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
Japanese Meiji Era Cloisonne Enamel Vase Signed
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese copper vase with cloisonne enamel design. Late Meiji period, 1868 to 1913. Miniature dark cobalt blue vase with a round body and long neck. The neck is decorated ...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Copper, Enamel
$600 Sale Price
50% Off
Antique pair of Japanese meiji style vases 20th century
Located in Cantù, IT
Antique pair of Japanese meiji style vases 20th century
Category
20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Blue and White Lidded Porcelain Vessel Burner – East Asian, Early 20th Century
Located in Bochum, NRW
This exquisite lidded vessel is a fine example of East Asian blue-and-white porcelain, distinguished by its delicate hand-painted motifs and sculptural lid. The body is adorned with ...
Category
Early 20th Century Asian Meiji Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Meiji Era Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Bud Vase with Butterflies
Located in Long Island City, NY
A high quality late 19th century Japanese bud vase featuring a globular body and a tall, everted neck. The vase is enameled with a polychrome image of b...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Enamel
Antique Japanese Imari Porcelain Gourd-Shaped Cabinet Vase
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique Japanese porcelain vase.
In the Imari style.
In a gourd-shaped form with elongated neck.
With painted lotus flower decoration to the body and painted floral and geo...
Category
20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Japanese Six Panel Screen, Ancient Pines on the Shore under Silver Moon
Located in Hudson, NY
Venerable pine trees supported and cared for by temple Arborists. Artist signature reads: Koka Sugibayashi. Meiji period painting (1868-1912) in mineral pigments on silk with a silk ...
Category
Early 1900s Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Silk
Japanese Wabi-Sabi Small Vase, Meiji Period, 1750-1850
Located in Katori-Shi, 12
This is an old Japanese pottery.
It is from the Meiji period (1860s-1900s).
It was used as a fire extinguishing pot.
This piece has beautiful color and texture.
It is very rare...
Category
Early 20th Century Meiji Furniture
Materials
Pottery
Small Antique Calligraphy Ink Pot , Japanese, Meiji, Bronze Inkwell, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a small antique calligraphy ink pot. A Japanese, bronze inkwell from the Meiji period, dating to the late Victorian era, circa 1900. A charming, tactile piece for the artistic writer, with a rich patina and refined craftsmanship.
Strikingly patinated bronze, displaying deep, characterful tonality throughout
Attractive verdigris ageing lends a distinctive artistic and historical charm
Knurled detail encircles the body, catching the light with elegant texture
Compact and tactile in form, ideal for use upon a writing desk or as a collector’s piece
Evocative of traditional Japanese artistry, merging beauty and practicality
Good weight in the hand at 571g (1.25 lb), lending itself to use as a distinctive paperweight
A superbly atmospheric example of Meiji period bronze craftsmanship, this antique ink pot...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Large Chinese Floral Cloisonne Enamel Vase W Stand
Located in Long Island City, NY
A large rare Chinese enamel over brass vase. The unusual shaped vase is adorned with polychrome images of flowers surrounded by floral and wavy motifs against a bright turquoise back...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Brass, Enamel
$1,200 Sale Price
60% Off
Antique Signed Japanese Articulated Crab Sculpture in Copper Jizai Okimono
Located in San Diego, CA
Antique signed Japanese articulated crab sculpture (Jizai OKimono) in copper, circa 1910s. The piece is well detailed and patinated.
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Copper
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Pair Japanese Noritake Hand Painted Vases Urns Centerpieces Pink Roses
By Noritake
Located in Dublin, Ireland
An Elegant Fine Pair Japanese Noritake Hand Painted Porcelain Vases of outstanding quality. First quarter of the Twentieth Century, late Meiji pe...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Japanese Head Bucket (Kubi-Oke), Lacquer, Meiji Period
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Japanese Head Bucket (Kubi-Oke), Lacquer, Meiji period.
