Japanese Contemporary Large Red Purple Porcelain Vase by Master Artists

Extraordinary Japanese contemporary mueum quality decorative porcelain vase, stunningly hand painted in purple and red on a beautifully shaped rectangular body with a unique interpre...

Extraordinary museum quality Japanese contemporary signed decorative porcelain vase, stunningly hand painted on an elegant rectangular body in vivid hues of purple, red and gray, wit...

Exquisite museum quality Japanese contemporary signed decorative porcelain vase, stunningly hand painted on an elegant rectangular body in vivid hues of purple, red and gray, with a ...

Exquisite Japanese contemporary decorative porcelain vase, intricately hand painted on an elegant cylinder shape body featuring auspicious wisterias and sparrows, in red, blue, purpl...

Exquisite Japanese contemporary decorative porcelain vase, intricately hand painted in blue, green, purple and red on a beautifully shaped ovoid porcelain body, a signed piece by hig...

Japanese contemporary decorative porcelain vase, hand painted in red, purple and blue on a beautifully shaped porcelain body, a signed piece by highly acclaimed porcelain artist of J...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.