Meiji Vases
MEIJI STYLE
From 1868 to 1912, Emperor Mutsuhito oversaw an era of transformation in Japan. Formerly a country of feudalism and isolation, Japan entered an age of modernization influenced by newly established trade and exchange with the West. The Meiji period, or period of “enlightened rule,” also saw the global impact of the East Asian country’s culture. Japanese Meiji furniture was exhibited at expositions from Paris to San Francisco and created for export.
Prior to the Meiji era, furniture was mostly made by commission for the ruling class; now there were new domestic and international markets. European styles like Japonisme appropriated Japanese design while craftsmen in places like Wales and England employed japanning, a varnishing technique that approximated the appearance of lacquer for the surfaces of furnishings.
Meiji furniture made for Japanese homes and buildings constructed in Western styles resulted in taller tables, chairs, cabinets with large drawers and other features. The government invested in areas such as transportation and communication, and because people could freely choose occupations after the restrictions of feudalism, industries of various types were energized by expressive new ideas during those years. Art schools were formed and, for the first time, design was an area of study in the country, leading to the evolution of professional design as a career by the 1890s.
The work of Japanese designers was transmitted widely through lavishly illustrated pattern books that included designs for screens and lacquerware for the home. While screens today may be of use as decorative accents or partitions to ensure privacy in one’s space, Japanese screens were adorned with paintings and were featured in performing arts such as concerts, tea ceremonies and more. The color illustrations that characterize Meiji woodblock prints, a genre of Japanese art that grew out of 17th-century developments in printing and book publishing, depicted the sweeping changes that the era brought to East Asia.
Although it was a time of societal and cultural shifts, a bolstered interest in art and design elevated Japanese craft traditions. From colorful porcelain table lamps with silk shades and hardwood tables decorated with dark lacquer to cabinets featuring iron hardware and inlaid with mother-of-pearl, Meiji furniture showcased Japan’s artistic heritage to the world.
Find a collection of antique Japanese Meiji period case pieces and storage cabinets, decorative objects, wall decorations and more furniture on 1stDibs.
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Style: Meiji
Rare Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Over Brass Goldstone Vases with Butterflies
Located in New York, NY
A pair of rare identical Japanese unusual shaped enamel over brass bud vases. Each vase has a sphere shaped body with a narrow neck and a narrow base. The exterior of the vases are e...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Vases
Materials
Brass, Enamel
Japanese Contemporary Pink Blue Gold Porcelain Vase by Master Artist, 5
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Japanese contemporary decorative porcelain vase, extremely intricately gilded and hand painted on a beautifully shaped ovoid fine porcelain in different shades of blue and pink to cr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Vases
Materials
Gold
Antique Meiji Era Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Bud Vase with Butterflies
Located in New York, NY
A high quality late 19th century Japanese bud vase featuring a globular body and a tall, everted neck. The vase is enameled with a polychrome image of butterflies made in using the c...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Vases
Materials
Enamel
Large Matching Pair Satsuma Meiji Era Figural Vases Figures in Clouds Gold Leaf
By Satsuma
Located in Ann Arbor, MI
LARGE Matching Pair Satsuma Meiji Era Figural vases figures in clouds gold leaf. Amazing multi color decoration. Vases display prominently from any decor...
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Early 1900s Japanese Antique Meiji Vases
Materials
Pottery
Pair Japanese Bronze Meiji Era Vases with Multiple Birds on Branches Signed
Located in Ann Arbor, MI
Pair Japanese Bronze Meiji Era vases with multiple birds on branches very detailed with multiple ways to display. Both vases are signed as shown.
Category
Early 1900s Japanese Antique Meiji Vases
Materials
Bronze
Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Vase Egyptian Figure
Located in New York, NY
A rare antique Japanese Meiji era enamel vase. The vase has a globular shaped body and a long neck.
The exterior of the vase is adorned with medallions with an image of a Egyptian f...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Vases
Materials
Enamel
Japanese Contemporary Blue Platinum Porcelain Vase by Master Artist Duo, 2
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Extraordinary Japanese contemporary highly collectible museum quality highly detailed, extremely intricately hand painted porcelain vase in blue, red and platinum, showcasing the fou...
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21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Vases
Materials
Platinum
Antique Japanese Meiji Era Porcelain Satsuma Figural Kutani Vase Fu Dogs Geisha
Located in Dayton, OH
"Late Meiji era Kutani vase, circa 1903. A beautiful porcelain blue ground centered by an intricate Geisha flanked by gold figural Foo Dog handles. Features a floral and foliat motif throughout. Signed along the base.
