Japonisme Wall Decorations
JAPONISME STYLE
In the late 19th and early 20th century, France developed an enduring passion for Japanese aesthetics and craftsmanship. Not only did this interpretation of Japanese culture — which became known as Japonisme — infuse fresh energy into French art and design, but it also radically transformed how Europeans, and subsequently the world, would come to understand visual culture.
Until 1853, Japan had been closely guarded against foreign visitors for over two centuries. However, American Commodore Matthew C. Perry sailed into Japan that year and initiated the first of its treaties with the United States and Europe, thereby opening its borders and giving the West its first-ever look at Japanese design.
For the next few decades, taken with Japonisme, sophisticated collectors in Paris, New York and elsewhere gorged themselves on lacquered screens, celadon ceramics and netsuke ornaments, along with artworks depicting various aspects of Japanese life. The East Asian country’s influence on Europe, particularly France, contributed to one of the most creatively prosperous periods in history, leaving an imprint on the Impressionist, Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements, and inspiring artists like Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, Vincent van Gogh as well as luxury houses such as Louis Vuitton and Hermès. Japonisme emerged at the time when the ornate Renaissance Revival style was the most prominent mode of decorating in Europe, and Japanese aesthetics seemed strikingly modern and elegant in comparison.
In addition to everyday practical objects from Japan, such as vases, tableware and decorative boxes, Japanese art, especially Japanese woodblock prints by masters of the ukiyo-e school, caught the eye of many artists — particularly those in the Art Nouveau poster community in 1880s Paris. The luscious organic colors associated with traditional Japanese design, motifs like cherry blossoms and carp and the vivid patterns found in woodblock prints, silks and more were adopted and appropriated by painters as well as ceramicists and those working in other fields of the decorative arts. Today, demand for Japanese lacquerware — furniture, trays, writing boxes, screens, incense burners — from the Edo period (1615–1868) and the late 19th century continues to be very strong among collectors.
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Style: Japonisme
Conrad KIESEL (after), Japonist portrait of a woman wearing a kimono, circa 1880
By Conrad Kiesel
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
This portrait of a European woman dressed in Japanese attire within a Japan-inspired setting was likely created after a work by the German painter Conrad Kiesel, which shares the sam...
Category
1880s German Antique Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint, Canvas
Bridge in the Valley — limited edition Japanese woodblock print by Fujita Fumio
Located in Weesp, NL
Import of Art into the US should be exempt from all U.S. import tariffs but please check.
This exceptional 1985 Japanese woodblock print, Bridge in the Valley, by Fujita Fumio...
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1980s Japanese Vintage Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
French Japonisme Hand-Painted Oil-on-canvas of a Geisha with a Fan
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful 19th century French japonisme oil-on-canvas painting of a Geisha holding a fan. This beautiful Geisha is modeled after the Japonisme movement brought up by French artists integrating Japanese artistic styles into their art work. During the mid-1870s, the demand for Japanese decorative arts...
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1880s French Antique Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Antique Japanese Bird Branch Berry Watercolor Hanging Scroll Signed Painting 53"
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique Japanese watercolor painting on paper showing a small green bird perched on the branch of a tree tipped with red berries. ...
Category
Early 20th Century Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Silk, Paint, Paper
$350 Sale Price
30% Off
19th Century English Chinoiserie Plate Mason Ironstone
Located in Austin, TX
English Plate signed Mason's Patent Ironstone China 'Japan' Pattern 2150.
8.8 inches.
Category
1890s English Antique Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Ceramic
Contemporary Asian Lacquer on Panel Japanese Style Landscape
Located in Miami, FL
Subtil and refined construction for this Japanese Style laquer.
Full of peace and action as well
Measure: 15" X 15’’ with the frame.
Category
1970s Japanese Vintage Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Abalone, Wood
Original Antique Print of Japanese Cloisonne Enamels, Dated 1876
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of cloisonne enamels
Chromo-lithograph after A. Willms
Published by Sutton Sharpe & Co. 1876
Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using y...
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1870s English Antique Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Pair of Original Antique Prints of Decorative Art- Japonisme. C.1880
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Wonderful prints of Decorative Art, mainly Japonisme
Chromo-lithographs
Published by W.Mackenzie. C.1880
Original colour
Unframed.
Free shipping.
Category
1880s Scottish Antique Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Massive Japanese Embroidery Tapestry Display Box Meiji Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
A massive Japanese embordered tapestry professionally displayed in a custom acrylic shadow box. The fine work of textile art is dated to 1890-1920s, late Meiji (1868-1912) or possibl...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Brocade, Silk, Acrylic
Ryosuke Harashima Contemporary Zen Japanese paper wall sculpture1
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Name: On the line no.1
Wall sculpture made of Japanese paper named "Washi" and brass pole.
