautiful maiden has a roun...
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Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Glass, Hardwood

Pair of Chinese Export Reverse Paintings on Mirrors, Still Life#2
Located in Norton, MA
Pair of charming 19th-century Chinese export reverse paintings on mirrors, depicting the Chinese traditional interior setting with the flowers in vases on wood stands, Bonsais in ceramic planters, books, and so forth The paintings come with their original hardwood frames, and the old pins...
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19th Century Chinese Antique Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Glass, Mirror, Wood

Large Japanese 2-Panel Byôbu 屏風 'Room Divider' with Painting of Bamboo & a Poem
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Beautiful, large two-panel byôbu (room divider) with a serene painting of red-leaved bamboo and rocks on an oxidized silver leaf background. Silver leaf continuously undergoes the process of oxidation, which creates a beautiful aged patina. On the left an inscription from a ‘Zekku’ poem by the Chinese poet Yang Zai (1271?1323), titled: Shan shang zhu (bamboo (painted) on a fan). Translated as : Why would people plant a lot of bamboos? The shade of a single culm is also beautiful. In the autumn night it rocks on the wind, And the fresh sound echoes in my dream. Dated: Shôwa, the year kôshin (1938). Signature unknown...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Other, Silver Leaf

Chinese Ancestor Portrait of a Mandarin Dignitary
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Chinese ancestor portrait of a Mandarin Dignitary. Antique tempera on paper painting of a Mandarin Dignitary wearing a red court dress and s...
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Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Paint, Paper

Set of Four Japanese Reverse Paintings
Located in Locust Valley, NY
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Early 20th Century Japanese Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Glass

Antique Large Chinese Export Reverse Painting on Mirror
Located in Norton, MA
A large charming late 19th-century to early 20th-century, Chinese export reverse mirror painting, depicting a lady setting in her library. The ...
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Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Glass, Wood

Pair of Indian Erotic Paintings from a Kama Sutra Series
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting a stunning piece of Indian antiquity from the 17th century, namely, a pair of indian erotic paintings from a kama sutra series. India, Orissa, 17th century. Hand-painted on cloth canvas. These have impeccable Provenance! They were purchased by a Private Dallas Collector at Christie’s New York Auction on 19th September 2002. Sale Number 1115, Lot No. 251. Christie’s operate a twice yearly auction of Southeast Asian Art & Antiquities in New York in the months of March and September. The Lot was described as: “Two Erotic Paintings from a Karma Sutra...
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17th Century Indian Archaistic Antique Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Canvas

Palm Tree Chinoiserie Wallpaper Hand Painted Wallpaper on Silk Panel
Located in Wuxi, 32
If you love the look of De Gournay wallpaper but not the price, this is for you. Measures: 3 ft x 8 ft. The colorways in this sections present our latest colorways, which can be a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Silk

Early 20th C Chinese Linhai Painted Panel in Green Tones
Located in Troy, MI
Circa 1900 Linhai wood panel with hand painted scene in green and fuchsia tones of a flowering tree with a bird. Painted black scrolled border and red edge. Decorative brass hanger at the top. Panel measures 38.5” high without brass hanging hardware.
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Brass

Vintage Tibetan Thangka Goddess Dakinis
Located in Somis, CA
A rare offering. This amazing vintage hand painted Thangka depicts the Tibetan female celestial goddess Dakinis, whose ferocious expression subdues negative and demonic forces. In Alidh Asana posture, she wears a garland of human skulls, with a Khartwanga wand resting against her shoulder. Her face wrathful in expression, her feet firmly pressing down on devils masqueraded in human form above lotus base. With her right hand the deity holds a blue Kartika symbolizing severance of all material. With her left hand she drinks blood from a skull cup...
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20th Century Bhutanese Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Brocade, Canvas

19th Century Japanese Silk Painting by Kano Chikanobu, Phoenix & Paulownia
Located in Kyoto, JP
Birds & Flowers of the seasons Pheasants & Plum in Snow Unframed painting. Ink, pigment and gofun on silk Kano Chikanobu 1819-1888 Signature...
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Mid-19th Century Asian Edo Antique Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Silk

