Fine Art Japanese Vase Arita by Fujii Shumei Winter Landscape, 20th Century

Lovely and rare piece. A superb blue and white porcelain vase, with a winter landscape. Made by Fuji Shumei. Fujii Mr. Aki Fujii’s specialty is the technique of drawing a mountain ...

Lovely and rare piece. A superb blue and white porcelain vase, with a wrinkled section made by Fuji Shumei The Fujii family is a family lineage that has been involved in pottery fo...

Lovely and unusual piece. A superb blue and white porcelain vase, with a landscape. Made by Fuji Shumei Fujii Mr. Aki Fujii’s specialty is the technique of drawing a mountain by si...

Lovely and rare piece with matching storage box. A superb blue and white porcelain vase, with a landscape. Made by Fuji Shumei Fujii Mr. Aki Fujii's specialty is the technique ...

This porcelain vase, created by Inoue Haruo, embodies the elegance and finesse of Kyoto ceramics. Its spherical shape softened by harmonious curves, is topped with a slightly flared ...

Aritaware porcelain vase, Fukagawa, Japan, 20th century. Octagonal shaped vase. Graphic wrapped tassel design in gold and deep red on white ground.

Elegant Japanese contemporary decorative porcelain vase, signed masterpiece intricately hand-painted in blue underglaze on a beautifully shaped porcelain body, a work by highly accla...

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...