A set of five finger pinched sencha tea cups engraved with poems by Artist/Nun Otagaki Rengetsu enclosed in a rare original signed wooden box titled simply Chawan (Tea Bowls). The box is custom made specifically for this set, with one side cut away so as to allow ease o access for removing the small delicate bowls. Each cup is 6 cm (2-1/2 inches) diameter, 4.5 cm (2 inches) tall and all are in excellent condition...

A Japanese Export Jug, 1680 ~ 1700. Dutch Pewter Lid.

The jug has three panels of flowering peonies separated by bands of karakusa. A pewter lid has been fitted in The Netherlands, probably in the 19th century. Made specifically for export to Holland.

A jug of this form and decoration is illustrated in “Japanese Export Porcelain” by Oliver Impey. Item 32: 1680~1700.

Approximately 22.5 cm high...

An Unusually Large Blue and White Porcelain Sake Flask, 19th Century.

I cannot be certain of course but I have come across extra large tokkuri made for special celebrations. They were used I suspect to replenish smaller sake flasks at the gathering rather than individual cups. The bottle is of good quality and is very similar to the smaller Arita flasks. It has a slight step on the shoulder similar to some smaller examples...

Bold Tsubaki designs cover this six sided Mizusashi Water Container by Ito Motohiko exhibited at the 34th Shinsaku Togeiten Exhibition of New Works (2006) enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Nunome Tsubaki Mon Mizusashi. It is 16 x 15 x 21.5 cm (6-1/2 x 6 x 8-1/2 inches) and is in excellent condition, with the original ceramic lid.
Ito Motohiko is a famous Kasama potter, best known for his nunome pattern and exceptional designs...

A Japanese export porcelain bottle used for soy sauce in Holland. Marked ‘JAPANSCHZOYA’ in underglaze blue. Believed to be from the Hasami kiln, Nagasaki prefecture, towards the end of the 19th century. Also marked in underglaze blue are the initials C.P.D. for Comprador Deshima. Around the back of the bottle is found a stenciled seal of the C.P.D.

Comprador is Portuguese for "buyer"...

A Japanese export porcelain bottle used for soy sauce in Holland. Marked ‘JAPANSCHZOYA’ in underglaze blue. Believed to be from the Hasami kiln, Nagasaki prefecture, towards the end of the 19th century. Also marked in underglaze blue are the initials C.P.D. for Comprador Deshima. Around the back of the bottle is found a stenciled seal of the C.P.D.

Comprador is Portuguese for "buyer"...

A rare and unusual square bowl decorated with a series of reserves constructed from Archaic style Koros with Taoties mask handles based on illustrations in the Chinese manual XUANHE BOGU TULU [illustrated record of ancient objects compiled in Xuanhe Period during the reign of the Emperor Huizhong (northern Song). The “koro style” reserves are decorated with Kirin and a Hoo bird set against a diaper ground and a pattern of interlocking shippo...

A massive sculptural work by Living National Treasure Suzuki Osamu enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled simply Shino Kaki. However, do not let the simplicity of the title fool you, this piece is truly quite an amazing bit of sculpture. The towering structure is covered in white glaze studded with pinholes and tinged with red. Cracks and fissures erupt with volcanic fury, splitting the surface. A brass insert has been created by the artist to hold water in the center...

Japanese Meiji period Kyoto Satsuma baluster form vase or jar with upright neck decorated around the circumference in polychrome enamels with six samurai set against a faintly crackled cream-colored background. On the side of the jar at the midsection is a red hand scripted “Yasuda zo” mark. The mark likely refers to Yasuda Gensei (d. 1932) who founded the Yasuda Ceramic Company in Kyoto in 1896...

