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Item Ships From: USA
Period: Early 20th Century
Chinese Famille Rose Ginger Jar with Ancient Censers, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Beautifully commemorated on this oval ginger jar, censers have been used for thousands of years in Chinese culture as a part of funeral rites or prayer offerings. Filled with dried aromatic plants and essential oils, the censer issued fragrant smoke that forged a connection to the spiritual realm. This late Qing-dynasty jar...
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Chinese Chinese Export Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Porcelain

Japan Antique Set Three Brilliant Color Hand Painted Garden Bowls, 1910
Located in South Burlington, VT
From our recent Japanese Acquisition Travels- matching set three (3) three gorgeous hand painted bowls from Japan in their original tomobako box. Japan hard to find early set of th...
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Japanese Taisho Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Ceramic

Chinese Enamelware Teapot with Mythical Qilin, c. 1920s
Located in Chicago, IL
Tea drinking has been an integral part of Chinese culture for centuries, resulting in a wide range of social customs and material traditions. In addition to tea leaves, water, and he...
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Chinese Chinese Export Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Ceramic

Chinese Famille Rose Phoenix and Peony Baluster Jar, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
During the 18th century, Europeans provided an eager market for Chinese export porcelain, especially the colorful and fanciful ware known as “famille rose.” Named for a palette of op...
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Chinese Chinese Export Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Porcelain

Chinese Blue and White Plate, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
An everyday example of Chinese blue-and-white porcelain, this petite footed dish charms with expressive sweeps of blue atop a blue-grey underglaze. Once used for serving food and dri...
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Chinese Qing Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Ceramic

Chinese Famille Rose Bowl with Scholars' Objects, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
During the 18th century, Europeans provided an eager market for Chinese export porcelain, especially the colorful and fanciful ware known as “famille rose.” Named for a palette of op...
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Chinese Qing Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Porcelain

Monumental Pair of Antique Chinese Qing Dynasty Famille Rose Porcelain Vases
Located in Portland, OR
Monumental pair of antique Chinese late Qing to early Republican period Famille Rose Porcelain vases. The vases of baluster form with appli...
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Chinese Qing Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Porcelain

Chinese Export Buddha's Hand Citron Altar Fruit on Tazza, Blanc de Chine
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Chinese Export Buddha's Hand Citron Altar Fruit on Tazza, Blanc de Chine. A rare form, realistically modeled Chinese Buddha's Hand Citron, presented on a scalloped compote. This wo...
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Chinese Chinese Export Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Porcelain

Chinese Famille Rose Double Moon Flask Vase
Located in New York, NY
Chinese famille rose double moon flask shaped delicate ceramic vase with painted dragon and floral motif, Qianlong, early 20th century. In remarkable antiqu...
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Chinese Vintage Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Ceramic

Chinese Persimmon Phoenix Tail Vase with Cartouche Paintings, c. 1920s
Located in Chicago, IL
This vase is a perfect example of enduring Chinese symbolism and design. The attendants in the garden are watching over young boys playing with lotus branches, butterflies and small ...
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Chinese Art Deco Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Porcelain

Antique Chinese Folding Enamel Decorated Porcelain Plaques
Located in Norton, MA
Three-panel folding screens with central porcelain plaque depicting a standing royal with attendants flanked by panels depicting foliage, birds, and bat. From a Southampton, Framed b...
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Chinese Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Porcelain

Provincial Chinese Wine Jug, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This ceramic jar from China's Shandong province has a bottle-neck shape meant for storing vinegar or wine made from rice and grain. Dated to the early 20th century, the jar was likel...
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Chinese Qing Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Ceramic

Chinese Enameled Teapot with Mythical Qilin, c. 1920s
Located in Chicago, IL
Tea drinking has been an integral part of Chinese culture for centuries, resulting in a wide range of social customs and material traditions. In addition to tea leaves, water, and he...
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Chinese Chinese Export Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Ceramic

Japanese Shino Ware Mizusashi 'Water Container'
Located in Hudson, NY
Late Taisho/Early Showa Period. Artist signature and seal read: Seiun. Comes with original wooden box.
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Japanese Taisho Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Ceramic

Japanese Taishō Period 1900s Tamba Tachikui Ware Brown Sake Jar with Drip Glaze
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Japanese Taisho period brown Tamba Tachikui ware sake jar jug from the early 20th century. Boasting a lovely brown color accented with black drip glaze, thi...
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Japanese Taisho Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Ceramic

