19th Century Large Japanese Satsuma Moriage Vase

Japan, 20th century A truly hand-painted with extreme attention and design floral patterns and gilt line work in the urn form and elephant handles. It's signed in the bottom of the ...

Japan, 20th century A truly hand-painted with extreme attention and design energy in the creation of patterns and gilt line work all around the entire big vase. It's highly represen...

Antique Chinese Famille Rose Bottle Form Vase China. 19th/early 20th-century decoration of children playing. 16in high. Chia-Ching mark.

Carved and glazed with a panoramic village scene. A river runs through the village show houses on the riverbanks, fishermen, and mountains in the distance. A red sun is over the hori...

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...

Fabulous japanese earthenware Satsuma Vase of great shape and scene. Taizan Yohei style. Meiji Period It was made into a lamp, there is a hole in the base, a cork in the neck and a b...

A very fine quality monumental Japanese vase depicting Samurai on one side and distinguished female and her attendants on reverse, particularly unique for its very prominent stylized...

Superb quality unusual large antique 19th century Japanese Imari vase having a superb quality unusual large antique Japanese Imari vase fantastic decoration throughout with panels co...