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
Large Antique Edo/Meiji Period 19C Japanese Porcelain Koro Liu Hai Toad
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Large, lovely and very nicely handcrafted.
An unusual large enameled Koro of Liu Hai seated atop a massive three-legged toad with raised lumps on its skin. The immortal dressed in robes tied at the waist and left open exposing his chest. He has an animated expression on his face and lovely colored robes.
Liu Hai
God of Wealth Liu Haior Liu Haichan...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$3,075 Sale Price
20% Off
20th Century Japanese Porcelain Meiji Taisho Charger Marked Landscape Fuji
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Nice Japanese charger with decoration of a beautiful landscape with Mount Fuji. The quality of painting is the best on the market. So nice Japanese charger with decoration of a beaut...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Earthenware
$1,814 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Ca 1900 Japanese Satsuma Jar with Figures Richly Decorated Unmarked
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Description
Japanese Satsuma vase with cover, Meiji period
The first of ovoid form, the domed cover surmounted by a seated boy, decorated with scenes of noble figures in palace i...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$2,592 Sale Price
20% Off
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....
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Silk
$1,489 Sale Price
20% Off
Japanese Painting Scroll Crane Landscape Nihonga Japan Artist Sign
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Japanse school Vrouw op brug
Rolschildering / scroll op zijde, benen rollers. B 77.5 x 36.9 / 160 x 49 cm
77.5 x 36.9 / 160 x 49 cm.
Category
Mid-19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Silk
$1,489 Sale Price
20% Off
Japanese Bronze Water Coupe, Eguchi as Fugen, Edo/Meiji Period, Japan
Located in Austin, TX
A very finely cast Japanese bronze water coupe in the form of the courtesan Eguchi riding an elephant, signed Kazutada, Edo to Meiji Period, mid 19th century, Japan.
The small and elegant bronze water coupe is exquisitely cast to depict a figure of a seated lady reading poetry upon the back of a large recumbent elephant. This image depicts the Courtesan of Eguchi as Fugen Bosatsu...
Category
Mid-19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Lovely Nihonga Scene Meiji/Edo Period Scroll Japan Artist Furuichi Kintome
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
It is a work drawn by Furuichi Kintomi as you can see.
In addition to the fantastic depth of willow under the moon, the Egret
that shines in the night view is a truly delicious pie...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Silk
$816 Sale Price
20% Off
Yellow Bronze Lamp with Inlay Red Bronze and Silver, Japanese Meiji Period 1890
Located in San Francisco, CA
A solid yellow bronze with inlaid red bronze and silver vase converted to a lamp. The body of the vase would have originally had a dark green p...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Silver, Bronze
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...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Silk
$5,045 Sale Price
20% Off
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...
Category
20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Silk
$816 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique 19th Century Japanese Porcelain Eiraku Ninsei Kaiseki Plates
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very nice set of 5 plates. Absolutely some of the most original pieces of porcelain i have ever seen.
18-2-19-1-9
Condition
Overall conditio...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Earthenware
$2,066 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Japanese Meiji Satsuma Finely Decorated and Gilded Scenic Box
By Satsuma
Located in Sarasota, FL
Japanese Meiji satsuma finely hand decorated and gilded box. The box depicts a different scene on each side. Marked with a maker's mark on the bottom.
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Pottery
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.
Category
20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
$1,066 Sale Price
20% Off
Articulated iron sculpture or Jizai (articulated) in the form of a butterfly
Located in PARIS, FR
Fine iron jizai of an articulated butterfly with fascinating openwork on its wings. In 1876, the Haitōrei decree was proclaimed, prohibiting the use of swords by anyone other than th...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Meiji Chikanobu Toyohara Framed Woodblock Print with Archery Tournament
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Japanese signed woodblock print by Chikanobu Toyohara (Chikanobu Yoshu), 1838-1912, titled "Start of an Archery Tournament", a tript...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Wood, Paper, Glass
Japanese Champlevé Bronze Elephant Floor Oil Lamp
Located in Montreal, QC
A Japanese floor oil lamp, crafted in bronze with a dark lush patina and decorated with enamel in a champlevé technique in floral designs with peasants....
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
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...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Brass
Japanese Bronze sculpture of a standing Mouse holding an Hazelnut
Located in PARIS, FR
It is a very convincing bronze sculpture of a mouse with a light brown patina, represented with an astonishing set of detail on its eyes, nose and fur. She is seated on her rear paws...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Satsuma Charger ‘Figures in Garden’ Antique, circa 1900
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Large and very detailed piece.