Chinese Persimmon Ginger Jar with Cartouche Paintings, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
White cartouches open on this vibrant vase’s persimmon orange field like parting clouds, revealing scenes of young boys practicing martial arts. Perhaps c...
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Chinese Qing Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Porcelain

Porcelain Tea Container with Good Luck Symbols, Early 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
A classic Chinese covered porcelain tea container with the double happiness symbol surrounded by six bats, representing health, long life and ...
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Chinese Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Porcelain

Large Antique Chinese Ceramic Wine Jar
Located in New York, NY
A nicely glazed, tall antique Chinese ceramic wine jar with a wide mouth and graceful shape. From Shanxi Province, circa 1920. CR714.
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Chinese Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Ceramic

Fine Chinese Enamel Famille Rose Plaque Early 20th Century, Signed
Located in Norton, MA
A Chinese Famille rose Porcelain plaque Early 20th century Signed Chinese Famille rose porcelain plaque of two men watching a crane in flight. Two seals at lower right. Nicely...
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Asian Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Porcelain

Chinese Famille Rose Bowl with Floral Arrangements, c. 1920
Located in Chicago, IL
During the 18th century, Europeans provided an eager market for Chinese export porcelain, especially the colorful and fanciful ware known as “famille rose.” Named for a palette of opaque overglaze enamels that favored roses and pinks, famille rose porcelain ware was crafted with the same technical virtuosity as imperial porcelain but designed for Western tastes. Dated to the early 20th century, this large porcelain bowl is a wonderful example of the intricate painted linework characteristic of famille rose ware. The base of the bowl features an arrangement of precious scholars' objects and auspicious symbols, including a ruyi scepter, a handscroll, and rhinoceros horns...
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Chinese Qing Vintage Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Porcelain

Pair of Dore Bronze Mounted Chinese Famille Rose Porcelain Vases
Located in New York, NY
A fabulous and quite beautiful pair of Louis XVI style dore bronze mounted Chinese Famille Rose porcelain, sgraffito ground covered vases or por pourries. Each is exceptionally hand ...
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Chinese Louis XVI Antique Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Bronze

Japanese Bizen Flower Vase
Located in Hudson, NY
Meiji period (1868 - 1912) ceramic vase from Okayama Prefecture. Comes with collector's box. Signature reads Kinetsu.
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Japanese Meiji Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Ceramic

Chinese Early 20th C. Glazed Porcelain Roof Tile of a Warrior on a Dragon Turtle
Located in New York, NY
Chinese glazed porcelain roof tile of a warrior riding a dragon turtle. The manufacture of glazed tiles was standardized in the Ming Dynasty and during t...
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Chinese Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Ceramic

Japanese Early 20th Century Brown Tamba Tachikui Ware Pot with Dripping
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Japanese antique Tamba Tachikui Ware pot from the early 20th century with dripping. Boasting a lovely brown color accented with dripping and horizontal incised accents, this Japanese pot was produced in one of Japan’s six famous ancient kilns. Showcasing a circular tapering body topped with a thin lip, this early 20th century Japanese Tamba ware...
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Japanese Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Ceramic

Rare Japanese Ceramic Glazed Bowl Makuzu Kozan Meiji Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
On offer is a rare ceramic bowl with overglazed design by the famed Japanese ceramic artist Makuzu Kozan (1842-1916), circa 1906-1916. The bowl is rather unusual from the potter's repertoire with its unique glaze colors and decoration, and it likely belonged to a small series that Kozan made in and after 1906. A bowl of similar glaze and nearly identical dragon motif was recorded as a diplomatic present to the British royalty Arthur Connaught (1883-1932) when he represented King Gorge V in Japan in 1906. Other pieces, such as this bowl, were likely made with similar materials and designs afterwards. Essentially round in form, the bowl has a generous volume with six harmonious lobes. The bottom of the interior showcases a coiled dragon in red, green and gold slithering on a cobalt blue background. The roundel shares an echoing lobed perimeter, which is further outlined by red and turquois bands and rising sun design. The exterior of the bowl features six stylized Japanese camellias...
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Japanese Japonisme Antique Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Ceramic

