Stoneware dish, Mashiko, Japan, 20th century

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware Pre 1980: item #328526
10161

Serving plate. Over a grayish brown stoneware a geometrical design in blue, brown and green glazes, partly with fine crackle. Unsigned, but clay, color and design remind one of Mashiko ware. Diameter 10 ¼ inches, height 2 inches. Japan, 2nd half 20th century. Slight traces of usage (tiny scratches and water stains), otherwise very good condition.

Stoneware waterdropper, bamboo, Japan, Bizen 20th c.

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware Pre 1970: item #325545
10154

Water dropper in the shape of a bamboo segment with three sprouting leaves. Typical appearance of Bizen ware. Length 2 ¾ inches, height 1 ¼ inches. Japan, 1950-60s. Excellent condition.

Okinowan Tsuboya Ware Hip Flask

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware Pre 1960: item #317930
2C-386

This portable crescent-shaped ceramic sake container, called a “dachibin,” is one of the classic shapes of Tsuboyan pottery (tsuboya-yaki) and unique to Okinawa. Mid-20th century. The body is randomly covered with a buff colored glaze which exhibits the normal glaze crazing. The pottery biscuit shows through areas along the shoulder and side where the glaze did not spread. There are splashes of rich speckled copper green glaze around the spout and both lugs. The neck is finished in a rich brown ... Click for details

Mashiko Stoneware Sake Bottle, Hamada Style

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware Pre 1980: item #312154
2C-383

Crafted in the style of Hamada Shoji (1894-1978), this striking square Japanese ceramic sake bottle (“tokkuri”) is artfully decorated with a simple transparent wax resist design against a richly mottled turquoise glazed background. Mid-20th century. The front and back sides of this press-molded bottle are decorated with the wax resist design of a stylized leafy stalk with a white slip blossom. The transmutation effects from the kiln have left numerous random mottled spots of dark turquoise which... Click for details

Japan, two stoneware vases, Bizen, Tozan studio

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware Pre 1970: item #308719
10109

a) Vase in the shape of a double gourd. On a reddish-brown stoneware base patches of a dark brown glaze have been thinly applied, partly covered again by patches of greenish-yellow ash glaze. On the bottom imprinted seal: Momoyama or Tôzan. H 7 3/8 inches. Small firing crack on the lower bulb. b) Vase in the shape of a mallet with a circular body and an elongated, square neck. Over a reddish-brown clay a typical brown glaze has been applied with irregular spots. In the bottom seal: Momoyama or ... Click for details

Japanese Bizen Maneki Neko Beckoning Cat

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware Pre 1940: item #306818
2B-689

This unusual little Bizen ware model of a maneki-neko (“enticing” or “beckoning cat”) with dramatic pierced eyes has a stamped signature mark on his back side. Early Showa period. His right paw is raised, and he holds two oval coins with his left paw. Originally the term maneki-neko referred to a cat’s supposed ability to charm and bewitch passersby. This connotation gave way to an auspicious interpretation, and today the maneki-neko symbolizes a merchant’s success in attracting customers as wel... Click for details

Mashiko Stoneware Tokkuri, Hamada Style

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware Pre 1980: item #300595
2C-384

Crafted in the style of Hamada Shoji (1894-1978), this handsome square Japanese ceramic sake bottle (“tokkuri”) is artfully decorated with a simple transparent wax resist design against a rich iron brown glazed background. Mid-20th century. The front and back sides of this press-molded bottle are covered with brown glaze upon which the wax resist design of a stylized leafy stalk with a mottled turquoise blossom has been painted. The brown glaze overlaps on the two undecorated sides of the bottle... Click for details

3 Japanese Studio Pottery Small Dishes c. 1960

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware Pre 1960: item #282386

These are three Japanese studio pottery small dishes, c. 1960. They have a floral and crosshatch design. They measure 4" in diameter and are in excellent condition.

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Meiji to Showa Monkey

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware Pre 1950: item #269935

As we start off the new Year of the Monkey, we thought it would be appropriate to offer this delightful Japanese pottery dish/figurine of a monkey eating a peach. Molded in a orange-brown pottery, the seated monkey has an amusing expression on his face as he eagerly devours a peach that he is holding in both of his hands. The figure is in excellent condition with normal light usage scuff marks on the base. There is an interesting hole in the base that is somehow connected with the method of pott... Click for details

Mukozuke - Shape of Fuji-san - Taisho/Showa

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware Pre 1940: item #265692
3840

A handsome tan glazed mukozuke molded i the shape of Mt. Fuji - small area of Oribe style glaze at the top to capture the feel of snow on the top of Fuji. Kanji characters in the well of the dish - not translated. Measures 4” high x 4” wide x ¾” deep – excellent condition. Old collectors or museum identification numbers in red on base. Mukozuke are small serving dishes often used at a kaiseki meal as part of the Tea Ceremony. We date this charmer to the late Taisho to early Showa period.