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Height: 6 inches
Width: 3.5 inches
Mark: Underglaze Blue Ishiguro Koko
Condition: Excellent
Age: Late Meiji to Taisho (1900 - 1920)
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Shofu Katei, also known as Shofu Kajo, was born in 1870 in Seto, Japan. Shofu came to Kyoto in 1888, and in 1890, he was adopted into the Shofu Kajo family. In 1908, he set up the Shofu Ceramics Company, Ltd. and was awarded a Green Ribbon in 1915.
Height: 6 inches
Width: 4.5 inches
Age: Meiji to Taisho (1900 - 1920)
Mark: Shofu and impressed Shreve & Co. Sterling
Condition: Very good with only a small area on the...
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Height: 14.5 inches
Width: 10 inches
Age: Meiji to Taisho (1900 - 1920)
Condition: Very good with only a minute wear to the decoration
Koransha
Ezaiemon Fukagawa became the head of the Fukagawa family's porcelain manufacturing business in 1856 and founded the Koransha Company (Company of the Scented Orchid) in 1875.
The Koransha Company won the Grand Prix in International Exhibition in the United States in 1876 as well as ...
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Nishiura Enji V (1856 to 1914)
Cup Height: 2 3⁄8 inches
Cup Diameter: 2 1⁄4 inches
Saucer Diameter: 4 7⁄8 inches
Saucer Height: 3⁄4 inch
Age: Late Meiji (1890 - 1910)
Marks: Nishiura
Condition: Excellent
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Okumura Shozan (1841-1905)
The information below came from Captain Frank Brinkley's book, Japan: It's History Art and Literature (Vol. 8, pg. 228).
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Okumura Yasutaro, a potter of Kadowakicho (a branch street of Gojo-zaka), commenced the manufacture of faience in 1864. His art name is Shozan. This keramist's skill in imitating the works of the old masters, especially Ninsei and Kenzan, is very remarkable. A cup made by him used to be exhibited in a museum of a...
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This nice teapot was created by Seifu Yohei III in the mid to late Meiji Era (1880 to 1890). It measures 4 inches tall by 3.5 inches wide and is in excellent condition. The signature is applied on the side of the teapot in white enamel.
According to Gisela Jahn's book, Meiji Ceramics, Seifu Yohei III was adopted by the Seifu family and took over the workshop in 1872, he then took the name Seifu III in 1878. He produced mainly for the Japanese market and received many awards in J...
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Cobalt blue teapot by Kinkozan Sobei VII (1868 - 1927).
Diameter: 2.5 inches
Height: 1.25 inches
Age: Meiji (1900 - 1920)
Mark: Kinkozan Zo (gold mark is worn)
Condition: Good with only some wearing of the gold on the mark and elsewhere.
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Sawamura Tosa was a Kyoto potter of Gojosaka who studied under Rokubei III and opened a factory in 1876.
For more information see pages 286 & 287 of Edward S. Morse's book, Catalog of the Morse Collection of Japanese Pottery.
Height: 6 inches
Width: 4.37 inches
Age: Meiji (1876 to 1890)
Mark: Impressed Tosa Mark
Condition: Good except for a firing crack on the underside of the vase and a short, stable hairline crack that runs...
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Nishiura Enji V (1856 to 1914)
The green under-glaze enamel was produced using the "fuki-e" method which, with the aid of stencils, created the base for the plum tree. I hope you can see the detail in the pictures of the white, moriage enamel that gives the plum tree and blossoms extra dimension.
Height: 3.25
Width: 2.75
Age: Meiji (1890 - 1910)
Mark: Underglaze Green Nishura
Condition: Excellent
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This work looks like Hayashi Kodenji, but there is no signature.
Height: 3.5 inches
Width: 3.5 inches
Age: Meiji (1890 - 1910)
Mark: None
Condition: Very good with three very light gray lines about 1/4 of an inch long at the bottom rim. They are very hard to see. The last image is a close up of the lines.
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My pictures do not do justice to the elaborate, three-dimensional silver work under the translucent, dark, cherry red enamel. There are moths hidden among the flowers and leaves, and there is a depth to the design that you must admire in person to appreciate. As the sunlight skips over the delicate, gleaming petals of the most pronounced flowers, the rest of the intricately wrought design falls in varying degrees into the shadows.
Height: 12 inches
Width: 3.75 inches
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Yabu Meizan (1853-1934)
Height: 4.87 inches
Width: 2.37 inches
Age: Meiji to Taisho (1900 - 1920)
Mark: Overglaze Gold Enamel Yabu Meizan
Condition: Excellent
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Height: 5.5 inches
Width: 3.25 inches (excluding handles)
Age: Late Edo to Meiji (1850 - 1870)
Mark: None
Condition: Excellent
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Nishiura Enji V (1856 to 1914)
Height: 5.5 inches
Width: 3.5 inches
Age: Meiji (1890 - 1910)
Mark: Nishiura
Condition: Excellent
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Fukagawa Seiji Company
In 1894 Chuji Fukagawa, a student of Makuzu Kozan, founded the Fukagawa (fuka = mountain, gawa = river) porcelain company. His idea was to gather the best artists in Japan to shape and paint porcelain for export to the rest of the world. He entered a large vase at the Paris International Exposition in 1900 and won the gold medal. Another gold medal was won at the World's Fair in St. Louis in 1904, and in 1910 the Fukagawa Company became purveyor fo...
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Height: 16.25 inches
Width: 12 inches
Age: Meiji (1870 - 1890)
Mark: None
Condition: There is a small chip on the foot of the vase (image 1) and two short, light stress cracks in the glaze on the top rim. One of the stress cracks is about 3 mm long and the other is 1.5 mm long (image 5).
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Height: 10.5 inches
Width: 5 inches
Age: Late Meiji (1890 - 1910)
Mark: None
Condition: There is a small chip on the foot of the vase (images 3 & 6).
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Makuzu Kozan II (Hanzan) (1859 - 1940)
Makuzu Kozan II, the adopted son of Makuzu Kozan I, was born Miyagawa Hannosuke. He was known for his blue and white Seto style wares, as well as his excellent Kyoto-style ink painting. Kozan I turned the family factory over to Hanzan in the 1880's and in 1917, one year after his fathers death, Hanzan took the name Makuzu Kozan II.
Height: 1.375 inches
Width: 2.125 inches
Age: Showa (1926 - 1940)
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