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Japanese Meiji Arita Nabeshima Style Trumpet Vase browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese:Porcelain: Pre 1920: item # 794164 Please refer to our stock # 2-836 when inquiring.
B & C Antiques P. O. Box 291 Derby, CT 06418 203-929-7312 Guest Book $295 Sale Pending |
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This elegant Japanese sometsuke (blue and white porcelain) vase in pleasing trumpet form is simply and freely decorated with blue wisteria blossoms on a pure white glazed ground. Meiji period (1868-1912). There is a four-character mark on the base which reads “Nabeshima yo.” The motifs found on Nabeshima wares were usually simple, naturalistic and structurally bold. That is certainly the case on this vase, where graceful branches laden with cobalt blue wisteria blossoms fall vertically from the neck and curl delicately around to three sides. Arita is a town on the island of Kyushu which has been a center of Japanese porcelain production since the seventeenth century. With Arita blue and whites, the blue is produced from a cobalt or indigo pigment and is painted straight onto the biscuit, after which the piece is glazed and fired. Nabeshima ware is considered to be the most Japanese of all the porcelains and the most technically perfect. It was made at Okawachi, north of Arita, and was named after the prince who founded the kilns at the end of the 17th century. The porcelain was of much higher quality than that made for export and was originally made as presentation ware for the local nobility. Production was limited, and less than perfect specimens were destroyed. Its elegance was considered to be the epitome of refinement, and production methods were kept a carefully guarded secret. From 1868 on, Nabeshima wares were produced for domestic use and Western export. CONDITION is excellent, with only minor firing pits inside the foot ring. DIMENSIONS: 10 ¼” (26 cm) high, 3 5/8” (9.3 cm) diameter at top. |
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