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Meiji Furniture

MEIJI STYLE

From 1868 to 1912, Emperor Mutsuhito oversaw an era of transformation in Japan. Formerly a country of feudalism and isolation, Japan entered an age of modernization influenced by newly established trade and exchange with the West. The Meiji period, or period of “enlightened rule,” also saw the global impact of the East Asian country’s culture. Japanese Meiji furniture was exhibited at expositions from Paris to San Francisco and created for export.

Prior to the Meiji era, furniture was mostly made by commission for the ruling class; now there were new domestic and international markets. European styles like Japonisme appropriated Japanese design while craftsmen in places like Wales and England employed japanning, a varnishing technique that approximated the appearance of lacquer for the surfaces of furnishings.

Meiji furniture made for Japanese homes and buildings constructed in Western styles resulted in taller tables, chairs, cabinets with large drawers and other features. The government invested in areas such as transportation and communication, and because people could freely choose occupations after the restrictions of feudalism, industries of various types were energized by expressive new ideas during those years. Art schools were formed and, for the first time, design was an area of study in the country, leading to the evolution of professional design as a career by the 1890s.

The work of Japanese designers was transmitted widely through lavishly illustrated pattern books that included designs for screens and lacquerware for the home. While screens today may be of use as decorative accents or partitions to ensure privacy in one’s space, Japanese screens were adorned with paintings and were featured in performing arts such as concerts, tea ceremonies and more. The color illustrations that characterize Meiji woodblock prints, a genre of Japanese art that grew out of 17th-century developments in printing and book publishing, depicted the sweeping changes that the era brought to East Asia.

Although it was a time of societal and cultural shifts, a bolstered interest in art and design elevated Japanese craft traditions. From colorful porcelain table lamps with silk shades and hardwood tables decorated with dark lacquer to cabinets featuring iron hardware and inlaid with mother-of-pearl, Meiji furniture showcased Japan’s artistic heritage to the world.

Find a collection of antique Japanese Meiji period case pieces and storage cabinets, decorative objects, wall decorations and more furniture on 1stDibs.

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Style: Meiji
Period: 20th Century
19th century Japanese lacquered wooden box
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
A 19th-century Japanese lacquered wooden box, finely decorated according to traditional Japanese craftsmanship. Rectangular in shape, it features a lacquer in deep red and dark brown...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Wood, Lacquer

Fine Japanese Ceramic Plate by Kinkozan for Yamanaka Co.
Located in Atlanta, GA
A fine Japanese ceramic satsuma plate made by Kinkozan and retailed by Yamanaka & Co. circa 1900-20s (late Meiji to early Tasho Period). The cream-color...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Ceramic

Japanese Meiji Period Painting Scroll Landscape Masuda Amison 1886 in Osaka
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Masuda Amison  (1886- ? ) Japanese painter. Commonly known as Wasaburo   Born in 1886 in Osaka.   He lives in Koroen, Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture....
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Silk

Blossom and Tree Scene Meiji Period Scroll Japan 19c Artist Araki Kanpo
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
If it is good enough for the Japanese emperor :) The painting's inscription says that it was painted in the artist's 82nd year, which would be 1913. In the early Meiji Period following the Buncho ideal of hasshu kengaku ('learning eight schools'), Kanpo expanded his talents to incorporate Western painting techniques and began studying oil painting with Kawakami Togai (1827-1881) and Kunisawa Shinkuro (1847-1877). He achieved notable recognition as an oil painter and apparently was awarded the honor of painting a portrait of the Empress Dowager. Later Kanpo returned to Nihonga and continued to receive numerous honors for his work. He received a silver medal (2nd place) at the Tokyo Prefecture Crafts Competition in 1887; 2nd place with a painting of peacocks...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Silk

Rare Japanese Fireman s Four-Piece Assemble Meiji to Showa Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
A rare four-piece Japanese Fireman's assemble (Shobosho uniform) woven with heavy cotton and decorated with stencil resist dye circa 1890-20s Late Meiji to Showa Period. The assemble...
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1920s Japanese Vintage Meiji Furniture

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Cotton

Immortals Nihonga Scene Meiji/Taisho Period Scroll Japan Artist Meiji Period
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Axis: Vertical 194 cm, Horizontal 49.5 cm Inside: Vertical 126 cm, Horizontal 37 cm *Some errors will occur in the dimensions. Please understand. Status I don't know the details of...
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20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Silk

Scroll Painting Japanese First Half of the 20th Century by Kano Sanraku
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Kano Sanraku 1898-1981 Condition: Some minor stains. Size: 211.5cm x 123.5cm painting 73cm x 1 Period circa 1900.   
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20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Bronze

