Comments on: Significance of Satsuma in Antique Japanese Pottery http://www.japanese-antiquities.com/25/significance-of-satsuma-in-antique-japanese-pottery/ Rare Japanese Bowls-Netsuke-Plates-Paintings-Prints Sun, 11 Jul 2010 09:13:37 +0000 hourly 1 By: Sanford DeWitt http://www.japanese-antiquities.com/25/significance-of-satsuma-in-antique-japanese-pottery/comment-page-1/#comment-72 Sanford DeWitt Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:51:21 +0000 http://www.japanese-antiquities.com/?p=24#comment-72 HI, We have a very interestintg-looking Japanese vessel, with a raku-looking body, but the clay is reddish, the glaze seems to be a grey-white oil slip, and while the vessel itself looks as if it was made spontaneously, in the raku style, there is a highly detailed sculpture in deep relief with a very realistic tree framing the foreground, and two monks praying at an alter in the mountains in the background. There are two stamps (not decals) on the bottom and they look Japanese, but they are not Japanese "characters" as we know them. Any ideas? I do have digital photos to send if anybody would like to have a look. Thanks! HI, We have a very interestintg-looking Japanese vessel, with a raku-looking body, but the clay is reddish, the glaze seems to be a grey-white oil slip, and while the vessel itself looks as if it was made spontaneously, in the raku style, there is a highly detailed sculpture in deep relief with a very realistic tree framing the foreground, and two monks praying at an alter in the mountains in the background. There are two stamps (not decals) on the bottom and they look Japanese, but they are not Japanese “characters” as we know them. Any ideas? I do have digital photos to send if anybody would like to have a look.

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