An interesting and unusual large Japanese Arita crackle-glazed bottle, heavily potted, with silvery bronze rim mount and attractive kintsugi gold lacquer repairs to the foot. Circa 1630, Height 31cms. Provenance: The Robert Kime Collection. From his house in La Gonette, France.

A set of Five Sencha Tea Cups made like blossoms of pastel colored clay on gray buy Kusaba Yuji enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Neriage Sai-ka-mon Senchawan zen. Each is roughly 9.3 cm (just less than 4 inches) diameter, 4.8 cm (2 inches ) tall and all are in excellent condition, directly from the artist.
Kusaba Yuji was born in Arita, the heartland of Japanese porcelain, in 1955, and graduated the prestigious Nihon Daigaku in 1979...

Emerald copper glaze pours randomly over the sunburnt clay of this unusual lidded water container by Ishii Takahiro enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Oribe Mizusashi. It is It is 29 x 22.5 x roughly 16.5 cm including the lid (11-1/2 x 9 x 6-1/2 inches) and is in excellent condition. Ishii Takahiro was born in Gunma prefecture in 1980 and has taken Japan by storm after graduating the Kyoto Municipal University of Art and an apprenticeship under Kakurezaki Ryuichi...

A striking vision of black blasted with ocjer glaze wrapping in rivulets around to a single beaded drop by Oiwa Tomoyuki enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled unpretentiously Chawan. It is 13.5 x 12 x 10 cm (roughly 5 x 5-1/2 x 4 inches) and in excellent condition.
Oiwa Tomoyuki was born in Hyogo prefecture in 1977, and graduated the Bizen Ceramic Center in 2004...

Purple grapes dangle behind broad autumn-tinged leaves decorating this voluminous Tsubo by Hashizume Masahide enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Yubyo-kasai Yamabudo-zu O-tsubo exhibited at the 47th National Traditional Crafts Exhibition. It comes complete with the Exhibition catalog in which it is featured (page 35). It is 35 cm (14 inches) diameter and in perfect condition...

Koro size: 2 3/4" Dia x 2 3/4" High, 3 1/2" High with Silver Cover
This is Rare Japanese Ko Imari Porcelain Blue and White Koro, Incense
Burner with Jungin (Sterling Silver) Hoya (cover). Koro has Oranda-Jin forms.
(Dutch/Holland men) design work done in Sometuke. Koro is octagonal shape.
It has four Oranda-jin design windows. Other four window panel
with Geometric designs. Inside top rim area with landscape design
painted...

additional photos of Japanese Ko Imari Koro w/silver cover. Please see the Incense Burner Choko Cup Photo in the book of "Four Centuries of BLUE AND WHITE", Frelinghuysen Collection of Chinese and Japanese Export Porcelain, by Becky Macguire. I have loaded the photo page of item, and one close up one.

A superior Arita Chawan decorated to the exterior with the Shochikubai, plum, pine and bamboo, in kinsai gilding. The interior painted with a dense Karakusa arabesque of auspicious Peony leaves. The foot-rim with stylised overlapping lotus leaves in underglaze blue. To the interior of the foot-ring a four character fukichosun mark. The condition is good, no damages or restoration. A kiln flaw to the foot-ring. The bowl dates to the Kyoho era circa 1720-30. It weighs 93 grams in weight...

A good early Hirado cup stand, haidai, from the Mikawachi official kiln decorated with a classic Chinese style landscape in ko sometsuke style. For a very similar example see the web site of the National Museum of Scotland V.2015.10.25, which bears the same pattern incorporating a fisherman’s refuge and drying net (left hand quarter). The construction of both this and the example in the N.M.S. is identical...

A rare Japanese antique porcelain okimono of a skull entwined with a snake.  Made of porcelain and realistically rendered...

Pink belts this blue-gray bowl like the rising sun reflected off a pre-dawn cloud by Yamato Tsutomu enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Hagi Chawan and featured in the 59th National Traditional Crafts Exhibition (catalog page 65, catalog included). It is 15.5 cm (6 inches) diameter and in perfect condition.
Yamato Tsutomu was born the second son of Yamato Yasuo, the man who brought Hagi into the 20th century, in 1965. He graduated the Yamaguchi University of Arts in 1988...

A traditional wide basin decorated with staggering pine in iron by Nakazato Tarouemon XIV enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled E-Karatsu Hachi. It is 26 cm (10-1/4 inches) diameter 11 cm (4-1/4 inches) tall and in excellent condition. Nakazato Taouemon XIV wa born the eldest son of Nakazato Taouemon XIII in 1957. He completed graduate school at the Department of Sculpture at Musashino Art University in 1981. He returned ot the family studio in 1983 and began making pottery...

A large bottle shape reminiscent of Funadokuri (Ships flasks) by Tokoname Legend Osako Mikio enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Tokoname-gama Tsubo shown at the 1997 memorial exhibition held at the Tokoname Ceramics research facility and published on page 7 of the catalog (included). It is 30.5 cm (I foot) in diameter, 39.5 cm (just under 16 inches) tall and in perfect contition...

An interesting Japanese porcelain plate decorated with a central roundel of prunus, pine and bamboo, The Three Friends. The remainder is decorated with stylized flower heads on a cracked ice ground. The detail and spur marks indicate that this piece is Japanese with Chinese Kangxi design references. Measures 11.25 inches in diameter

A massive celadon container with finialed lid in Beishoku celadon by Haraguchi Takushi enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Beishokuji Kazari Tsubo. It is 34 cm (13-1/1 inches) diameter and in excellent condtion.
Due to size shipping may be accrued separately.
Born in Kyoto in 1947. Graduated from Dokkyo University in 1971, then graduated from the Kyoto Ceramic Art School in 1976. He has won prizes at the Japan Traditional Craft Exhibition, the Kinki Branch Exhibition,...

Antique Japanese pair of large ceramic fu-lions. Boldly sculpted with wild eyes and wide, toothy mouths. Glazed a brown color. Fu-dogs or Foo-lions are fierce protectors but are also playful and energetic.

Age: mid 20th century

Dimensions: 26 1/2" high x 14" wide x 20" deep (each).

A set of five sake cups, each engraved with a unique poem by the artist/nun Otagaki Rengetsu dating from her 83rd year enclosed in an antique Sarasa cloth pouch with silk pads between enclosed in an old wooden box. They are each 5 cm (2 inches) diameter and all are in excellent condition. The poems read:
1 Wakabae no yanagi no ito no mijikaku te furiwakegami no kokochi koso sure
The newborn willow fronds are short and feel to me just like bobbed hair
2 Umazake no miwa no sugi z...

Small flask or vase in the shape of a double gourd. Thin and fine, whitish stoneware covered in translucent glaze, decorated in overglaze, colored enamels and gold with a cord and tassels and maple leaves floating on a sinewy stream.

Unsigned/unmarked. Kyoto (Kiyomizu) ware.

Meiji era, late 19th century, Japan

H 6 in.

Excellent condition