Export Japanese Blue
Export Japanese Blue
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 ANTIQUE NORITAKE DIMPLE SHAPED VASE LOVELY DETAIL COLOURS DATE 1902  US $31.61
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 A Rare Bronze Figure of Chairman Mao Dated 1966 US $295.00
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 Allens Authentication of Ancient Chinese Ceramics US $30.00
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 Chinese Porcelain Blue White Bowl 1700s No2 US $7.89
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 Antique Chinese Export Porcelain Blue White Sparrow Beak Jug circa 1770 US $41.10
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 Antique Chinese Export Porcelain Blue White Cup Cover circa 1770s US $7.89
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 Chinese Porcelain Blue White Bowl 1700s No1 US $10.27
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 Rare Chinese Republic Period Imperial Yellow Parrot On Custom Made Stand US $325.00
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 Rare Republic Period Imperial Yellow Cat US $325.00
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 19th C JAPANESE FUKAGAWA PORCELAIN MINIATURE VASE US $499.99
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 Extremely Rare 19thC Chinese Export Nanking Pattern Plate US $125.00
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 Extremely Rare 19thC Russian Saucer Made For The Qajar Shah of Persia US $125.00
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 Antique Meiji Japanese Blue White Charger w Blue Willow Flowers 122 US $229.00
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 Antique RARE Japan Japanese Large Sugar Bowl w Mt Fuji with Ash In Air Pic LOOK US $24.50
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 Chinese Export Japanese Blue White Rabbit Porcelain Plate US $169.00
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 Antique AA Vantine Nippon Porcelain Cup Saucer Set Hand Painted CHRYSANTHEMUMS US $68.00
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 ANTIQUE FAMILLE ROSE PALETTE CHINESE PORCELAIN KENDI US $410.97
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 Chinese Imari Porcelain Jug and Bowl Pottery US $237.11
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 FABULOUS PAIR OF JAPANESE EXPORT VASES US $1,295.00
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 Japanese Green Awaji Ware Vase circa 1880 1900 US $895.00
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 A Fine Pair of 19th Century Indo Persian Brass Libation Jugs US $195.00
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 A Lifelike Antique Japanese Bronze Okimono of a Large Crab US $325.00
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 Extremely Rare Antique Japanese Bronze Okimono Two African Lions US $1,675.00
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 Another Superb Antique Japanese Bronze Okimono Tiger and Crocodile US $2,450.00
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 4 RARE 18 19thc ASIAN CHINESE JAPANESE EXPORT BLUE WHITE PORCELAIN TEA CUPS US $16.50
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 Antique Japanese Export Teapot with High Relief Scenes US $99.00
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 Antique AA Vantine Meiji Japanese Nippon Serpent Handled Teapot CHRYSANTHEMUMS US $238.00
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 A Fine Vintage Japanese Bronze Elephant 2 Signed Tamamizu US $875.00
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 A Fine Vintage Japanese Bronze Elephant 1 US $775.00
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 A Superb Pair of Japanese Seated Bronze Elephants 2 By Omori Mitsumoto US $1,225.00
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 A Superb Pair of Japanese Seated Bronze Elephants 1 By Omori Mitsumoto US $1,175.00
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 Rare Vintage Chinese Bronze Cat on Custom Made Stand 2 US $185.00
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 Rare Vintage Chinese Bronze Cat on Custom Made Stand 1 US $185.00
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 Rare Antique Chinese Cast Iron Cat US $175.00
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 Lifelike Pair of Chinese Bronze Ducks US $195.00
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 Superb Japanese Bronze Scroll Weight Frog on Onion US $195.00
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 Superb Japanese Bronze Scroll Weight Beetle on Orange US $195.00
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 CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN PLATE US $250.00
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 Huge Japanese Bronze Elephant Signed Genryusai Seiya US $1,975.00
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 Magnificent Antique Japanese Bronze Tiger By Seiko US $2,950.00
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 c1890 CHINESE EXPORT CHAMPLEVE ENAMEL VASE or URN US $685.00
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 A Superb Japanese Meiji Period Bronze Okimono The Attack by Genryusai Seiya US $1,950.00
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 Massive Antique Japanese Champleve Palace Vase 42 Inches High US $4,750.00
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 Antique Chinese Brass with blue enamel Covered Divider Box US $599.00
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 19th Century Chinese Blue White Cabinet Vase US $199.00
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 Antique CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN Profusely Illustrated Bowl Plate Vase etc US $38.95
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 A pair of exquisite Antique double handled NORITAKE Vases c1908 US $695.51
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 Set of 5 Antique Red Kuntani Porcelain Dishes Mint US $375.00
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 Early 20th Century Koyo Yamazaki Signed Sleeve Vase US $795.00
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 Important Japanese Prints Henri Vever catalog Full set US $745.00
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 Superb Pair of Chinese Bronze Gu Vases On Stands US $425.00
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 Rare 164 Inch 19th Century Chinese Canton Famille Rose Charger US $1,950.00
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 ANTIQUE JAPANESE TEASET SATSUMA APROX 175 YEARS OLD SEE DETAIL US $2,500.00
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 ANTIQUE JAPANESE BLUE WHITE ARITA DECORATED PORCELAIN FISH SHAPED BONE DISH US $55.00
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 Antique Chinese Bronze Warrior on Horseback US $199.00
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 Mid 20th Century Koyo Yamazaki Signed Ovoid Vase US $395.00
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 KINKOZAN signed Meiji Japanese HP Satsuma figural Koro Museum Quality US $249.99
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 Antique Early 18thC Edo Japanese Arita Imari Porcelain Scalloped Bowl US $1.56
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 Antique Edo 17thC Japanese Arita Ko Imari Porcelain Gallipot Bottle Vase US $15.02
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 AC1 Vintage Unique Japanese Vase Tobe ware Molded old house and trees US $24.90
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 Antique Chinese Porcelain Export Blue White Plate 1700s No1 US $7.89
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 Antique Chinese Porcelain Export Blue White Plate 1700s No2 US $7.89
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 Antique Chinese Porcelain Export Blue White Plate 1700s No3 US $7.89
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 EXCELLENT JAPANESE SUMIDA GAWA POTTERY VASE US $9.99
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Life in Tokyo: Vlog #66 Christmas in Japan 2008
Japan's Seto Imari and More. by Maurice Robertson
When we think of Japanese antique porcelain, we quite often think of brightly coloured Imari, but not all Japanese Imari was brightly coloured.
