Japanese Satsuma Samurai Moriage Meiji Vase Late 1800s Early 1900s

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Japanese Satsuma Samurai Moriage Meiji Vase Late 1800s Early 1900s:
$99.00

Japanese Satsuma SamuraiMoriage Meiji Vase Late 1800s Early 1900s

·Measures: 16 ½” Tall x 6 ½” Diameter

·The top has beenrepaired (see photos where you can see the lines of the breaks)

·Earthenware vaseof baluster form with an incised neck made to look like gathered fabric andtied with lute handles, ropes and tassels to the sides.

·The panels ofsamurai, courtiers and attendants in a garden setting in tones of red ochre,yellow, light gray, beige and gold.

·Indecipherablemark on the bottom

·This piece camefrom either a university/private collection/museum deaccession sale or from a gallery in Chicago

·Beautiful Vaseeven with the repaired top area

Info aboutSatsuma:

Thetypical Satsuma ware we most of the time comes into contact with is a yellowishearthenware usullay decorated with a minute decoration with Japanese figures,expressive faces or detailed oriental landscapes, or sometimes embellished withvivid dragons in relief. This ware is in fact an export product specificallydesigned in the mid 19th century to cater to the western export market. TheJapanese themselves had very little interest in this ware.

Fromaround the 1890\'s to the early 1920\'s at least twenty and possibly more studiosor factorys were producing \"Satsuma\" wares of which much were of lowquality and destined for the European and American export markets. At the sametime, artists studio\'s were producing wares of the finest quality.

It iseasily recognized by its finely crackled glaze and by the fact that itsearthenware body does not \"ring\" when tapped. The production soonspread to several cities such as Kyoto, Tokyo, Nagoya, Yokohama and elsewhere throughout Japan, from the Meiji period(1868-1912) up until today.

SatsumaHan however has a much longer history than that. The Satsuma area on the southern Kyushu island. The first historical kilns here wereestablished by Korean potters in the late 16th century. These first wares werestonewares, covered with a thick dark glaze and are so rare that only museumsmight have a few to show.

Thesuccess of the Satsuma export decorative style inspired many followers, some ofwhich have a stoneware body or a pure white porcelain, why I have choosen tocollect any and all Satsuma looking wares, here.

Thecircle with a cross that often makes up a part of the marks, are the Shimazumon or the family crest of the clan that ruled Satsuma Han however I doubt thatany of the Shimazu clan ever owned a Satsuma export style ware piece. If thatwere to be the case, the crest would in that case need to be blue, since thatwas also the Shimazu clan colors.

Satsumawas produced in Kagoshima, Kyoto,Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, and Kanazawaby hundreds of known artists, in many styles and by literally thousands ofunknown decorators. Meizan has pieces authenticated as being done in Kanazawa (Kutani). Formost of the \"Zan brothers\" nothing is known, in spite of very goodquality work and many good studio pieces are simply unmarked.

(infoby Jan-Erik Nilsson)

offer with confidence this is in good vintage condition.

Thankyou for looking

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