The head bucket was used for storing and transporting severed heads. During the Samurai era cla...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Japanese Satsuma Vase Pair by Senzan Meiji Period
Located in Newark, England
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From our Japanese Satsuma collection, we’re pleased to offer this unusually shaped pair of Japanese Satsuma vases, signed by the artist Senzan 泉山 and dating...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
Vintage Chinese Green
Brown Jadeite Serpentine Foo Dog Chop Seal
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING A RARE Vintage Chinese Green & Brown Jadeite Serpentine Foo Dog Chop Seal.
Hong Kong/Chinese, circa 1950.
A fantastically carved Foo Dog in a co...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Serpentine, Jade
Antique Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Lidded Koro Jar
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese cloisonne enamel lidded koro jar from the Meiji period standing on a foot and featuring traditional ornamentations to the center with tw...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Enamel
Pair of Bronze Harvest Putti Cherub Figures on Marble Plinth.
Located in Germantown, MD
A Magnificent Pair of Bronze Harvest Putti Cherub Figures on Marble Plinth.
Measures 2.75" in width, 2.75" in depth and 8.75" in height.
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze
$1,320 Sale Price / set
25% Off
Rare Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Silver Wire White Enamel Vase with Birds and Flowe
Located in Long Island City, NY
A rare small Japanese, late Ming dynasty, silver wire white enamel vase. The vase has an amphora shaped body and a fluted neck. The ware is enameled with a polychrome image of birds ...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Japanese Two Panel Screen, Zen Calligraphy Character Cloud
Located in Hudson, NY
Meiji period (1868 - 1912) calligraphy painting. Abstract character reads: Kumo (cloud). Seal on the upper right reads Shogazen, seal on the upper left reads Hosai. Ink on mulberr...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Silk, Wood, Paper
Set of Ten Antique Japanese Imari Porcelain Shallow Bowls
Located in Point Richmond, CA
A Set of Ten Antique Japanese Imari Porcelain Shallow Bowls. This set of fine porcelain china is decorated in three firings. The first firing in light and dark under glaze cobalt bl...
Category
Early 1900s Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Large Japanese Red
Black Lacquer Wooden Bowl, Early 20th Century
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
A Japanese red & black lacquer wooden bowl from the early 20th century. It is carved from a block of what is likely to be fruit wood. The bowl has aged beautifully over the years wit...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Fruitwood, Lacquer
Japanese Embroidered Landscape Embroidery, early 20th C.
Located in Istanbul, TR
A finely done embroidered landscape hanging from Japan.
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Silk
Helen Hyde Signed Japanese Meiji Era Woodblock Woodcut Print The Hired Baby 1909
By Helen Hyde
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful Japanese woodblock print by American artist Helen Hyde (1868 –1919) titled "The Hired Baby" which she created in 1909 while she was living and studying art in Japan.
T...
Category
Early 1900s Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Wood, Paper
Antique Meiji Wucai Style Porcelain Jar
Cover, Japan, Early 20th Century
Located in Chatham, ON
Antique Meiji period Wucai style hand painted porcelain jar and cover - featuring flowering branches of multicolor blossoms and leaves - all on a white ground with pale blue rim to t...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Japanese Bronze Goose Incense Burner
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Japanese bronze incense burner in the charming cast form of a goose, standing on both webbed feet, broad body serving as the incense burning receptacle with long outstretched...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Pair Of Satsuma Earthenware Vases "zenkozan" Japan, Meiji Period
By Satsuma
Located in Bilzen, BE
Pair of Earthenware vases from Satsuma Japan
Each side with different decoration
Signature under the base "Zenkozan" end of the Meiji period
Height 22 cm
Perfect condition
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Earthenware
Japanese SHIBAYAMA carving with mushroom, insects and phallus
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese SHIBAYAMA carving with mushroom, insects and phallus ~ Meiji
Category
Early 20th Century Meiji Furniture
Materials
Antler
Japanese Bronze Bamboo Hanging Vase, Kakehana, Meiji Period, circa 1900, Japan
Located in Austin, TX
A subtle and beautiful Japanese bronze hanging flower vase, kakehana, Meiji Period, circa 1900, Japan.
