JAPAN TAISHO ERA KUTANI FINE HAND PTGS. HAKUJI SAKE CUP

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JAPAN TAISHO ERA, KUTANI FINE HAND PAINTINGS. THIN AND DELICATE HAKUJI SAKE CUPTHIS IS THE FINEST DETAILED ONE I WAS ABLE TO AQUIRE ON MY RECENT TRIP OUT IN THE COUNTRYSIDE AND IT COST AS MUCH OR MORE THAN THE PREVIOUS ONES SOLD LATELY. I HAVE TWO OF THESE LEFT. HARD TO FIND ANYW NOW. PLEASE REMEMBER WHEN LOOKING AT MY BETTER PHOTOS THAT THIS IS A TINY CUP! THEN USE YOUR MAGNIFYING GLASS TO SEE THE TINY DETAILS! SPRING IS AND MY CAMERA WORKS AGAIN!! PLEASE LOOK UP THE SIGNATURE IN BOOKS THAT ARE NOT IN JAPAN. PRE WWW, IT IS LATE MEIJI OR EARLY TAISHO I WAS TOLD AND AS FAR AS I CAN FIND AFTER HOURS OF LOOKING. I DID SEE NEARLY THE EXACT SAME SIGNATURE ON AN EXPERTS WWW SITE, SO IT CHECKS OUT WITH WHAT THE DEALER SAID, I BELIEVE. AS BEFORE, THIS CUP (OCHOKO) IS OLD. I THINK ANYBODY CAN TELL. THE DEALER SAID TAISHO ERA, OR MAYBE LATE MEIJI. IN ANY CASE LONG BEFORE THE WAR, WHEN ARTISTS COULD CONCENTRATE ON ART. I HAVE A HARD TIME FINDING A CUP THIS OLD AND IN MINT OR VERY NEAR IT AND IN SUCH EXTRA FINE DETAIL. THESE TYPE CUPS ARE SCARCE. I KNOW I HAVE NOT SEEN THE SAME. (But I look in different places than w Expats go. Not at High Priced Affairs. These came from the Countryside.) What really dates and shows the finest Quality of this cup is that the paintings are RAISED slightly and you can feel it. The dealer it is probably late Meiji Era. The Starting Price is what the cup cost me as usual, but I hope folks appreciate it. I rely on folk's good judgement and expertise, and not my own since the ones that know, know a LOT more than I do. I am starting to find and list something for everyone and these are cups for a serious collector. Sorry, but that is why t is a Reserve on this one. I was told and then looked on the WWW that this is the 'Style'. Very High Class Style too. It has a very unusual Signature to me and I saw nearly the exact one on the WWW at a well known expert's site and it was used around the early 1900's or tabout. The FINE details seem to be in a very OLD Chinese Style of painting. NOT like today. That is what impressed me most at first, as I carry my magnifying glass wver I go. You too will need a Mushimegane (Bug Glass) to appreciate these details and I think you will spend hours off and on studying this one! It is about 1 1/8 inches tall and about 1 7/8 inches across, so you see how tiny the paintings are! It is thin, Hakuji and not the crackly glaze type Later Age Kutani. The Handpainted Golden Details and the designs on this cup are fantastic. This latest discovery was taken care of and protected for over a hundred years. I think I saved things like this. The interior has a finely detailed, KIKU, with scrollwork that I thought at first was a Dragon. Very finely done and they must mean something very special. THE EXTERIOR IS CALLED THIS STYLE. Shonzui or Sometsuke style originates in the late Chinese late Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644) from Jing De Zhen (Keitokuchin) kiln in Jing De Zhen city, Jing Xi province, in China. It is a type of Sometsuke style, which is the general name given to all ceramics painted with cobalt under glaze. The pattern is simple and effective with its stark cobalt blue color. The pattern is sometimes. but rarely detailed, yet tranquil, simple and pleasing to the eye. The old Kutani signature is signed the same way as the other coblat blue underglaze. My camera seems warmed up now that Summer has Officially Arrived in Japan, so I tried to make better photos to show as much as I could. I have tried to arrange the photos as a person sort of ZOOMS in and realizes what they hold in their hand. As usual. t is no way to capture this in photos, you must experience the actuallity of holding and FEELING the object in your hands and turning it in the sunshine. I think this one should be placed in a Glass Fronted China Display Case and not ever used for day to day Sake Tasting. If you do - make sure a thick carpet is in the area. T may be some MINISCULE wear that I can not see or feel, but I could not notice it,... read more

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