A Small Koransha Dish – Cherry Tree – Showa

Japanese: Ceramics: Porcelain Pre 1980: item #974889
ICHI 1259

A nice little Japanese Koransha dish with a design in dark blue of a cheery tree with red cherries. It measures 2 ½” long by 2” wide and is 1” deep. We date it to the late Showa period, 1960s-1980s. It is signed by the Koransha (Scented Orchid) workshop on the base. The piece is in excellent condition.

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Two Bluish-White Porcelain Guinomi by Fukami Sueharu

Japanese: Ceramics: Porcelain Contemporary: item #974602

Here are two guinomi-sake cups by the one and only Fukami Sueharu. As with all his work these are in limited editions made only once or so a year, if that. They are each in perfect condition with signed boxes the left one in the main photo is 4.5cm.tallx5.2 and the right one in the main photo is 4.8cm.tallx5.5, signed on base.

An Arita Blue and White Plate – Cranes and Lotus

Japanese: Ceramics: Porcelain Pre 1910: item #974423
ICHI 1369

This is a Japanese blue and white plate with a design of two cranes standing in a pool of water. Large lotus leaves and flowers emerge from the water in which they stand. Around the border of the plate is a band of squiggly blue figures that look amazingly like a long band of tadpoles.

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Signed Hirado Sometsuke Dish with Relief Lotus Flower

Japanese: Ceramics: Porcelain Pre 1920: item #973569
2-861

This lovely Japanese Hirado sometsuke (blue and white porcelain) dish is elegantly decorated in various shades of underglaze blue with a large white lotus blossom molded in low relief. Meiji period (1868-1912). The reverse bears a three-character underglaze blue mark which reads “Hirado Yaki” or Hirado ware. (This mark can be found on page 149 of “Hirado: Prince of Porcelains” by Louis Lawrence.) The characteristic fine-grained milky white porcelain body is covered in a pure lustrous glaze, reve... Click for details

A Japanese Arita Bowl – Unusual Shape - Meiji

Japanese: Ceramics: Porcelain Pre 1910: item #973415
ICHI 1114

This is a nice little Arita blue and white bowl with a design of two fishermen sitting in a boat and drinking tea at a low table in the bottom of the boat. There appears to be a sail above the fishermen on the left and two distant boats can be seen on the interior of the bowl. What makes the piece so unusual is that at a point midway in the design, the clay was folded over and buttoned together with a clay dot.

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Japanese 17th.c. Imari Lidded Jar Ormulu Mounted

Japanese: Ceramics: Porcelain Pre 1700: item #972001
b5291

A Late 17th. Century Japanese Imari Porcelain Lidded Jar with 19th. century French Ormolu Mounts. Ht. with mount 12 1/2 ins. (31.8 cms) Ht. of jar without mount 8 ins. (20. 3 cms) Unusually this jar has not been modified to fit the mount and is in undamaged condition with no repairs. The design is of shishi Buddhistic dogs and panels of flowers and leaves. The French bronze ormolu mounts can be detached by removing two small screws. The pot was probably intended for pot-pourri hence the perf... Click for details

A Japanese Arita Kogo – Cracked Ice Design - Meiji

Japanese: Ceramics: Porcelain Pre 1920: item #971726
COLL1008

This sweet small kogo (covered box) has an overall design called "cracked ice" and is done in blue on white. That motif was design based on an old Chinese motif called "cracked ice". The theme is meant to symbolize Spring with the design on plum blossoms (prunus) falling on an ice covered pond or lake that is beginning to thaw and crack. The top of the kogo has a finial shaped as a white flower bud just starting to open. The piece measures 3” diameter and is 2 ¼” high. It is in excellent condit... Click for details

Seihakuji Kaikei Objet D'Art by Fukami Sueharu

Japanese: Ceramics: Porcelain Contemporary: item #971281

Making less than twenty a year--if making them at all--in various sizes, Fukami Sueharu's kaikei (seascapes) seihakuji (bluish-white porcelain) series are quite extraordinary works of art. This one is a porcelain 'haiku' perfect to inspire at one's desk. It stands at 9cm.tall at the 'tail' and is 12cm.wide. Fukami made it on the wheel and then attached it to custom-made wooden stand. In perfect condition, signed S.Fukami on the base, signed box. Fukami is arguably the most important internationa... Click for details

A Meiji Blue and White Arita Dish – Man on Bridge

Japanese: Ceramics: Porcelain Pre 1910: item #971135
COLL1007

A nice early Meiji blue and white dish with the design done in underglaze blue and iron. It pictures a narrow rickety wooden bridge across two hills. The man is done in underglaze iron as are some tree trunks on the left hill and three birds soaring above the scene. The dish measures 6 ¼” diameter by 1 1/8” deep and is in excellent condition. We date it to the early Meiji period, circa 1870-1880s.

An Imari Shell Shaped Oval Plate – Meiji

Japanese: Ceramics: Porcelain Pre 1900: item #970369
ICHI 1446

This is a very finely painted Imari shell shaped Imari dish with a scalloped edge. There is a relief embossed fan shaped reserve in the middle. The lower half of the dish has a series of three large flowers – while the upper half has an intricate but well-balanced geometrical design. On the back of the dish there are two phoenix (ho-o birds) and two floral patterns on a pure white background glaze.

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