The slim and elegant vessel of cast bronze in the form of a stalk of segmented...
Category
Early 1900s Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Blue Ground Japanese Satsuma Vases
By Satsuma
Located in Norwood, NJ
These are a very good quality pair of earthenware Japanese Satsuma vases, beautifully hand decorated and from the Meiji period, circa 1920. The vases have a hexangular shape raised o...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
$2,175 / set
Antique Pair Of Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Vases With Hawks, Cranes, Scenes
Located in Long Island City, NY
A pair of antique Japanese Meiji period facet cloisonne vases, featuring captivating bird motifs. Their substantial size and ribbed design make them standout pieces. Adorned with int...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Enamel
Vintage Japanese Hand-Carved Zelkova Wood Vessel Planter
Located in Asheville, NC
This antique Japanese mortar is hand-carved from the Meiji Period (1868-1912). It is made of the most stunning Zelkova wood with incredible texture. The s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Wood
Antique Japanese Folding Chamber Screen /Paravent Early 20th century Japan Crane
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A super nice Japanese Chamber screen. Also suitable for wall mounting.
Good condition and lovely colors
Category
20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
$4,552 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Japanese Ginbari Cloisonne Enamel Dragon Vase
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese Meiji period Ginbari enamel vase. The ground of the vase is enameled in blue and cobalt blue shades. The vase is enameled with a polychrome image of a dragon over...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Enamel
$420 Sale Price
30% Off
Late Meiji Period Folk Wood Carving Japanese God of War, Arts, Shrines Protector
Located in Miami, FL
Probably more than likely from a Japanese home altar, this is a folk art rendition of Hachiman Yahata no Kani, Japanese God of War, Archery, Culture and Pro...
Category
Early 1900s Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Wood
$304 Sale Price
20% Off
Meiji Period Japanese Silver Censer
Located in New Orleans, LA
This stunning Meiji period silver censer is a work of exquisite detail. Crafted by renowned silversmith Masatoshi of Tokyo, the censer, or incense burner...
Category
20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Silver
Circa 1900-1920 Japanese Vase Mounted as a Lamp
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Circa 1900-1920 Japanese vase now mounted as a lamp. Antique cobalt & orange floral reserve porcelain vase made for the Western market, mounted as a lamp in the mid-20th century. Som...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Metal
Antique Japanese Meiji Period Elaborate Flying Dragon Table
Located in Forney, TX
A magnificent antique Japanese powerfully carved center table with dragons from the Meiji period.
The growth of urban centers and spread of wealth during the Meiji Restoration period in Japan ushered in an era that reveled in the aesthetic qualities of objects and actions in everyday life. This ornately carved figural table from the late 19th century / early 20th century demonstrates the level of pleasure and luxury pursued by the wealthy.
The mythical dragon-inspired shape echoes throughout the elaborately hand carved ebonized hardwood; with an unadorned inset polished circular rich rosewood colored top with attractive wood graining; scalloped border and edge with ornate running ornamentation between; rises over the profusely carved and stylized skirt with carvings of whimsical dragon mask and spread wings in high relief and open scrollwork; raised on four spoon carved...
Category
Early 20th Century Asian Meiji Furniture
Materials
Rosewood
Meiji Period Red and Black Painted Kimono Storage Box, Japan
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Japanese Kimono storage box, constructed of wood and bamboo, painted black with family crest painted in red on the sides. The top has wood slats, which ...
Category
20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Wood
$600 Sale Price
20% Off
Set of 2 Antique Japanese Meiji Period Settwo Kutani Plates Porcelain Eggshell
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very nice set of 12 bowls with saucers. Very nicely decorated. They are marked on the base.
Additional information:
Material: Porcelain & Pottery
Region of Origin: Japan
Japan Dyn...
