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DASING Japan Art Warehouse currently has 186 pieces online, including tea ceremony utensils, Ko-Imari porcelain, maki-e lacquer and metalwork from the Edo to Shōwa periods. Each comes with its history and a record of its craftsmanship, awaiting the discerning collector.

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apanese Vintage Black Lacquer Cylindrical Vase – Golden Cranes Motif

Wood-Bodied Black Lacquer Cylindrical Vase with Gold Double-Crane Motif | Pine and Crane Longevity | Japanese-Style Ikebana Utensil

Japanese lacquer craft has a long history, and its use can be seen in everything from everyday vessels and tea utensils to Buddhist objects and decorative arts. Black lacquer is one of the most representative expressions in traditional Japanese lacquerware; its deep tone sets off gold decoration, allowing patterns to reveal rich visual layers under different light. This vase has a wood-bodied cylindrical form, the exterior covered in black lacquer with a bright, smooth surface and a mirror-like reflective quality. The body has no elaborate carving or structural variation, instead using slender vertical lines to present a simple and dignified form. The front is decorated with a gold double-crane motif, the cranes with wings spread and long, slender necks in elegant poses, accompanied by partial branch-and-leaf lines, filling the piece with the flowing quality characteristic of East Asian art.

Price NT$ 1,200≈ US$ 37
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VARSOVIA Polish Hand-Cut 24% Lead Crystal – Cobalt Blue Vase

Made in Poland, VARSOVIA | 24% Lead Crystal, Cobalt Blue Hand-Cut Spherical Vase with Geometric Starburst Pattern

European crystal craftsmanship from Poland. Poland has a deep tradition of glass and crystal making, known in particular for decorative glass, colored crystal, and cut crystal wares. This VARSOVIA vase retains its original brand label, marked as a 24% lead crystal product made in Poland and noted as hand-cut. One difference between lead crystal and ordinary glass lies in its higher refractive index and distinctive optical effect. Once cut, the crystal surface shows vivid contrasts of light and shadow, giving the piece rich visual depth under different angles of light. This work combines a deep cobalt blue tone with geometric cut decoration, presenting the ornate yet composed style of traditional European decorative crystal.

Price NT$ 2,000≈ US$ 61
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Showa Vintage Blue & White Swirl Glass Vase

Japanese Showa Antique｜Hand-Blown Glass Twin-Handled Vase with Aqua Blue and Milky White Spiral Pattern

Built on a clear glass body, the vase incorporates aqua blue and milky white glass stripes. The bands do not run straight down but twist and extend with the form, creating a beautiful spiral effect. Viewed from the mouth downward, the aqua and milky white lines wrap around the entire body like flowing water; at the fullest part of the belly the spiral lines open out naturally along the curve of the glass, then gradually draw in again at the waist. Even without any flowers, it has real presence simply as a piece of glass art. The form follows quite classical vase proportions — a flaring mouth, a tapered neck, a full belly, then narrowing down to a round foot — with soft, elegant lines throughout.

Price NT$ 1,500≈ US$ 46
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Spanish-Style Cobalt Blue & White Pottery Vase

European Antique | Blue-and-White Cobalt Bird, Flower and Pomegranate Twin-Handled Ceramic Jar · Spanish Folk Art Vase

A blue-and-white ceramic piece that reads as distinctly "Southern European" at first glance. It uses a milky-white ceramic body as the ground, with rich cobalt-blue hand-painted patterns covering the entire vessel. A bird takes the visual lead at the center, surrounded by abundant vines, leaves, flowers and fruit motifs; the most striking of these is the pomegranate pattern with its granular texture. At first glance the blue-and-white palette may bring Eastern blue-and-white porcelain to mind, but on closer inspection the form, the brushwork, the composition of the patterns and the twin-handle design all convey an entirely different European folk-art spirit. The body takes a full, drum-bellied shape, drawing in at the top before flaring out into a wide mouth, with large curved handles set on either side. These proportions give it a fairly strong decorative presence even when displayed on its own without flowers. And its most charming quality, in my view, is not that it is "painted with great precision." Quite the opposite: the mouth, the handles and the lines of the patterns all carry an evident handmade feel, and the two sides are not mechanically symmetrical; the density of the cobalt-blue painting also shifts with the brushstrokes. This slightly rough, free-spirited flavor is exactly what makes European folk-art pottery so appealing.

Price NT$ 5,000≈ US$ 150
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Japanese Satsuma Style Gilt Crane & Bamboo Covered Vessel

Satsuma-Style Covered Vessel with Twin Handles, Gilt Bamboo Grove and Cranes Design — Antique Ceramic Display Piece

The main scene here is composed of a bamboo grove, a flock of cranes, flowing water and flowering plants; an ivory-toned glazed ground is paired with gilt twin handles and minutely detailed painting, and although the piece is not large it has a very refined, elegant air of Japanese antique art. The body forms a low, full, rounded silhouette, with gilt handles at either side and a matching cover above. The finial is not the usual round knob but a small curved lifting knob, which makes the overall proportion look all the more delicate. The body is glazed in a warm ivory white to cream ground, with the main scene depicting a bamboo grove and cranes. Slender bamboo leaves fall from above, while numerous cranes are distributed among the bamboo, plants and water's edge, forming a small landscape-and-bird world with a real sense of depth.

