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An Oribe hand-shaped vase suitable for tea ceremony Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Tea Articles: Pre 1940   item# 1147750  click for details Ruyi Studio San Francisco 415.990.3524 $120.00  A fine Oribe hand-shaped vase of well-balanced, asymmetrical form with a blue-green glaze descending from the mouth and spilling over the shoulder. The exposed horizontal ribs of the body are intersected with impressed finger-shaped channels. A soft café au lait-colored glaze embellished with a delicate craquelare is the ground for a fluid and rhythmic dark brown painted decoration of orchids juxtaposed with random geometric motifs. A tiny potter’s mark appearing on the outside edge of the un ...click for details A Seto Ware Vase in the Art Nouveau Style: Shunji Kato Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1980   item# 1109714  click for details Ruyi Studio San Francisco 415.990.3524 $300.00  Seto ware is classified as ‘Nihon Rokkoyo’or ‘Chuse Rokkoyo’—one of medieval Japan’s six traditionally recognized ceramic types, and it is the pottery associated with Aichi Prefecture. The elegant vase offered here represents a highly unusual marriage of the traditional Seto ware glaze and clay to an Art Nouveau form, an original work by the 2nd Shunji Kato (1892-1979). A native of Seto City, Shunji assumed his master’s name in 1926 and later produced wares for the Matsuo-ryu school of tea. I ...click for details Chinese Bats on a Blue & White, Bucket-Shaped Vase Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Stoneware: Pre 1700   item# 1066600  click for details Ruyi Studio San Francisco 415.990.3524 Sold. Fukuyama,Hiroshima, Japan.  This item has been sold. Thank you. A Large Octagonal Celadon Hu-Form Celadon Vase Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Porcelain: Pre 1920   item# 1056600  click for details Ruyi Studio San Francisco 415.990.3524 Sold. Frisco, Texas  This item has been sold. Thank you. Winter Prunus Vase: A Large GU Form Chinese Celadon Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Pottery: Pre 1900   item# 1054752  click for details Ruyi Studio San Francisco 415.990.3524 $580.00  Ching Dynasty (circa 1850-1890). This tall, unmarked, bold celadon vase, with its wide flaring trumpet-shaped mouth and inverted base, was intended for the display of long branches of winter prunus as indicated by the traditional flowering motif on both sides of its upper section. Its shape derives from an ancient classical Chinese bronze known as a GU, originally a ritualistic wine beaker, but a form which was adapted during the Song Dynasty and widely popular in both China and Japan as a flo ...click for details Korean White Ware Bottle-Vase, Choson Dynasty Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Korean: Ceramics: Pre 1920   item# 1039663  click for details Ruyi Studio San Francisco 415.990.3524 $430.00  White wares from the earlier Koryo Dynasty are rare, and most examples found in Korea were imported from China. However, by the late Choson Dynasty both decorated and plain white wares were produced and highly sought after for ritual as well as domestic use. The aesthetic of plain, undecorated white porcelain appealed largely to the Korean elite enamored of Confucian and Buddhist ideas which promoted austerity, simplicity and purity. Whatever the Chinese intellectual or ideological influence ...click for details A Small Yuan Dynasty Bronze Vase with Loop Handles Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Metalwork: Pre 1492   item# 1017505  click for details Ruyi Studio San Francisco 415.990.3524 Sold. Ridgefield, WA  This item has been sold. Thank you. (A.D. 13/14th Century). Antique Naive Funerary Sculpture Catalogue: Antiques: Pre 1900   item# 1009925  click for details Ruyi Studio San Francisco 415.990.3524 Sold. Noordwijk, Netherlands  This item has been sold. Thank you. A Japanese Gold Splashed Bronze GU Form Vase Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Metalwork: Pre 1920   item# 974989  click for details Ruyi Studio San Francisco 415.990.3524 $2100.00  A Japanese Gold Splashed Bronze GU Form Vase. Taisho Period (circa 1910-20). Inspired by the distant rather than recent past, this strikingly modernist Japanese bronze embodies a rejection of European-influenced and over-decorated bronzes of the previous Meiji period. The base bears a three-character studio mark, written in stylized archaistic Chinese characters much in vogue with the literati class of China and Japan during the Early Republic and Taisho periods. The ancient Chinese bronze w ...click for details An Elegant & Eccentric Gu Form Bronze Dragon Vase Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Pre 1920   item# 972691  click for details Ruyi Studio San Francisco 415.990.3524 SOLD. Fengdu Xian, China  This item has been sold. Thank you. Japanese Modernism: Wood-fired ceramic vases Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Pre 1960   item# 952540  click for details Ruyi Studio San Francisco 415.990.3524 $300.00  A pair of Japanese avant-garde, circa 1955-60, bag-shaped, infinity knot vases. Bulging outward from a rounded base, the narrow sides determined by the figure-eight mouth-rim which has been pinched at center with a short ceramic strap around which a black rope segment has been braided. Each vase is pierced on one side with an oval-shaped hole towards the upper center. Wood-fired and resembling Bizen ware, although the red-orange and burnt black, spotted glaze, with its rough texture, varies fr ...click for details A Miniature Bronze after a Kangxi Porcelain Vase Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Metalwork: Pre 1800   item# 940131  click for details Ruyi Studio San Francisco 415.990.3524 $800.00  18th Century, Ching Dynasty. A miniature bronze fashioned after a porcelain vase, the form and relief decoration mimicking the prized blue and white wares of the Kangxi period. An elegantly conceived, charming and beautifully proportioned miniature vase on a high footrim, the curved, elephant trunk-shaped handles complimenting the stylized ruyi-cloud motif on the slender neck. The body is surrounded by a band of scrolling foliage in relief containing two large peony-like flowers on the broad ...click for details A Ming Baluster Celadon Vase with Kintsugi Repair Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Pottery: Pre 1700   item# 931574  click for details Ruyi Studio San Francisco 415.990.3524 $960.00  CHINESE MING DYNASTY CELADON BALUSTER ALTAR OR TEMPLE VASE WITH A JAPANESE GOLD LAQUER REPAIR. Dating to the first half of the 16th Century, of segmented, baluster construction with restrained, incised decoration and applied handles on a high, pedestal –like foot and stepped base with a gently flared neck and trumpet-like mouthrim with elegant Japanese gold lacquer repair known as “kintsugi” (metal repair of gold or silver lacquer) or, more specifically, “kinnaoshi” (which designates gold lacque ...click for details A Korean Blue & White Ceramic Urn, Late Choson Dynasty Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Korean: Ceramics: Pre 1910   item# 920041  click for details Ruyi Studio San Francisco 415.990.3524 $2000.00  A LARGE KOREAN BLUE & WHITE URN OF THE LATE CHOSON DYNASTY. Circa 1880. A perfectly proportioned, classical Asian jar form, decorated in a distinctly Korean style blending folk art idioms with borrowings from traditional Chinese painting for a particularly dramatic interpretation of the Three Friends of Winter: pine, prunus and bamboo. The fullness of the wide body allows for spacious decoration, and a masterful use of the blank space between the three friends. A lovely, thick white glaz ...click for details An Islamic Chinese Gilt Bronze Hu Form Vase,16/17th C. Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Metalwork: Pre 1700   item# 919525  click for details Ruyi Studio San Francisco 415.990.3524 Sold. Shen Zhen City, China.  This item has been sold. Thank you. pages:  1   2