Paper object has copied from flagstone installed in a Japanese garden. Stone shaped light p...
Category
2010s Japanese Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Brass
Original Antique Prints of 19th Century Japanese Silk Panels, France, 1860
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Wonderful pair of prints of 19th Century Japanese silk panels
Amazing illuminated gold lustre
Lithographs
Published by A.Morel, Paris, Fra...
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1860s English Antique Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Print Toyohara Chikanobu Japan Woodcut 1880
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Print Toyohara Chikanobu Japan Woodcut 1880
Category
1880s Japanese Antique Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
$539 Sale Price
30% Off
Japan Kabuki Actors Orig Vintage Print by Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900) Framed
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Duputich, Kabuki actors
Circa, 1865
Artist: Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900)
Publisher : Izutsu-ya
Obtained this beautiful vintage hand printed scene of Japanese Kabuki actors fr...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Ryosuke Harashima Contemporary Zen Japanese paper wall sculpture2
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Name: On the line no.2
Wall sculpture made of Japanese paper named "Washi" and brass pole.
Paper object has copied from flagstone installed in a Japanese garden. Stone shaped light p...
Category
2010s Japanese Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Brass
Asian Wood Carved Wall Plaque with Crab and Lobster
Located in Austin, TX
An Asian fine carved wood wall plaque possibly Japonese with a crab, a lobster on bamboo.
Category
1880s Japanese Antique Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood
Large Antique Zen Japanese Ink Scroll After Sesson Shukei
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese Sumi ink painting with light color wash mounted with brocade borders as a hanging scroll (Kakejiku). The painting depicts 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
18th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Silk, Paper
Pair of Japanese Ink Hanging Scrolls Kano Tanyu
By Kano Tan
yu 1
Located in Atlanta, GA
A fine matching pair of hanging scrolls ink on paper mounted in green brocade borders circa Edo period (17-18th century). The Kano school painting depicts wild geese in the reeds by the margin of water, a popular subject borrowed from the Chinese tradition. Both painting were signed as Tanyu with a red seal of Morinobu, his birth name. The storage box is also present and was inscribed with the title Painting of Geese and Reeds and Kano Tanyu...
Category
Late 17th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood, Paper
$6,000 / set
Japanese Meiji Period Shibayama Charger Featuring Cockerel
Located in Norwood, NJ
19th century Meiji period charger/plate with cockerel beautifully realistic in layers of carved shell, mother of pearl and bone to stand in high r...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Shell, Bone, Mother-of-Pearl, Lacquer
Vintage Japanese Silk Meisen Kimono with Geometrical Design
Located in Atlanta, GA
A vintage Japanese formal silk Kimono in an "ink green" color with striking geometrical design. The garment is hand-stitched Meisen kimono from a crepe l...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Silk
Japanese Edo Period Nabashima Porcelain Plate with Three Sake Bottles, Ca. 1850
Located in New York, NY
Japanese Edo Period Nabashima Porcelain Blue Plate with Three Sake Bottles, Ca. 1850
PERIOD
Edo Period ((1603-1868) – Mid-19...
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1850s Japanese Antique Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Porcelain
Koyoto Sanjusangendo Temple Stamp Goshuln Framed Antique
Located in San Diego, CA
Koyoto Sanjusangendo Temple Stamp Goshuln Framed Antique print original frame .
Category
20th Century Japanese Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Glass, Paper
Framed Japanese Embroidery Textile Panel Pagoda Scenery
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese silk embroidery landscape scenery panel depicting a Buddhist pagoda and a temple compound set in a forest with towering pines and...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Metal
Samurai Takami Senseki Portrait After Watanabe Kazan Dutch Oil Painting Framed
Located in Dayton, OH
A reproduction portrait of Takami Senseki (1785–1858), a top-ranking samurai official of Koga domain, Shimosa province, who was posted in the capital of Edo (now Tokyo). It was paint...
Category
Late 20th Century Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Paint
$700 Sale Price
30% Off
Japanese Woven Linen Kimono with Katazome Stencil Dyes
Located in Atlanta, GA
On offer is a Japanese summer kimono woven from indigo blue linen with ivory color fine stripes patterns with apparently darker weft additions. The elega...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen
Pair of Geishas in Oval Convex Giltwood Frames
Located in Hanover, MA
Pair of Geisha Bijin lithographs, one with a parasol, the other holding a fan, in convex glass oval giltwood frames with gold paper mounting.
Category
1950s American Vintage Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Glass, Giltwood
$1,600 / set
Pair of Japanese Hand Painted MCI Porcelain Wall Plates
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a pair of Japanese hand painted MCI Porcelain wall plates. They are octagonal shaped and painted in blue, red and pink colors in a white b...