Kutani ware, Japanese porcelain made in Kaga province (now in Ishikawa prefecture). The name “Old Kutani” refers to porcelain decorated with heavily applied overglaze enamels and produced in the Kaga mountain village of Kutani. The powerful Maeda family had established a kiln there by 1656. The clay bodies used were gray and coarse-grained. On most pieces—dishes and bowls were especially common—a white or blue-white matte glaze was decorated in dark, restrained colours, initially greens, yellows, and some reds, and later purples and dark blues. Some items had cobalt blue decoration under a white glaze. The most noted Old Kutani pieces are “Green Kutani,” in which most of the surface is covered in a green or blue-green glaze to which one or two colours have been added (or the glaze is applied evenly over a design executed in black). The bold designs of Kutani ware drew freely from Chinese ceramics, paintings, and textiles. They are renowned for their rich pictorial ornament executed in lively, intense lines.
Owing to local financial problems and difficulties in obtaining the necessary pigments, the Kutani kiln was abandoned some time in the Genroku period (1688–1704). Ceramics production in Kaga enjoyed a renaissance early in the 19th century, however, including the establishment of another kiln at Kutani in the 1820s. In addition to a revival of the styles of Old Kutani ware, there arose a style using gold on a coral-red ground, which was perfected during another spate of activity that began in the 1860s. Technical advances were made and Western-style pigments were adopted, and by the 1890s modern Kutani...
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Early 1900s Antique Meiji Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Japanese Contemporary Green Blue Ceramic Charger by Master Artist, 2
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Extraordinary large museum quality Japanese contemporary ceramic charger in a stunning rectangular shape, hand painted in the artist's signature green and blue to feature a dramatic ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Double Dragon French Mounted Gilt Bronze Centerpiece
Located in New York, NY
An antique Japanese gilt bronze centerpiece urn or jardiniere with enameled body. Late Meiji period, before 1912. The foot is decorated with sculptural sea creatures. The item has fi...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Vases
Materials
Enamel, Bronze
Large Japanese Meiji Cloisonne Enamel Vase with Birds of Paradise
Located in New York, NY
A fine quality Japanese cloisonne vase having a flared rim to slender neck and baluster body. The surface is enameled with highly detailed polychrome medallions depicting highly deta...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Vases
Materials
Brass, Enamel
Large Antique Japan Meiji Butterflies Enamel Vase
Located in New York, NY
A large antique Japanese Meiji period enamel vase. The vase has an amphora shaped body and a narrow neck. The vase is enameled with a polychrome image of butterflies made in the Cloi...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Vases
Materials
Enamel
19th Century Japanese Cloisonné Small Lidded Jar, Early Meiji Period
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a very decorative cloisonné small lidded jar, made in Japan and dating to the 19th century, early Meiji period, circa 1875 or possibly earlier...
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19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Japanese Contemporary Blue Gold Porcelain Vase by Master Artist, 3
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Extraordinary Japanese contemporary museum quality decorative porcelain vase, extremely intricately hand painted on an elegantly shaped porcelain body in blue, with extremely intrica...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Vases
Materials
Gold
Antique Japanese Ginbari Cloisonne Enamel Dragon Vase
Located in New York, NY
An antique Japanese Meiji period Ginbari enamel vase. The ground of the vase is enameled in blue and cobalt blue shades. The vase is enameled with a polychrome image of a dragon over...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Vases
Materials
Enamel
Large Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Vase with Tennin
Located in New York, NY
A large antique Japanese Meiji era, 1868 to 1912, cloisonne enamel vase decorated with an image of tennin, a beautiful winged woman dressed in ornate kimono with a flowing scarf that...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Vases
Materials
Enamel
Japanese Contemporary Blue Green Platinum Porcelain Vase by Master Artist, 3
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Exceptional Japanese contemporary decorative porcelain vase, platinum-gilded and hand painted signed porcelain vase in a stunning ovoid shape, a masterpiece by highly acclaimed maste...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Vases
Materials
Platinum
Japanese Contemporary Blue White Porcelain Vase by Master Artist, 4
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Exceptional Japanese contemporary decorative porcelain vase, intricately hand painted in deep blue on an stunningly shaped body, a signed masterpiece by highly acclaimed master porce...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Vases
Materials
Porcelain
A Pair of Barrel Shaped Japanese Meiji Cloisonne Enamel Butterfly Vases
Located in New York, NY
An antique Japanese cloisonne enamel vase from the Meiji period featuring an elegant form with high shoulders and light beige ground color. Decorated with multicolor floral and foliate motifs with butterfly images to the body. A rim and base are finished in gilt brass. Circa the early 20th century. Antique Japanese Vases...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Vases
Materials
Brass, Enamel
A Meiji Antique Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Wisteria and Fish Vase
