Japanese Imari porcelain covered vegetable bowl measuring 5 1/8" diameter x 3 3/8” high. The bowl and lid are decorated in underglaze blue (sometsuke) and overglaze polychrome pigments with gilt highlights and features six alternating floral panels. The interior is undecorated. A central square red seal is on the top of the lid and an underglaze blue square "fuku" mark is on the base. Dates from the 19th century (late Edo to Meiji perid). Very good overall condition.
Japanese Arita porcelain nagazara rectangular tray decorated in sometsuke (underglaze blue enamel). The interior center features a shochikubai pattern, or “three friends” motif of pine, prunus and bamboo. The exterior is decorated with a sometsuke karakusa (scrolling foliage) design. The four edges have a cut corner finish. Similar examples of the pattern on the interior cavetto can be found on page 516 (plate 4070) and on 521 (plates 4111 and 4112) of the “Complete Catalogue of the Shibata Col ...click for details
Japanese Meiji period "aka-e" (red) Kutani deep bowl finely decorated on the interior with a dense geometric and floral pattern in overglaze rust-red and gilt highlights. A square cartouche at the center holds a gilt "ho-o" (phoenix) bird in flight. The exterior is decorated around the circumference with festive lanterns. The base holds a red three-character mark reading in Japanese "Kutani made." Dates from the late 19th century. 8 1/2" diameter x 2 5/8" ...click for details
Large Japanese Meiji to Taisho period heavily potted "aka-e" (red) Kutani porcelain teapot decorated with beauties and young girls set against a continuous landscape scene. The base has a stylized gold on red mark. Stands about 7 3/4" high. Dates circa 1900 - 1920. Very good overall condition. There is a tiny unnoticeable frit on the rim which can be felt. It appears to be a production flaw.
Japanese heavily potted Meiji “aka-e”(red) Kutani style export porcelain 3-piece tea set consisting of a covered teapot, creamer, and covered sugar vessel decorated in overglaze rust-red and polychrome enamels with gilt highlights. An alternating central cartouche on both sides of each piece includes figural motifs engaged in scholarly activities in outdoor settings. The base holds a red four-character “Kobe Kita made” mark which dates the set to the late Meiji/early Taisho periods (1900-1915). ...click for details
Unusual Chinese stoneware molded praying monkey covered in a runny brown glaze probably crafted to serve as a toy or tomb object. About 2 1/2" long. Circa 12th century. Very good overall condition with a tiny glaze loss to one ear. From the private collection of a former American expatriate to Guangzhou in 1983-1984.
Chinese late Qing to early Republic period ceramic modeled container shaped like a "ha ma," or toad, with a hollow body and flat base covered in a monochrome pearl glaze with a seeded finish. Measures about 10 ½”L x 9 ¼”W x 6”H. There are some old surface cracks visible. The back section appears to have been restored and the gray areas in the pearl glaze appear to be old restorations which were executed in China. There does not seem to have been any effort to disguise these repairs ...click for details
Japanese Meiji period “aka-e” (red) Kutani vase decorated in overglaze rust-red and polychrome enamels with gilt highlights. On one side is a panel featuring a large bird flying over flowers while the panel on the opposite side depicts a noble woman, child, and attendant in an interior setting with a garden visible in the background. On the sides of the vase are smaller medallions holding blossoming branches. All are set against a rust-red background with gilt highlights. The base holds the r ...click for details
Large Meiji Period Japanese "aka-e" (red) Kutani deep bowl decorated in overglaze rust-red and polychrome enamels with gilt highlights and featuring a central scene of birds in a landscape with a pond and flowering plants. The interior border consists of four alternating sections of butterflies set against scrolling foliage and geometric patterns. The exterior is decorated on opposing sides with a landscape and floral bouquet. The base holds a red two-character mark reading in Japanes ...click for details
Large Japanese Kutani porcelain bowl decorated in gilt and overglaze polychrome enamels. A square cartouche in the center of the bowl features two birds perched on flowering tree limbs. A band interspersed with flowers and geometric forms extends around the circumference of the interior and exterior rim. The exterior is decorated with lacquer cups and sprigs of budding foliage. The base is signed in red "Kutani made." Believed to date from the early Showa Period (circa 1926 - 1935). ...click for details
Large, heavily potted Japanese Imari porcelain scalloped edge charger measuring 15 1/2" diameter x 2 1/4” high. The charger is decorated in underglaze blue and overglaze polychrome pigments with gilt highlights and features a circular central floral medallion surrounded by six alternating panels, three painted with shishi running through a garden and three decorated with birds flying above a stream. All are set against an underglaze blue background with gilt scrolling vine highlights. The ...click for details
Japanese Meiji period Imari porcelain 7 1/4” diameter x 3” deep bowl. The center of the bowl holds a central circular medallion with a stylized floral pattern pattern in underglaze blue (sometsuke). The interior and exterior sides are decorated in underglaze blue and overglaze polychrome enamel with gilt highlights and features three cartouches with flying phoenix birds on a white ground separated by rust-red and gilt medallions holding an animal motif set against a cobalt ground. Late 19th cen ...click for details
Extra large heavily potted Japanese Meiji period (late 19th century) Imari porcelain 12” diameter x 4 1/8”H deep bowl. The interior is decorated in underglaze blue and overglaze polychrome pigments with gilt highlights and features a circular central floral medallion surrounded by six alternating panels painted with the “three friends” (pine, prunus and bamboo). The exterior is decorated with three stylized floral medallions set against a background of underglaze blue star-shaped flowers among c ...click for details
Japanese "aka-e" (red painted) Kutani porcelain vase decorated in polychrome enamels, the characteristic orange-red, and gilt highlights with a continuous scene of beauties and girls strolling under blossoming trees by a lake in a park. The central scene is bordered in geometric bands with gilt highlights. The trees are accented with an abundance of tiny moriage white dots. 11 3/4"H. Late 19th century. Base marked "Kutani made" in orange-red. Very good overall condi ...click for details
Large Japanese 19th century Imari porcelain 9 5/8” diameter x 3 ¾”H deep bowl. This piece was quite likely produced for New Year's celebration purposes in the year of the rabbit. A central roundel is bordered in an underglaze blue comb pattern band. It features an overglaze enameled Ship of Good Fortune (takarabune), which is laden with treasures and is known to carry the Seven Gods of Good Luck into port at New Year’s. The exterior and interior sides are decorated in underglaze blue and ...click for details
