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CERAMICS
PROPERTY FROM THE XANADU GALLERY, SAN FRANCISCO,
CALIFORNIA
2556 2560
A GROUP OF THREE HIRADO PORCELAINS A GROUP OF CERAMIC WATER DROPPERS
Edo period/Meiji era, 19th century 19th/20th century
Each decorated in shades of underglaze blue; the first Edo period, The suiteki in the form of: a blue-and-white double gourd, a celadon
the stick-neck vase with a rolled rim and painted with ‘The Three glazed peach, an oversize crackle-glazed peach, a karashishi with
Friends of Winter’ (pine, bamboo and prunus); the second a Meiji iron-oxide accents, three figures of Hotei with his treasure sack, one of
era candlestick fashioned as an open chrysanthemum held by a Ebisu and Daikoku in a boat, a small red-clay puzzle cup, a Meiji-era
seated karako (Chinese child); the third a Meiji era celadon-tinted transfer-printed rectangular box, and a modern stoneware container
vessel molded as ribbon-tied double gourd formed by short lengths with iron oxide design; together with a Korean fish-form dropper
of bamboo and painted with fruiting gourd vines, the smaller brush- applied with cobalt blue. [12]
holder with a cobalt-ground foliate band encircling the raised rim, the 5in (12cm) height of largest
interior of the brushwasher with a depiction of a lotus pond. $800 - 1,200
6 3/4 and 4 1/2in (17.3 and 11.6cm) high; 8 1/4in 21cm) long
$2,000 - 3,000 2561
A LARGE SATSUMA TEA CADDY WITH SILVER LID
2557 Late Edo period/early Meiji era, mid-19th century
A MASSIVE KEYAKI WOOD HIBACHI The cylindrical body raised on three short supports and painted in
Meiji era, late 19th century polychrome enamels and gilt over a transparent glaze with overlapping
Formed by a partially hollowed section of a tree truck and displaying poem cards, panels and fans decorated with stylized blossoms of
a pronounced grain, the wide rim with original butterfly-shaped various types, wide floral bands of stylized chrysanthemums on a gosu
stabilizing inserts, with the original copper metal liner (some wear). blue ground on the flat shoulder and encircling the foot, the base signed
10 5/8in (27cm) high; 30 3/4in (78.4cm) wide Tozan below a Shimazu mon (family crest); the inverted mouth fitted with
$2,500 - 4,000 a metal hemispherical lid cast with scattered chrysanthemums.
5 7/8in (15cm) height excluding lid
2558 $1,000 - 1,500
A HIRADO DRAGON EWER
Meiji era, late 19th century PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS
The globular body painted in underglaze blue with landscape scenes
and surmounted by a three-dimensional dragon coiled around the tall 2562
cylindrical neck, its whiskered head forming the spout and curved tail A SATSUMA BOWL
serving as the handle, all below a ‘sacred jewel’-shaped lid decorated By Kanzan, late 19th century
with C-form cloud scrolls issuing from the fitted rim (minor kiln flaw). The sloping interior finely painted in gilt and polychrome enamels
10in (25.5cm) high with peony and chrysanthemum blossoms scattered over a gilt
$1,000 - 1,500 net-patterned ground and rimmed by triangles of various brocade
suspended from the scalloped edge, the exterior with bands of
2559 stylized paulownia and shippo-tsunagi, signed Kanzan; together with
AN ARITA KRAAK STYLE CHARGER an inscribed and sealed wooden storage box.
Edo period, 17th century 7 1/4in (18.4cm) diameter
The interior well painted in shades of underglaze blue with birds in a $1,000 - 1,500
stylized landscape surrounded by large floral lappets extending over
the cavetto and wide flaring rim, the base centered with a stylized 2563
seal-form mark, with two spur marks. A RECTANGULAR SATSUMA RETICULATED VASE
13 7/8in (35.6cm) diameter By Ryozan, Meiji era
$2,000 - 3,000 Decorated in bright polychrome enamels and gilt over a colorless glaze
with fine craquelure, two sides centered by horizontal bands of men and
women accompanied by children reserved on slightly recessed panels
pierced as lattice work, the alternating sides with further reticulated
designs in the shape of a crescent moon or blossoms on a ground
finely painted with birds-and-flowers, the base signed Ryozan in a red
cartouche above a Shimazu mon (family crest) (some losses).
7 5/8in (19.5cm) high
$800 - 1,200
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