A JAPANESE VASE BY TOKUDA YASOKICHI III/ MASAHIKO (1933-2009)

A JAPANESE VASE BY TOKUDA YASOKICHI III/ MASAHIKO (1933-2009)
HEISEI ERA, 20TH CENTURY

The bulbous body with a short flaring neck, decorated with a deep blue-green glaze with paler streaks reminiscent of the Northern Lights, the base signed Kutani Masahiko, 16cm; with a tomobako wood box inscribed Yosai tsubo, Kutani Yasokichi, with the seal Kutani Yasokichi. (2)

See the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, access. no.2001.734 for another example of a spherical vase by Masahiko.