Small Japanese Satsuma Vase. Satsuma bottle-shaped vase - it has a diamond shaped base and neck, and is decorated in typical tube-lined and dots style with paintings of a woman on each side. Measures 13.5 cm high, 6.8 cm wide and 6 cm deep (5.1/4 inches by 2.3/4 inches by 2.3/8 inches). Very good condition, has a tiny little fleck nick on the corner of the neck rim, but this is painted over, so may be in manufacture. Probably dates from early 20th century to 1930.
Circa: Early 20th Century
Condition: Very Good - see description
Country of Origin: JP  

Pair Dragons, Porcelain, Signed Yoshimi. Very beautifully modelled pair of dragons - wonderful detail to the mouths and body. They each have one paw clutching a blue ball. Each signed in slightly different position Yoshimi. They are a true pair in that they face each other. Possibly male and female? One has a pair of horn-like protrusions on its head, the other has one single central one. Underneath is 1/37.
Figurines measure 12.5 cm long and 9.5 cm high (5 inches by 3.3/4 inches). Excellent condition. No damage at all.
Circa: Unknown, vintage.
Condition: Excellent
Country of Origin: JP  

Japanese Banko Earthernware Teapot. Beautiful small teapot with elaborately folded rim with gilded edges. Dual colour clay ribbon handle, lid in spider’s web pattern and enamelled white cranes and flowers to the sides. Studded strapwork around the spout base. Pivoting finial on lid. Teapot measures 15 cm handle to spout and is about 8.5 cm high (6 inches by 3.1/4 inches). Excellent condition. Beautiful little hand modelled pot, circa 1900.
Circa: Circa 1900
Condition: Excellent
Country of Origin: JP  

Ko Kutani Style Japanese Vase. An early ovoid-shaped Japanese vase, painted with a ho-ho bird amongst scrolling tendrils. Stylised chrysanthemum blossoms to the shoulders. Handpainted - Ko Kutani in style.
Vase measures 18.5cm high (7.1/4 inches) and approx. 14cm diameter (5.1/2 inches). Excellent condition.  

Chinese Porcelain Wine Ewer. A wine ewer with attractive hand painted polychrome decoration and small pouring spout. The decoration is of vases and pots with flowers and censors. There are four lugs surround the pot, in the same colour as the spout. Various Chinese letterings in the decoration. Four character mark, with frame. Overglaze red. The mark is Shendetang zhi (Made for the Hall of the Cultivation of Virtue). Popularised by the Daoguang Emperor (1820-1850). However, I don’t know the age of this item. Excellent condition, no chips or cracks. Measures 20cm high (8 inches) and is 21cm wide (8.1/4 inches).  

Three Matching Dragonware Saucers. Three saucers, fine porcelain Japanese dragon ware, each measuring 14cm diameter (5.1/2 inches). These match a teapot set and some side plates that we have elsewhere in this category. They are in excellent condition, with just one tiny chip to the gold band. The pattern of the dragon is raised and has a scaly effect created by enamel dots. Gold rims, and on the reverse side is a lustre ware glaze, and a mark in red reading “Yamada China, Japan” with a leaves or wreath motif. Very pretty - could be mounted on a wall to good effect.  

Large Lidded Chinese Pot, Blue Decoration. A large Chinese earthenware pot, with heavy lid. The finial looks like a seated animal, and the pot has rather crude decoration of fish and foliage. The whole has a very degraded glaze (or perhaps it was never glazed), and almost a sort of white "wash" over it. The inside is glazed inside the lid, and on the inside base. Pot has markings on underside as shown in photo. Pot and lid measures approx. 29cm high (11.1/2 inches), and is approx. 20cm diameter (8 inches) at its widest point. Very good condition, no chips or cracks.  

Small Oriental Blue and White Vase. Little fine porcelain Oriental vase, handpainted. Design is long-billed bird on flowers. No maker’s marks. Measures 10 cm high (4 inches). Excellent condition. Quite light.
Condition: Excellent
Country of Origin: JP  

Vintage Oriental Porcelain Flask. A small vintage Oriental bottle flask, decorated with flowers on a brick coloured background. Long spout (for pouring tea or rice wine?). Has a small chip to edge of bottle neck rim, otherwise in very good condition. Has seal type mark in red (faded) on bottom, but I can’t decipher it. Measures 11cm (4.1/4 inches) high.  

Pair Satsuma Vases with Green Frogs, Signed. Odd little pair of Satsuma vases - quite early, they have green frogs clasping the side of the trumpet-shaped vases, and are hand painted with butterflies around the base. Flowers on the sides of the vase have applied enamel so they are bumpy to the touch. Some minor faults as befits their age - small hairline and tiny repair on one rim, amateur repair and some staining on the other rim. Faience style body. Probably mid 19th century. Signed on the side. Vases measures 15 cm high and the bases are 7.5 cm diameter (6 inches by 3 inches).
Circa: Mid 19th Century
Condition: Some old faults, see description
Country of Origin: JP  

Vintage Porcelain Small Cup and Saucer. Japan Very pretty little duo in porcelain with apple green banding and little pink and yellow flowers. Back stamp is blue Made in Japan. Saucer measures 11 cm diameter and cup is 5.5 cm high (4.3/8 inches by 2.1/4 inches). There is a firing mark inside the cup, and tiny kiln mark on the rim of the saucer.
Circa: 1920s plus
Condition: See description
Country of Origin: JP  

Large Kutani Vase, Painted Panels. A very large Japanese Kutani vase, measuring 44.5 cm high and approx. 18 cm diameter (17.1/2 inches high and about 7 inches diameter). It features two main hand painted panels, one of samurai, and the other a domestic scene, with a harbour in the background. All around the vase are painted chrysanthemums and butterflies. Gilded highlights throughout. In excellent condition - the only fault is a small loss of paint to the top edge rim.
Circa: Early to Mid 20th Century
Condition: Very Good
Country of Origin: JP  

Japanese Handpainted Vase, Chrysanthemums. Vase, dating from the very early 20th century. It is Japanese, and features very fine hand painted designs of chrysanthemums, daisies and a bird. The neck is decorated with gold circles and flower outlines. The background colour fades from soft pink on the neck , through ochre, then pink again at the base. Handpainted enamelled highlights with gilding. Handpainted flowers. Vase measures 29 cm high and 9.8 cm diameter at its widest (11.1/2 inches by 3.7/8 inch). There are a few minor colour losses to background, otherwise excellent condition.
Circa: Very early 20th Century
Condition: Very Good
Country of Origin: JP  

19th Century Chinese Lidded Pot A pretty straight-sided 19th century Chinese lidded pot. In the famille rose style, but with turquoise-coloured background. The panels show birds in tree branches - one side shows the birds with blossom and fir cones, and the other side just shows them with the fir branches. The lid has a band of pink decoration around another panel of birds. Pot stands 9.5cm (3.3/4 inches) high and is 8.3cm (3.1/4 inches) diameter. It has cracks and an old repair to the lid (see photos). The body has a few rim nibbles to the top (inside where the lid covers it). A nice piece for a decorative collection.  

Early Noritake Cake Plate. Beautiful handled cake plate, fine porcelain with gold decoration and embossed surface. Deep royal blue highlights. Rather Art Nouveau design, would date from early half of 20th century. Carries the "M" in the wreath mark, "Hand painted", "Nippon". Plate measures 25cm across (9.3/4 inches). Excellent condition, just a little wear to the gilding.
Circa: Early part of 20th Century
Condition: Excellent
Country of Origin: JP