Satsuma Ceramics Japan

Pair of signed japanese satsuma vases cobalt blue w mirror image panels 1890 s.

Satsuma ceramics japan.

Satsuma vases generally depict japanese themes including scenes of court life legends and artistic. Satsuma is a style of japanese earthenware that was produced in satsuma osaka kyoto kobe kagoshima and tokyo. Satsuma vases often come in pairs and are elaborately decorated with gold leaf and crackled glaze. Make offer antique japanese satsuma ware pottery vase with intricate patterns figures.

Generic satsuma marks refer to marks added to a japanese ceramic piece to indicate a style in general instead being the name of a specific company studio or any individual artist. Vintage pair of satsuma vases nice quality decoration 20th century. The original plain dark clay early satsuma 古薩摩 ko satsuma made in satsuma from around 1600 and the elaborately decorated export satsuma 京薩摩 kyō satsuma ivory bodied pieces which began to be produced. Antique japanese satsuma ware pottery vase with intricate patterns figures.

It is named after the satsuma provinces but was made in many parts of japan notably in kyoto. A typical piece of satsuma will be of a yellow complexion and usually decorated with intricate and minute japanese figures landscapes and even dragons. Vintage large 12 satsuma vase japan peacocks floral gold marked. Satsuma pottery is the western name for very collectable type of japanese earthenware exported throughout the world since the japanese meiji period 1868 1912.

After that pottery made by the tateno school was used as a gift or an offering to a federal load and the pottery got supports from the satsuma clan. The savvy rulers of satsuma by this time the shimazu clan were quick to capitalize on the gigantic expansion of the market for japanese porcelain. Satsuma or satsuma yaki generic marks. Satsuma ware 薩摩焼 satsuma yaki is a type of japanese pottery originally from satsuma province southern kyūshū today it can be divided into two distinct categories.

Satsuma pottery was made in or around kagoshima in kyushu japan in the later part of the 19th century through to the early 1920 s in satsuma in southern japan. Expanding the market for japanese pottery. 1868 this school once ceased to exist because of modernization in japan. At the beginning of meiji era ca.