Japanese Ceramic Vase Marks

The japanese word for ceramics is yakimono which is used to refer to all aspects of ceramics and pottery.

Japanese ceramic vase marks.

Many companies have closed and many records were lost. The six main schools. Many of the japanese makers marks on satsuma porcelain or pottery are simply the name of the person who made the item or a generic marking such as dai nippon satsuma. Some pottery schools in japan date back to the 12th century and there are six primary regions or kilns of pottery schools in japan bizen shigaraki seto echizen tamba and tokoname.

Decoration in satsuma style but on porcelain best guess. Personal signatures by the artists involved are quite common. See made in japan ceramics iii by carole bess white mark 66. You may also find that there are no main markings only japanese numbers.

Hidden within the kanji the characters on the bottom of the piece you will typically find the production region a specific kiln location a potter s name and sometimes a separate decorator s identity but at times only generic terms were recorded and tracking down. Mar 18 2015 explore sandi logan s board collection of porcelain pottery makers marks followed by 367 people on pinterest. These types of markings are more common on larger vases that form part of a set. The japanese porcelain maker s marks signatures listed below are currently not in any specific order or categorized by maker artist period or style etc.

Lustre ware vase with the triple leaf mark is an unknown. The range of moorcroft pottery marks begins with william moorcroft s time at the mackintyre pottery and covers the 100 year history of design and ownership by william his son walter moorcroft other more current owners and marks of artists and designers from the moorcroft design studio. He received numerous awards such as an award of excellence for his iron glaze pot in the asahi ceramic art exhibition in 1967 the asahi prize for his iron glaze flower vase in the 15th japan traditional art crafts exhibition in 1968 the japan ceramic society prize in 1985 and the tokai television cultural prize in 1994. Marks was also applied for different reasons that on the chinese porcelain.

2 other marks are on vases which i think are japanese. Many of these companies were in the seto mino area. The sendai nippon mark is with the cream vase and the blue vase is unreadable. See more ideas about pottery makers makers mark pottery marks.

A few real life samples of genuine moorcroft pottery marks. Japanese porcelain marks.