Japanese Meiji Period Brass Candle Holder with Scrolls and Medallions
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Japanese Meiji period antique brass square top candle holder from the early 20th century, with intricate carved medallion, calligraphic inscription and ornate base. Created in Japan during the Meiji period in the early years of the 20th century, this elegant brass candle holder features a square top with recessed accent, supported by four elegant scrolling motifs in the corners. The sinuous body, alternating convex and concave lines, swells up in the center to receive a medallion, showcasing various motifs on each side. The ornate base flares up with motifs echoed from the top, but displayed in an inverted manner and on a larger scale. The stand presents a calligraphic inscription at the bottom signifying the maker's mark. With its golden hue, elegant lines and ornate décor...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Brass

Japanese Meiji Period 1900s Distressed Iron Cooking Pot with Foliage Motifs
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Japanese Meiji period iron cooking pot from the early 20th century, with foliage motifs and distressed patina. Created in Japan during the early years of the 20th century, this iro...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Iron

Pair of Japanese Silver Figural Buddha Salt Pepper Shakers
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Japanese silver figural Buddha salt and pepper shakers, ca 1950. Each: Contemplative and cross-legged figure of the Zen-man himself. For a Siddhartha-serene dinner party. Pie...
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Silver

Large 13th Generation Kakiemon Beautiful Japanese Porcelain Plate
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Amazing thirteenth generation Sakita Kakiemon, not entirely sure about the date of origin but somwhere in the 20th century Box and stand Included. 1906 Meiji -1982 Showa ...
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20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Earthenware

Large Pair of Fine Quality Japanese Meiji Mixed Metal Vases - Antique, c.1910
Located in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Antique Large Pair of Japanese Bronze Mixed Metal Vases - Exquisite Meiji Period Artist Pieces! These stunning Japanese bronze mixed metal vases, dating back to the Meiji Period cir...
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1910s Japanese Vintage Meiji Furniture

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Bronze

JAPAN 1900 Meiji Carved Letter Opener With Sculpted Monkeys
Located in Miami, FL
Japanese Meiji period letter opener. An exceptional letter opener, created during the imperial Japan in the Meiji period, back in he 1900. The letter opener has been carefully carve...
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Early 1900s Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture

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Gold Leaf

Japanese Textile Panel Double Ikat Kasuri Futon Cover
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese woven cotton textile panel with white pattern on indigo background circa 1900-20s (end of Meiji to Tasho period). The panel was joined by four vertical stripes and was tra...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Cotton

Antique Japanese Meiji Silver Blossoming Branch Sauce Ladle
Located in New York, NY
Japanese Meiji silver sauce ladle, ca 1910. Cast and stippled rectilinear terminal. On recto, low-relief blossoming prunus branch; on verso, worn engraving in blossoming branch frame...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Silver

Japanese Lacquer Maki-E Tiered Suzuribako and Ryoshibako
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese roiro lacquer scholar combo box with an upper tier of inkstone box (Suzuribako) and a lower document box (Ryoshibako) circa 1910-30s (end of Meiji to Showa period). The high glossy box was beautifully decorated with an image of the famously eccentric Buddhist monks Hanshan and Shide (known in Japan as Kanzan and Jittoku). Often as a pair, they have been a popular motif in Japanese Zen painting...
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1920s Japanese Vintage Meiji Furniture

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Stone, Metal

Japanese Plique-a-Jour Cloisonne Vase
Located in Brisbane, QLD
This plique-a-jour cloisonne vase is an exceptional example of Japanese craftsmanship from the tail end of the Meiji period (1868-1912). The most ...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Metal

Side table made and designed in Japan for the Liberty and Co.
Located in PARIS, FR
The Liberty and Co. was established in 1875 by Arthur Lisenby Liberty with the intention of selling goods and furniture from all around the British empire. By the end of the XIX th ...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Zitan

Antique Japanese Lacquered Card Box with Ornate Hand Painted Gilt Decoration
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique card box is unsigned or initialed, so the specific artist is unknown, but is believed to have been made in Japan in circa 1900 in the per...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Wood

1900’s Satsuma Hand Painted Ceramic Lamps, a Pair
Located in Sarasota, FL
A pair of Japanese Satsuma table lamps circa 1900. Ceramic vases are reeded, and hand painted with Sakura cherry blossom trees and birds in cobalt blue, rust red and gilt line detail...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Brass

Extrordinary Pair of Japanese Jars with Mythological Scenes as Table Lamps
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Cylindrical jars glazed with striated colors in the top background. With overall dense raised colorful decoration of a mythological scene with a variety of figures. A prominent figur...
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20th Century Asian Meiji Furniture

