Antique Meiji Period Japanese Kutani Plaque with Landscape and Mark Japan 19th C

Fabulous Satsuma vase with a circular mountainious landscape scene with a bridge and ladies in a pagode garden. Condition Overall condition some spots of enamel loss on the body,...

Fabulous Japanese Satsuma vase. Marked base: ???? Dai Nippon Koku ??? Satsuma Yaki ??? Kitayama Ga (draw) Condition Overall condition perfect. Measu...

Description Lovely and very detailed piece. Scene of with compartments of flowers, bamboo, Turtle and Cranes. Moulded at the top of the vase close to the neck. Condition Over...

Very lovely piece. With an overall landscape scene of mountains, flowers and birds in flight. Condition Upper rim is over fired and has some repainting. Size: 150 x 150 mm D x H ...

An unusual Japanese Meiji period lidded incense burner or censer with reticulated ovoid body and cap, decorated with a cream background and traditionally garbed people in tones of oc...

Pair of very fine quality early Meiji period Japanese Satsuma vases, one with its 19th century paper label added by its retailer.

An antique Japanese Meiji period monochrome bottle from the 19th century. This antique Japanese bottle, created during the Meiji period of the...

A fine antique Japanese Meiji period Kutani porcelain vase. By Matsumoto Sahei/Shoundo. In an aka-e style decorated throughout in iron red with extensive gilt accents. There are cartouches to either side both with branches of red flower with a backdrop of clouds on a white ground. With 2 figural dragon finial handles. Marked to the base with '九谷松雲堂製' which translates as 'Made by Shoundo of Kutani' Matsumoto Sahei (1851-1918) was a master potter who enjoyed success & recognition during his era. In 1876, Sahei received the artist name Shoundo from the nanga painter Tokuda Kansho - he would use that title for nearly 20 years until passing it onto his son as his successor in 1893. Sahei also has the distinction of taking Tokuda Yasokichi I as an apprentice when the latter was 17-years-old. The Tokuda family is perhaps one of the most famous families of Japanese ceramics: Yasokichi I is credited with revitalizing the lost art of ko-Kutani and Yasokichi I, II, & III were all recognized as "Living National Treasures" during their lifetimes. Shoundo exhibited internationally numerous times at the tail end of the 19th Century. The Keisei Isogaya Museum of Art (which specializes in Meiji Kutani) has a vase of Sahei's that was exhibited in the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876. He is listed as exhibiting a wide variety of porcelain goods at the 1878, 1889, and 1900 Paris World Exhibitions. He is also listed as exhibiting 'incense burners & porcelain' at the World's Columbian Exhibition held in 1893 in Chicago. The pair of vases that Sahei exhibited in Paris in 1900 bear a strong resemblance to this pair. Simply a wonderfully rare Japanese porcelain...