LOT 165 TOKUDA YASOKICHI III: A FINE KUTANI GLAZED PORCELAIN VASE
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TOKUDA YASOKICHI III: A FINE KUTANI GLAZED PORCELAIN VASEBy Tokuda Yasokichi III (1933-2009), signed Kutani MasahikoJapan, late 20th centuryThe globular body supported on a circular foot and rising to a long neck with flaring rim, 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 29 cmCondition: 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.Auction comparison:Compare a closely related vase by the same artist at Christie’s, Japanese and Korean Art, 22 March 2002, New York, lot 175 (sold for 6,463 USD).
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