Set of Six Kutani Saucers A set of six matching Kutani saucers, measuring approximatley 5 ins. in diameter, dating to the late 19th-early 20th centuries. The saucers are decorated with peacocks in typical Kutani palette with extensive gold accents. The saucers are in excellent and original condition with only minimal wear. Two saucers have a 1/8 in. shallow chip out of the reverse rim that I have repaired. They are marked on the base with the artist signature, which I translate as SEN HAIGO.
 

Edo Period Satsuma Pilgrim Flask Vase A Satsuma moon flask or pilgrim vase, measuring 14.5 cms. High and 5 cm across the conical base, dating to the mid 1800’s. The earthenware body is covered in an overall yellow/cream crackle glaze typical of Satsuma ware. It is decorated with medallions of gold classic scrolls with geometric designs and black/light blue and red highlights. There are wraparound designs of lotus flowers and pads with 2 cranes in pastel green, brown, pink and white. The conical mouth has a semi-circular border with circles and 2 gold and red floral medallions. The sides have dragon-head lugs; one has been repaired. The base has a squared, classical scroll border. There is a four-character seal impressed into the inside base, but I can’t decipher it beyond the left hand characters that read: SHO DAI SAN. There are small chips on the footrim.
 

Satsuma Meiji Art Nouveau Vase A fine Japanese Satsuma baluster vase, measuring 18 ins. high and 8 ins. in diameter, dating to the Meiji era, ca. 1880. The earthenware body rests on a flared, recessed foot. The body swells gently to the shoulders where it cuts back in to form a cylindrical neck and flared mouth. There are two applied leaf handles. The typical, crackled, off-white Satsuma glaze can be seen on the interior and the base. The outside of the vase is covered in a deep green glaze. The central area has an overall flowers in an orange sky design in multicolor overglaze enamels. The neck is decorated with painted yellow-green leaves. The vase is marked with a size or number mark (No. 13) that was used for European customers to designate a pattern and size. The arfist has signed the vase on the base in gold, but too much of the signature has worn off to read it accurately. This is a fine, large Victorian era piece that would have graced the mantle or table of an upscale home. There are some old, gold fill-ins where some colors have worn around the base and shoulders. Otherwise the vase is in fine and original conditon.
 

Kutani Covered Baluster Jar A fine Kutani covered porcelain baluster jar, measuring 14 ins. high and 8 ins. in diameter, dating to the 20th century, The jar has a circular band of lohans and dragons painted in multiple overglaze enamel colors with gilt accents. The cover, shoulder and base have scroll and flower designs done in the typical Kutani red. The base bears a green and black Kutani mark similar to those found on ko, or old Kutani. However, this looks like an early to mid 20th century piece. The jar is in fine and original condition.
 

Japanese Bamboo Satsuma Studio Bowl A Japanese studio bowl, measuring approximately 8 X 3 ins., dating to the early to mid 20th century. This bowl has a buff body with a finely crackled cream glaze overall. It is sparsely decorated with a bamboo node and leaves in two shades of dark green. The artist has executed this drawing skillfully in a sumi-e style. The rim is glazed black. The bowl is most likely Satsuma in origin, given the body and glaze as well as thhe signature on the base, which reads ? ZAN. It is in fine and original condition.
 

Matched Imari Bowls Two design-matched Imari bowls, measuring 6 1/4 X 2 1/2 ins. and 4 1/4 X 1 ins. in size, dating to the early 20th century.</b> The bowls have waterfront landscape designs in underglaze blue, accented by red and gold enamels. The artist has signed the pieces with a seal in red and gold on the front. Each bowl bears a Fuku, or happiness and good luck mark in underglaze blue on the base, which is typical of this period of Imari. The larger bowl has a 1/8 in. smooth chip from the footrim that dates to their manufacture. Otherwise, the bowls are in fine and original condition.
 

Pair of Arita - Imari Soba Cups <p><b>A pair of Japanese blue and white soba cups, dating to the late 19th century.</b> The cups measure 3 1/4 x 2 3/4 ins. The landscape design on the surface is transfer printed. One has a hairline age crack. Otherwise, they are in fine and original condition.
 