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Ceramic

Pair Antique Japanese Bronze Vases
Located in Dallas, TX
Pair Antique Japanese Bronze Vases clearly illustrate the mastery of the metalsmiths of Japan! Cast and sculpted in bronze and given a rich oil-rubbed antique finish, each features ...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Bronze

Japanese Pine and Bamboo and Lacquered Side Table
Located in Stamford, CT
An exceptionally minimal yet playful Japanese side table having a circular Pine top rising on two detachable bamboo legs from a square Pine. base. The edges of both the top and base ...
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1910s Japanese Vintage Meiji Furniture

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Bamboo

Cushion from Antique Japanese Hand-Spun Cotton Fabric
Located in Houston, TX
Cushion from antique Japanese hand-spun cotton fabric (Length of Tsutsugaki-dyed cotton with repeated motifs from early 20th century). Two cushions availab...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Cotton

Bronze okimono sculpture of a huge cicada lying on a bamboo segment
Located in PARIS, FR
Huge bronze sculpture in the form of a cicada standing on a bamboo segement. This type of sculpture of small dimensions with a flat base is generally used by calligraphs to maintain ...
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Late 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Bronze

Japanese Tsuiki-Jippo Cloisonné Vase Atrributed to Ogasawara Shuzo
By Ogasawara Shuzo
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
A Japanese tsuiki-jippo cloisonné vase attributed to Ogasawara Shuzo. This stunning vase dates to the Meiji period, the body finely hammered, incised with sparse weed and decorated ...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

Japanese Red Lacquer Hibachi, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Designed to hold glowing embers, hibachi vessels were used for cooking or as a source of heat in Japanese homes. Placed under a low wood kotatsu table wi...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Copper

Japanese Two Panel Screen Nara Deer in Gentle Yoshino Landscape
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese two panel screen: Nara Deer in Gentle Yoshino Landscape. Yoshino is in the Nara Prefecture, an area famous for these small and tame deer native to J...
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Early 1900s Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture

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Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf

Rare Large Japanese Porcelain Presentation Plate Makuzu Kozan
Located in Atlanta, GA
A large presentation plate with striking pictorial design from the studio of Japanese Potter Makuzu Kozan. Also known as Miyagawa Kozan (1842–1916),...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Porcelain

Japanese Wireless Musen Cloisonne Vase by Ando Jubei
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese cloisonne vase in bottle-form made by Ando Jubei (1876-1963) circa 1910-20s (late Meiji to Taisho period). The vase features a completely smooth surface without showing any wire. The technique is known as Musen (hidden wire) in Japanese and was notoriously difficult to perfect, especially with piece like this with a relatively large continuous surface. The beguiling effect is to use enamel to mimic porcelain or even jade. This vase, with its ultra smooth surface and soft yellow color (Yellow was often associated with Japanese imperial household...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Silver, Enamel

Japanese Meiji Period Bronze and Champlevé Enameled Censer
Located in Long Island City, NY
This Japanese censer incense burner, inspired by Chinese pieces, is of spheroidal form, the bronze body with polychrome champlevé enamel work flanked b...
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Early 1900s Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture

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Bronze

Fine Japanese Ceramic Plate by Kinkozan for Yamanaka Co.
Located in Atlanta, GA
A fine Japanese ceramic satsuma plate made by Kinkozan and retailed by Yamanaka & Co. circa 1900-20s (late Meiji to early Tasho Period). The cream-color glazed plate features a very fine decoration of a persimmon tree bearing fruits. The composition is poetic, stylized but also realistic, with a literati painter's quality, and was advantageously enhanced by the enamel colorings in incredible details. The mastership of the medium came through the piece. It is signed on the base in gilt kanji seal (Made by Kinkozan) and branded Yamanaka & Co in English. The plate was likely commissioned by the company from Kinkozan for its various galleries in US and Europe. The Kinkozan family established their pottery business first in 1645 and by the end of 19th century, it had become the largest studio producer of Satsuma ware. By the 1850s, Kinkozan Sobei...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Ceramic

Fine Japanese Portable Tea Cabinet Meiji Period with Provenance
Located in Atlanta, GA
An antique Japanese portable cabinet finely fashioned out of Sandalwood, a fragrant and also one of the most expensive woods that was used to make small luxury pieces. The handled ca...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Wood, Sandalwood

Japanese Usubata Ikebana Vessel, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This early 20th century iron vessel is a Meiji-era vase designed especially for ikebana, the Japanese art of floral arrangement. The two-piece vase was cast in the classical usubata (thin rim) form, with a broad, flat top with an upturned lip. Usubata vessels are typically cast of bronze and have been used in ikebana arrangements since the 16th century. The broad rim of this usubata vase...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Iron

