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Japanese Studio Porcelain Vase by Genroku browse these categories for related items... All Items: Archives:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese: Pre 1910: item # 317759 Please refer to our stock # 2B-687 when inquiring.
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| This classic high-shouldered porcelain vase is artfully decorated with polychrome overlgaze and blue underglaze enamels in a floral design of brilliant morning glories and signed by Tominaga Genroku. Meiji period (1869-1912). The body is covered with morning glory blossoms and buds in iron red, orange and gold overglaze enamels set against a background of scrolling tendrils and leaves in underglaze blue and overglaze green and brown enamels on a pure white ground. The underglaze blue signature on the base reads “Genroku sei.” (An vase by Genroku with the same design is illustrated on page 58 of "Japanese Export Ceramics: 1860-1920" by Nancy N. Schiffer.) Japan imported the morning glory (“asagao”) for medicinal purposes about a thousand years ago. Though rarely used as a family crest motif because it is short-lived, the flower is a popular motif in the fine and applied arts. Tominaga Genroku was one of the principal potters of Ureshino near Arita. He was a highly skilled Japanese-style painter and potter as well as a teacher at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts. He exhibited his work only at Japanese exhibitions, and later he became head of the Protection of Cultural Properties Commission. He won a “santo shohai” (third prize) at the Fifth National Industrial Exposition in 1903. Genroku’s works are highly regarded and are considered to be of the caliber of those by more widely known studio potters such as Makuzu Kozan. Examples of his porcelains are featured in the world famous Khalili Collection entitled “Treasures of Imperial Japan.” This is a wonderful example of turn of the century Japanese Studio Porcelain. Condition is excellent, with only minor rubbing on some areas of gilt. Dimensions: 8 ˝” high, 5” diameter at shoulder. | ||||||||||||
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