An Iga chawan. 17th century - image-1

Lot 338 Dα

An Iga chawan. 17th century

Auction 1101 - overview Cologne
08.12.2017, 14:00 - Japanese Art
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.500 €
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An Iga chawan. 17th century

An Iga chawan of hissengata type on a square foot with three cut-outs, covered inside and partly to the outside with a thin ochre-coloured glaze which forms darker spots and runs in streaks ending in dark green drops. Gold lacquer restoration to the rim. 17th century. Wooden box, silk cloth.
Height 7.6 cm; width 13.6 cm

The box with inscription reading Ko Iga hanatsumi. Hanatsumi (flower picking) is the name given to the chawan.

Provenance

Collection Vollmer-Bergmann, Berlin. Acquired in the 1990s in Japan

Literature

Illustrated in: Gudrun Schmidt-Esters (Hrsg.), Momoyama-Keramik und ihr Einfluss auf die Gegenwart, Ausstellungskatalog, Stiftung Keramion, Frechen, 2011, p. 35, fig. 41

Exhibitions

Momoyama-Keramik und ihr Einfluss auf die Gegenwart, Stiftung Keramion, Frechen, 2011, 22.5.-11.9.2011