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THBMikasa Bowl Crafted by Japanese Glassmaker Kurata
About Seller
522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
Sarasota Estate Auction specializes in a wide variety of furniture, antiques, fine art, lighting, sculptures, and collectibles. Andrew Ford, owner and operator of the company, has a passion for finding the best pieces of art and antiques and sharing those finds with the Gulf Coast of Florida.
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LiveJan 19, 2025
Over 800 lots will be offered in day 2 of our 2 day weekend. There are multiple lots of important fine art from landscapes and etchings to old masters and portraits. We have a collection of sterling silver, African artifacts, oriental rugs, Asian antiquities, a collection from the Ex Managing Director of the NYC Waldorf Astoria, and more! Sarasota Estate Auction sarasotaestateauction@gmail.com
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Mikasa Bowl Crafted by Japanese Glassmaker Kurata. Black sturdy glass throughout, small label on side. Kurata Craft Glass is produced by the Joetsu Crystal Glass Company (JCGC), founded in the Joetsu region of Japan in 1905. Kurata is the name of the family that owns the company, and JCGC is still in existence despite economic difficulties in the late 20th Century. Kurata developed a successful relationship with California-based Mikasa in the early 1970s to distribute their functional products to a Western export market, while still creating high quality art glass pieces. In the late 1980s the relationship ended when Mikasa sought suppliers in other countries, but Kurata weathered the downturn in fortune and began to concentrate further on purely decorative art glass. Due to labeling issues, their quality and style is so great that early works are often mistaken for Czech and Bohemian glass pieces by collectors.
Size: 14 1/2 x 6 1/4 in.
#4419 .
Setsuo Aratani, a Japanese-American, founded All Star Trading in California in 1936 as an import-export enterprise specializing in trade with Japan. When hostilities between Aratani’s source country and his supply country erupted on December 7th, 1941, the business abruptly closed, but following World War II Setsuo’s son George and a partner named Alfred Funabashi revived the trading company, now called American Commercial Inc. The younger Aratani and Funabashi sold flash-frozen tuna and developed the company into one of the largest importers of toys, distributing its merchandise through a half-dozen department store chains on the East Coast. By the mid 1950s the pair began concentrating on importing china made in Japan, using a new trademark that would become the official name of their company in 1957: “Mikasa,” Japanese for “three umbrellas.” The gradual move into the chinaware business evolved into the company’s exclusive occupation by the early 1960s. In 1965 the company’s path crossed with a young department store merchandiser named Alfred Blake working in Canada, He left Hudson Bay to join Mikasa as a commissioned sales representative for western Canada in 1965, when the California-based company was collecting $5 million a year in sales, and nearly doubled sales within a few short years. When Alfred Funabashi died in 1976 Blake was named president and began working alongside George Aratani. Blake broadened the company’s line of merchandise, adding crystal stemware and new, less expensive brands to buttress the company’s flagship Mikasa brand. He opened a showroom in New York City, where the company’s tableware was showcased in midtown Manhattan, and in 1978 he directed the company’s foray into the retail sector, establishing their first dedicated outlet store in a warehouse in Secaucus, New Jersey. By 1985 the company was generating $137 million in annual sales, and that same year Blake initiated a leveraged buyout with the senior executives to obtain ownership from Aratani. In 1986 Japan’s currency began to appreciate quickly against the U.S. dollar, making goods produced in Japan more expensive in the United States, and stores in the States began closing due to their own economic woes. After just one year of new ownership, Mikasa’s fortunes had shifted into the red, with a $3.6 million loss. Blake moved some of Mikasa’s production out of Japan to low-cost, contract operations in Malaysia, Thailand, and Yugoslavia, allowing them to survive into the 1990s. In 1991 Mikasa formed a joint marketing venture named Mikasa Europe Distribution with a German partner to market the company’s products in Europe. By 2000 the company had developed into four key proprietary brands, and an initial public offering (IPO) in 1994 had helped them expand once more. In 2008 Lifetime Brands, Inc., one of the largest houseware companies in the United States, acquired Mikasa, retaining the brand name and certain assets to continue distributing.
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BIDDER MUST ARRANGE THEIR OWN SHIPPING. Although SEA will NOT arrange shipping for you, we do recommend our preferred shipper Premier Shipping & Crating at info@premiershipment.com You MUST email them, please DO NOT CALLl. If you'd like to compare shipping quotes or need more options, feel free to contact any local Sarasota shippers. You can email any one of the shippers below as well. Be sure to include the lot(s) you won and address you would like it shipped to. Brennan with The UPS Store #0089 - 941-413-5998 - Store0089@theupsstore.com AK with The UPS Store #2689 - 941-954-4575 - Store2689@theupsstore.com Steve with The UPS Store #4074 - 941-358-7022 - Store4074@theupsstore.com Everett with PakMail - 941-751-2070 - paktara266@gmail.com
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14 1/2 x 6 1/4 in.
