A Seto mizuzashi. Mino area. Edo period or earlier - image-1

Lot 340 Dα

A Seto mizuzashi. Mino area. Edo period or earlier

Auction 1101 - overview Cologne
08.12.2017, 14:00 - Japanese Art
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.000 €
Result: 2.356 € (incl. premium)
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A Seto mizuzashi. Mino area. Edo period or earlier

A Seto mizuzashi with a straight body covered by a thin brown glaze. Mino area. Edo period or earlier. Black lacquer lid. Inscribed wooden box, two pieces of cloth.
Height 14.8 cm; diameter 14.6 cm

The inscription to the outside of the lid reads Seto mizuzashi, the inscription on the inside of the lid is by Kushi Takushin (1898-1974), whose inscription dates the mizuzashi to the Muromachi period and is signed Kushi Takushin and sealed Takushin no in.
Kushi Takushin was a Japanese art historian, well know for his publications on Chinese, Korean and Japanese ceramics.

Provenance

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

Literature

Illustraed in: Gudrun Schmidt-Esters (Hrsg.), Momoyama-Keramik und ihr Einfluss auf die Gegenwart, Ausstellungskatalog, Stiftung Keramion, Frechen, 2011, p. 27, fig. 18

Exhibitions

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