Japanese Works of Art - 12th November 2024
Lot 329
A JAPANESE VASE BY TOKUDA YASOKICHI III/ MASAHIKO (1933-2009)
Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £441
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Description
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.