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Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann The Stocking Mender 1868

Explore the collections of

BARASET HOUSE

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:

John Thomas Seton self portra

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.

The Canadian Impressionists

Discover the illuminating art of The Canadian Impressionist school and the early avante-garde artists of Canada,

with a focus on female Canadian painters and pioneering artists

who lit up the Canadian art scene in the first half of the twentieth century.

ABOUT US

Specialists in 17th-19thc Portraiture, Old Masters paintings, Early Japanese Porcelain, Fine Antiques & Decorative Arts

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BARASET HOUSE

Toronto | Canada

by appointment only

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tel. 416 666 6295

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