A guide price on this site is not a checkout amount. It is a way to compare pieces that will never be restocked, because each one was painted once and fired once.
When you compare, weigh four things rather than the number:
- Form. A cup, a vase, a plate and a gaiwan set are different objects with different uses and different scarcity. A matched pair of vases is rarer than either vase alone.
- Size and ground. Within a form, height, diameter and the porcelain ground (celadon, for example) move both the work and the price.
- Decoration and subject. A continuous full-work scene across a 26.6 cm plate is a different undertaking from a single small cup scene.
- Maker and provenance. Documented training, museum holdings and certificate-backed recognition are priced into the piece, not added on afterwards.
Availability and the final price are confirmed by email before anything is arranged. We will tell you plainly if a piece has found a home. Nothing here can sell an object that is already reserved, because there is no inventory to oversell — only the piece in front of you.
If you are starting a collection, begin with one form you will actually live with, and learn its brushwork. The snow-landscape line is a good first study: small enough to handle, deep enough to return to.