Japanese Finely Hand-Painted Kutani Porcelain Double Gourd Vase

Japanese Meiji porcelain Kutani vase hand painted with decorative and a figural panel dating between 1868 and 1912. The elegantly shaped tall ...

A very finely made oriental styled porcelain vase hand painted with baskets containing flowers dating from the late 19th or early 20th century. The bulbous shaped vase stands on a narrow rounded foot and is hand decorated in coloured enamels with three panels containing a Chinese handled...

A scarce Chinese Kangxi porcelain octagonal yen yen vase decorated with vases containing floral arrangements in the Famille Verte palette and ...

A good and unusual pair antique Japanese Satsuma Meiji diamond shaped pottery vases decorated with monk figures with a scrolling dragon dating from the 1...

A stylish miniature Chinese attributed art pottery vase hand painted in blue and green streaked glazes and probably dating from the early 20th Century. The lightly potted vase stands...

From a small collection of five Persian hand painted pottery vases is this stylish earthenware rectangular shaped vase hand painted with a lion and an antelope amidst flowering stems...

Fine Japanese porcelain pumpkin 'Gourd' shape painted and lacquered large vase. The white porcelain vase is decorated with black lacca panels, fine...

Exceptional Japanese contemporary decorative porcelain vase, stunningly hand painted in brown on a stunning egg shape body in beautiful background with stripes on a blue/gray gradati...

Pair of iron red decorated double gourd jars, late 19th century Japanese Kutani ware finely decorated with figures in a garden setting, gilt rim a...

"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...

Pair of late 19th century Japanese hand-painted and gilded porcelain kutani vases. These vases are signed.

Antique Meiji period Japanese porcelain temple jar with intricate hand painted decoration and gilt. The jar in Classic Kutani colors with floral and phoenix birds all over the top an...