Japanese Two Panel Screen: Antique Kimono Fabric Mounted on Screen
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese Two Panel Screen: Late Nineteenth Century Kimono Fabric Mounted on Early Twentieth Century Screen. In the Heian period (eighth century to the twelfth century), noblemen wou...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Silk, Wood, Paper

Japanese Ikebana Flower Arranging Basket by Teijo Sai
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese Ikebana (Flower Arranging Basket), Signed by Teijo Sai (the artist) on the bottom. Meiji Period (1868-1912) ikebana made of smoked bamboo, polished with ash. Very nice weav...
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Early 1900s Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture

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Bamboo

large pair of antique Japanese bronze vases with carp fish, Meiji period
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
A large pair of antique Japanese bronze vases with carp fishes, Meiji period. The bottle vases have carp in swirls of water, with some ver...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Bronze

Japanese Leather Tobacco Pouch and Netsuke, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Created in the late 19th century during Japan's Meiji period, this petite leather tobacco pouch is accompanied by a small, wooden netsuke charm. ...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Brass, Steel

Vintage Japanese Black, Gold and Red Lacquer Document Fubako Box
Located in Sheridan, CO
Black, Gold and Red Lacquer Japanese Document Fubako Box, Meiji period, late 19th C/Early 20th C. A Japanese lacquer box featuring hand decorated gold paint depicting scholars and sa...
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1920s Japanese Vintage Meiji Furniture

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Lacquer

Rare Japanese Porcelain Painted Footed Dish Makuzu Kozan
Located in Atlanta, GA
A rare footed dish in the form of an open scroll painting with literati landscape from the studio of Japanese Potter Makuzu Kozan. Also known as Miyagawa Kozan (1842–1916), Makuzu wa...
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Early 1900s Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture

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Porcelain

Framed Japanese Futon Cover Textile Art with Resist Yuzen Dye
Located in Atlanta, GA
A large piece of framed Japanese textile circa late 19th to early 20th century, end of Meiji period. Seamed together from four vertical sectio...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Cotton, Wood

Old Wooden Netsuke Japanese Peanuts Meiji Period, Japan, 19/20th C
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Lovely and very detailed piece. Unsigned. Japan 19th or 20th century. Weight: 9 grams Provenance: Collected in the 1980’s. From the collection of Clemens Merkelbach van Enkhuizen...
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20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Wood

Old Wooden Netsuke Japanese Bird of Tree Bark Figure Meiji Period, 19/20th C
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Lovely and very detailed piece. Unsigned. Japan 19th or 20th century. Weight: 5 grams Provenance: Collected in the 1980’s. From the collection of Clemens Merkelbach van Enkhuizen...
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20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Wood

Antique Japanese Export Lacquer Bamboo Stick Stand
Located in Brea, CA
Antique Japanese export lacquer and gilt bamboo stick stand, see more pictures, 46'' x 27.5'' x 10''.  
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Bamboo

Japanese Bizen Flower Vase
Located in Hudson, NY
Meiji period (1868 - 1912) ceramic vase from Okayama Prefecture. Comes with collector's box. Signature reads Kinetsu.
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Ceramic

Pair of Meiji Period Japanese Bronze Vases with Mask Head Handles, circa 1900
Located in Central England, GB
A pair of Meiji Period Japanese bronze vases. This fine pair of late 19th century Japanese bronze vases are well proportioned and of a good decorative size. They are beautifully decorated with panels on one side with magpies amongst irises and the opposite with sparrows in a magnolia tree. They are cast and then finely hand finished with chasing from small chisels. They have mask head...
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20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Bronze

Japanese Cloisonne Vase with Silver Inlays by Ando Jubei
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese cloisonne vase by Ando Company circa 1910-30s, end of Meiji to Tasho period. The vase takes an archaic Chinese bronze vessel form know...
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1920s Japanese Vintage Meiji Furniture

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Metal, Silver

Gilt and Patinated Bronze Plaque, Japan, circa 1900
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Gilt and patinated bronze plaque. Japan, circa 1900.
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Early 1900s Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture

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Bronze

Japanese Two-Panel Screen: Geese in a Country Setting
Located in Hudson, NY
Country farm geese with early spring blossoms and a bamboo fence. Beautiful details on the feathers. Signature and seal read Keibo Joshi (Ms. Keibo) min...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Silk, Wood, Paper

