TOKUDA YASOKICHI III (LIVING NATIONAL TREASURE): A FINE KUTANI DARK BLUE GLAZED PORCELAIN VASE

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TOKUDA YASOKICHI III (LIVING NATIONAL TREASURE): A FINE KUTANI DARK BLUE GLAZED PORCELAIN VASE By Tokuda Yasokichi III (1933-2009), signed Kutani Masahiko Japan, Heisei period (1989-2019) The globular body supported on a short broad foot ring and rising to a tall waisted neck flaring dramatically to a wide trumpet mouth, covered in varying rich, lustrous shades of midnight blue, transforming to deep purple hues toward the lower section, attractively pooling to the unglazed foot, the white glazed recessed base signed KUTANI MASAHIKO. HEIGHT 28 cm With a signed and inscribed wood tomobako (storage box) and a Japanese leaflet with the biography of the artist. Tokuda Yasokichi III (1933-2009) was designated a Bearer of Important Intangible Cultural Assets (or 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. Auction comparison: Compare a related vase, bearing a similar glaze palette, by the same artist, 29.1 cm high, at Zacke, Three-Day Auction: Asian Art Discoveries, 24 July 2025, Vienna, lot 236 (sold for EUR 7,150).

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