Vintage Japanese Ranma PAIR Eagles & Pines Carved Transom Screen Sugi Wood 73" Tsutsugaki Fine antique Japanese cloisonné enamel

Fine antique Japanese cloisonné enamel bowl executed in a classic Meiji-period style with delicate floral ornamentation on a brilliant cobalt blue ground

The case presents four drawers in an asymmetric arrangement — two half-width drawers across the top register

the universal vessel suffix

hongmu or perhaps another very dense hardwood

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Vintage Japanese Ranma PAIR Eagles & Pines Carved Transom Screen Sugi Wood 73" Tsutsugaki Fine antique Japanese cloisonné enamelThe Japanese Ranma is a decorative and functional carving used above a door way to allow airflow and light to pass though. They are exquisitely hand carved from sugi Japanese cedar. A typical ranma may be from 1 2" thick to 1 1 2" thick. These two are unusual in that the single pieces of wood carving extends beyond the boundaries of the edges in all directions in amazing detail. It is approximately 73" x 16" x 2" and weighs in at about 10lbs