Antique Japanese Imari Porcelain Bowl Centerpiece Fukazawa Koransha Meiji Period

Stunning Pair of early Meiji period Satsuma heavy gauge earthenware Rouleau Japanese Vases of Museum quality and generous proportions. These beautiful Satsuma-ware vases were made du...

An Exceptionally Fine Quality Pair of Miniature Japanese Meiji Period Cloisonne Enamel Vases of unusually small proportions, early Meiji period (1868-1912) and of Museum quality, com...

Stunning Traditional Japanese Imari hand decorated Porcelain Vase of seldom seen double gourd form glazed porcelain, of generous proportions, now converted to an Electric Table Lamp,...

Stunning Pair Traditional Japanese Imari circular form hand painted Porcelain Vases of quite generous proportions, now converted to a Pair of Electric Table Lamps. First half of the ...

A fine large antique Japanese Meiji porcelain bowl. With a white ground and extensively gilt throughout. Primarily decorated in red, blue, and gold with bits of green, brown, and ...

Meiji period large Japanese Imari bowl centerpiece This large, distinctive, octagonal porcelain Imari bowl is painted in rich, inky blue, co...

On offer is a rare ceramic bowl with overglazed design by the famed Japanese ceramic artist Makuzu Kozan (1842-1916), circa 1906-1916. The bowl is rather unusual from the potter's repertoire with its unique glaze colors and decoration, and it likely belonged to a small series that Kozan made in and after 1906. A bowl of similar glaze and nearly identical dragon motif was recorded as a diplomatic present to the British royalty Arthur Connaught (1883-1932) when he represented King Gorge V in Japan in 1906. Other pieces, such as this bowl, were likely made with similar materials and designs afterwards. Essentially round in form, the bowl has a generous volume with six harmonious lobes. The bottom of the interior showcases a coiled dragon in red, green and gold slithering on a cobalt blue background. The roundel shares an echoing lobed perimeter, which is further outlined by red and turquois bands and rising sun design. The exterior of the bowl features six stylized Japanese camellias...

Hand decorated Japanese Meiji period porcelain bowl. The interior hand painted scene depicts three birds sitting on the limb of a tree. The reverse is hand painted with underglaze bl...