Antique Edo Period Japanese Arita Small Vase or Bottle Water Dropper, 17/18th C

Fabulous Japanese earthenware Satsuma vase with nice decoration of flowers and figures decoration marked. Meiji period, 19th c Lovely piece. Additional information: Material: Porce...

Quality painting work of Hikojiro Imura Focused on the fact that the painting of ceramics for export that was being done in Tokyo at the start of the Meiji era was flourishing. He t...

Interesting and finely painted Japanese Bottle. Great decoration. Additional information: Material: Porcelain & Pottery Japanese Style: Arita Region of Origin: China Period: 20th ce...

Lovely and rare piece. Additional information: Material: Porcelain & Pottery Region of Origin: Japan Period: Showa Periode (1926-1989) Original/Reproduction: Original Condition: Ove...

We have received very rare and beautiful pottery. This is Japanese "Seto ware". Seto is a historic kiln in Aichi prefecture. (The red circle on the map is the Seto kiln) It is sai...

Late 19th century Chinese ceramic vase in the Japanese style, bulbous in shape with painted naturalistic detailing of trees, water, and birds. Solid deep blue banding highlights the ...

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...

Decorated in iron-red and green enamels with an overall design of three shish frolicking with a brocade ball, signed on the base with an impressed seal Makuzu. The storage box ti...