19th c. Japanese Arita Charger <p><b>A fine Arita blue and white transfer charger of blue-white porcelain, measuring 12 1/4 ins. across and 1 3/4 ins. high, dating to the mid 19th century.</b> The charger is decorated with a transfer pattern of a central roundel of a basket of flowers in early 19th century Chinese style, complemented by 3 fan-shaped floral reserves of peonies alternating with 3 separate peonies in an overall pattern of plum or cherry blossoms, all done in underglaze blue. The reverse shows spur marks and a four character mark in a double square in underglaze blue. There are floral sprays around the undersurface rim. The charger has one, old sealed age crack measuring approximately 1/2 in. and one restored 1/8 in. rim chip. A fine example of early Arita work.
 

Pair of Studio Pine Food Bowls <p><b>A pair of Japanese earthenware food bowls, measuring 6 X 3 ins., covered with a shiny, white glaze and decorated in overglaze iron designs of pine trees, dating to the mid to late 20th century.</b>
 

Japanese Studio Mt. Fuji Charger <p><b>A Japanese studio charger, decorated with with a design of Mt. Fuji in hand painted iron oxide glaze with overtones of yellow ocher, a thick, rich Seiji celadon background and a frosted white mountain peak. </b> The charger is signed on the base in sometsuke. A lovely piece of contemporary modern studio ceramic. Measures 11 X 1 3/4 inches. No chips, cracks, or repairs but some kiln glaze faults on surface that are so loved by the Japanese connoiseur.
 

Japanese Underglaze Red Kendi <p><b>A superb Japanese kendi of porcelanous body with a blue-white glaze and underglaze red design of vines, measuring 7 1/2 inches long and 7 ins. tall, dating to the Meiji Era (1868-1912). The kendi was used as a device for smoking and should not be confused with a ewer for liquids. You have seen these in the movies in the 1000 and 1 Arabian Nights pictures. The kendi is typically a Chinese ceramic piece that was made for the Middle Eastern market. This one has a paper label in Japanese attached to the base, which is one clue that it came from Japan. The foot rim and base are characteristic of Japanese ceramics as well.
 

Pair of Kutani Crane Neck Vases <p><b>A pair of Kutani crane neck vases measuring 9 ins. high and 4 ins. at their greatest width, dating to the Meji Era (1868-1912).</b> The vases are decorated with bird and floral designs using the typical orange-red, brown and gold Kutani palette. The designs are painted in four double gourd, scroll and cherry blossom reserves. These are accented by gold lozenges and circles with scrolling on the necks. The bases are signed by the artist. A 1/4 in. chip of the rim of one vase has been repaired with a gold lacquer technique.
 

Kutani Salt Shaker <p><b>An unusual Kutani salt shaker in typical colors, measuring 3 x 2 1/2 ins., dating to the early 20th century.</b> The shaker is missing its cork and some rubbing of the gilt. The base is signed with the characters for Kutani.
 

Japanese Arita B&W Geisha Vase <p><b>A Japanese blue and white Arita vase measuring approximately 9 ins. in height, decorated in raised panels of figures, dating to the ealry to mid 20th century.</b> Two opposite side panels have raised figures of a geisha and a samurai. The other panels are decorated in underglaze blue floral and vine patterns. The flared, square mouth tapers to a high waist, flowing into a tapered square body. A fine decorative piece with rich blues in original condition.
 

Japanese Studio Six-Sided Stork Bowl <p><b>A fine Japanese six-sided studio bowl with a crane design, measuring 8 ins. across by 3 ins. high, dating to the early to mid 20th century. </b> The piece is made of an earthenware body, covered on the exterior with a dark brown/black glaze and on the interior with a crackle blue glaze and figure of a stork among the reeds in white and green overglaze enamels. It bears the artist’s seal impressed on the base. It is in fine and original condition, having one small chip of the blue interior glaze professionally restored. I can’t find it with magnification.