Magnificient May Auction

(Lot of 4) Japanese modern woodblock prints: Kyu Homaru, Showa 4 (1929), impressed signature Hiroshi Yoshida, 10.5''h x 15.5''w; Sar...

Framed Japanese woodblock print, Ono no Komachi, with the famous poetess standing in a landscape below one of her famous poems, bearing the signature

Framed Japanese woodblock print, from the series Tokaido gojusan-tsugi no uchi, entitled Okazaki yahagi no hashi (The Yahagi Bridge at Okazaki) [#39],

Framed Japanese woodblock print, from the series Tokaido gojusan-tsugi no uchi, entitled Oiso tora ga ame (Tora's rain at Oiso) [#9], signed Hir...

Framed Japanese woodblock print, from the series Tokaido gojusan-tsugi no uchi, entitled Mitsuke tenryugawa no zu ([Morning mist on] the Tenryu River

(lot of 2) Framed Japanese woodblock prints, each from the series Gojusan-tsugi meisho zue (so-called Vertical Tokaido), including Nihonbashi (#1) and

Japanese modern woodblock print, Azalea Garden [in English] and Tsutsuji no niwa (Azalea Garden) [in Japanese], (Abe #200), left margin with date Show

(lot of 7) Set of Japanese woodblock prints in a cloth portfolio, featuring seven works from an original group of twelve from the series entitled Juni

Unframed Japanese modern woodblock print, by Hideo Hagiwara (1913-2007), entitled Chisana ike [in Japanese] and Little Pond [in English], signed in Ja

Asian ivory figural carving, early 20th century, realistically carved as a South Sea islander walking in a short skirt-like garment and carrying a gib

Chinese ivory carving of a landscape issuing from a clam, late Qing dynasty, well carved and undercut with an imaginary vista with minute figures trav

Chinese ivory carving of a fisherman, the tall slender elderly figure holding up his catch of three fish in his right hand, the left hand holding a ro

Chinese carved ivory scepter, the shaft with two registers carved with a writhing dragon on a cloud scroll ground scattered with an array of birds, se

Chinese fossilized figural ivory group of the Eight Daoist Immortals (baxian), the contoured segment carved and undercut with an imaginary scene issui

Chinese ivory and hardwood insect cage, late Qing/Republic period, of hexagonal design, with each section and the single door composed of four thin iv

Pair of Chinese ivory figures representing the Qianlong emperor and his consort Xiangfei, Republic period, the majestic emperor strokes his beard with

Japanese ivory 'monkey' ball, first half of the 20th century, the entire circular surface well carved and undercut as a large gibbon clutchi...

Chinese ivory figural group, carved with a scholar holding a scroll in hand and clutching a gnarled staff suspending another scroll, accompanied by a

Chinese carved ivory container, the cylindrical body with four meandering dragons writhing amid dense cloud scrolls bounded within lotus petal bands,

Chinese ivory figural carving, Cultural Revolution era, depicting a young girl playing with a drum-like instrument, the facial details and distinctive

Japanese ivory figural carving (okimono), Meiji period, portraying the mythlogical hero Yamato Takeru receiving the famous sword Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Ts

(lot of 2) Japanese contemporary ivory netsuke, mid-20th century, well carved and undercut as two frolicking rabbits, each with inlaid red eyes, unsig

Pair of Chinese ivory birds, each sculpted as a crested long tail bird perched on a gnarled branch accented by flowering prunus (hairline cracks), ivo

Japanese ivory figural netsuke, Taisho/Early Showa period, carved and incised as a hunter attempting to cut the tail of a boar while riding on the bac

Japanese ivory figural carving (okimono), Meiji/Taisho period, depicting a samurai warrior battling a ribbon-tied floral ball, the details heightened

Japanese ivory figural carving (okimono), Meiji/Taisho period, well carved as a Japanese youth seated on the back of a recumbent deer and attempting t

(Lot of 2) Japanese ivory figural netsuke, the first realistically carved as a group of five frolicking rats, each with inlaid eyes and incised detail

Japanese stag antler cane handle, Meiji period, delightfully carved as rocky outcropping surmounted by a humorous karashishi (Chinese lion) with a bus

Chinese tinted ivory carving of a sage, late Qing/early Republic period, fashioned with sincere cheerful face accented by a full beard and a coiffure

(Lot of 3) Chinese miscellaneous ivory items, late Qing/Republic period, consisting of two shoe horns, one carved with a beauty holding a pomegranate

Set of three Chinese spinach jade seals, 20th century, each of the seals with a square plinth incised with text in Chinese seal script and Manchu scri

Japanese contemporary ivory netsuke, mid-20th century, well carved and pierced as two carp swimming along eddies of a stream, the openings serving as

Chinese carved circular ivory box, late Qing/Republic period, the plain cylindrical container fitted with a domical lid carved with a medallion with a

Japanese Mashiko studio ware stoneware plate, mid-20th century, the sloping interior with a cris-cross pattern of whitish-green and dark brown glaze,

Japanese small ivory figural carving (okimono), 1st half of the 20th century, portraying the Ebisu, one of the Seven Gods of Good Fortune holding a gi

Japanese ivory seal-form netsuke, 19th century, of wedge shape surmounted by a karashishi playing with a large ball, the high relief figure with incis

Japanese katana, shinshin-to, blade nagasa 29'' (73cm), shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune, gunomei-midare, ko-maru boshi, the tang with gimei inscri...

(Lot of 5) Selection of Japanese ceramics: a Kita-ware double-lozenge shaped mukozuke executed in the Oribe style with iron oxide and splashes of gree

(Lot of 2) Japanese ivory figural netsuke, Showa period, the first of a humorous blind man attempting to remove a rock from his wooden geta, the incis

Chinese boxwood figure of a celestial maiden, Republic period, probably depicting Guanyin, well carved and undercut standing in long flowing robes wit

Korean celadon glazed stoneware dish with inlaid accents, Goryeo/Koryo era (918-1392), buncheong type, the interior well centered by an abstract bloss

(Lot of 2) Japanese patinated bronze hibachi, each of compressed ovoid shape with a waisted neck and raised on a pedestal foot, the first cast with pa

Chinese pale green jade plaque, of rectangular shape with canted corners and carved to the front with three dragons amid cloud scrolls, the semi-trans

Chinese archaistic patinated metal censer, of fangding-form with each of the rectangular sides cast with taotie masks separated by a flange to the cen

(Lot of 2) Chinese Rose Medallion export porcelain serving dishes, Qing dynasty, consisting of a circular charger and a large punch bowl, each well pa

Pair of Chinese unglazed ceramic figures of bodhisattvas, Northern Qi Period (549-577CE), each columnar figure molded in princely raiment with the rig

Asian gilt bronze figure of a bodhisattva, International Tang-style, depicting Maitreya (Buddha of the Future) seated in a pose of 'royal ease&#...

Sino-Tibetan gilt copper-alloy figure of Vaisravana/Jambala/Duo Wen Tian, the 'God of Wealth' seated in a pose of 'royal ease' on a ...

Chinese patinated metal figure of a warrior deity, the fearsome figure clad in elaborate armor and seated on a roaring tiger, his left hand holding ar

Chinese jade Guanyin figure, carved with soft features framed by a tall chignon, a sacred jewel jewel held in one hand and fronted by a lingzhi spray,