Monumental Japanese Satsuma Vases Artist Signed, An Impressive Pair Estate Fresh

Monumental West German Ceramic Lava Glaze Fish Vases, Colorful pair Offered for sale is a pair of monumental mid-century modern West German heavily textured lava glaze ceramic vases...

Duncan McClellan Etched Overlay Art Glass Cameo Vase, circa 2005, Artist Signed Offered for sale is a Duncan McClellan etched and overlay art glass cameo vase circa 2005. McClella...

Ioan Nemtoi Modern Monumental Studio Art Glass Vase, Bucharest, Romania Offered for sale is a large and quite substantial studio-blown art glass vase by Ioan Nemoti of Bucharest, ...

Alfredo Barbini Oggetti Large Blown Art Glass Vase, Signed, Numbered 76 Offered for sale is a large handblown pinched vase with great movement by Alfredo...

Rare and Important Claire Raab Cameo Art Glass Vase, Signed, December 1992 Offered for sale is a rare and important Claire Raab Cameo Art Glass...

Over-scale Mid-Century Pottery Figurative face vases, pair Offered for sale is a vintage pair of overscale Mid Century pottery figurative face vases. These interesting vases...

Antique Pair of Fine Satsuma vases with animal handles and amazing hand painted decoration. Each piece is signed by the artist. Vases are 7.5 inches ...

A gorgeous pair of Japanese earthenware Satsuma vases, hand-painted, Meiji period, circa early-20th century, Japan. Vases' beautiful decoration is high-quality and extremely detailed...

A mid-20th century Japanese Satsuma vase with figures. Satsuma ware is a style of Japanese earthenware originally from the Satsuma region of what is today southern Kyushu. There are two distinct categories of this ware: The original plain dark clay early Satsuma...

An Satsuma ceramic stone ware vase, circa 19th century, around the end of the Edo and the beginning of Meiji period. In the form of a Classic garlic bottle whose prototype was from China, the white bodied piece is decorated with an early form of kin nishikide, the so called golden brocade, a palette of iron-red, blue, green, yellow, purple and black with golden highlight. The over glazed enamel paint shows a group of robed figures in a garden setting with a lion and three tigers. A transparent overall glaze shows very fine crackles. The design is relatively sparse with plenty of negative space in contrast to the Satsuma production from the late 19th century, when the trend became fussy and overly glitz, due to the influence by the perceived western taste for the export market. This piece may still be made for export but its pattern was more influenced by both Kyoto Pottery and the Kano school of painting compared to the export ware by the end of the 19th century onward to the early 20th century. It was believed by many that this was a result of Satsuma potters visiting Kyoto in the late seventeenth century to learn over glaze painting techniques. There are some age glaze crackles especially around the foot. The piece is not signed in keeping with the earlier production before Satsuma ceramics...

A fine pair of Japanese Satsuma vases raised on gilt-bronze bases. Each vase with an elongated trumpet shaped neck and tapering cylindrical b...

A very good quality pair of Japanese Meiji period (1868-1912) Satsuma porcelain vases / lamps. Each with wonderful gilded classical motif decoration, with inset hand painted panels depicting various scenes of courtiers in attendance and Samurai warriors. Both mounted on ormolu oriental stands.