Large Japanese Porcelain Palace Vase

Decorated with green and yellow enamels. Standing on a blue rock work base.

With domed cover with gilt lemon finial on a conforming base with two handles.

Each seated on pedestals one stepping on a ball the other clutching a reptilian creature. Painted in the spinach and egg color.

Oval with cover and under tray. Detailed painting with a C monogram.

Brightly painted with a male and female foo dog or Buddhistic lion one holding a ball for the material world and the female with the cub representing the spiritual.

Decorated with lotus branches and leaves , red enameled lotus base decoration

With organic abstract design. Artist signature on the bottom and on original storage box: Hasegawa Isamu. This vase exhibited at the 2nd Nitten in 1970. Hasegawa Isamu was born in 1925 in Kyoto, son of famed porcelain artist Hasegawa Hakuho...

A large Japanese vintage Kutani style palace vase from the mid-20th century, with court scenes and scalloped top. Created in Japan during the midcentury...

A striking blue and white vase from the studio of Japanese Potter Makuzu Kozan, also known as Miyagawa Kozan (1842–1916), one of the most established and collected ceramist from Meiji Period. Born as Miyagawa Toranosuke, Kozan established his pottery studio in Yokohama around 1870s and later became one of the appointed artist to the Japanese Imperial household. His work was exhibited in many international fairs that the Meiji government participated at the turn of the century and won many grand prizes. With an impressively large size, this vase was likely made and reserved as a presentation piece for one of the many expositions the studio participated in the early 20th century. It was decorated with underglaze cobalt blue using the novel technique developed by Kozan called Fuki-e (the blow painting), in order to achieve the striking dimensional literary landscape known as "Mountain and Water". Being one of the most creative ceramists, Kozan started experimenting with new chemical colors from the West in the format of his porcelain glaze around 1880s. New colors allowed him to create underglaze designs that appeared bright, smooth and glossy. He even invented his own receipt of cobalt blue to achieve a much brighter yet softer shade, as evident on this vase. To create landscape that is realistic and dimensional, more common in the western paintings, he was inspired by the native Japanese ink painting technique developed around 1900 by Yokoyama Taikan...

Washizome is a Japanese paper with water-absorbing properties, cut into a shape and size according to the pattern, on an unglazed base made of locro. Cobalt oxide, manganese, iron, k...

A large scale and very good quality late 19th century Japanese Imari vase with exotic birds, trees and flowers. Wonderful coloring in vibrant hues of blue, red and rust.

Exceptional very large contemporary Japanese decorative vase, intricately hand painted in blue, green and pink on fine Arita porcelain body in an attractive rotund shape, a signed ma...