Chinese Art Deco Persimmon Vase with White Cranes, circa 1920s
Located in Chicago, IL
Drawing on the enduring phoenix tail form that dates to China’s Bronze Age, this porcelain vase from the 1920s exhibits the sinuous lines and gilded refinement that helped to define ...
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Chinese Art Deco Vintage Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Porcelain

Chinese Famille Rose Baluster Jar with Ancient Censers, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Beautifully commemorated on this lidded baluster jar, censers have been used for thousands of years in Chinese culture as a part of funeral rites or prayer offerings. Filled with dried aromatic plants and essential oils, the censer issued fragrant smoke that forged a connection to the spiritual realm. This late Qing-dynasty jar...
Category

Chinese Chinese Export Early 20th Century Ceramics

Materials

Porcelain

Fine Japanese Ceramic Vase Makuzu Kozan Meiji Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese long neck porcelain vase circa 1900-1910s by the studio of Miyagawa Kozan (1842–1916), one of the most established and collected Japanese ceramist from the end of Meiji Period. Commonly known as Makuzu Kozan, which also appears as the signature on his work, his originally birth name was Miyagawa Toranosuke. He was the appointed artist to the Japanese Imperial household and his work was exhibited in many international fairs that the Meiji government participated at the turn of the century. This vase features an elegant Classic form with a slender neck and slightly flared mouth above a baluster body. It was finely painted with two swimming carps in a copper red underglaze among green ribbons like waves. The background display a brilliant verdant green overall, Around the fish a poetic hazy effect was emphasized for a visual complexity by Fuki-e (the blow painting), an invention in Kozan's studio. The new technical development of chemical colors from the west was embraced circa 1900s in Kozan studio. This empowered the more creative experiments with not only colors, but also concept of dimension, which led Makuzu Kozan's work to become a bridge between East and West aesthetics. This is particularly evident in this vase with the Masterly details of the brush strokes, the expertly employment of gradient of color, and a very realistic and detailed rendering of the fish and their vivid motions. For two similar examples of Kozan's work with similar carps decoration, see Page 148-149 of the book: Sekai ni Aisa Reta ya Kimono Miyagawa Kozan Makuzu...
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Japanese Meiji Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Ceramic

Japanese Kyoto Ware Vase Attributed to Ninsei
Located in Atlanta, GA
An elegant vase made in Kyoto, Japan, circa 1920s. With a graceful elongated Mei-Ping form, it was likely used as a flower holder during the tea ceremony. The stoneware body has an incised and raised design of Irises in an over glazed indigo blue, an subject matter and composition found in the contemporary paintings and screens, cherished by the literati of the Kyoto society. The vase has a white glazed background sprinkled with dust for a rustic effect. The blue glaze displays some burst of bubbles upon close inspection, suggesting its age. Under the base, there is a small impressed mark of Ninsei (born Nonomura Seisuke) a famous potter from the 17th century, who was considered the founder the Kyoto ware...
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Japanese Japonisme Vintage Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Ceramic

Japanese Blue and White Hibachi with Double Gourds, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Designed to hold glowing embers, hibachi vessels were used as a source of heat or for cooking in Japanese homes. Placed under a low wood kotatsu table with an open slat top, the hibachi functioned as a grill and created a cozy gathering place for the family. This early 20th century hibachi is decorated with intricate blue-and-white patterns surrounding a trail of double gourds, symbols of health, longevity, and good luck. Within several gourds is a traditional landscape painting...
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Japanese Meiji Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Porcelain

Chinese Export Porcelain Famille Rose Tea Plates
Located in New York, NY
Chinese export porcelain tea plates of the famille rose, hand-painted with a theme of bats and floral motifs. Each one marked on the botto...
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Chinese Chinese Export Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Porcelain

Japanese Porcelain Vase Meiji Period Makuzu Kozan
Located in Atlanta, GA
A finely decorated and glazed Japanese porcelain vase by Makuzu Kozan (1842-1916) circa 1900s Meiji Period. The vase is of a classic bottle form with baluster body and short neck. It was decorated with underglaze white magnolia blossom on a pleasant celadon background. The stamens of the flower were artistically rendered in a low relief, giving the design a realistic appeal with the dimension. Miyagawa Kozan...
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Japanese Meiji Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Porcelain

Satsuma Earthenware Covered Box, by Kinkozan
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A Satsuma Earthenware covered box, by Kinkozan, Japanese, Meiji period (1868-1912) decorated in polychrome enamels and gilt over a clear, crackled glaze, delicately painted with s...
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Antique Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Earthenware

