The deity is depicted as particularly jovial. The features are unusually caricatured, which is rare. The deity is overflowing with joy and benevolence. To the classic blue-white, the potters added an iron brown. Hotei is the god of abundance and satisfaction. He is always depicted holding a large sack and often surrounded by children. Japanese work circa 1850, Mikawachi kilns in Hirado...

Japanese antique Bizen ware pottery figure of reclining Daruma. He props himself up on one hand while the other holds his signature fly whisk. Also known as Bodhidharma, the monk-founder of Zen Buddhism. Here, he is portrayed with his traditional intense expression seen in his downturned mouth and heavy eye brows over wide eyes...

This elegant Chōshi is the work of master ceramicist Ogasawara Chōshun, celebrated for his refined porcelain forms and dedication to traditional Japanese aesthetics...

Japanese totai cloisonne on earthenware lidded tea jar, or cha-ire, decorated with two prominent orange-red and rust-red panels featuring a butterfly and a bird flying among leafy flowers. The panels are set against a blue and black background filled with flowers. A flower decorates the center of the lid. The base is cream-colored crackle glaze. Circa 1870s. 5 5/8" high. "Totai," was a short-lived experiment of applying cloisonne onto ceramic objects rather than onto a metal substrate...

SERIOUS-FACED MONKEY

1950s, Japan
16 × 13 × 15 cm (6.29 × 5.11 × 5.90 in)

A skillfully crafted ceramic monkey with a serious, expressive face—an excellent example of postwar Japanese folk artistry.

A small hole in the right hand, allowing the figure to hold a small object of your choice...

A boat like shaped vessel by Kato Yoshiyasu with a long spout for sharing sake, the looping handle pierced with holes leaving only a skeletal framework. It is 20.5 x 12.3 x 13.5 cm (8 x 5 x 5-1/2 inches) and is in excellent condition...

This small covered jar is a fine example of Mashiko ware, crafted in the spirit of Hamada Shoji, one of Japan’s most celebrated 20th-century potters...

A striking vase by renowned Japanese artist Ono Hakuko (1915–1996). One of Japan’s foremost 20th-century ceramic artists, this piece exemplifies her mastery of traditional yūri-kinsai (gold leaf overglaze) techniques and innovative vessel forms...

A set of very unusual low-fired raised dishes covered in crackled cream-colored glaze, each uniquely decorated with colors of russet red, green and yellow in motifs reminiscent of the Oribe ceramic tradition. I have never seen anything quite like them, and venture they were created in the late 19th to early 20th century possibly in Kyoto by an artist interpreting the Seto-Oribe tradition, or around Nagoya/Inuyama by an artist reminiscing on the Raku tradition of Kyoto...

Charming brush rest depicting a reclining young Chinese boy. Hard-paste porcelain from Kyushu, glazed in the Kakiemon kilns near Arita, Japan, late 17th century. This amusing object also serves as a whistle, with air blown through a slit under the feet and exiting through a hole at the shins. These small figures were produced in large quantities and would have served more often as an amusing object, such as a whistle, rather than a brush rest...

This dish is part of a set of four. It is made of wheel-thrown porcelain, glazed with superb enamels. The significance of the stylized flower decoration and what appear to be books has eluded us. Japanese work from the Edo period. Below is the apocryphal mark of the Chinese Emperor Qianlong, which is very rarely found under Japanese porcelain and which makes us think that these dishes were created during this prestigious reign. Good condition. Diameter: 168mm The price is for one.

Japanese Edo period Arita Imari porcelain bowl decorated in underglaze blue and overglaze polychrome enamels and gilt highlights with four alternating floral panels surrounding a green bordered circular sometsuke (blue and white) center. A sometsuke border with four small floral panels extends around the inner rim. The exterior is decorated with rust red leafy flowers and scrolling vines accented with tiny bits of turquoise enamel...

The great master Sugimoto "Genkaku" Sadamitsu has been produced many master pieces, and now he is challenging to celadon field at 90 years old. And this piece is one of results , celadon "Sky blue after raining " guinomi sake cup. It has very beautiful sky blue after raining that the Emperor in Song dynasty China persuied . YouTube movie/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7aBIwyC4dI Size:8.7cm(D)/4.5cm(H) Accessary: wooden box signed by artist.

The great master Sugimoto "Genkaku" Sadamitsu has been produced many master pieces, and now he is challenging to celadon field at 90 years old. And this piece is one of results , ice crack celadon guinomi sake cup. It has grew up beautiful pattern like rose flower at the bottom. YouTube movie/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOQ4OyCTkvs Size:8.9cm(D)/4.4cm(H) Accessary: wooden box signed by artist.

A very unusual Chawan in the shape of an inverted skull wrapped in a cloth-lined chirimen (crepe-silk) pouch enclosed in a box dated Meiji 34 (1901). Much of the dark clay is raw and visible, the inside and outer rim covered with deeply crackled pale glaze which runs in rivulets over the outer sculpted surface...

1900's Japanese Porcelain Vase Snow Scene by Kawamoto Masukichi

It is 7.7 inches (19.5 cm) tall by 8.3 inches (21 cm) wide. It is 2.8 Lb.

It has skip glaze, hairline cracks at the bottom, surface wears and scratches (as seen in the photos).

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A tall and slender “crane neck” Imari Tokkuri from the Edo period. Multiple chrysanthemums (Kiku) finely painted in bold underglaze blue. The composition is such that several blooms can be seen from nearly any angle. A fine example of peak period Imari. Similar examples in “Imari of the Peak Period” Yamashita Takuro/Tokuma Shoten No.’s 278/279.

Mid 17th Century
25.6 x 9.8cm

An elegant egg-like sake cup on a dimpled Zabuton pillow of raw pierced porcelain clay by the stylish Kato Yoshiyasu enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled To-mon Hai Ozabu. The cup is 5 cm (2 inches) diameter, the pillow is 8.6 cm (3-1/2 inches) diameter and both are in perfect condition, directly from the artist.
Born in Aichi Prefecture in 1985, Kato Yoshiyasu graduated from the Department of Craft and Design at Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts in 2008, and went o...