TOKUDA YASOKICHI III (LIVING NATIONAL TREASURE): A KUTANI GLAZED PORCELAIN GARLIC-NECK VASE

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TOKUDA YASOKICHI III (LIVING NATIONAL TREASURE): A KUTANI GLAZED PORCELAIN GARLIC-NECK VASE By Tokuda Yasokichi III (1933-2009), signed Kutani Masahiko Japan, Heisei period (1989-2019) The meticulously thrown compressed globular body supported on a short foot and rising to a tall neck with a garlic bulb and trumpet mouth, covered in a rich, lustrous, finely crackled streaked glaze with varying hues of green, blue, and purple, attractively pooling to the foot. The foot-ring left unglazed and the white recessed base signed KUTANI MASAHIKO. HEIGHT 28.9 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 Kutani glazed vase, by the same artist, 24 cm high, at Christie’s, Japanese and Korean Art, 22 March 2002, New York, lot 175 (sold for USD 6,462 or approx. EUR 10,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing).

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