Rare Porcelain Bowl with Plique-a-Jour Design by Makuzu Kozan
Located in Atlanta, GA
An extremely fine and delicate porcelain bowl from the studio of Japanese Potter Makuzu Kozan, also known as Miyagawa Kozan (1842–1916), one of the most established and collected cer...
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Japanese Japonisme Antique Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Porcelain

Beautiful Wine Jar With Chinese Characters And Great Patina
Located in New York, NY
A beautifully weathered wine jar with Chinese characters. From Hunan Province, circa 1920. Several available. CR699.
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Chinese Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Ceramic

20th Century Blanc de Chine Guanyin
Located in Houston, TX
An early 20th century signed Chinese Blanc de Chine Guanyin (Quan Yin) styled in a ruched robe, Buddha crown, holding a cloud septor and seated ...
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Chinese Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Porcelain

Chinese Quilt Warmer Vessel, circa 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This unusual squat vessel would have been kept near a Kang platform to warm one's blankets before bed. Much like a hot water bottle, the ceramic vessel was filled with hot water thro...
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Chinese Qing Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Ceramic

Pair of Chinese Blue and White Qilin Vases, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
A parade of Qilin, Chinese mythical creatures symbolizing magnificence, joy, and benevolence, march around these hand-painted contemporary porcelain fantail vases. These particular f...
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Chinese Chinese Export Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Porcelain

Chinese Export Prunus Vase, Now as a Lamp
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Chinese Export Prunus Vase, Now as a Lamp Early 20th Century, China Dimensions: Height: 24 in Diameter: 7 in Bring home this beautifully crafted Chinese E...
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Chinese Chinese Export Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Porcelain, Wood

Antique Japanese Porcelain Vase Custom Mounted as a Lamp
Located in Dallas, TX
Antique Japanese vase newly custom mounted as a lamp. Painted in a Chinese style with multicolored floral and bird motifs against a vibrant pink background now custom mounted as lamp...
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Japanese Chinese Export Vintage Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Porcelain, Silk, Lucite

Chinese Springtime Phoenix Tail Vase, circa 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
The phoenix tail vase dates from the bronze age and has remained a popular shape for its clean lines and graceful curves. Dating from circa 1900, this vase depicts a peacock in a lovely garden setting. Lavishly detailed and masterfully painted, the vase demonstrates the high level of craft obtained by Qing-dynasty ceramic...
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Chinese Qing Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Porcelain

Large Korean Blue and White Vase with Phoenix Design
Located in Atlanta, GA
A large and heavy Korean ceramic vase in a Classic Chinese form with open mouth with a wide flared rim, a neck with three concentric grooves and a sloped broad shoulder. The blue and white design features two underglazed phoenix...
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Korean Archaistic Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Ceramic

Iga-ware Earthenware Flower Container
Located in Hudson, NY
Meiji period (1868-1912) vase with characteristic Iga-ware ears and rough, sandy clay. Comes in original storage box with silk jacket and drawstring.
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Japanese Meiji Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Ceramic, Earthenware

Set of Three Provincial Chinese Wine Jugs, circa 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
These early 20th century ceramic jars from China's Shandong province were formed with a bottle-neck shape meant for storing vinegar or rice wine. We suspect these jars were created to store wine for commercial sale, and were likely stoppered with a cork or wax seal. Left unglazed, the jugs are decorated only the irregular, organic smoke patterns created during the firing process. We love the neutral color story told by this set of vessels...
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Chinese Rustic Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Ceramic

Chinese Faceted Wine Jar, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
In Qing-dynasty China, large glazed jars such as this were used to store wines, foods, and other consumable items. The combination of high shoulders textured by an irregular, faceted...
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Chinese Qing Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Ceramic

