The variety of kohiki-'powder slip' glazes that veteran potter Takahashi Samon(b.1948) has created is unprecedented in today's Japanese ceramic art world. At his studio he has dozens of slip styles and mixes and combines them on his works to create truly 'dazzling'--in a subtle way, tones. Often heavily crackled as seen on this very engaging jar, as if nature herself had cut a winding river on every part of the piece. The imagination wanders over the piece in wonder. A museum piece in perfect co... Click for details
DESCRIPTION: A fine pair of Imari flared mouth vases, Meiji period, richly executed in traditional cobalt blue, red, orange, and gilt highlights. These are a highly decorative pair in perfect condition with peach kiln marks appearing on the bases (these marks characteristically mean well executed pieces). No damage, repairs, or restoration of any kind with very minimal rubbing to the gilt. From a private Florida collection. DIMENSIONS: 12” high (30.5 cm) x 6 ½” wide at the shoulders (16.5 c... Click for details
A small early Japanese Arita dish with a fairly complex design in underglaze light blue cobalt. On the right side of the dish we find a three story house or temple nestled against a tall cliff. In the center of the dish is a willow tree on the bank of a small lake. A bridge spans an inlet in the lake and two people can be seen walking across the bridge. Out on the lake can be seen two small fishing boats. At the upper right we see a distant pagoda half hidden by some foothills. Overhead are two... Click for details
The size of Bowl: 8 7/16" Dia x 3" High. Very fine Japanese Nishide Ko Imari Bowl. It has a wonderful shape bowl made with fine quality porcelain. The wokmenship of painting are superb. It has sometsuke design of flower in the center. There are two different panel work, one with window of flower and fence done with diamond geometric design of gold and red in detail works. Another panel with gold and Kikusui window work with Dragon, wave with green and white work. The background with turtoise shw... Click for details
This is an interesting shape for a Mokuzuke dish - (Mokuzuke were used to serve food during a formal tea gathering) - in a shape reminiscent of a pear or a leaf. This Kutani dish is decorated in an underglaze blue with a three-petal flower and a large leaf with gradually smaller sizes. On the right side of the dish is a geometric design in low relief with a white on white motif. The rim of the dish is lightly scalloped and is painted with an overglaze golden brown enamel line. The underside has... Click for details
A super bowl, the lobed body painted with a flowering prunus tree surrounded by repeating panels of flowers, birds, pine trees and leaping carp. The outside painted with karakusa. Within the foot-rim is a four-character Chenghua mark. The painting is exceptional. Dates from the 2nd half of the 18th century ~ 1st quarter of the 19th.
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This is a handsome modern Japanese globular shaped bud vase with a tiny top. It is glazed in a soft celadon glaze in the finest tradition of Japanese simplicity. The vase measures 4 ½” high by 5” diameter at the waist and the flared top is ¾” in diameter.
It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, or restorations. We date it to the second half of the last century, circa 1950-1975. There is a two character mark in cobalt blue on the base. I have had the mark read by two different people... Click for details
Wonderful Japanese ceramic jar from the Shigaraki kiln in Japan, dramatic green glaze drips and splatters, beautiful shape, 19th century.
Size: 14" high x 10 1/2" wide.
This is a superb rectangular platter by the Imari potters with a very unusual design of a large Golden Carp in a curled position. A border of geometric designs in green, reds and pale yellow or tan surrounds the fish. The carp itself has slightly raised fins in a low relief.
On the back of the platter is a blue underglaze design on the fou... Click for details
A striking porcelain double gourd vase by the eminent Kutani potter Matsumoto Saichi V
The tall shape has four raised ribs on the matt buff/white glazed body, the bottom gourd boldly painted with sets of green stripes on a tan ground. The buff/white glaze is curious, on close inspection it looks like crushed oyster shell. The vase comes with its original signed and inscrib... Click for details
