Apollo Award Winner

Apollo Award Winner

Winner of the Apollo Award for an Outstanding East Asian Work of Art from a Dealer. Blue lacquer kiseruzutsu with carved wave design. Rosetsu, late 19th century, length 21.6cm. During the Meiji period a movement of artists and craftsmen became alarmed by the rapid westernisation of Japan and feared that traditional culture would be lost. ... Read More
 
International Netsuke Convention Paris

International Netsuke Convention Paris

INTERNATIONAL NETSUKE SOCIETY CONVENTION will be held in Paris 24-28 October 2019. Make sure you book your tickets – contact details on the INS website, click here Lectures & Workshops – speakers and subjects to include: Miriam Cockx and Adrian Heindrichs – Researching provenance; Clive Hallam – Patina; Makiko Komada – Ryushi’s carving and an ... Read More
 
November 2018 Exhibition & Catalogue

November 2018 Exhibition & Catalogue

An exceptionally busy year has left me without time to take part in Asian Art in London this year, but I am happy to have the weekend of 3rd-4th November to exhibit a selection of my stock at Alan Wheatley Art, conveniently located in St. James’s, just off Duke Street and a few steps from ... Read More
 
Exhibition Now Open

Exhibition Now Open

Visit us at Gallery 8 8 Duke Street, St James’s London. SW1Y 6BN Catalogue available http://www.asianartinlondon.com/content/rosemary-bandini-ltd-aal
 
November Exhibition

November Exhibition

Rosemary Bandini Ltd will be participating once again in Asian Art in London, which will be celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. This annual celebration of the arts of Asia attracts a global audience to a plethora of exhibitions, auctions and lectures. Our exhibiton will be held from 1st – 10th November at Gallery 8, ... Read More
 

International Netsuke Society Convention 6th June 2017

The biennial International Netsuke Society Convention this year will be held in Germany, Cologne 6-10th June 2017, for the first time and promises to have netsuke galore for collectors to study, handle – and possibly even buy. I will be exhibiting in the dealers’ rooms which will be located at: Park Inn by Radisson Cologne City ... Read More
 
Netsuke Exhibition in Washington

Netsuke Exhibition in Washington

Following the success of the INS loan exhibition In a Nutshell, held at the Embassy of Japan in 2013, it is inspiring news that the JICC at the Embassy of Japan in Washington will be holding an exhibition of netsuke from the Evergreen House Museum, John Hopkins University and from the collection of Jay & ... Read More
 
New Year 2017

New Year 2017

To greet the New Year I have selected a netsuke of Zendama, the good spirit first introduced by the popular writer Santo Kyoden in his illustrated book Shingaku Hayasomegusa (Fast-dyeing mind technique) in 1790. The author and illustrator, a man of the despised merchant class, can arguably be credited as the artist who introduced the ... Read More
 

Asian Art in London 2016

Come and see the new exhibition by Rosemary Bandini – Japanese netsuke kiseruzutsu lacquer and works of art – exhibiting during at Asian Art in London. On view at Gallery 8, 8 Duke Street, St James’s, London SW1Y 6BN 3-11 November 2016 Click here to view our catalogue.
 
The London Netsuke Convention 2016

The London Netsuke Convention 2016

Opening our convention will be a discussion between a few experts and advanced collectors as to their top ten netsuke carvers. What they are drawn to and why. It has been many years since this discussion was held previously and we will see if opinions and tastes have changed. We hope it inspires a lot of ... Read More
 

International Netsuke Convention 2015 Edition, September 4-8

Rosemary Bandini Ltd. is pleased to be exhibiting netsuke at the biennial International Netsuke Convention, which this year will be held in Baltimore from September 4-8. A fully illustrated catalogue will be available and there will be an interesting and varied stock of netsuke in wood and stag-antler, together with a fine group of inro. ... Read More
 
The economist’s netsuke

The economist’s netsuke

The economist’s netsuke, by Rosemary Bandini  It is unusual for a netsuke to turn up depicting a story which seems almost unknown, so when I came across this finely carved scene signed Masanao (of Ise Yamada), I was intrigued. In fact it was quite easy to discover the subject, as the netsuke is recorded in the ... Read More
 
Call Now Button