Has a Perfect restoration to rim, at 9 o'clock. Visible at front side because of repainting and at backside because there the crackle is gone. Like ...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Earthenware
$864 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Japanese Imari Charger, Edo/Meiji Period, mid 19th century, Japan
Located in Austin, TX
A large 18.25" diameter Japanese Imari porcelain charger, Edo to Meiji Period, mid 19th century, Japan.
The large charger of near flattened form and decorated in the typical Imari palette of underglaze blue with red, orange and green overglaze enamels and gilt highlights.
The design is centered on a roundel with a dense design of scrolling peony blossoms and leaves in underglaze blue. Two large pictorial reserves of Shinto priests...
Category
Mid-19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
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...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
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...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Silver
#4 Antique 19/20c Lovely Japanese Porcelain Footed Nabeshima Style Porcelain
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very nice set of beautiful bowls nabeshima style
Condition:
Overall condition perfect. Size: 158 x 36mm
Period:
18th century
19th century.
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Earthenware
$816 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Pair of Japanese Meiji Period Porcelain
Kutani
Foo Dogs
Located in Brisbane, QLD
A pair of fine quality Japanese Kutani foo dogs in rich polychrome enamels over porcelain. The pair date to the Meiji period (1868-1912) and are in lov...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
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
...
Category
20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Earthenware
$720 Sale Price
20% Off
Nihonga Pair Landcape Scene Meiji Period Scroll Japan 19c Artist Sakakibara
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
As you can see, Fumi Sakakibara brush-colored landscape map with double width / box.
The light and calm colored landscape drawings applied to each are ...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Silk
$2,162 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique 19/20th C Japanese Yoshida Kyo Satsuma Samourai Plate Japan Katana
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Fabulous Japanese Satsuma dish/serving plate with a Katana Samourai scene.
Marked ??Yoshida Kyoto piece.
Condition
Perfect. Size 173 x 40mm DXH
Pe...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$1,057 Sale Price
20% Off
Garniture Antique circa 1900 Japanese Bronze Vase Flowers Home Decoration
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very nice garniture of bronze Vases with enamels. Good for home decoration.
Condition
/ / Overall condition close to Perfect, minimal age signs like small spots of missing e...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
$1,153 Sale Price
20% Off
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 ...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Metal
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...
Category
1910s Japanese Vintage Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
$3,371 Sale Price / set
30% Off
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...
Category
Early 1900s Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
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...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Cotton
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...
Category
1920s Japanese Vintage Meiji Furniture
Materials
Stone, Metal
Antique Meiji Signed Japanese Figural Woman
Lantern Incense Burner with Base
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This large antique Meiji period Japanese patinated and polychromed bronze is signed by an unknown artist and presumed to have been made in approximately 1880 in the period Meiji styl...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Fabulous Landscape by Kōgyō Terasaki 1866-1919 Japan Painter Akita Prefecture
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Maruyama–Shijo style painting
Condition; Good but some stains.
Overall dimensions: width of about 28.2 cm and Length of about 173.8 cm
Painting width of about 25.5 cm × leng...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
$1,153 Sale Price
20% Off
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 ...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Zitan
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...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Silver
A Bronze Meiji Period Elephant Jardiniere
Located in London, GB
The richly patinated bronze surface is beautifully chased, clearly stamped to the underside of the base by the highly regarded foundry of Genryusai Seiya, a specialist in bronze obje...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Bronze Usubata Ikebana Vase with Inlay
Located in San Francisco, CA
An antique Japanese Meiji period bronze usubata ikebana vase with gold inlay, crafted in two sections.
Signed on the bottom.
Excellent condition.
Japan, late 19th-early 20th century
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Japanese Bronze Hibachi with Silver and Copper Inlay, Meiji Period
Located in Austin, TX
An exquisite pair of Japanese mixed metal bronze hibachi with idyllic landscape scenes, Meiji period (1868-1912), late 19th or early 20th century, Japan.
The hibachi of generous proportions, with a high, slightly splayed foot, a short, narrow waist, and a large and wide cylindrical body. The body decorated in the mixed metal technique. The bronze carved and set with inlays of copper and silver to create wonderful landscape scenes. A pair of animal mask handles to the sides. Each hibachi with a cast signature reading ?? (Toyomi?) to the underside.
One side of each hibachi depicting an evening scene, with scholars walking about a mountain retreat, replete with a waterfall, pavilions, pagodas, and pine trees, all shimmering under a full moon.
The other side of the hibachi depicting a daytime scene, with a view of similar pavilions, pagoda, and pine, though with boats also visible in the distance.