Located in New York, NY
An antique Japanese Meiji period brass and cloisonne enamel vase decorated along the rim with overhanging wisteria flowers on a yellow ground abo...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Vases
Materials
Enamel
Japanese Contemporary Black Yellow Blue Green Porcelain Vase by Master Artist, 2
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Unique Japanese contemporary decorative porcelain vase, hand painted in green, yellow, blue, red and black over a stunning bottle shaped body, a beautiful piece from a signature coll...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Vases
Materials
Porcelain
A Rare Pair of Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Silver Wire Vases with Dandelions
Located in New York, NY
A pair of antique Japanese copper vases of flattened round shape with figurative rims. Late Meiji period, before 1912. The pieces are decorated w...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Vases
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Japanese Satsuma Ginger Jar Vase, circa Early 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful small Japanese Satsuma ginger jar vase, circa early-20th century, Japan. Colors include cream, copper, green, blue, white, black, orange...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Vases
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware, Pottery
Japanese Contemporary Black Yellow Blue Green Porcelain Vase by Master Artist
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Exquisite Japanese contemporary porcelain vase hand painted in green, yellow, blue, red and black over a beautifully shaped body, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Ota Jinnoei 1890 Imperial Meiji Period Pair of Cloisonne Cabinet Vases
By Ota Jinnoei
Located in Miami, FL
Pair of cloisonne vases designed by Ota Jinnoei.
Beautiful pair of small cabinet vases, created in Japan circa 1890, during the meiji Imperial period (1868-1912). These vases has ...
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1890s Japanese Antique Meiji Vases
Materials
Silver, Bronze, Enamel
Antique Signed Japanese Bronze Mixed Metals Butterbur Vase by Atsuyoshi / Inoue
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine signed antique Japanese Meiji period mixed metals vase.
By Miyabe Atsuyoshi for Inoue of Kyoto.
With a bronze body and d...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Vases
Materials
Gold, Silver, Bronze, Copper
Pair of Large 19th Century Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Blue Ground Enamel Vases Cra
Located in New York, NY
A large pair of Japanese Meiji Period Blue-Ground Cloisonne enamel vases, 19th century. Very nice quality, with cloisonne enamel throughout, depicting cranes, flowers and blossoms wi...
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Late 19th Century Unknown Antique Meiji Vases
Materials
Enamel
Extra Large Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Pink Vase Gonda
Located in New York, NY
An extra large antique, late Meiji era, Japanese copper and enamel vase by Gonda Hirosuke, Japanese, 1865 to 1937. A sphere shaped body is covered with ...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Vases
Materials
Enamel, Copper
A Pair of High Quality Meiji Japanese Era Black Cloisonne Enamel Wisteria and Bi
Located in New York, NY
A pair of antique Japanese copper vases with cloisonne enamel design. Late Meiji era, before 1912. Elongated shape with pronounced neck. The piec...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Vases
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Antique Japanese Mixed Metals Copper & Silver Usubata Ikebana Flower Vase
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique Japanese flower vase.
In hand-hammered copper (or possibly a thin-bodied bronze) with applied silver bands to rim, footrim, shaped edge, and with a lotus petal border at the joint of neck and body.
Having the usubata form with a wide flared neck and mouth.
The 'usubata' vase is a form favored for large scale floral arrangements by the Ikenobo school, the oldest and largest school of Japanese ikebana founded in the 15th century by Buddhist monk Senno Ikenobo. It is believed that the wide and shallow rim of an usubata vase which displays the surface of the water best imitates natural conditions of growth while also contributing to the longevity of an arrangement with the increased surface area of the water better oxygenating the plants.
The base retains still retains hand-hammered marks.
There is evidence of seams and folds throughout from the construction, and the surface has a cloud-like brown patina throughout.
Simply a wonderful Japanese mixed metal vase...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Vases
Materials
Copper, Silver
A Pair of Meiji Era Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Cherry Blossom and Geometric Patte
Located in New York, NY
A pair of antique Japanese copper vases with cloisonne enamel design. Late Meiji period, before 1912. Cylindrical shape with pronounced base and ...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Vases
Materials
Enamel, Copper
A High Quality Pair of Meiji Antique Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Wisteria and Bird
Located in New York, NY
A pair of antique Japanese Meiji period vases, each features a midnight blue ground and is decorated with silver wire and colored enamels t...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Vases
Materials
Enamel
Antique Japanese Cloissone Enameled Meiji Vase with Flowers Circa 1900
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique Japanese Meiji vase offers Cloissone enameled flower decoration, c1900
Measures- 7.5''H x 3''W x 3''D
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Vases
Materials
Metal
Antique Signed Japanese Meiji Period Mixed Metals Bronze Double Gourd Form Vase
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique Japanese bronze vase.
