Small Porcelain Snuff Bottle with Presentation Box, Early 20th Century

Japanese Kutani vase, ceramic, late 20th century.  12 x 7 cm. Very good conditions!

This porcelain double gourd vase is a wonderful decorative object realized by a Japanese artist during the Edo period in the early 19th century. Painted with polychrome enamels, it shows on the body a bottom with alveoli on which Stand circular reserves decorated with real and fantastic animals seems to reproduce the zodiac signs. Furthermore, the original blanket is decorated with small sloping triangles and three bands with geometric and floral decorations. At the center of the base "Kutani Fuku" the relief mark. Provenance: Sotheby's Auction, Olympia London, April 23, 2002, lot 254; Private collection, Milan. Certainly, it is a sophisticated piece, with a singular Silhouette, a vase of good luck to propitiate a good year...

Beautiful vase realized in Capodimonte (Napoli) in the 1960s. Hand made and painted. Very minor chip on top of the neck.  

Beautiful vase realized in Capodimonte (Napoli) in the 1960s. Hand made and painted. Very minor chip on top of the neck.

Antique Chinese enameled "wood cutter and fisherman" milk white glass snuff bottle, finely painted with a wood cutter reading a book on one side, and a fis...

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An Enameled Molded Porcelain Snuff Bottle. Imperial, Jingdezhen kilns, Qianlong four-character mark in iron red.  

An Enameled Molded Porcelain Snuff Bottle depicting 4 ladies and 18 children playing in the courtyard. Imperial, Jingdezhen kilns, Qianlong four-character mark in iron red.