16th Century Pottery

This is a Karatsu-yaki small plate. Karatsu is a historic pottery located in Saga Prefecture (a large island in the south of Japan). The location of the kiln in Karatsu is marked with a red circle in the photo. This is a work from the Momoyama period to the early Edo period (1573-1650). Karatsu ware is still a very popular pottery among Japanese collectors. This Karatsu ware was made by collecting pottery fragments...

An Italian maiolica lustre dish, made in Deruta around 1530 during the height of the Renaissance. Lustreware, a specialty of Deruta ceramics, epitomizes the ways in which technologies and aesthetics move and persevere through time and space. The highly prized iridescent effect was invented in Iraq in the 9th century and encouraged “pleasurable wonder” (adjab), inducing a physical reaction to a constantly changing object depending on the light and the position of the viewer. This technique made its way through the Islamic world to Spain and then to Italy in the 15th century, where this esteemed technological achievement continued to capture the same “pleasurable wonder” from spectators. Today, the effect of this Deruta maiolica...

Four Chinese Ming dynasty (1573 - 1619) pottery tomb figures. Heads and hand detach for packing and traveling. The green glaze is beautiful and the condit...

A ceramic plate from Myanmar (formerly Burma), finished in traditional Celadon glaze.

Wonderful early, circa 1550 Spanish Hispano-Moresque copper lustre pottery charger of large size having unique panelled and folliate pattern; likely of M...