A Fine Pair of Japanese Kutani Vases. The Best of Kutani, Satsuma.Signed. Meiji

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...

A Magnificent Japanese Satsuma Vase. Signed. Meiji period. 19th C A Fine Japanese satsuma vase of a baluster form finely painted in Satsuma enamels enhanced with gold paint,decora...

A Magnificent Japanese Satsuma Vase. Signed. Meiji period. 19th C A Fine Japanese satsuma vase of a baluster form finely painted in Satsuma enamels enhanced with gold paint,decora...

A fine antique Japanese Satsuma vase. Meiji period. Signed. A very nice 19th century Japanese Satsuma ware vase of a relatively ...

A Fine Antique Japanese Satsuma Ovoid Vase. Signed-Dozan. Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th century. Decorated in enamels and gilt with a continuous scene depicting the Shichifukujin (Seven Gods...

A magnificent Japanese Satsuma Vase of a slender ovoid form decorated with an extensive landscape and chickens amongst a bamboo trees. Signed by Kinkozan. Meiji period. Size H. 24...

Pair of very fine quality early Meiji period Japanese Satsuma vases.

Japanese Meiji Satsuma polygonal vase with four panels. Each panel shows a different scene. Fine gilding and hand enameling. Marked on the bottom with shimadzu mon.

A fine pair of Japanese porcelain vases in the Kutani manner, hand-painted with figural panels depicting women engaged in various occu...

A very fine quality monumental Japanese vase depicting Samurai on one side and distinguished female and her attendants on reverse, particularly unique for its very prominent stylized...

"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...

Small porcelain vase in Satsuma earthenware. The 4-sided body is decorated in polychrome and gold enamels with geishas in a garden, a mountain landscape, a bird on a flowering branch...