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Large Japanese Kutani Porcelain Kachoga Vase by Suiho browse these categories for related items... All Items: Vintage Arts:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese:Porcelain: Pre 1950: item # 990675 Please refer to our stock # 2-868A11 when inquiring.
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This dramatic Japanese Kutani porcelain vase in ovoid form is decorated in polychrome enamels with a “kachoga” (pictures of birds and flowers) design. Ca. early/mid-20th century. A brilliantly-plumed kingfisher is perched upon the stalk of a blooming Japanese iris. The kachoga decoration is beautifully hand painted in the rich and vibrant Kutani palette of blue, green, aubergine, turquoise, yellow, white and iron red enamels on a buff-colored crackle glaze base. The overall appearance is more like faience than porcelain. The soft glaze has an ivory tint, and a delicate crackling throughout the piece resembles Satsuma ware. The design is accented with gilt highlights and sprayed gold clouds, and the trim around the mouth is also gilded. The bottom of the vase bears the red signature “Kutani, Suiho.” There is also a stamped Kutani mark beneath the glaze on the base. The wood storage box (“tomobako”) has the red seal “Kutani Yaki” and reads “Kabin (vase), Kutani, Suiho saku (made).” Suiho (Muranaka) was a studio potter who studied pottery fundamentals in the early 1900’s and later under master potter Nakamura Suitsune. Suiho received many awards in Ishikawa Prefecture Art Associations. The kachoga motif of kingfisher and iris is more commonly found on Japanese painted scrolls and woodblock prints and less frequently on porcelains. The irises depicted on this vase, with their delicate blue, purple and yellow blossoms, are the type known as “kakitsubata.” Although this type of iris has long been cultivated in Japan, it is best known there as a wild plant growing in damp areas alongside bodies of fresh water. It is the iris most celebrated in Japanese poetry and art. CONDITION is perfect. DIMENSIONS: Vase is 10” (25.5 cm) high, approximately 9” (22.8 cm) widest diameter. Wood box is 10 ˝” (26.7 cm) square x 11” (28 cm) high. |
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