Japanese Green Red Cream Porcelain Vase by Contemporary Master Artist

Elegant gilded contemporary Japanese decorative porcelain lidded jar, hand painted in green and red with generous gold details, showcasing scalopped floral panels surrounded by a flo...

Exquisite large contemporary Japanese decorative porcelain vase, intricately hand-painted in red, blue and green with generous gold details, a signed masterpiece from his signature s...

With lovely magnolia tree in bloom and finch on blue background. Signed: Fukugawa.   

A porcelain vase with dragon motif by Japanese imperial potter Makuzu Kozan (1842-1916), circa 1900s. The vase is made in what is considered early phase of his underglaze period during late Meiji era. In a classic elongated baluster form, the surface of the vase was decorated in an unusual pink mist on a white and aubergine background (called Morotai, the Hazy style), on which a flying dragon is showcased on the center. The dragon was outlined in iron red and filled with the aubergine color and was artistically emphasized on its bulging eyes, claws, scales and a long tail. It was the sole focus of the design circumventing the entire body of the vase. The imagery calls in mind the dragon decoration found in Korean...