Antique Pair of Japanese Kutani Crane Vases Japanese Satsuma Style Kutani

Fabulous Japanese vases with an all around scene of lovely ladies, 19th century. Marked at base, ?? Yasui Condition Overall condition vase 1 perfect, just some minimal enamel...

Fabulous Japanese vase by Taizan Yohei. Very nice quality for the domestic market Marked base Taizan Yohei Condition: Perfect condition. Size: 185m...

Nice quality with superb decoration of cranes and turtles. With elephant handles. Both lamps are working! The additions are bronze Condition:...

Fabulous vase with a mark on the base. Kutani Condition Overall condition some firing flaws in base and some line selections close to rim. 225 x 160mm H x D Period Meiji Period...

Description A pair Japanese Totai Shippo cloisonne (cloisonné ) pottery vases. The vases have the usual cream coloured body that is normally a...

Description A pair of Japanese Satsuma 'processional' vases, Meiji period Of ovoid form with everted rims, each painted with a procession of figures in traditional robes...

A Fine pair of Japanese Kutani Vases. Signed. Meiji period. A very nice pair of Japanese Meiji Period (1867-1912) baluster shaped Kutani vases decorated with images of japanese ...

A gorgeous pair of Japanese earthenware Satsuma vases, hand-painted, Meiji period, circa early-20th century, Japan. Vases' beautiful decoration is high-qu...

"Late Meiji era Kutani vase, circa 1903. A beautiful porcelain blue ground centered by an intricate Geisha flanked by gold figural Foo Dog handles. Features a floral and foliat motif throughout. Signed along the base. Kutani ware, Japanese porcelain made in Kaga province (now in Ishikawa prefecture). The name “Old Kutani” refers to porcelain decorated with heavily applied overglaze enamels and produced in the Kaga mountain village of Kutani. The powerful Maeda family had established a kiln there by 1656. The clay bodies used were gray and coarse-grained. On most pieces—dishes and bowls were especially common—a white or blue-white matte glaze was decorated in dark, restrained colours, initially greens, yellows, and some reds, and later purples and dark blues. Some items had cobalt blue decoration under a white glaze. The most noted Old Kutani pieces are “Green Kutani,” in which most of the surface is covered in a green or blue-green glaze to which one or two colours have been added (or the glaze is applied evenly over a design executed in black). The bold designs of Kutani ware drew freely from Chinese ceramics, paintings, and textiles. They are renowned for their rich pictorial ornament executed in lively, intense lines. Owing to local financial problems and difficulties in obtaining the necessary pigments, the Kutani kiln was abandoned some time in the Genroku period (1688–1704). Ceramics production in Kaga enjoyed a renaissance early in the 19th century, however, including the establishment of another kiln at Kutani in the 1820s. In addition to a revival of the styles of Old Kutani ware, there arose a style using gold on a coral-red ground, which was perfected during another spate of activity that began in the 1860s. Technical advances were made and Western-style pigments were adopted, and by the 1890s modern Kutani...

A Fine Japanese Kutani Bottle Vase. Signed. Meiji period. A very nice Japanese Meiji Period (1867-1912) Bottle shaped Kutani vase decorated with images of birds, flowers and butterflies on one side and a woman with two Japanese boys...

These are a very good quality pair of earthenware Japanese Satsuma vases, beautifully hand decorated and from the Meiji period, circa 1880. The vases...

A fine antique Japanese Satsuma pottery vase. In the form of a bud vase with a round base and narrow, tapered neck. Decorated throug...