Japanese Mingei Folk Tokkuri (Sakebottle) or Flowervase
350 $
Meiji-Taisho period, early 20th century
Antique and unique Japanese Mingei Sake Bottle (Tokkuri), also usable as a flowervase. It is approx. 100 years old and made of old Shino-Ware. You will find two amazing images on it, made with iron-oxid. Enjoy sake or beautifiul flowers with this antique Mingei Folk Art item.
Mingei (民芸 lit. "folk arts" or "arts of the people"), the Japanese folk art movement, was developed in the late 1920s and 1930s in Japan. Its founding father was Yanagi Sōetsu (1889–1961).
The philosophical pillar of mingei is “hand-crafted art of ordinary people” (民衆的な工芸 (minshū-teki-na kōgei)). Yanagi Sōetsu discovered beauty in everyday ordinary and utilitarian objects created by nameless and unknown craftsmen. According to Yanagi, utilitarian objects made by the common people are “beyond beauty and ugliness”. Below are a few criteria of mingei art and crafts:
- made by anonymous crafts people
- produced by hand in quantity
- inexpensive
- used by the masses
- functional in daily life
- representative of the regions in which they were produced.
Yanagi's book The Unknown Craftsman has become an influential work since its first release in English in 1972. Yanagi's book examines the Japanese way of viewing and appreciating art and beauty in everyday crafts, including ceramics, lacquer, textiles, and woodwork.
Size: High 15cm (5,9''), Wide 10cm (3,94'')
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Japanese Iga yaki Sake bottle (tokkuri) and tea ceremony flower vase 250 $
Hand made about hundred years ago in Iga, a small tow in the mountains of Mie prefecture, famous as the birthplace of Iga ninja. Items like ours gave big inspiration to one of the worlds famous potter Tsujimura Shiro.
Iga-yaki is a style of pottery where the ceramic is fired at high temperatures causing it to crystallize in a red hue, with brown-grey burn marks caused by log ashes, and the melting effect of the vidro (feldspatic glass). It has been a popular pottery style since the Tsutsui-Momoyama period of Japan. Iga-yaki utilizes the native Iga clay and is fired over three days in a kiln dug into the ground.
Size 14.3 centimeters in height, diameter 3 centimeters, trunk diameter 8 centimeters, 260 grams in weight.
It is state used goods, there is no water leak and break hurt, there is no damage.
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Meiji Period Shino Nezumi Mizusashi 390 $
On offer is this rare type of nezumi mizusashi made of shino-yaki.
It dates from the mid to the late Meiji Period and is in perfect condition.
There are no damages, cracks and repairs.
Size:
17,5 cm height
13 cm diameter
16,5 cm trunk diameter
Weight:
1400 g
Shipping included
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Early Meiji Period Oribe Mizusashi 390 $
This is a real old Japanese mizusashi made of Oribe clay. It dates from the early Meiji Period.
Signed on the bottom from the artist.
It is in great condition - no repair, no crack, no water leak.
Size:
15 cm height
13 cm diameter
15 cm trunk diameter
Weight:
1,3 kg
Shipping included
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