Showa Ceramics

Mint Shozan tea bowl, Akatsu ware, Blue Impressions. From Japan, a beautiful hand-built, painted and glazed, Akatsu ware tea bowl in an impressive Picasso like impressionistic mot...

This is a good quality, hand decorated Japanese porcelain charger, large plate or bowl with an Imari pattern, dating to the late 19th centur...

Antique Imari style hand-painted cabinet plate with with cobalt blue peacocks and pink cherry blossoms. Plate is in near perfect condition and date back to the early 1900's. Cobalt b...

A rare Meissen Marcolini Porcelain Chinoiserie incense burner vase and cover, made for the Chinese market, circa 1800, blue cross swords and star mark, Pressnummer 58 A Museum Quality Piece. Painted in the sought after famille rose palette with sprigs of indianische Blumen and enriched in gilding, the simulated pierced body supported by four feet painted with stylized dragons, the pierced cover with a Buddhist lion finial. 10" high x 6" wide x 6" deep The shape of this piece, which appears to be unrecorded in the literature, is inspired by similar Chinese porcelain censers from the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period (1654-1722). An example in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated by Li Yi-hua in Qing Porcelain of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Periods from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, pl. 65. Another in the British Museum, London (museum no. PDF, A.812) is catalogued as a perfume-holder. These porcelain examples are in turn inspired by ancient Chinese bronzes from both the Shang (1600-1046 BC) and the Zhou (1046-246 BCE) dynasties, an example of which was sold anonymously by Christie's New York, 22 March 2019, lot 1601. This chain of inspiration tracking backwards from the 19th century to antiquity provides a clear example of how ceramics, and indeed other mediums, are able to influence and motivate the works of later generations. For a Meissen porcelain snuff...

Mesmerizing extraordinary Japanese contemporary museum-quality three-piece tea service, generously gilded with high purity gold and extremely intricately hand-painted in red and gree...

A gorgeous 19th-century Japanese Imari porcelain charger with a hand painted floral design in the traditional Imari colors. This fine large plate has...

A Japanese Kutsu-gata (clog-shaped) chawan (tea bowl) circa 19th century possibly older. The stoneware bowl potted from buff clay has a slight irregular shape and an unusual depth for a tea bowl. Of Mino ware...

A charming vintage Japanese oribe glazed chawan by Matsumoto Tetsuzan (b. 1955), Seto, Japan. The tea bowl, called a chawan, wonderfully potted with...

Exquisite contemporary Japanese porcelain matcha tea bowl, a unique piece platinum-gilded on the inside and hand painted in vivid pink and green on the outside set...

This is a very decorative small cloisonné vase, made in Japan and dating to the 19th Century, Meiji period. The vase has a good baluster shape w...

Exquisite Japanese contemporary Ko-Imari (Old Imari) style gilded hand painted porcelain cup and saucer. This extraordinary piece brings back the glory an...

Antique blue and white porcelain tea caddy - hand painted in cobalt blue with birds and butterflies among flowering branches - non glazed lip and b...