Price NT$ 5,000≈ US$ 150
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Japanese Satsuma Ware Gilt Floral & Bird Vase

Satsuma Ware — Large Twin-Handled Vase with Gilt Birds, Flowers and Peony Design, Crackled Glaze, Antique Display Piece

This piece has real presence — a large flower vessel whose "classical Satsuma-style opulence" registers at first glance. The body is covered in a warm ivory-white glaze with a natural, finely crazed crackle, over which peonies, chrysanthemums, birds and foliage are painted in gilt, vermilion and ink green. From a distance it reads as rich and full; up close one can appreciate the detail of the gilt lines and the crackled glaze surface. More importantly, the base clearly shows the **"Satsuma" mark**, and an old label has been preserved. Rather than simply painting a few flowers, the body layers flowers, birds, foliage, gilding and crackled glaze one upon another, forming an exceptionally elaborate Japanese classical decorative aesthetic.

Price NT$ 8,000≈ US$ 245
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Japanese Cloisonné Chrysanthemum & Butterfly Vase

Fine Art Cloisonné — Deep Red Glaze Chrysanthemum and Butterfly Cloisonné Vase, with Wood Stand and Original Wooden Box

This is a decidedly elegant Japanese fine art cloisonné vase. The form takes the slender proportion often seen in traditional Japanese flower vessels: the mouth flares slightly outward, the shoulder is soft and full, and the body tapers gradually toward the base. At roughly 15.5 cm it is a very easy size to display, never so large as to limit where it can be placed. What is truly impressive is the deep red cloisonné ground. In the photographs the ground color sits somewhere between wine red, carmine and deep ruby. When light falls across the body the red takes on a flowing sense of depth and shade, rather than the flat blocks of color common to modern mass-produced pieces. Seen up close, a fine and regular texture in the body beneath can be glimpsed through the relatively translucent red enamel. The piece therefore has an interesting quality: from a distance a sumptuous red, up close a finely wrought sense of craftsmanship.

Price NT$ 3,800≈ US$ 115
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Ota Shippo Japanese Cloisonné Rose Vase

Ota Cloisonné Works — Fine Art Cloisonné Vase with Rose Design on Emerald Green

A fine art cloisonné vase from Japan's Ota Cloisonné Works; the most striking first impression is its exceptionally deep emerald green. The body follows the classic long-necked vase proportion: the mouth flares slightly, the shoulder is rounded, and the form tapers gradually toward the base. At 19 cm the vase is not large, yet the form is thoroughly resolved and well balanced. What is truly remarkable is the surface decoration. The deep emerald ground is not a flat, monotonous expanse of green; very fine textures and shifts of luster can be seen across it. Under different angles and lighting it moves from ink green to emerald with varying depth, giving the body a gem-like visual depth. The front is decorated with a group of blooming roses, red and white blossoms unfurling upward from leafy stems — the red flowers rich and vivid, the white ones soft — while leaves are rendered in greens of varying depth so the flowers emerge from the dark ground. The overall effect is not flamboyantly gilded and showy, but a composed, sumptuous beauty with a distinctly Japanese craft sensibility.

Price NT$ 5,800≈ US$ 175
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Black Glaze Floral & Bird Vase

Sanpo Kiln Large Vase, Black Glaze with Gold and Colored Bird-and-Flower and Autumn Grasses Design

This large vintage Japanese vase uses a deep black glaze as its base, with gold and multicolored bird-and-flower motifs forming the main scene. Unlike the fresh, bright elegance of typical white-porcelain vases, the black glaze gives the whole piece a more mature, composed character, while also making the gold and floral colors stand out with particular vividness. The body depicts a variety of autumn grasses and flowers—chrysanthemums, slender grass leaves, and assorted wildflowers rise in layers from the lower part of the vessel upward, with yellow, orange-red, white, green, and blue-violet scattered among them; above, birds in flight can be seen weaving between the flowers and grasses, forming a very characteristic Japanese bird-and-flower and autumn-grasses design. The most beautiful aspect is that the composition does not completely fill the entire vase. The craftsman deliberately left large areas of black glaze, concentrating the intricate flowers and grasses on the lower half of the body, then using the flying birds to draw the eye upward. This "reserved black" means that even with the extensive use of gold and colored painting, the piece never appears gaudy—instead it gains a deep, serene quality like a garden at night.

Price NT$ 2,000≈ US$ 61
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This Season's Picks · The Beauty of Shōwa Silver and Metalwork

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Shōwa Metalwork · Selected Silver

1952 Kobe Vintage STERLING SILVER Engraved Jewelry Cabinet

A small jewelry cabinet made in Kobe in 1952, crafted in STERLING SILVER. The double-door body is finely engraved with flowers and foliage, and the doors, hinges and clasps show layers of classical metalwork. Over the years the silver has naturally oxidized into varied tones and signs of use, making the delicate engraving stand out more vividly in light and shadow.

NT$ 88,000 Condition: visually very beautiful
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DASING Japan Art Warehouse antique collection: metal seated figure in the style of Water-Moon Guanyin
BUDDHIST ART

Chinese Antique | Metal Seated Figure in the Water-Moon Guanyin Style

NT$ 30,000

Wearing an ornate jeweled crown, draped in celestial robes and necklaces, the figure sits in the "royal ease" posture, one leg raised and the other hanging naturally, capturing the graceful, relaxed pose of Water-Moon Guanyin. The face is lowered with a calm expression, and the bronze-toned finish is naturally deep and steady — well suited to a tea room, study or quiet space.

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