From the Meiji Period.
With copper and silver floral and vine and butterfly inlay as well a kanji symbol to the neck (possibly a stylized f...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Vases
Materials
Silver, Copper, Bronze
Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Chrysanthemum Vase Signed Ando Company
By Ando Jubei
Located in Newark, England
Japanese cloisonne enamel Chrysanthemum vase Tashio-early Showa period. The vase of bulbous form boldly decorated with a vivid green base enamel and...
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Meiji Vases
Materials
Silver, Enamel, Wire
Tsuda Eijyu, an Elegant Japanese Patinated Bronze Vase
Located in Kastrup, DK
Tsuda Eijyu (1915-2000).
A Japanese patinated bronze vase of globular form with a long and narrow neck. Seal marked.
Vases like this o...
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20th Century Japanese Meiji Vases
Materials
Bronze
Pair 19th Century Cloisonne Vases
Located in Dallas, TX
Pair 19th Century Cloissone vases is an extraordinary example of the breed, displaying its well-preserved, rich coloration and exhibiting a large format design theme celebrating the ...
Category
1890s French Antique Meiji Vases
Materials
Brass, Enamel
Japanese Contemporary Red Blue Porcelain Vase by Master Artist, 4
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Unique Japanese contemporary decorative porcelain vase, hand-painted in blue underglaze and red on a beautifully shaped porcelain body in pure white, a signed piece by widely celebra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Monumental Japanese Kutani Porcelain Vase, Meiji/Taisho Period, Signed
Located in New York, NY
A Monumental Japanese Kutani porcelain vase, Meiji/Taisho Period, Signed Akiyama sei. The main body is all hand-painted with wonderful ...
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Early 1900s Japanese Antique Meiji Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Large Japanese Imari Porcelain Trumpet Neck Floor Vase
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Very Large hand painted and decorated / gilt Japanese floor vases in the Imari porcelain. The vase features exterior / interior hand painted Japane...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Vases
Materials
Gold
Japanese Contemporary Green Red Gold Porcelain Vase by Master Artist, 2
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Extraordinary museum quality contemporary Japanese decorative porcelain vase, extremely intricately gilded and hand-painted in stunning shades of red and green on a stunningly shaped...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Vases
Materials
Gold
Pair of Large Bronze Japanese Vases, Meiji Period
Located in Kastrup, DK
A pair of unusual large Japanese cast bronze vases, Meiji period, 1860-1912. Patinated bronze with bronze highlights, the top lip with a Gre...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Vases
Materials
Bronze
Old Stones in a Japanese Garden "Tsukubai" Stone Water Basin / Garden Figurine
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
There is a culture in Japan that makes gardens beautiful.
It is this stone that is placed in the place where visitors wash their hands.
It is called "tsukubai" in Japan.
Water is flo...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Vases
Materials
Stone
19th Century Imari Porcelain Tall Trumpet Vase, Japan, 1870s
Located in Lambertville, NJ
A remarkable hand painted Japanese Imari porcelain trumpet vase with ribbed body and profuse decoration. This vase is very rare and unique in its decoration and quality of the artist...
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1870s Japanese Antique Meiji Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Japanese Contemporary Blue White Red Yellow Porcelain Vase by Master Artist, 2
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Exceptional Japanese contemporary museum quality decorative porcelain vase, extremely intricately hand-painted in blue, red, yellow and green on a stunning ovoid shape body, a signed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Japanese Moriage Nippon Porcelain Vase or Covered Jar
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique Japanese Nippon porcelain vase or covered urn.
With green, pink, and white tones in raised moriage enamel that gives a three-dimensional effect.
Decorated with 4 cartouches throughout. The main cartouche features a moriage dragon...
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20th Century Japanese Meiji Vases
Materials
Enamel
Japanese Contemporary Blue White Gold Porcelain Vase by Master Artist, 3
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Exquisite large contemporary Japanese porcelain decorative vase, intricately hand-painted in underglaze blue, gold and white, a master...
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21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Vases
Materials
Gold
Japanese Contemporary Blued Pink Porcelain Vase by Master Artist, 3
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Exquisite Japanese contemporary porcelain vase, hand painted in blue and pink, the signed work by master artist of the Imari- Arita region of Japan dramatically featuring giant soft salmon pink peonies set against a white background adorned with a stunning gradation soft blue auspicious fish scale pattern. In 2016, the British Museum added a work by this artist to its collection of contemporary Japanese porcelain – a large lidded jar...
