Two Japanese Nightingale Vases from the Meiji Period

A beautiful and rare quadrangular earthenware soliflore vase with polychrome enamel and gold rakan decoration, decorated on the sides with dragons and phoenixes in particularly vivid colors in a frame of flowers and arabesques. Satsuma mark on underside. The workmanship and exceptional quality of this vase distinguish it from the classic Satsuma products destined for the export market during the Meiji era, and found today on the European market. Satsuma earthenware was born in 1598 under the influence of Shimazu Yoshihiro, a great Japanese lord whose intention was to establish a local pottery industry on the Satsuma territory. For over four hundred years, the potters of Satsuma developed original earthenware techniques, making it one of the leading references in Japanese ceramics. This type of ceramics is characterized by the diversity of shapes of vases, bowls, lighting fixtures and various decorative objects, which evolve according to the period and kiln used...

A fine quality Japanese Imperial Satsuma vase, having wonderful hand painted classical decoration of motifs, mythical Dragon handles to either side and an inset panel depicting bloss...

Two small nearly identical ceramic vases by Japanese Meiji imperial potter Makuzu Kozan (1842-1916), circa 1890-1900s. The vases were made in the form of jarlet with swelled shoulder...

A unique Japanese vase, hand-crafted in bronze. Meiji Period, circa 1890. Decorated with embossed cranes and a gilt sun symbol. At the bottom, the vase is nested in an exquisitely ca...

A fine quality late 19th Century (Meiji period 1868-1912) Japanese Cloisonné enamel vase. having a Yellow ground with a classically dressed female attending to the flowers. Batch 7...

A fine large Japanese bronze rectangular bonsai pot or planter urn from the Meiji Period, featuring taotie ogre face mask handles and stylized phoenix desig...