Four Old Japanese and Chinese Ink Wash Painting Calligraphy Brushes, Rare Find

Japanese Buddhist teaching painting, set of four paintings with 24 Buddhist stories with Japanese written characters in each story on one screen. Provenance: Purchased from Christie's South Kensington...

An amazing pair of matching antique Japanese folding screen predating 1812-1813, most likely from Kano School. Six panels each depict C...

Watanabe Seitei, also known as Watanabe Shotei (1851–1918), was born in late Edo period. He was one of the earliest Japanese artists who visited and be...

This screen, comprised of four sections and formed from Chinese hardwood and nephrite, is a beautiful piece of Chinese design—the dark lustre of the nephrite accenting the warm tones...

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...

Painting of a perforated garden stone with red bamboo growing behind. Chinese zekku poem reads, "Returning home to my grass hut on a spring evening," by the Tang-poet Qian Qi. Screen...

A beautiful Japanese hand-painted brush Muryo-Doji Buddhist painting (likely sumi ink) on colored paper featuring three praying women and what appears to be kanji calligraphy - proba...

Three Chinese Watercolors 19th Century each titled on verso Inferior Mandarin Governer General, his lady Prime Minister size with frame 9 by 12 inches ...

Antique Japanese Medicine "Kanban" (Shop Sign) with mirror, Meiji Period. The Medicine being advertised is a soothing cream used to relieve itchin...

This is a beautiful 19th century Chinese brush pot made from a hardwood root. The root brush pot has natural gnarled surface with many knots and indents, the top edge is softly rou...