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

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TOKUDA YASOKICHI III (LIVING NATIONAL TREASURE): A FINE KUTANI 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 slender waisted neck flaring dramatically to a wide mouth, covered overall in a rich, lustrous, finely crackled, blue-green streaked glaze, save for the white foot and base signed KUTANI MASAHIKO atop an impressed foliate design. HEIGHT 29.1 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. Literature comparison: Compare a closely related Kutani glazed vase, by the same artist, in the Paul and Kathy Bissinger Collection, R2014.8.21, exhibited in the Asian Art Museum, Tradition on Fire: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Paul and Kathy Bissinger Collection, 19 August 2014-5 April 2015. Auction comparison: Compare a closely related Kutani glazed vase, by the same artist, dated to the late 20th century, 27.7 cm high, at Bonhams, Fine Japanese and Korean Art, 12 September 2018, New York, lot 1279 (sold for USD 4,750 or approx. EUR 5,300 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing).

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