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JAPANESE CERAMICS PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS
PROPERTY FROM A SAN FRANCISCO 9016
ESTATE, THE COLLECTION FORMED PRIOR TO THE 1970S A RECTANGULAR STONEWARE BOTTLE VASE
By Hamada Shoji (1894-1978)
9013 Of square section decorated on the four sides with diagonal iron-oxide
A HANIWA TERRACOTTA HEAD splashes over a pale green nuka glaze; fitted with a tomobako (storage
Kofun period, 5th/6th century box) inscribed ryu-yu kakubin (a square bottle with ‘running’ glaze),
Of low-fired reddish clay, modeled as a man wearing a peaked sedge signed Shoji and sealed Sho.
hat, a large earring marks his right ‘ear’ and a band encircles his neck, 6 1/2in (16.5cm) high
the abbreviated facial features with a mask-like appearance (wear,
losses). US$2,500 - 4,000
10 3/4in (26.4cm) high
9017
US$800 - 1,200 TWO KUTANI PORCELAIN INCENSE BURNERS (KORO)
Meiji era
PROPERTY FROM A SONOMA COUNTY COLLECTION Each decorated in polychrome enamel and gilt, the first of compressed
square section with rounded sides painted with dragon reserves
9014 on a brocade-patterned ground and applied with animal-mask and
A GROUP OF SEVEN SATSUMA DECORATIONS loose-ring handles, the squat four-leg plinth and the pierced disk-
Meiji/Taisho era shaped lid with a karashishi finial decorated en suite, marked fuku
Each decorated in polychrome enamels and gilt, comprising a pair of on the underside; the second a tripod vessel painted with figural or
small stick-neck vases painted with a dragon and rakan, marked Dai bird-and-flower reserves on the compressed body, a pair of dragon-
Nihon Satsuma Kinkoku-sei Komyodo Shunzan; a pair of small vases form handles bracketing a reticulated domical lid surmounted by a
with mock animal-mask handles decorated with reserves of samurai karashishi, signed Kutani Shono.
reversed by beauties, signed Satsuma-yaki Yasui-zo; a shallow lobed 5 5/8 and 5in (14.3 and 12.8cm)
bowl painted with Buddhist saints, marked Dai Nihon Satsuma-kuni
Kinkoku-sei Ro[ ]an Yoshinobu-ga; and two lobed chrysanthemum US$400 - 600
bowls of graduated size and with an overall millefleur design, each
marked Hayakawa (some wear). 9018
6 1/8 and 6in (15.7 and 15.3cm) height of vases TWO CERAMIC ITEMS
10, 9 5/8 and 7 1/2in (25.5, 24.5 and 19cm) diameter of bowls Meiji/Taisho era
The first a figural group depicting a laughing townsman seated with a
US$1,000 - 1,500 youth, the surfaces painted in rich enamels and gilt (losses, repaired);
the second a small bowl molded in the shape of a treasure sack
9015 encircled by a raised tasseled cord reserved against a cobalt blue
TWO FOOTED SATSUMA CENSERS (KORO) ground, the interior with a band of chidori in flight (wear to glaze). [2]
Meiji era, late 19th century 5 and 5in (12.5 and 12.7cm) high
Each decorated in polychrome enamel and gilt over a clear crackle
glaze, the larger raised on three tall animal mask supports and painted US$200 - 500
with two figural panels, one of samurai, the other a spring excursion,
all reserved on brocade ground repeated on the neck flanked by up-
raised handles, the pierced lid with a karashishi finial and decorated en
suite, marked Satsuma-yaki Hododa-zo; the smaller of similar form and
pierced to either side with hexagonal cage-shaped panels (kagome
ami) framed by delicately rendered blossoms repeated on the handles
and interior liner, the high double-wall domed lid also pierced with an
overall hexagonal pattern, marked Satsuma Iso[no] (some wear to gilt).
13 5/8 and 5 1/4in (34.6 and 13.4cm) high
US$1,000 - 1,500
9016 (box)
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