Russian Ceramics

Pair Chinese Famille rose with turquoise ground vases C.1940. Enamelled in famille rose palette with large blooms borne around a border of curling ...

Artisan porcelain Vase Vessel hand formed of quality high fired fine porcelain. Wonderful shape with Indigo painting completely hand crafted. Artist-si...

With cobalt blue decorated neck and base band. Large oval shaped panels on two sides featuring an amusing scene with rust tone and white foo lions in a river landscape looking back t...

A very fine miniature ceramic vase in satsuma ware by Taizan Yohei IX (1864-1922) circa 1880-1890s of late Meiji period. The vase with a broad flat should...

A miniature Japanese ceramic vase from the end of Meiji period circa 1880s- 1910s by Kinkozan (1645-1927). One of the largest studio manufacturers of the export ceramics at the time ...

Japanese contemporary porcelain decorative porcelain vase, hand painted in red and blue on a beautifully shaped ovoid porcelain body, a signed piece by widely acclaimed Japanese mast...

Japanese contemporary decorative porcelain vase, dramatically hand painted in blue underglaze on a beautiully shaped ovoid porcelain bodyk, a signed piece belonging to the artist's s...

A fine pair of Chinese porcelain bottle-shaped vases, painted in the Islamic style, Daoguang period (1821-1850). Each vase finely handpainted in Henn...

A pair of large, fine Chinese glazed porcelain vases, China, early 20th century. Yellow-ground beautifuly decorated with white hand-painted in embroidery look birds and floral motif...

Exceptional Japanese contemporary decorative porcelain vase, intricately hand-painted in cobalt blue underglaze on a stunningly shaped porcelain body, a signed masterpiece by highly ...

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...

This hand painted, one of a kind Japanese decorative porcelain vase is the work of a second-generation master porcelain artist of the Imari-Arita region of Japan. The creator of thi...