Lot details By Tokuda Yasokichi III (1933-2009), signed Kutani Masahiko Japan, late 20th century The globular body supported on a short broad foot and rising to a slender cylindrical stem-form neck, covered overall in a rich, lustrous, finely crackled, blue-green streaked glaze, save for the white foot and base signed KUTANI MASAHIKO below an impressed foliate design. With the original inscribed tomobako storage box. HEIGHT 27 cm Condition: Excellent condition. Tokuda Yasokichi III was designated a Bearer of Important Intangible Cultural Assets (a "Living National Treasure") in 1997 for his mastery of the innovative saiyu glaze technique, based on traditional Kutani colored glaze enamels as handed down from his grandfather and father, Tokuda Yasokichi I (1873–1956) and Tokuda Yasokichi II (1907–1997). Before he succeeded his father in 1988 as Tokuda Yasokichi III, the artist was known as Tokuda Masahiko. Museum comparison: Compare a related spherical vase by the same artist in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 2001.734. Auction comparison: Compare a closely related vase by the same artist at Zacke, Fine Japanese Art, 2 December 2022, Vienna, lot 121 (sold for 4,940 EUR).
Lot details By Tokuda Yasokichi III (1933-2009), signed Kutani Masahiko Japan, late 20th century The globular body supported on a short broad foot and rising to a slender cylindrical stem-form neck, covered overall in a rich, lustrous, finely crackled, blue-green streaked glaze, save for the white foot and base signed KUTANI MASAHIKO below an impressed foliate design. With the original inscribed tomobako storage box. HEIGHT 27 cm Condition: Excellent condition. Tokuda Yasokichi III was designated a Bearer of Important Intangible Cultural Assets (a "Living National Treasure") in 1997 for his mastery of the innovative saiyu glaze technique, based on traditional Kutani colored glaze enamels as handed down from his grandfather and father, Tokuda Yasokichi I (1873–1956) and Tokuda Yasokichi II (1907–1997). Before he succeeded his father in 1988 as Tokuda Yasokichi III, the artist was known as Tokuda Masahiko. Museum comparison: Compare a related spherical vase by the same artist in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 2001.734. Auction comparison: Compare a closely related vase by the same artist at Zacke, Fine Japanese Art, 2 December 2022, Vienna, lot 121 (sold for 4,940 EUR).
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