Antique Japanese Kyoto Blue & White Porcelain Vase KIYOMIZU ROKUBEI Snowflakes
![Picture](/uploads/1/3/2/7/132721643/pxl-20230214-052346475x_orig.jpg)
Type: Bottle Vase or Sake Flask (Tokkuri)
Material: Porcelain
Age: Meiji Period (1868-1912)
Origin/Maker: Kiyomizu Rokubei IV (1848-1920), Kyoto ware (Kyo-yaki, or Kyo-ware), Japan. Signed 六兵衛作 on base.
Size: 7 3/8" tall
Weight: 9.6 oz (273 g)
Provenance:
Collected: Yahoo Auctions Japan
Condition: Item is used in good condition commensurate with age, see photos. Four chips to spout repaired with kintsugi (gold repair of tsuishu lacquer coated with gold), two of these chips have small hairline cracks radiating downward.
Subject: Decorated in underglaze blue and white with designs of snowflakes, both in the traditional Japanese style (the round one with 6 holes around the edges) and the newly discovered (at the time) scientifically accurate snowflakes.
In an interesting coincidence, I also have a small gosu blue Imperial Satsuma vase or chaire with a very similar design (pictured but not included for sale in this listing).
Note that in the early 1900s Ukichiro Nakaya of Japan was one of the first people to catalogue snowflake shapes, and he created the first artificial snowflake (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukichiro_Nakaya). And in an unusual coincidence, his first scientific paper was regarding Japanese Kutani porcelain.
Location: Antique Japanese Kyoto Blue & White Porcelain Vase KIYOMIZU ROKUBEI Snowflakes
Material: Porcelain
Age: Meiji Period (1868-1912)
Origin/Maker: Kiyomizu Rokubei IV (1848-1920), Kyoto ware (Kyo-yaki, or Kyo-ware), Japan. Signed 六兵衛作 on base.
Size: 7 3/8" tall
Weight: 9.6 oz (273 g)
Provenance:
Collected: Yahoo Auctions Japan
Condition: Item is used in good condition commensurate with age, see photos. Four chips to spout repaired with kintsugi (gold repair of tsuishu lacquer coated with gold), two of these chips have small hairline cracks radiating downward.
Subject: Decorated in underglaze blue and white with designs of snowflakes, both in the traditional Japanese style (the round one with 6 holes around the edges) and the newly discovered (at the time) scientifically accurate snowflakes.
In an interesting coincidence, I also have a small gosu blue Imperial Satsuma vase or chaire with a very similar design (pictured but not included for sale in this listing).
Note that in the early 1900s Ukichiro Nakaya of Japan was one of the first people to catalogue snowflake shapes, and he created the first artificial snowflake (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukichiro_Nakaya). And in an unusual coincidence, his first scientific paper was regarding Japanese Kutani porcelain.
Location: Antique Japanese Kyoto Blue & White Porcelain Vase KIYOMIZU ROKUBEI Snowflakes