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Japanese Glass43 of 531Kurata for Mikasa decorative bowlKurata Craft Glass red and yellow vase
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    Posted 5 years ago

    kwqd
    (1167 items)

    This bowl is 6.5" high x 8" top diameter x 3" bottom diameter. Not an exciting color or style, actually more workmanlike, but with a great label, the original box, packing material and stickers on the box. A good piece for reference and it is a good size. It is even larger than the Hineri bowl I recently posted though not quite as thick and heavy.

    This one was $13, so that leaves me a total of $19 to spend on one more piece of labelled Japanese craft glass. So there are good deals on labeled Japanese art glass in the U. S. of A. and it may not be as hard as I feared to find unlabelled but recognizable Japanese craft glass in thrift shops. Yay! Well, "Yay" when I find one more labelled piece...

    I think several of the pieces I have found in my $100 challenge have been by makers who are now defunct. Is that right, Karen? If so, who are the makers that are still in business? Did China kill Japanese art glass?

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    1. kwqd kwqd, 5 years ago
      Thank you, AnythingObscure!
    2. kwqd kwqd, 5 years ago
      Thanks Jenni and sklo42!
    3. kwqd kwqd, 5 years ago
      Thanks for taking a look at my Narumi bowl aura!
    4. kwqd kwqd, 5 years ago
      Thanks officialfuel!
    5. kwqd kwqd, 5 years ago
      Thank you very much MALKEY!
    6. kwqd kwqd, 5 years ago
      Thanks for loving my Narumi bowl antiquerose!
    7. racer4four racer4four, 5 years ago
      You certainly have found bargains Kevin!
      Many glass makers in Japan ceased production in the late 1990s. There was a whole group of factors: the value of the Yen had limited export, art glass as a commodity greatly reduced in demand worldwide, the Japanese themselves moved to a more traditional style of glass with Edo Kiriko, and production costs had ballooned. Similar things had affected many glass makers all around the world.
      Kurata/Joetsu still exist, Narumi who are a giant homewares company mainly make crystal, Iwatsu are gone, Iwata are gone, Hoya only make optical glass, Multi Glass are reinvented as a four man workshop, and so it goes on. It’s a very different production landscape now to what was in say the 70s.
    8. kwqd kwqd, 5 years ago
      @racer4four - Karen! Thanks for your comments and valuable and interesting information! It sounds like Japan and the US art glass industries went through a decline at the same time.
    9. kwqd kwqd, 5 years ago
      Thank you SEAN68 and Watchsearcher!
    10. kwqd kwqd, 5 years ago
      Thanks much artfoot!

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