Pair of Antique Japanese Satsuma Vase Japanese Satsuma Ware Lovely Ladies

Fabulous Japanese vase by Taizan Yohei. Very nice quality for the domestic market Marked base Taizan Yohei Condition: Perfect condition. Size: 185m...

Nice quality with superb decoration of cranes and turtles. With elephant handles. Both lamps are working! The additions are bronze Condition:...

Description A pair of Japanese Satsuma 'processional' vases, Meiji period Of ovoid form with everted rims, each painted with a procession of figures in traditional robes...

Description A pair Japanese Totai Shippo cloisonne (cloisonné ) pottery vases. The vases have the usual cream coloured body that is normally a...

Fabulous Japanese vase. The blue enamels are unusual and so nice. Marked at the body; The first two characters indicate a name: Xiang Feng (?) Followed by the character xie, mean...

Fabulous Japanese Satsuma vases. Marked base Condition Overall condition perfect. Measure: 80mm height Period Meiji Periode (1867-1912).    

These are a very good quality pair of earthenware Japanese Satsuma vases, beautifully hand decorated and from the Meiji period, circa 1880. The vases...

A fine diminutive, antique Japanese Satsuma pottery cabinet vase. Decorated throughout with gilding and raised enamel. There are...

A fine antique Japanese Satsuma pottery vase. In the form of a bud vase with a round base and narrow, tapered neck. Decorated throug...

A petite and beautiful hand-decorated ceramic baluster vase, painted all around with traditional Japanese motifs, including native flora, birds and bamboo stems on a creamy glazed background. The colour palette is bold and bright, with highlights of green, red and blue, together with plentiful gilt relief...

An early Satsuma vase depicting a Japanese nobleman and woman on two panels front and back, with gilt decoration and painted details overall. Now mounted as a lamp.

An Satsuma ceramic stone ware vase, circa 19th century, around the end of the Edo and the beginning of Meiji period. In the form of a Classic garlic bottle whose prototype was from China, the white bodied piece is decorated with an early form of kin nishikide, the so called golden brocade, a palette of iron-red, blue, green, yellow, purple and black with golden highlight. The over glazed enamel paint shows a group of robed figures in a garden setting with a lion and three tigers. A transparent overall glaze shows very fine crackles. The design is relatively sparse with plenty of negative space in contrast to the Satsuma production from the late 19th century, when the trend became fussy and overly glitz, due to the influence by the perceived western taste for the export market. This piece may still be made for export but its pattern was more influenced by both Kyoto Pottery and the Kano school of painting compared to the export ware by the end of the 19th century onward to the early 20th century. It was believed by many that this was a result of Satsuma potters visiting Kyoto in the late seventeenth century to learn over glaze painting techniques. There are some age glaze crackles especially around the foot. The piece is not signed in keeping with the earlier production before Satsuma ceramics...