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Japanese Ranma Curved Bridge Scene
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Pre 1910 item# 635842 (stock# 62-30)
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This Japanese ranma (interior transom) from the late Meiji Period shows a graceful curved bridge (taiko-bashi) leading across calm water to a grove of trees. The quiet scene, created with pierced carving on a nicely grained wood panel, is framed with a narrow black lacquered liner and an outer red lacquered frame. Used in a traditional Japanese wood house as a transom over sliding doors (fusuma), the panel's pierced carving was viewable from either side of the doors and also allowed filtered ...click for details
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Reed and Bamboo Wedding Basket
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Pre 1900 item# 294478 (stock# 58-73)
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Black ink-like sketches on woven reed panels give this skillfully made 19th century Chinese basket added appeal. The twelve sketches are of various symbolic plants, flowers and fruit. Shaped like a bird in flight, the unusual handle is wrapped in bamboo strips at the thick mid-section and on the thinner ends, where the bamboo is woven into a black and natural-color pattern. This lidded, two-compartment basket has a removable upper section, and was used to carry and serve food at weddings and oth ...click for details
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