Indian Mughal 19th Century Palace Scene Print
Located in North Hollywood, CA
After a 19th century Indo-Persian palace painting scene print on silk in wood gilt frame. Indian Mughal School silk fabric painting or print, illuminat...
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20th Century Indian Agra Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Silk, Wood, Paper

Pair of Mid-20th Century chinoiserie Screens, Hand Painted,
Located in Milano, IT
Pair of Mid-20th Century chinoiserie screens, hand painted, similar but different figures of Chinese notables.
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Mid-20th Century French Chinoiserie Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Fruitwood

Japanese Painting, Hanging Scroll, 19th Century Bamboo in Moonlight
Located in Kyoto, JP
Bamboo in moonlight Gamo Rakan (1784-1866) Hanging scroll, ink on silk. Dimensions: Scroll: 201 cm x 58 cm Image: 137 cm x 45 cm In this early 19th century work by Gamo Rakan a light ink wash applied to the silk background silhouettes the moon and suggests the atmosphere of early evening. Even though it is a literati subject, Rakan’s bamboo is quite realistic with a strong decorative style. The painting finds its inspiration from Chinese Ming dynasty painters who often used a single-tone, jet black stroke to emphasize the calligraphic nature of bamboo. In a different era, decorative would have been seen as somewhat unrefined. But increasingly in the Edo period, it was the hallmark of high style. The Japanese people, in particular the rising merchant class, had gradually become apathetic toward the traditional Sesshu and Kano schools of painting. Chinese professional and amateur painters living in the port of Nagasaki during the 18th century had a profound effect on Japanese painting and the freshness of their style and its decorative appeal contributed greatly to its popularity. Gamo Rakan’s teacher, Tani Buncho...
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Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Silk

Antique Large Chinese Export Reverse Painting on Mirror #2
Located in Norton, MA
A large charming late 19th-century to early 20th-century, Chinese export reverse mirror painting, depicting a lady playing a Chinese musical in...
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Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Glass, Wood

Floral Chinoiserie Wallpaper Hand Painted Wallpaper on Purple Silk
Located in Wuxi, 32
If you love the look of De Gournay wallpaper but not the price, this is for you. Measures: 3 ft x 8 ft. The colorways in this sections present our latest colorways, which can be a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Silk

Chinese Ming Dynasty Carved Table Screen
Located in Kastrup, DK
A rare 16-17th cenury Ming Dynasty standing table screen. Untoched original condition. Hand carved wood, the panel is carved with relief details depicting a dragon, cranes, mythical...
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Early 17th Century Chinese Ming Antique Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Wood

Chi Shing, 'River Boats II', Framed Watercolor Painting, China, Mid-20th C
Located in Chatham, ON
CHI SHING - 'River Boats II' - Vintage watercolor landscape painting - vintage gold tone metal frame - finished with double matte boards - signed lower right...
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Metal

Circa 1700 Japanese Screen Pair, Cranes & Pines, Kyoto Kano School
Located in Kyoto, JP
Pines and Cranes Anonymous. Kyoto Kano School. Late 17th/early 18th centuries, circa 1700. Pair of six-panel Japanese folding screens. Ink, gofun, pigment and gold leaf on paper. This bold composition presents two pine trees extending to the left and right across a gold leaf background. One tree is silhouetted against a green ground, golden clouds obscuring its true size, the other stretches across a stylized waterway. The pines are paired with Manchurian cranes with red crests and snow white plumage. Both have been highly auspicious motifs in East Asia since Chinese antiquity. Here the artist utilized fluid and instinctive ink brushstrokes to define the trunk, branches and tail feathers, in strong contrast to the precision and sharp angularity of the crane’s legs and beaks. The adoption of this vast metallic painting support required an unerring sense of design and composition, so that the negative space surrounding motifs could imply context for the otherwise floating pictorial elements. The brushwork detailing the trunks of the pines, the exaggerated dimensions of the pine trees and the strength and dynamism of the composition are all reminiscent of Kano Eitoku...
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Late 17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Antique Japanese Brass Painting 'Romantic Serenade'
Located in Milano, IT
Ancient and very rare Japanese painting made in the early 1900s of fine Japanese manufacture. The painting has a rectangular brass frame, with rounded corners. Internally we see an a...
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Early 1900s Japanese Anglo-Japanese Antique Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Brass