Large Japanese Meiji to Taisho period "aka-e" (red) Kutani vase with ovoid body, splayed foot, and flared mouth, the neck flanked by a pair of shishi form handles at the upper shoulder. The vase is decorated in overglaze rust-red and polychrome enamels with gilt highlights. One side features Kusunoki Masashige, the archetype of a loyal samurai, seated under a pine tree bidding farewell to his son before the battle of Chihaya. A delicate bird and flower scene is on the reverse. The neck holds...

Heavily potted Japanese Meiji to Taisho period Kutani porcelain deep bowl decorated in the Yoshidaya style of aode (green) polychrome pigments with the spirits of the legendary couple from Noh theater Jo and Uma (Jotomba) in a landscape scene under pine. Jo holds a rake and Uma a broom with which they will clear pine needles (symbolizing longevity) under moonlight. A crane flies in the sky above them and at the bottom left is the minogame, or mythical tortoise, with the long train of seaweed g...

1960's Japanese 13th Kakiemon Sakaida Porcelain Vase

It is 8.5 inches (21.5 cm) tall by 4.9 inches (12.5 cm) wide. It is 1.9 Lb.

It has surface wears (as seen in the photos).

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DRUNK BOTTLE

Old Japanese large 'tokkuri' (pottery sake flask) actually "well-used" by the drunkards at a place like liquor shop or bar or eating house named 'Sake-hei' (or 'Sakahei'), with such "well-grown" wabi scenery of surface texture due to aged frequent use and the abstraction caused by deep sake penetration. Meiji-Taisho period, 19th - early 20th century. Koshinohara, Shiga prefecture. H 31 x D 13 cm (12.20 x 5.11 in).


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A medium sized bowl, Hachi, probably intended for use as a bowl for small cakes or confectionary distributed at the end of a meal. The design is of a type classified as Kenjo-te made for presentation, Designs ultimately deriving from Chinese Kinrande designs of the late 16th century and the Jiajing era, hence the reign mark to the base of the bowl. It is quite heavily potted with an everted rim decorated in the full Imari palette sans aubergine enamels decorated with a series of auspicious motif...

Rare Edo Period Imari Chi-Chi-Kubi Tokkuri – Blue and White Porcelain (c. 18th–19th Century). Dimensions: Height: 18 cm | Width: 16 cm. Condition: Excellent with no significant flaws – a rare find among Chi-Chi-Kubi Tokkuri.

This exquisitely preserved Chi-Chi-Kubi Tokkuri is an outstanding example of late Edo Period Imari ware, crafted in a unique and symbolically rich form. Characterized by its distinctive bulbous side spout and slender neck, the vessel derives its name—Ch...

A rare and unusual Japanese Arita bottle Vase adapting the form of a Chinese Yu Hu Chun vase and decorated in presentation style, Kenjo te. It retains some of the compositional characteristics of its Chinese Ming and Qing precedents notably the stiff banana leave border beneath the lip of the vase. The neck of the vase is divided into two horizontal registers. The top of which has stiff leaf decoration, and the lower has a brocade band constructed from hexagonal cells framing flowers which ...

A Japanese Imari export dish with lobed petaloid rim of kiku-gata, chrysanthemum form. Each lobe representing one of the 16 petals of the Chrysanthemum kiku-mon. The centre of the dish decorated with an auspicious kacho-ga scene of a Hawk and Pine, Matsu ni Taka. The kiku-mon form reserve framed by a nishik-de brocade border composed of two large reserves set against a cobalt blue field with stylised Chrysanthemums with leaf and vine tendrils. The reserves containing in there centre a hexlo...

A Japanese Imari export dish with lobed petaloid rim of kiku-gata, chrysanthemum form. Each lobe representing one of the 16 petals of the Chrysanthemum kiku-mon. The centre of the dish decorated with an auspicious kacho-ga scene of a Hawk and Pine, Matsu ni Taka. The kiku-mon form reserve framed by a nishik-de brocade border composed of two large reserves set against a cobalt blue field with stylised Chrysanthemums with leaf and vine tendrils. The reserves containing in there centre a hexlo...