Historical Paintings
Baraset House Fine Art Gallery is a dealer in Historical Paintings from the 16th to 20th century, with a focus on Female Artists, Important Historical Portraiture,
Provenance & the History of our Sitters.
We offer a finely curated selection of Old Masters,
19th century works of art, Early Scottish Impressionists,
Female Masterworks, Canadian Impressionists
& Modern British Masters, focusing on works with outstanding Exhibition History and Provenance, including Works of Art formerly in Royal & Nobel Collections.
Our current stock includes such celebrated artists as:
Robert Harris, PRCA
Elizabeth McGillivray Knowles
Edith Agnes Smith
John Hoppner
Francesco Albani
A Fragile Legacy: early Arita porcelain
Baraset House Fine Arts specializes in early Japanese porcelain from the seventeeth-century kilns of Arita.
These museum quality pieces include rare and fine examples of Shoki-Imari, Ko-Imari, Ko-Kutani, Ai-Kutani, Kakiemon, Ai-Kakiemon,
and Arita Export pieces based upon European forms.
Ko-sometsuke: Ming Dynasty porcelain for Japan
A surge of Japanese tea ceremony orders placed through the unofficial Chinese kilns at Jingdezhen in the first half of the seventeenth century focused on the Japanese aesthetic which coveted the simple and spontaneous appearance of porcelain manufactured using poorly levigated clay, and roughly potted with imperfections such as the prized glaze-faults known as mushikui, or ‘moth eaten’ edges.
Ko-sometsuke porcelain was manufactured to suit the tastes and sensibilities of the Japanese Tea Masters who embraced the sense of wabi-sabi – a philosophy that encourages one to appreciate the beauty of imperfection ("wabi" meaning simplicity; "sabi" meaning the beauty that comes with age and time).
These wares display a delightfully refreshing spontaneity of design that makes them unique in Chinese ceramic history. The very short period of production (which ended with the reorganization of the official Chinese kilns by the Kangxi Emperor in 1683) resulted in some of the most characterful and inspired porcelain ever created.