Japanese Ceramic Bowl Makuzu Kozan Utusushi Kenzan
Located in Atlanta, GA
A rare ceramic bowl with over glaze painted decoration by Japanese imperial potter Makuzu Kozan ((1842–1916). Unlike the better known works Kozan made for the expositions in the west and export to the foreign market, this piece exemplifies his work for the domestic market and the tea ceremony. The bowl was made in the so called "Utusushi" Ogata Kenzan (1663-1743), an celebrated Edo painter and ceramicist. Utusushi is loosely translated as "in the spirit of". It is not at all a simple imitation of a master, but a Japanese concept of embracing the spiritual essence of a master while the creator is free to mix in his or her own unique artistic interpretation and flavor. The bowl was made to hold fruits during the tea ceremony. It has a very distinguished form with a circular lower body morphing into a square upper portion that further opening with flared rim. The surface has a grey glaze onto which Asagao flowers (Japanese morning glory) on the vines were painted in a free and poetic style. White was used for the petals, green for the leaves with touches of gold highlight. Asagao, the symbol of the summer was rendered in the spirit of Ogata Kenzan, and interestingly the shape of the blossom echoes the unique form the bowl. It was likely reserved for the tea ceremony during the summer months. Under the base, Kozan was signed in black on an white porcelain plaque inlay. For two similar examples of Kozan's work Utusushi Kenzan, see Page 168-169 of the book: Sekai ni Aisa Reta ya Kimono Miyagawa Kozan Makuzu...
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Japanese Japonisme Antique Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Ceramic

20th Century Blanc de Chine Guanyin
Located in Houston, TX
An early 20th century porcelain goddess of mercy on a pedestal of water, shell and lotus features.
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Chinese Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Porcelain

Chinese Famille Rose Oval Jar, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
During the 18th century, Europeans provided an eager market for Chinese export porcelain, especially the colorful and fanciful ware known as “famille rose.” Named for a palette of op...
Category

Chinese Qing Early 20th Century Ceramics

Materials

Porcelain

Chinese Quilt Warmer Vessel, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This unusual squat vessel would have been kept near a kang platform to warm one's blankets before bed. Much like a hot water bottle, the ceramic vessel was filled with hot water thro...
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Chinese Qing Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Ceramic

Japanese Modern White Pottery Vase, Japan, Early 20th c
Located in New York, NY
A very beautiful white to off-white round Japanese pottery vase, late Modern period, circa early-20th century Japan, 1921-1941. Vase has a fluted ci...
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Japanese Modern Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Ceramic, Pottery

Chinese Quilt Warmer Vessel, circa 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This unusual squat vessel would have been kept near a Kang platform to warm one's blankets before bed. Much like a hot water bottle, the ceramic vessel was filled with hot water thro...
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Chinese Qing Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Ceramic

Large Heavily Glazed Chinese Shallow Bowl
Located in Stamford, CT
Large heavily glazed Chinese shallow bowl with radiating elements to the lip. Early 20th century. On contemporary stand.
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Chinese Archaistic Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Ceramic

Antique Blue Chinese Porcelain Octagonal Shaped Fishbowls with Cartouches, Pair
Located in New York, NY
A fabulous and unusual pair of antique blue Chinese porcelain octagonal shaped fishbowls/ jardeniers painted with cartouches of flowers, birds, ...
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Chinese Chinese Export Vintage Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Porcelain

Chinese Brown Drip Glaze Vessel, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Tracing its roots back into the Han dynasty, this early 20th-century vessel emulates the full-bodied shapes and unusual glazing found in ancient ceramics...
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Chinese Qing Early 20th Century Ceramics

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Ceramic

Chinese Quilt Warmer Vessel, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This unusual squat vessel would have been kept near a kang platform to warm one's blankets before bed. Much like a hot water bottle, the ceramic vessel was filled with hot water thro...
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Chinese Qing Early 20th Century Ceramics

Materials

Ceramic

Thai Brownware Monochrome Water Jar with Carrying Handles, Early 20th Century
Located in Yonkers, NY
An antique Thai monochrome brownware water jar from the early 20th century, with carrying handles. Born in Thailand during the early years of the 20th century, this charming water ju...
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Thai Early 20th Century Ceramics

Materials

Earthenware

Antique Ceramic Food Jars
Located in New York, NY
Large antique ceramic food jars with beautifully rendered bird and floral imagery. From China, Hebei Province, circa 1900.
CR430
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Chinese Early 20th Century Ceramics

Materials

Ceramic

Large, Beautiful Country-Ware Vase
Located in Hudson, NY
Large, beautiful country-ware vase. Possibly Oribe vase with beautiful blue-green drip over-glaze and other nice glazing techniques. Small "ears" on the side. Taisho period handmade ...
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Japanese Taisho Early 20th Century Ceramics

Materials

Ceramic

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