Copper inlay has been used for the roofs and the trunks of the pine trees. Silver inlay has been used for the pine needles, scholars, building supports, water, boats, moon, as well as the distant mountains.
Originally used as a simple and elegant space heater...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Silver, Bronze, Copper
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...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Brass
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...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Wood
Japanese okimono sculpture of a lying puppy with its head facing its rear
Located in PARIS, FR
Bronze okimono sculpture with a deep brown patina, of a lying puppy, probably of shiba inu breed, represented with its head facing its rear. This kind of subject is common in traditi...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
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 ...
Category
1910s Japanese Vintage Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bamboo
19th Century Pair of Japanese Bronze Lions Bookends, Meiji Period
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
This superb and rare pair of Japanese Meiji period bronze bookends are cast in solid bronze and depict a pair of Lions, with their heads raised. These finely sculpted pieces are beau...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
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 ...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
$1,980 / set
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...
Category
20th Century Asian Meiji Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Set of Ten Antique Calligraphy Woodblock Panels
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Rare and remarkable set of ten 19th century Japanese calligraphy prints on paper executed in a woodblock technique and presented under glass in a gi...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Paper
$8,900 / set
Small Japanese Lacquer Duck Incense Box, Kogo, Meiji Period, Late 19th Century
Located in Austin, TX
An exquisite Japanese Meiji Period small lacquer incense box, kogo, in the form of a duck or goose, late 19th century, Japan.
The delicate lacquer box, known as a kogo in Japanese, ...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Lacquer
Furo Tea Ceremony Hibachi by Raku Kichizaemon xi Keinyu, 1817-1902
By Raku Kichizaemon XI Keinyu
Located in Prahran, Victoria
A furo tearoom brazier by Raku Kichizaemon XI Keinyu (1817-1902) decorated in bold style over a brick red glaze. The classical scene depicts men in ‘mino’ straw raincoats pulling a barge up river under the overhanging branches of an ancient willow tree.
With makers mark to base and sold with its original paulownia wood storage box.
Overall the piece is in excellent condition but has sustained several stress cracks in one corner due to heat encountered during continual use. This is typical of Japanese raku ceramics...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Pottery
$1,950 Sale Price
25% Off
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...
Category
Early 1900s Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf
Antique Japanese Tsubo Jar with High Relief Crab Design
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese stoneware tsubo (storage jar) circa 19th century (Meiji period), likely made in one of the Shigaraki or Echizen kilns. The jar has a thick robust body, and a short-neck ri...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
A Very Fine Takamaki-e Lacquer Cheroot Case in the Manner of Shibata Zeshin
By Shibata Zeshin
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The 'ishime' lacquered case consisting of two conforming molded sections with one sliding overtop the other, both sides decorated with hand painted gilt, silver & burnt dark russet (kasshoku) lacquers, depicting motifs in low relief of a rat with an acorn on one side and two acorns on the opposing.
In Japanese culture rats are considered auspicious symbols of fertility & wealth, acorns symbolize prosperity & growth. Signed with characters and a mon on one edge.
Takamaki-e is a lacquer technique in which metallic powders such as silver, gold, copper, pewter etc., are used in combination with lacquer & clay-dust to build up motifs in low relief.
Please note that the color tones & hues of the lacquered motifs appear somewhat more vibrant in the images due to ambient lighting conditions.
Regarding the opinion stating the superior quality of this fine example being likened to works associated with those by Shibata...
Category
1870s Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Lacquer
Meiji Period Porcelain Wine Ewer
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
A Japanese, Meiji period, porcelain wine ewer. Fans set off the figural reserves. This is the finest & earliest of the "new Kutani". Marked Kutani & Happiness.
9 1/2" h., 6" over ha...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$540 Sale Price
55% Off
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 ...
Category
Late 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
A Japanese Meiji Period Patinated Bronze Censer
Located in Stamford, CT
A Japanese Meiji censer rising on three stylized Foo Dogs feet with Frog form handles. Censer having exceptional patination.
Acquired from Michael Goedh...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
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...
Category
Early 1900s Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Meiji Cloisonné Enamel Brass Table Lamp with Double Socket
Located in Toledo, OH
A beautiful Japanese Meiji cloisonné table lamp. It features an enamel finish with a black field and purple, blue and pink iridescent iris flowers. The shade shown in the photo is no...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Brass
Japanese Lacquer Maki-e Plate of Masked Dancer
Located in Atlanta, GA
A large circular plate with a short stem base in Vermillion lacquer color from Late Meiji Period circa end of 19th century to early 20th century. ...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Lacquer
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...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Cotton
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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