Japanese Imari plater, circa 1890. 64cm (25") diameter

Large and rare pair of early 19th Century Chinese Famille Rose Fish Bowls. Each with wonderful bold colours, a rich green ground, classical boarders ...

A fine quality late 19th Century Japanese Imari porcelain Koro, having wonderfully detailed classical motif and scrolling foliate decoration to the whole. The lid have a scholar seat...

A good quality late 19th century Japanese lidded Imari vase, having classical motif decoration and hand painted inset panels depicting seated Geisha girls. Signed to the base. Ba...

A very good quality late 19th Century Japanese Imari charger, having wonderful orange ground with scrolling foliate gilded highlights, motif decoration too the boarders, inset hand p...

Japanese porcelain Imari vase, circa 1870.

A 19th century Japanese Imari vase from a large collection that is from a well-known Tampa family of collectors. The wonderful designs on both the front and the back so may be turned...

Japanese Imari vase, the interior rim is sparsely painted with stylized flowers and foliate, the baluster shaped body is boldly and profusely decorated with stylized flowers, foliat...

The mark on the underneath (see image) indicates that this spittoon is of Japanese Imari porcelain, manufactured circa 1880, and made specifically for the American market for the preponderance of bars and saloons at that time. These were popular from 1865 to the turn of the century; this is a particularly fancy and elaborate example. Note the copious and highly detailed and beautiful floral decoration to the inside of the upper portion of the spittoon; pretty fancy for something meant for spit and saliva! Fantastic and all original condition with no cracks, no chips and very bright paint in sharp colors of blue rust and pink, and meticulously painted in a floral pattern. Several of these would have been “stationed” in strategic places within a saloon. This is a wonderful piece of porcelain, and quality item of saloon and Western United States history...