Pair of Blue Ground Japanese Satsuma Vases

Antique 19th century Japanese Totai Shippo tree bark Cloissoné vase mounted as lamp on gilt bronze base. Meiji period. Rare type of cloisonné tha...

Antique Chinese famille rose porcelain ginger jar mounted as a lamp. Porcelain cover and square wood base. Colorful figures with children and dragon. Orange, pines and greens. Orange...

Large Chinese Qing Dynasty enamel bronze cloisonne charger. Unusual and rare bronze Chinese Qing Dynasty Cloisonne charger. The brightly multicolored...

Pair of Royal Doulton Art Nouveau stoneware vases mounted as lamps. Exterior glazed in a blue grey ground with raised stylized floral decorat...

Beautifully patinated verdigris and brown bronze vase from the Japanese Meiji period. Of elegant and simple form, featuring cranes in three views. Signed.

Pair of Chinese ceramic vases with children. Colorful with red ground with greens, yellows , blues and lavender.. Playful and sweet image...

A gorgeous pair of Japanese earthenware Satsuma vases, hand-painted, Meiji period, circa early-20th century, Japan. Vases' beautiful decoration is high-qu...

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...

This handsome pair of 20th century glazed and gilded Japanese Satsuma vases, with their vivid, jewel-like colours and elegant baluster-shaped forms, feature the traditional Japanese ...

Fabulous Japanese vases with an all around scene of lovely ladies, 19th century. Marked at base, ?? Yasui Condition Overall condition vase 1 perfect, just some minimal enamel...

An Satsuma ceramic stone ware vase, circa 19th century, around the end of the Edo and the beginning of Meiji period. In the form of a Classic garlic bottle whose prototype was from China, the white bodied piece is decorated with an early form of kin nishikide, the so called golden brocade, a palette of iron-red, blue, green, yellow, purple and black with golden highlight. The over glazed enamel paint shows a group of robed figures in a garden setting with a lion and three tigers. A transparent overall glaze shows very fine crackles. The design is relatively sparse with plenty of negative space in contrast to the Satsuma production from the late 19th century, when the trend became fussy and overly glitz, due to the influence by the perceived western taste for the export market. This piece may still be made for export but its pattern was more influenced by both Kyoto Pottery and the Kano school of painting compared to the export ware by the end of the 19th century onward to the early 20th century. It was believed by many that this was a result of Satsuma potters visiting Kyoto in the late seventeenth century to learn over glaze painting techniques. There are some age glaze crackles especially around the foot. The piece is not signed in keeping with the earlier production before Satsuma ceramics...

Circa 1900 pair of Satsuma vases. Hand painted coastal landscape, mountains, women and children outside of elaborate homes. Signed on the bottom with the Shimazu Clan crest, wear to...