Japanese Fukagawa Imari Vase of Sake Bottle Form, Koransha Mark, circa 1880
£180.00
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Japanese Fukagawa Imari Vase of Sake Bottle Form, Koransha Mark, circa 1880
A fine quality Japanese Imari Vase of sake bottle form with a bulbous body curving inwards towards the base and narrowing at the top towards a broad neck with a faintly everted rim, decorated in iron red, underglaze blue and gold with the addition of green enamel. The main body with two shaped panels of flowering chrysanthemum within underglaze blue borders on a ground of stylised flowering chrysanthemum, the shoulder with panels of lotus and stylised flower heads on an underglaze blue band, the neck with further stylised foliage below plantain leaves in iron red and underglaze blue, the rim gilt. The base with a four character mark reading Koransha Fukagawa Sei ('made by the Koransha Fukagawa [factory]'.The Fukagawa kilns produced the best quality Imari items made in Japan in the late nineteenth century for export to the West. Their history starts with Ezaiemon Fukagawa who in 1856 became head of his family's porcelain business and in 1875 founded Koransha (The Company of the Scented Orchid) in Arita, Japan, to produce tableware for export. In 1894 the modern Fukagawa company was founded by Chuji Fukagawa, with the Fukagawa trade mark of Mount Fuji and a stream, as its trade mark. Dating here is within the Meiji period (1868 - 1912) probably around 1880. This conforms with the script mark used as opposed to the later symbol design. The form is unusual and reflects sake bottle shapes produced in a variety of mediums.
Ht 19cm
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| Size: | Ht 19cm, Width (max) 11cm, Base 7.5cm |
| Weight: | 660gm |
| Date: | 1880 |
| Condition: | Very good condition with no damage or restoration |
| Price: | £180 |
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