One famous, early 19th century porcelain maker at Seto, in Japan's Aichi prefecture, decorated his porcelain in a very distinctive sapphire blue, painting with typically naturalistic, Zen influenced subjects, such as grasses overhung by pines, weathered rock formations with willows and wind blown trees.
"Seto" itself refers to both the city and the style of ceramics that originated there. Seto is also one of Japan's famous "six old kilns".
Porcelain came to Seto rather late. It first appeared in the beginning of the 19th century when Kato Tamikichi returned to Seto from Kyushu Island and successfully fired cobalt blue-decorated porcelain. Tamikichi is, in fact, regarded as "the father of porcelain" in the Seto region.
However, to see the larger picture, we need to look across the long history of Japanese art and design, to identify some of the many influences, both internal and external, which have contributed to today's recognisable "Japanese design".
Until Admiral Perry's opening of Japan to the West, (1854), with its both positive and negative results, Japanese art and design was almost unknown to the Western world. Perry's encounter with Japan opened the flood gates to an East/West exchange of ideas, rarely seen before. It was within a decade that Japanese design concepts arrived in the West.
Two outstanding names will serve to illustrate this influence on Western art. The first, James Whistler, the great American/British painter of the mid to late 19th century, was one of the first westerners to be influenced by the artistic tradition of Japan.
Whistler developed a rather aesthetic response to living and he particularly admired the Japanese artistic attitude to not distinguishing between fine and decorative art. His appreciation of this led Whistler to a wide range of artistic pursuits, heavily influenced by his newfound "art of Japan".
The second example is the master of French impressionism, Claude Monet. We do not know if the famous story of Monet's discovery of Japanese art is true, or anecdotal! but legend has it that Monet had fled to Amsterdam to escape the 1871 Prussian siege of Paris. There, or, so the story goes, he observed some Japanese block prints being used in a food shop as wrapping paper. He could not believe what he was seeing and was so impressed, that he purchased all available. This purchase changed his life — and the history of Western art!
Monet was never shy about his fascination with Japan and its art and in 1876, five years after that visit to the Dutch food shop, he painted "La Japonaise", showing his first wife Camille in a kimono against a background decorated with uchiwa, (Japanese paper fans).
At Giverny, where he moved in 1883 at age 42, he built a Japanese bridge over a Japanese pond in a Japanese garden, and spent the rest of his life painting that private paradise - especially its water lilies.
Not only Western art was influenced by Japan, but, interiors, fashion and all forms of art, style and design. This exchange of ideas was two way, with Western design concepts being used in Japan. Perhaps for that reason Impressionism caught on early in Japan and still remains highly popular.
This exchange of ideas was seen, particularly in the porcelain produced by the great Japanese ceramics kilns, with its one thousand year old tradition.
Until the opening of Japan to the West, Japanese Porcelain and pottery was both traditional and highly aesthetic, understood only by, the then, insular and very conservative, Japanese society. The overriding concept was to hold to the rigidly, proscribed forms.
This highly aesthetic style was not understood by a Western audience and it soon became apparent that changes needed to be made for a Western export market to succeed. By example, the Western market is very familiar with Japanese "Imari" porcelain, with it's bright palette of colours, primarily based on iron red and underglaze cobalt blue. This always forms the basic Imari palette, which can then have a range of additional colours added.
This popular Japanese porcelain is called "Imari" due to the fact that it was exported by it's various makers through the port of "Imari". These bright patterns, primarily developed for a Western market were, in fact, based on the patterns of traditional kimono brocaded textiles.
The West's love of Japanese art and design has never faulted and continues to evolve.
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