Category
20th Century Japanese Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Porcelain
$148 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Antique Japanese Hanging Scroll Attributed to Iwasa Matabei
Located in Atlanta, GA
An antique ink and color on paper hanging scroll (kakejiku) with brocade border. It appears to be a fragment of a larger hand scroll depicting a procession of a lord with his entoura...
Category
Early 17th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Silk, Paper
Japanese Showa Period Karasu Tengu Mask, ca. 1920
Located in New York, NY
Japanese Showa Period Karasu Tengu Mask, ca. 1920
DIMENSIONS:
Height: 12 inches
Width: 8 inches
Depth: 7 inches
ABOUT
A Japanese...
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1920s Japanese Vintage Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood
Memoirs of a Geisha A Portrait of the Film By Peggy Mulloy 2005 Hardcover Book
By David James
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Memoirs of a Geisha A Portrait of the film by Peggy Mulloy · 2005 hardcover book.
By David James (Photographs by), Peggy Mulloy (Text by), Rob Marshall (Introduction by), Arthur Gol...
Category
Late 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Japanese Ink and Wash Scroll Painting by Watanabe Seitei
Located in Atlanta, GA
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...
Category
Early 1900s Japanese Antique Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Brocade, Silk, Paper
Schumacher Kobai Wallpaper Mural in Mineral
By Schumacher
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by a traditional Japanese ink painting and reminiscent of a landscape or seascape, this panel wallcovering moves from saturated to nuanced colorations. At a whopping 18-foot...
Category
2010s American Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
$597 / item
Two Antique Japanese Hanging Scroll Paintings
Located in Atlanta, GA
Two Japanese scroll painting depicts scenes from the Tale of Genji (Genji-E), from Edo period. These painting were purchased from Odewara Shoten in the...
Category
Early 19th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Brocade, Paper
$4,800 / set
Antique Japanese Ink Hanging Scroll Hidaka Tetsuo with Wood Storage Box
Located in Atlanta, GA
A hanging ink (Sumi-e) silk scroll by Japanese Zen artist Hidaka Tetsuo (1791-1871). Well presented in brocade boarders and mounted on paperback, this scroll depicts "Three Noble Friends in Winter" in a poetic and novel way. One of the favorite subjects by Chinese painters, the three noble friends in winter consists of pine, bamboo and plum flowers. They were admired for their characters of strength in cold resistance to remain evergreen and even blossom in unfavorable condition. The artist, however, composited the subjects in a none-conventional way as Ikebana. Bamboo and flowering plum branches were presented in an oversized pot...
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19th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Brocade, Wood, Paper
"the Japanese and the Oriental" Plaques, Attri. to L. Hottot, France, circa 1900
By Louis Hottot
Located in PARIS, FR
Important pair of metal with double patina plaques representing an Oriental woman and a Japanese woman, both dressed in traditional outfits, during the tea ceremony. Each is presente...
Category
Early 1900s French Antique Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Metal
$39,873 Sale Price / set
30% Off
Pair of Metal and Enamel Plaques with Bamboo Frame, France, Late 19th Century
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Pair of metal and enamel plaques with bamboo frame. France, late 19th century.
Japonisme style.
Each plaque dimensions: 5 cm depth x 68 cm width x 93 cm height.
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Metal, Enamel
Fine Japanese Meiji Period Water Color on Silk of Monkeys
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A wonderful fine quality Japanese Meiji period (1868-1912) water color on silk of seven monkeys climbing and playing on a rock face with trailing foliage...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Silk
Japanese Indigo Antique Boro Futon Cover or Wall Panel
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Rare perfect antique collection Japanese Indigo Boro Futon cover : also to use.
The rare antique boros are now valued as pieces of art, therefore they are...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Cotton
$2,468 Sale Price
35% Off
Late 19th Century Oil on Canvas of Japanese Figures by Francis Neydhart
By Francis Neydhart
Located in Dallas, TX
A realistic oil on canvas of a person with umbrella bowing to a monk standing on steps by artist Francis Neydhart, (1860-1948). Fronted by a sun-dappled street in front of a large bu...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Framed Japanese Ink Painting Hidaka Tetsuo
Located in Atlanta, GA
An ink painting on the fan surface by Japanese Zen artist Hidaka Tetsuo (1791-1871), now framed in a traditional Japanese carved wood frame with silk fabric mat and decorative hangin...
Category
1850s Japanese Antique Japonisme Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood, Paper
Japonisme wall decorations for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Japonisme wall decorations 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 wall decorations created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include wall decorations, asian art and furniture, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with fabric, silk and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Japonisme wall decorations 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 wall decorations, popular names associated with this style include Paul Montgomery, Schumacher, Hidaka Tetsuo, and David James. 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 wall decorations differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $40 and tops out at $38,834 while the average work can sell for $2,500.
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