Fine Japanese Ceramic Vase Makuzu Kozan Meiji Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese long neck porcelain vase circa 1900-1910s by the studio of Miyagawa Kozan (1842–1916), one of the most established and collected Japanese ceramist from the end of Meiji Period. Commonly known as Makuzu Kozan, which also appears as the signature on his work, his originally birth name was Miyagawa Toranosuke. He was the appointed artist to the Japanese Imperial household and his work was exhibited in many international fairs that the Meiji government participated at the turn of the century. This vase features an elegant Classic form with a slender neck and slightly flared mouth above a baluster body. It was finely painted with two swimming carps in a copper red underglaze among green ribbons like waves. The background display a brilliant verdant green overall, Around the fish a poetic hazy effect was emphasized for a visual complexity by Fuki-e (the blow painting), an invention in Kozan's studio. The new technical development of chemical colors from the west was embraced circa 1900s in Kozan studio. This empowered the more creative experiments with not only colors, but also concept of dimension, which led Makuzu Kozan's work to become a bridge between East and West aesthetics. This is particularly evident in this vase with the Masterly details of the brush strokes, the expertly employment of gradient of color, and a very realistic and detailed rendering of the fish and their vivid motions. For two similar examples of Kozan's work with similar carps decoration, see Page 148-149 of the book: Sekai ni Aisa Reta ya Kimono Miyagawa Kozan Makuzu...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Ceramic

Japanese Two-Piece Indigo Asa Kyogen Festival Costume Meiji Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
A two-piece Japanese festival costume based on Kyogen theater performance circa late 19th century (Meiji Period). The matching assemble consists of an oversize jacket (Suo) and a pai...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Linen

Japanese Porcelain Lamp, Decorated with Castles and Pagodas, Mid-20th Century
Located in VÉZELAY, FR
This Japanese porcelain lamp, dating from the mid-20th century, subtly blends tradition and aesthetics. With its elegant gourd-shaped form and square base, it is a true testament to...
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Porcelain, Wood

Antique Japanese Meiji period carved hardwood okimono of a prowling tiger C 1900
Located in Central England, GB
This most pleasing hand carved hardwood Japanese Meiji period okimono depicts a muscular prowling tiger. Its body is slightly lowered in a stalking position with its mouth open showi...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Hardwood

Japanese Antique Wooden Board, "Abstract Sculptures", Wabi-Sabi, Mingei
Located in Katori-Shi, 12
This wooden antique board is from the Meiji period. It is made of lauan wood. Years of use and age have given it a beautiful appearance. Hang it o...
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Early 20th Century Meiji Furniture

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Wood

Large Showa Period Japanese 20th Century Porcelain Kutani Deer and Immortal
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Description Lovely and detailed piece with a great decoration of a Deer and Magu the goddess of immortality. Box included. Condition Overall condition perfect. Size: 260 x ...
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20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Porcelain

A Monumental 19th C. Ryukyu Hariko (Papier Mâché) Vase, Meiji Period (1868-1912)
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A stunningly attractive exceptionally large baluster shaped ‘Ryukyu Hariko’ (papier mâché) vase, masterfully decorated overall with hand painted images of a fruiting peach tree...
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Early 1900s Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture

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Lacquer, Paper

Antique Japan 20th Century Period Japanese Porcelain Plate with a Fenghuang an
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Lovely Japanese porcelain plate with nice bright coloring and an interestings scene. Condition Overall condition perfect. Measure: 267mm.
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20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Earthenware

Chinese Export Silver Dragon Cigar Box , 1880 - 1920s
Located in Braintree, GB
An impressive Chinese export solid silver dragon box, crafted circa 1880–1920 from substantial heavy-gauge silver, 900 purity and intended for the Western market. The rectangular fo...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Meiji Furniture

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Silver

Antique Japanese patinated bronze eagle
Located in London, GB
Antique Japanese patinated bronze eagle Japanese, c. 1900 Height 54cm, width 67cm, depth 32cm This fine and naturalistic Meiji period bronze...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Bronze

Japanese Bronze Koro ‘Incense Burner’ in the Shape of a Turkey
Located in Hudson, NY
Meiji period (1868-1912) bronze, with removable top, stylized geometric shape and silver inlay. Signature reads: Miharu Kadayashi.
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Silver, Bronze

Meiji furniture for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a broad range of unique Meiji furniture for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage furniture created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include asian art and furniture, decorative objects, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, ceramic and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Meiji furniture made in a specific country, there are Asia, East Asia, and Japan pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original furniture, popular names associated with this style include Satsuma, Kinkozan, Ando Jubei, and Makuzu Kozan. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for furniture differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $65 and tops out at $190,804 while the average work can sell for $2,112.

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