Capital Japanese Imari-verte porcelain vase with bijin 美人 design

Very large rotund-shaped porcelain vase with horizontal ribs and a covering underglaze design of overlapping swirls with a canvas pattern on a white ground. Heightened by gold lustre...

Very large ovoid shaped porcelain vase with a beautiful blue and white mountainscape design accentuated by a low relief details. The top of the vase ends in an elegant small neck. Y...

Tall and exceptionally made Kyo-ware porcelain jar (tsubo) with a naturalistically relief design of a coral-coloured net stretched around the body. On the shoulder hangs a beautifully draped red...

Magnificent Kutani-ware porcelain vase of broad bluster shape by the famous artist Tokuda Yasokichi III (Masahiko) (1933-2009). Its body decorated wit...

Fantastic porcelain vase of globular shape by the Nitten potter Yamamoto Seinen (1912-1986), with a intriguing amber-coloured dripping glaze on a dark ground with azure accents. Nice...

Exquisite stoneware vase of ‘gu’-like shape by the honoured artist Minegishi Seikô (1952-2023) with an undulating calyx-shaped mouth and covered by his trademark celadon glaze of grey-greenish colour. This high quality ‘kan’nyû’-type craquelé glaze looks like many stacked crystalized flakes surrounded by a faint reddish line. Creating a beautiful depth. The upper and lower rims, and the lower lying parts of the low relief lobed neck accentuated by smoky grey lines. The smooth foot decorated with two subtle rows of dots in the same shade. The bottom with an unglazed cartouche sealed by the artist. Minegishi Seikô was born in 1952 in Misato City, Saitama Prefecture. He specialised in craquelure celadon glaze, which was infamously difficult to achieve. His thickly applied glazes ranged from the classical range of celadon colours from pale green to grey to beige and were characterised by kan’nyū, or deep crackling that served to emphasise his elegant shapes. Minegishi's early work was in kohiki vessels (an iron-rich body coated in thin white slip glazes) inspired by early Korean pun'chong wares, rather than celadon glazes. After seeing a Chinese celadon bowl...

Graceful hand decorated Japanese vase with traditional motifs and gold rimmed top., c. 1960's. Signed on bottom, Gold Imari.

Important vase with gadrooned body in Arita porcelain with blue, coral and gold decoration of flowers in reserves on a background of lattices and foliage. Japan, 18th century.

Important Imari porcelain vase with blue, coral and polychrome decoration, with gilt highlights, figures in reserves, flowers and butterflies. Height 63cm ! Signed "Hichosan Shinpo Z...

Arita porcelain dish decorated with a vase and flowers. A tiny chip at 11 o'clock, otherwise excellent condition ! Japan, late 18th century.

Experience the captivating charm of Japan with this pair of Imari gourd-shaped porcelain vases. These vases beautifully showcase the renowned Imari style, which has captured hearts a...

Exquisite Japanese contemporary decorative porcelain vase, hand painted in underglaze blue on a beautifully shaped body in pure white, a signed piece by widely acclaimed master porce...