Fine Pair Large Imari Vases, Meiji

Japanese: Ceramics: Porcelain Pre 1920: item #821672
SLCP13

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 Japanese Arita Dish- Landscape Design-Edo/Meiji

Japanese: Ceramics: Porcelain Pre 1837 VR: item #821573
ICHI 1028

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

Beautiful Elegant Ko Imari Bowl Early 19c

Japanese: Ceramics: Porcelain Pre 1837 VR: item #821519
021867

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

A Kutani Leaf or Pear Shaped Blue and White Dish

Japanese: Ceramics: Porcelain Pre 1950: item #821386
ICHI 1688

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 Well Painted Arita Bowl, 18th ~ 19th C

Japanese: Ceramics: Porcelain Pre 1837 VR: item #821020
3913

A JAPANESE ARITA BLUE & WHITE BOWL, 18TH CENTURY

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. ... Click for details

A Modern Japanese Studio Vase, Celadon

Japanese: Ceramics: Porcelain Pre 1980: item #821015
ICHI 1325

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

A Large Dynamic Imari Carp Platter – Edo/ Meiji

Japanese: Ceramics: Porcelain Pre 1900: item #820725
ICHI 1101

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 Tall Porcelain Vase by Matsumoto Saichi V.

Japanese: Ceramics: Porcelain Pre 2000: item #820640
3911

A PORCELAIN VASE BY MATSUMOTO SAICHI V.

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

Japanese Seiji Sometsuke Nabeshima Porcelain Iris Dish

Japanese: Ceramics: Porcelain Pre 1920: item #820480
2-848

This sophisticated example of Japanese Arita blue and white porcelain (“sometsuke”) with a celadon border came from a Nabeshima kiln during the Meiji period (1868-1912). The stoutly potted plate has a fluted rim which is molded and glazed in pale celadon (“seiji”) on both the front and back sides. The interior contains a meticulously hand painted central medallion depicting irises along a winding stream hand painted in underglaze cobalt blue on a pure white ground. ... Click for details

A Fine Kutani Hexagonal Dish - Late Meiji-Early Showa

Japanese: Ceramics: Porcelain Pre 1940: item #820433
ICHI 2069

A very vividly painted Kutani dish in a hexagonal shape with vertical sides. The dish is decorated in over the glaze enamels in the traditional Kutani colors of green, brownish purple, red, blue and yellow.

The design is of a fisherman in a partly covered boat that is floating near the shoreline. In the distance is an island - or part of the ... Click for details