TOKUDA YASOKICHI III (LIVING NATIONAL TREASURE): A KUTANI GLAZED PORCELAIN ‘EARS’ VASE

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TOKUDA YASOKICHI III (LIVING NATIONAL TREASURE): A KUTANI GLAZED PORCELAIN ‘EARS’ VASE By Tokuda Yasokichi III (1933-2009), signed Kutani Masahiko Japan, Heisei period (1989-2019) The olive-shaped body supported on a short foot and rising to a slender cylindrical neck flaring dramatically to a wide mouth flanked on either side by two circular handles, covered overall in a rich, lustrous, finely crackled, blue-green streaked glaze, save for the white foot and base signed KUTANI MASAHIKO. HEIGHT 25.6 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. Museum comparison: Compare a closely related vase of near-identical design, by the same artist, 25.3 cm high, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, object number 2022.432. Auction comparison: Compare a closely related vase of near-identical design, by the same artist, 25.5 cm high, at Christie’s, Japanese and Korean Art, 15 October 2001, New York, lot 101 (sold for USD 4,935 or approx. EUR 7,800 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing).

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