Large Red and Gold Vase In Porcelain Kutani Meiji Period with Small Table

Guido Andlovitz Red hand-painted vase with gold floral motifs, Gold Verbanum Stone SCI Laveno of flattened spherical shape with a pot-bellied body and the wide neck formed by a strai...

Italian and specifically Florentine vase in White and Blue Ceramic made by the Taccini Family Vinci 1976, as written on the bottom, decorated in the round with a lake landscape, wit...

Mangani Firenze porcelain and ormolu table lamp, circa 1970, a circular porcelain table oil lamp mounted on a gilt bronze basement, a porcelain vase with an all round polychrome deco...

A pair of Italian 20th century cobalt blue Porcelain table lamps, painted with a galant scene, gilt bronze scrolls handles and square plinth. They are a vintage Italian Tuscan manufacture, a pair of Sèvres style classical vases mounted as table lamps, center vases with hand painted courting scene and gold gilded enameled scrolling decor. Unique modern handmade dome-shaped shades, sewn in French golden lace and silk-lined. Very good condition, no chips or cracks, bronze with beautiful patina of age, they date back to circa 1975. Provenance: they come from a private collection of a Milanese palazzo...

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...

A fine antique Japanese Meiji period Kutani porcelain vase. By Matsumoto Sahei/Shoundo. In an aka-e style decorated throughout in iron red with extensive gilt accents. There are cartouches to either side both with branches of red flower with a backdrop of clouds on a white ground. With 2 figural dragon finial handles. Marked to the base with '九谷松雲堂製' which translates as 'Made by Shoundo of Kutani' Matsumoto Sahei (1851-1918) was a master potter who enjoyed success & recognition during his era. In 1876, Sahei received the artist name Shoundo from the nanga painter Tokuda Kansho - he would use that title for nearly 20 years until passing it onto his son as his successor in 1893. Sahei also has the distinction of taking Tokuda Yasokichi I as an apprentice when the latter was 17-years-old. The Tokuda family is perhaps one of the most famous families of Japanese ceramics: Yasokichi I is credited with revitalizing the lost art of ko-Kutani and Yasokichi I, II, & III were all recognized as "Living National Treasures" during their lifetimes. Shoundo exhibited internationally numerous times at the tail end of the 19th Century. The Keisei Isogaya Museum of Art (which specializes in Meiji Kutani) has a vase of Sahei's that was exhibited in the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876. He is listed as exhibiting a wide variety of porcelain goods at the 1878, 1889, and 1900 Paris World Exhibitions. He is also listed as exhibiting 'incense burners & porcelain' at the World's Columbian Exhibition held in 1893 in Chicago. The pair of vases that Sahei exhibited in Paris in 1900 bear a strong resemblance to this pair. Simply a wonderfully rare Japanese porcelain...

This delicately hand-painted Meiji-period Kutani-ware bowl is ornamented with lion-shaped handles on the bowl and lid, and is decorated in orange and gold with panels depicting floral arrangements, surrounded by scrolling borders. On the base is the "Dai Nippon...

A pair of fine quality Japanese Kutani foo dogs in rich polychrome enamels over porcelain. The pair date to the Meiji period (1868-1912) and are in lov...