Category
20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$141 Sale Price
45% Off
Antique Japanese Meiji Era Cloisonne Enamel Vase
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese Meiji era covered amphora shaped enamel over brass urn vase. The exterior of the vase is adorned with polychrome enameled continuo...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Brass, Enamel
Antique Japanese Meiji Period Tobacco Pouch With Mixed Metal Bronze Clasp
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese Meiji Period tobacco pouch, featuring a leather interior and covered in French-knotted silk with floral patterns. The pouch is adorned with relief fish images on ...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Leather
$600 Sale Price
60% Off
Signed Ando Jubei Green Wireless Cloisonné Vase 8.5"
By Ando Jubei
Located in Somis, CA
An exquisite Ando Jubei wireless cloisonné vase. In his signature green enamel, portraying an intricate arabesque design of a blooming clematis vine under the glaze. On Musen-jippo b...
Category
20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Metal, Enamel
$600 Sale Price
50% Off
Pair Antique Japanese Bronze Vases on Wood Stands
Located in Dallas, TX
Pair Antique Japanese bronze vases on wood stands are ideal for adding beautiful symmetry with the magic of the Orient! Encircled with thr...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Antique Japanese Meiji Bronze Lobster, Seashell, Basketweave, Bamboo Planter
Located in New York, NY
Unusual rhombus shaped Japanese Meiji period bronze sea-life motif bonsai, bamboo planter, ikebana. The body in the form of a densely woven basket of fine detail, with a large lobster, clam shell, cockle, conch, crab, pearl oyster and whelk sculptural motifs on the sides, set upon bamboo form bronze feet.
The base signed in Japanese within an ornate seal.
Perfectly sized for an artistic bonzai tree...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
$1,575 Sale Price
30% Off
Japanese Cloisonné Ando Jubei Signed Vase 8.5" Wireless Clematis
By Ando Jubei
Located in Somis, CA
An exquisite Ando Jubei wireless cloisonné vase. In his signature green enamel, portraying an intricate arabesque design of a blooming clematis vine under the glaze. On Musen-jippo b...
Category
20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Metal, Enamel
$600 Sale Price
45% Off
Antique Meiji Japanese Imari Plate
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique Japanese Imari plate.
With a white ground and decorated with geometric and floral devices in blues, reds, oranges, and oranges. The blue cross device to the middle is reminiscent of a shimazu mon.
The exterior of the rim has blue underglaze devices and accent lines to the footrim.
Simply a wonderful Meiji porcelain plate...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Japanese Antique Satsuma Pottery Buddhist Monks Vase with Shimazu Crest Mark
By Satsuma
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful Japanese Satsuma pottery studio vase featuring multiple kesa-clad enlightened Buddhist monks on each side of the vase. The piece is finely detailed with rich raised gilt highlights throughout and beautifully decorated in gold and various hand painted other colors.
From the Meiji period (1868-1912).
This piece has the all-important Shimazu Family crest mark (red circle with a cross inside) on the base authenticating the work as an old and original Satsumaware work. The mark shows the pottery was made under the rule of the Shimazu clan.
From a Los Angeles Collection...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Earthenware, Pottery
Large and Impressive Meiji Period Bronze Bison by Sano Takachika for the Kakuh
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A large and impressive Meiji period bronze bison by Sano Takachika for the Kakuha Company, the animal powerfully modelled with his head low and turned s...
Category
Early 1900s Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Damascene Belt Buckle
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Meiji period silver Japanese damascene belt buckle with gold inlay.
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Antique Japanese Imari Porcelain Scalloped Bowl or Vide Poche
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique Japanese Imari porcelain bowl.
With a white ground. Central to the bowl is a stylized Shimazu clan crest (家紋, lit. family crest) within a black and red circle that is...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Japanese Kutani Pottery Bodhidharma or Daruma Figurine
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An fine, antique Japanese pottery Daruma figurine.
In the form of a Daruma, a depiction of Bodhidharma the semi-legendary founder of Zen/Chan Buddhism.
The figure's face and protruding toes are an unglazed dark brown and his robe has a dark red glaze.