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21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Contemporary Japanese Black Pink Blue Gold Porcelain Vase by Master Artist
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Exqusite Japanese contemporary porcelain decorative vase, intricately gilded and hand painted in vivid pink and blue on an ovoid porcelain body, set against a dramatic black backgrou...
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21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Vases
Materials
Gold
Japanese Contemporary Black Platinum Gold Porcelain Vase by Master Artist, 4
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Exquisite Japanese dimpled decorative porcelain vase intricately hand painted in gold and platinum, showcasing a dramatic scene of a phoenix extending its beautiful long wings, set a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Vases
Materials
Gold, Platinum
1860s Large Japanese Parcel Gilt High-Relief Dragons and Birds Bronze Vase
Located in Germantown, MD
Amazing Antique fine quality Japanese 19th century bronze vase, circa 1860 with exquisite decorations of raised bronze crafted dragons and birds and many other original meiji decorat...
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Mid-19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Vases
Materials
Bronze
Japan Satsuma Porcelain Vase and Golden Metal 19th Century
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Large Satsuma porcelain vase from the Meiji on a gilt metal frame from the Napoleon III period. On one side of the vase is represented a deity, probably ...
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19th Century Antique Meiji Vases
Materials
Metal
Japanese Contemporary Gold Blue Orange Porcelain Plate by Master Artist, 2
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Elegent contemporary Japanese dimpled decorative porcelain plate, a unique piece gilded and hand painted by highly acclaimed porcelain artist of Japan’s Imari-Arita region. This mast...
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21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Vases
Materials
Gold
Japanese Contemporary Gold Pink Blue Green Porcelain Plate by Master Artist, 3
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Unique contemporary Japanese dimpled decorative porcelain plate, an elegant piece gilded and hand painted by highly acclaimed porcelain artist of Japan’s Imari-Arita region. This mas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Vases
Materials
Gold
Japanese Contemporary Platinum Blue Porcelain Vase by Master Artist Duo
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Outstanding Japanese contemporary museum quality porcelain vase, highly detailed, extremely intricately hand painted in blue and platinum on a stunningly shaped porcelain body, showc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Vases
Materials
Platinum
Japanese Contemporary Blue Pink Platinum Porcelain Vase by Master Artist, 6
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Exquisite contemporary Japanese dimpled decorative porcelain vase, hand painted in vivid blue, green and pink on an elegantly shaped porcelain body against a striking platinum background, a signed piece by highly acclaimed award-winning Japanese master porcelain artist in the Imari-Arita tradition. In 2016, the British Museum added a work by this artist to its collection of contemporary Japanese porcelain, a large lidded jar in the Imari-Arita polychrome enamel tradition.
The artist is the recipient of numerous awards for his exceptional porcelain work and his unique signature gold and platinum work on porcelain.
This elegant vase is the perfect canvas for a stunning floral pattern, set against a dimpled platinum background. The artist continues the platinum work to decorate the inside of this magnificent piece.
The unfired porcelain shell is impressed with hundreds of dimples, to which gold and platinum are applied at the final stage of production. The dimples are designed to accentuate the luster of the precious metals by varying the thickness of application and allowing the cratering to convey a sense of depth.
“Fired-on gold,” his signature style, highlights unique techniques for incorporating gold and platinum into the hand painting and multiple firing processes that yield a stunningly opulent look. The polychrome overglaze is fired at 800 degrees, followed by the application of gold and platinum that are fired at slightly lower temperature to maintain the luster of the precious metals. As a result, a single piece may undergo as many as five-ten firings. This artist's profile is available upon request.
This stunning decorative porcelain vase showcases elegant Japanese toad...
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21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Vases
Materials
Platinum
Meiji Period Japanese Bronze Enamel Vase
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive Japanese bronze and cloisonne enamel vase having raised decoration depicting a carp in the river, with a deer under a tree.
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Meiji Vases
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Contemporary Blue Red Platinum Porcelain Vase by Master Artist, 5
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Exquisite contemporary Japanese dimpled decorative porcelain vase in blue and red on platinum, an elegant piece hand painted by a highly acclaimed porcelain artist of Japan’s Imari-A...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Vases
Materials
Platinum
Meiji vases for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Meiji vases for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage vases created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include decorative objects, asian art and furniture, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, ceramic and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Meiji vases made in a specific country, there are Asia, East Asia, and Japan pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original vases, popular names associated with this style include Ando Jubei, Satsuma, Kinkozan, and Makuzu Kozan. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for vases differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $83 and tops out at $98,000 while the average work can sell for $2,994.
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