For detail information, please visit the following websites: https://www.etsy.com/nz/market/awaji

https://www.1stdibs.com/creators/awaji-pottery/

For the information of base marks, please visit the following website: Awaji ware, with Sanpei flag and stamped country of origin JAPAN, which occurred between 1890 and 1922. http://gotheborg.com/marks/awaji.shtml

This auction is for a gorgeous Awaji Pottery Monochrome Hand Thrown Vase, in a rare and beautiful Iridescent Cobalt Blue circa 1891 -1918. It has the incised Sanpei Flag Mark and Japan the country of origin. The Sanpei Flag mark was thought to be started by the kiln around 1870 - 1880.

Awaji pottery has got its name after the Japanese island at where it was made during a period of about one hundred years, between 1830 and 1939. In late 1930's the last of the kilns is closed. This is a very rare and collectible Awaji pottery vase. From the photos, you can see the beautiful “Abalone shell internal shining “ on the surface of the vase.

The vase has some thin and tiny nibbles/chips at bottom rim as shown on the photo attached.

It measures about 200mm tall with 95mm across at the widest points of the body.

Notes:

1. It is sold as pictured. If you have any question including the shipping cost about it, please ask me before bidding.
2. The shipping cost includes postage and package materials.
3. If you are the winner of this auction, please make contact within 2 days and payment within 3 days. Otherwise the items will be re-listed.
4. If the auction has been specified "Seller allows pick-ups", the buyer must pick up the item within 3 days after winning the auction. Or make payment within 3 days and then pick up within 10 days.
5. Post is at buyer’s cost. If the item is lost or damaged during shipping, it will be the buyer’s risk. But the seller will take responsibility to contact the buyer to deal with the problem.