Simply a charming Japanese figurine...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Pottery
Antique Japanese Meiji Goldstone Cloisonne Enamel Vase
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese, late Meiji Era, enamel over brass vase. Circa: early 20th century. The amphora shaped vase is enameled with a polychrome image of a dragon made in the Cloisonne ...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Enamel, Brass
Ikebana Basket, Bamboo, Early 20th Century, Japanese
Located in Point Richmond, CA
This ikebana basket features two weave patterns with a twisted handle in a square shape. It has a deep brown color with a slight contrast to highlight the weaving. It is constructed ...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Bamboo
A Pair of Barrel Shaped Japanese Meiji Cloisonne Enamel Butterfly Vases
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese cloisonne enamel vase from the Meiji period featuring an elegant form with high shoulders and light beige ground color. Decorated with multicolor floral and foliate motifs with butterfly images to the body. A rim and base are finished in gilt brass. Circa the early 20th century. Antique Japanese Vases...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Enamel, Brass
$660 Sale Price / set
44% Off
Japanese Cloisonne Round Box with Fan Design, Meiji Period, c. 1900, Japan
Located in Austin, TX
A very attractive Japanese red ground cloisonne round box and cover featuring a design of fans, Meiji Period, circa 1900, Japan.
The round cloison...
Category
Early 1900s Japanese Antique Meiji Furniture
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Toyohara Kunichika Japanese Triptych Woodblock Print of Kabuki Theater Actors
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderfully composed, beautifully, and richly colored triptych woodblock print by famed Japanese artist Toyohara Kunichika featuring four dramatic and quite intense Kabuki theatre ...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Paper
Large Japanese Satsuma Ceramic Vase Kinkozan
By Kinkozan
Located in Atlanta, GA
A large Japanese ceramic vase from the end of Meiji period circa 1890-1910s by Kinkozan (1645-1927). One of the largest studio manufacturers of the export ceramics at the time based in Kyoto. In the typical style of satsuma made at the turn of 20th century, the vase is elaborately decorated with a rather unusual kinran-de (gold paint) and green enamel highlight on a mottled brown background. The painterly decoration depicts a large seasonal floral arrangement in a circular fashion. Besides the obviously superb craftsmanship, what sets this particular vase apart from many lower quality and mass-produced pieces is its tone-on-tone color pallet that is visually somber and the small and sensitive details that heralds the change of the seasons. When the viewer goes beyond the first casual glimpse of the blossom and foliage, one would notice that on the edges of certain leaves as well as along the stalks, there accumulates a very thin layer of the white dust that represents the frost. The flower in bloom are chrysanthemums. Despite of being splendid, they are the messengers of the autumn. The large lotus leaf was subtly rendered in a bended and slightly withered manner, just past its prime. Although the lotus is still in bloom, the prominent seed pod indicates it may be the last for the season. The sentimental capture of the change of the seasons is not unusual in Japanese art. This vase poetically represents such a subtle transition from summer to fall, perhaps depicting the very first frost.
The neck of the vase is also slightly unusual with two rolled rings...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Japanese Imari Porcelain Plate or Dish
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique Japanese (or Chinese) porcelain plate.
With a white ground decorated with an ocean landscape scene along with flowers and birds in tones of green, red, yellow, and br...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Japanese Satsuma Miniature Cabinet Vase
By Master Ryozan
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine diminutive, antique Japanese Satsuma pottery cabinet vase.
Decorated throughout with gilding and raised enamel.
There are...
Category
20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Large Antique Japanese Meiji Imari Floral Porcelain Charger Plate 22"
Located in Dayton, OH
A very large and impressive Japanese Meiji period Imari porcelain plate / charger / platter hand painted with polychrome floral scenes / borders in orange / red, cobalt blue, green a...
Category
Early 20th Century Meiji Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$1,125 Sale Price
25% Off
Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel 1000 Butterflies Vase
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese copper vase with cloisonne enamel design. Late Meiji period
. Rounded vase with pronounced neck. The body is covered with a butterfly pattern, the neck is decorat...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Copper, Enamel
$382 Sale Price
55% Off
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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