Japanese Ceramic Signatures

Early imari plates often bear characteristic signatures.

Japanese ceramic signatures.

List of japanese porcelain maker s marks and signatures on antique modern japanese porcelain. To show your appreciation for this site and help me avoid becoming homeless please donate. Research japanese porcelain marks whether online or by purchasing a book. View view view.

Japanese porcelain maker s marks signatures. Most important was chin jukan xii 1835 1906 who was the founding father of the satsuma industry in kagoshima satsuma. Identify the maker of your japanese ceramics in alphabetical order. For example pieces from the 17th to mid 19th centuries often bear japanese.

Indentions are normally in ceramics and are stamped with the artist seal or signature. Japanese porcelain marks. Ikai yūichi s works are signed or stamped around the footring with the kanji character for yuichi his given name. Imari porcelain marks are of course in japanese though marks dating from genuine 20th century pieces also bear english marks.

Scratches are signed with an artist brush or special stick and carved or scratched into the item. Unlike the signatures on modern art prints it should never be interpreted as a proof of genuineness. Pottery and porcelain 陶磁器 tōjiki also 焼きもの yakimono or 陶芸 tōgei is one of the oldest japanese crafts and art forms dating back to the neolithic period. Occurs under many signatures.

These categories encompass 99 of of the japanese. To illustrate how difficult it can be to pinpoint an item s manufacturing period both arita ware from the qianlong period 18th century and from the 1970s. The old japanese ceramic industry was in many ways smaller in scale compared to the chinese. The wooden presentation box is signed with the same name and stamped.

Furthermore seals of engraved signatures such as eisen and riku katayama from this time period still exist but there are currently no existing ceramics with maruya moemon s seal. There is an additional sub category that divides the indention s into ceramic and porcelain indention s. In 1985 he won japan ceramics exhibition s best work award and in 1987 he won the japan ceramic association award. Many early japanese pottery marks were hand painted as they were viewed as a signature.

A mark made by stencil is a much later way of marking dating from the showa period 1926 to 1989. Kilns have produced earthenware pottery stoneware glazed pottery glazed stoneware porcelain and blue and white ware japan has an exceptionally long and successful history of ceramic production. Personal signatures by the artists involved are quite common. I am in a financial crisis and i need your help.

Marks was also applied for different reasons that on the chinese porcelain.