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Lot 128*

Two earthenware vessels
By Makuzu Kozan I (1842-1916), Meiji (1868-1912) or Taisho (1912-1926) era, early 20th century

7 November 2019, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£1,000 - £1,500

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Two earthenware vessels

By Makuzu Kozan I (1842-1916), Meiji (1868-1912) or Taisho (1912-1926) era, early 20th century
The first an unglazed baluster vase with two irregularly shaped loop handles to the shoulder beneath the short cylindrical neck, covered with an ash glaze, the base signed with impressed mark Makuzu within an oval reserve, 28cm (11in), with a wood tomobako storage box, inscribed Kabin, Nanban-i (Foreign-style flower vase) Makuzu Kozan saku (Made by Makuzu Kozan) with seal Makuzu Kozan no in; the second an Iga-style vase of rounded square section, the pale beige biscuit partly covered with a flocculent brown and pale green glaze dripping down the body, the base signed with impressed mark Kozan saku (Made by Kozan) and Makuzu within a gourd-shaped reserve, 25.2cm (9¾in), with a wood tomobako storage box inscribed Kabin, ...Iga-i, Makuzu Kozan saku (Iga style foreign vase made by Makuzu Kozan) and sealed Makuzu Kozan. (4).

Footnotes

For a very similar example to the first, see Katherine Emerson-Dell, Bridging East and West, Japanese Ceramics from the Kozan Studio, Selections from the Perry Foundation, exhibition catalogue, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, and Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1994-1995, p.53, no.29.

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