Japanese Porcelain Underglaze Blue and Iron Red Vase, circa 1880

Depicting white and blue flowers in a brown basket. With underglazed blue mark. Makuzu Kozan.

In relief monkeys in a waterfall landscape setting, eating fruit.

Japanese porcelain Imari vase, circa 1870.

Molded with fruit. Signed on the bottom.

Japanese porcelain yellow vase, circa 1900.

With gold and platinum and translucent enamel decoration.

Japanese porcelain water bucket vase or teoke from early Meiji era, circa 1880, exhibiting beautiful hand-painting in underglaze cobalt blue and polychrome...

Japanese mid 20th century signed decorative porcelain vase (circa 1935,) from Showa period (1926 to 1985). It depicts an attractive safflower motif, an elegant scene hand-painted in purple and underglaze blue on a pure white background, on a beautifully shaped porcelain body. The artist's signature appears at the reverse side of the vase. This exquisite vase is in excellent condition. The late father of the collector of this exquisite pair, who operated one of the leading kilns in Imari-Arita region of Japan, travelled extensively to Europe in the early 1960s with a mission that he led, to purchase and bring back to Japan antique ceramics...

Japanese contemporary porcelain decorative porcelain vase, hand painted in red and blue on a beautifully shaped ovoid porcelain body, a signed piece by widely acclaimed Japanese mast...

Contemporary porcelain decorative vase, hand painted in blue and red on a beautifully shaped ovoid porcelain body, a signed piece by widely acclaimed Japanese master porcelain artist...

Japanese contemporary porcelain vase featuring gilded ring handles presents traditional Imari floral motifs against a fine crackle-glaze background on a beautifully shaped porcelain body. Bordered in blue and set off by a simple geometric design rendered in gold, the two scalloped panels depict peaches and pomegranates in shades of orange surrounded by green and brown foliage against a soft cream background. The pomegranates have burst open to reveal their ripened seeds. The two panels are connected by a traditional floral motif with golden peonies...

Exquisite pair of mid Edo period large Japanese Ko-Imari porcelain vases in an attractive baluster shape boasting intricate patterns of floral and highly detailed geometric motifs that beautifully intertwine on the body of the handsome vases, creating captivating landscapes in dark blue, orange and gold details throughout, which is characteristic of Imari porcelain from the Edo Period. The two scalloped cartouches on each vase with highly decorated and elaborate borders recreate the pine, plum and bamboo motif known as “Sho-Chiku-Bai” or the “Three Friends of Winter.” The impressive pine trees in cobalt blue decorated with gold details dominate the landscape on white background. The two small delicately scalloped cartouches appearing in the middle of the long neck of the vases depict playful rabbits among trees. The late father of the collector of this exquisite pair, who operated one of the leading kilns in the historic Imari-Arita region of Japan, travelled extensively to Europe in the early 1960s with a mission that he led, to purchase and bring back to Japan antique ceramics...