A FINE & UNUSUAL JAPANESE POTTERY TOKKURI, 19TH CENTURY.
This stoneware tokkuri is moulded which is a bit of a tour de force given its large size. I have never been able to identify the pottery. It is quite thinly moulded and must be fairly high fired. The yellow glaze appears thin and spotty as if it has been blown on using a tube but equally it could be a chance happening in the kiln. There is some fine ...click for details
A JAPANESE SATSUMA BUTTERFLY TEA SET, MEIJI, CIRCA 1900.
The tea set decorated in enamels with butterflies and netting on a typical finely crackled body.
It dates from 1900 to 1920’s. Signed with a single character on each base.
As a guide the teapot is 5 inches high. The condition is very good overall and the gilding in excepti ...click for details
This tokkuri is presented just how it was found, shabby chic! Three sides feature a bird and flower picture inscribed directly into the unfired clay, signed with a single character. Old dirt and colour can be found on the surface and the impression of long decomposed textile can be clearly seen. This can be removed with a little patience. Bizen pottery is a very high-fired st ...click for details
A very impressive Japanese Bizen tokkuri, the body shaped like a short length of bamboo with a shoot bursting from the side. It displays an impressive show of random markings created during the firing. The purposely squashed sides enable the tokkuri to be comfortably held in one hand. Edo period, late 18th century.
The base carries a simple impressed potters mark. According to the book, "Bizen ware. A Catalog ...click for details