Chinese Export Reverse Paintings on Mirror-The Boy with a Crane
Located in Norton, MA
A large charming 19th-century Chinese export reverse painting on the mirror, depicting a boy and a crane in the garden. Reverse glass pictures became fashionable in the 18th cent...
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19th Century Chinese Antique Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Glass, Mirror, Wood

Antique Chinese Export Reverse Painting on Glass-A Lady Flying to Heaven
Located in Norton, MA
A charming late 19th-century to early 20th-century, Chinese export reverse glass painting, depicting a lady flying to heaven. The painting comes with its original hardwood frame and the old pins...
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Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Glass, Wood

Large Japanese 6-Panel Byôbu 'Folding Screen' by Imperial Household Artist 小室翠雲
By Komuro Suiun
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Exquisite, rare and large six-panel byôbu (room divider) with a refined continuous 'Nihonga'-painting on silver leaf of doves (hato) in a pine tree forest (matsu), by the famous Japa...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Silver Leaf

The Temptation 1957 by C J Anthony Doss
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING a GLORIOUS Contemporary piece of Art by a recognized Indian Master – C J Anthony Doss – The Temptation 1957 . This piece has impeccable Provenance ! It was purchased by a Private Dallas Collector at Sotheby’s New York Auction on 20th September 2005. Sale No: 8111 Lot No. 223. Sotheby’s operate a twice yearly auction of Southeast Asian Art & Antiquities in New York in the months of March and September. This sale was titled “Indian and Southeast Asian Art”. The Lot is described as: “C.J. Anthony Doss (b. 1933) THE TEMPTATION. Signed and dated ‘C J A Doss/57’ lower right. Oil on canvas laid on board. 27.5 by 20.5 in (69.9 by 52 cm.) The Provenance is given as: “Property from the Collection of Mr. Artur Isenberg”. The painting carried an Auction estimate of USD 2,000 to USD 4,000. Allowing for inflation alone this would be over $6,000 in today’s value. As an added bonus and proof of authenticity the painting still retains it’s original Sotheby’s Lot No. Label. It has substantially increased in value over the years as a HIGHLY DESIRABLE piece from an exhibited and highly collected Modern Indian Master painter. C.J. Anthony Doss is a very highly regarded and widely exhibited, Indian painter. He was born in 1933 and died in 2008. DAG Modern in Mumbai featured Doss’s work. Doss represented India at biennales in Paris and Sao Paulo. He was also a prominent member of the South Indian Society of Painters. His works are in Indian museums...
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Mid-20th Century Indian Mid-Century Modern Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Canvas, Wood, Paint, Paper

Pair of Chinese Export Reverse Paintings On Glass and Mirror, Double Panes
Located in Norton, MA
Pair of charming 19th-century Chinese export reverse glass and mirror paintings, depicting two noblewomen within an interior setting with the typical Chinese Traditional customs and ...
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19th Century Chinese Antique Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Glass, Wood, Mirror

Pair of Framed Chinese Ancestor Portraits, circa 1880s
Located in Chicago, IL
Believing that the departed continue to hold influence over the lives of the living, many Chinese households honor their ancestors in private family rituals, invoking their spirits for long life, health, and prosperity. Commemorative portraits, which came into vogue in the late Ming and Qing dynasties, were commissioned specifically for ancestor worship and were believed to house the spirits of the deceased. When properly cared for, one's ancestors were believed to be a powerful source of honor, protection, and good luck. This pair of ancestor portraits was hand-painted in the late-19th century and beautifully depicts a Qing-dynasty couple. While some ancestral portraits offer a more stylized representation of one's ancestors, this particular pair is painted with incredible realism and life-like expressions. Rather than depict the pair in a regal hall wearing elaborate finery, the couple is shown in a quiet home environment, seated at either end of a square tea table. Their surroundings are minimal, practically undecorated, and they wear simple, matching blue silk robes. Two young children stand beside them, each trying to capture the attention of their grandparent. We love the painting's close attention to detail and the glimpse it offers of Qing-dynasty interiors - from the carved apron of the marble-top table to the red silk lotus slippers...
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Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Hand-Painted Paintings and Screens

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Paper

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