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Subject:Help is this a eno / meiji period satsuma?
Posted By: Daniel roberts Fri, Jul 21, 2017 IP: 2a02:c7d:463e:d00:19
Hi i have a 12 inch tall satsuma vase. Its cobalt blue. It is marked at the bottom.
It has been repaired in a small place using gold.
“golden joinery,” Kintsugi (or Kintsukuroi, which means “golden repair”) is the centuries-old Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with a special lacquer dusted with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. Beautiful seams of gold glint in the cracks of ceramic ware, giving a unique appearance to the pottery and the Japanese then believe it to be valuable as the pottery been broken and repaired adds to beauty"
It looks old. You can feel the ripples in the vase were he or she originally moulded the vase.
I have some marks at the bottom and by my understanding they are of a family name saying either, Oshibe, Osabe or Osube.
I know most people with that name originate in the hyogo prefecture.
The really interesting thing i have found out is that there is a pattern on the side of the vase. Turns out this isn't a pattern but a Japanese family crest. ( same as a coat of arms in Europe).
I think the crest/flower is "gouri ni umbachi" ( plum flower). But it could also be "gouri ni kikyo"( bell flower)
I think this is made close to the kinki and kitakyusha areas but not sure what family uses this crest.
Any help really appreciated. I will attach pictures in the next message.
Thanks in advance
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- Daniel roberts - Jul 23, 2017 (08:05 AM) 
