Lot description

A blue-glazed porcelain baluster vase

By Seifu Yohei III (1851-1914), late Meiji Period
The body worked in low relief with bifurcated branches of plum blossoms over a pale celadon ground, signed Seifu, with separate wood cover and wood stand. 33.1cm (13in) high. (3).

Footnotes

青磁梅文様壺　三代清風与平作　明治時代後期

Born as the second son of the Maruyama-School painter Okada Ryohei, he entered the studio of the painter Tanomura Chokunyu (1814-1907) in 1866 and was then adopted by Seifu Yohei II before becoming Seifu Yohei III on his Master’s death in 1878.

A regular exhibitor and prize-winner at International Expositions, Seifu’s work was always praised in Japan for its restraint and elegance; he was universally acclaimed in Japan as the finest ceramic artist of his generation and was the first ceramicist to be appointed an Imperial Artist in 1893. Interestingly, in the West, it was Kozan who was usually favoured.

Quoted from the lot page, © Bonhams. Bonhams, Fine Japanese Art, 2011-11-10, lot 338 ↗