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24/06/2026

A Available👉 VIEWING STONE, WITH WOOD STAND, Japan,Taisho period 20th century.
Suiseki, literally meaning “water and stone,” are naturally formed stones admired for their evocative beauty and their intimate connection with the natural world. Closely related to the Chinese scholar’s rocks that entered Japan as imperial gifts, these objects played an important role in shaping the Japanese appreciation of viewing stones.
Over the centuries, suiseki have been treasured not only by scholars, nobles, and tea masters, but also by a wider Japanese audience who valued them as objects of contemplation and quiet reflection.
Their appeal lies in their ability to suggest landscapes and natural phenomena through form, colour, texture, and patina. A single stone may evoke a distant mountain range, a waterfall, a riverbank, a lakeside retreat, rugged cliffs, or rolling hills. Others may recall animals, human figures, or abstract natural forms. This capacity to inspire imagination and meditation is at the heart of suiseki appreciation and remains especially valued by connoisseurs today.

24/06/2026

24/06/2026

Available👉Rare Qing Dynasty shagreen glasses case, 19th century, finely mounted with silver auspicious emblems including the character 壽 (shou), symbolising longevity, blessing, and enduring prosperity. The decoration further incorporates a crane beneath the moon — a classical motif associated with immortality and the cultivated world of the Chinese literati.

Objects of this nature belonged to the refined material culture of the Qing scholar elite, where personal accessories combined functionality with symbolic meaning and sophisticated craftsmanship. The delicately textured ray-skin surface, elegant elongated proportions, and restrained silver ornamentation reflect the understated luxury appreciated within late Qing intellectual circles.

Comparable examples are preserved in major museum collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, attesting to the rarity and historical significance of such scholar objects today.

16/06/2026

Extraordinary Hori Hichiro b. 1952
Shino type vertically faceted, flattened vessel, 2024
Glazed stoneware with signed Tomobako, storage box
H43 cm x 30 cm. Available for sale

16/06/2026

Extraordinary HORI ICHIRŌ b. 1952
Shino type vertically faceted, flattened vessel
2024
Glazed stoneware with signed Tomobako, storage box
H41cm x 36 cm. Available at the Delville Collection. Placed in such a scholarly setting, the vessel becomes more than an object of contemplation: it is a presence. The restraint of the architecture amplifies its silent power, while the irregular form recalls the ideals of wabi—beauty found in imperfection, transience, and depth. Highly sought after by collectors, Hori Hichiro’s works occupy the rare space where contemporary ceramic art meets timeless literati sensibility.

16/06/2026

HORI ICHIRŌ b. 1952
Shino type vertically faceted, flattened vessel
2024
Glazed stoneware with signed Tomobako, storage box
H41cm x 36 cm. Available for sale.

13/06/2026

A Japanese jingasa carries within its surface the memory of use, ceremony, weather, and time.
This example, mounted as a sculptural object, reveals the quiet beauty of impermanence: layers of deep cinnabar lacquer emerge beneath fragments of worn gilding, the surface gradually softened through centuries of handling and exposure.
Rather than diminishing the object, this erosion of gold heightens its poetic presence. The remaining gilded traces drift across the lacquer like fading constellations, transforming a once-functional samurai hat into an abstract composition of texture, light, and age.
The contrast between the luminous red lacquer and the fragile remnants of gold evokes the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi — an appreciation of transience, patina, and the dignity of time.

13/06/2026

Pyu Gold Beads, 9th Century. Available at the Delville Collection.
Fashioned more than a thousand years ago in the Pyu city-states of present-day Myanmar, these gold beads reflect a world where artistry, trade, and spirituality were closely intertwined. Their intricate forms reveal the remarkable skill of Pyu goldsmiths, whose creations traveled along the networks linking India, Southeast Asia, and China. Though small in scale, each bead carries the legacy of an early civilization whose refined craftsmanship continues to speak across the centuries.

13/06/2026

Impressive Large Brass Lotus — Meiji to Shōwa Period

An exceptional and unusually large brass lotus from a Japanese Buddhist temple altar, dating from the late 19th to early 20th century. Rendered in both open bloom and closed bud, the ensemble symbolizes spiritual awakening and transcendence.

Beautifully hand-shaped with finely incised petals and a deep aged patina from decades of ceremonial use, these monumental lotus forms possess a rare sculptural presence.

Open Lotus: Ø 21 cm × H 128 cm
Closed Lotus: Ø 10.5 cm × H 110 cm

Available for acquisition — Belgium.
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