A large Aka-Raku chawan. Kyoto. Attributed to Hon’ami Kōetsu. Early Edo period - image-1
A large Aka-Raku chawan. Kyoto. Attributed to Hon’ami Kōetsu. Early Edo period - image-2
A large Aka-Raku chawan. Kyoto. Attributed to Hon’ami Kōetsu. Early Edo period - image-3
A large Aka-Raku chawan. Kyoto. Attributed to Hon’ami Kōetsu. Early Edo period - image-4
A large Aka-Raku chawan. Kyoto. Attributed to Hon’ami Kōetsu. Early Edo period - image-5
A large Aka-Raku chawan. Kyoto. Attributed to Hon’ami Kōetsu. Early Edo period - image-6
A large Aka-Raku chawan. Kyoto. Attributed to Hon’ami Kōetsu. Early Edo period - image-7
A large Aka-Raku chawan. Kyoto. Attributed to Hon’ami Kōetsu. Early Edo period - image-1A large Aka-Raku chawan. Kyoto. Attributed to Hon’ami Kōetsu. Early Edo period - image-2A large Aka-Raku chawan. Kyoto. Attributed to Hon’ami Kōetsu. Early Edo period - image-3A large Aka-Raku chawan. Kyoto. Attributed to Hon’ami Kōetsu. Early Edo period - image-4A large Aka-Raku chawan. Kyoto. Attributed to Hon’ami Kōetsu. Early Edo period - image-5A large Aka-Raku chawan. Kyoto. Attributed to Hon’ami Kōetsu. Early Edo period - image-6A large Aka-Raku chawan. Kyoto. Attributed to Hon’ami Kōetsu. Early Edo period - image-7

Lot 295 Dα

A large Aka-Raku chawan. Kyoto. Attributed to Hon’ami Kōetsu. Early Edo period

Auction 1235 - overview Cologne
08.12.2023, 11:30 - India/Southeast Asia, Tibet/Nepal, China, Korea and Japan
Estimate: 3.000 € - 5.000 €
Result: 4.536 € (incl. premium)
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A large Aka-Raku chawan. Kyoto. Attributed to Hon’ami Kōetsu. Early Edo period

Of tsutsugata type with cylindrical shape, on a very flat foot with a spiral inside, covered with a white and salmon-red glaze with large pores and grey areas leaving the bottom almost completely free, the design of Mount Fuji and the pines of Miho in white. Two very small gold lacquer restorations to the rim. Wooden box, the lid inscribed in silver lacquer Kōetsu saku Aka-Raku Fuji chawan (Aka-Raku chawan made by Kōetsu, chawan (named) Fuji). To the side an older paper label inscribed Mei Fuji Kōetsu saku Aka-Raku. Three paper slips with modern handwritten comments. Shifuku.
Height 8.2 cm; diameter 12.3 cm

Hon'ami Kōetsu 本阿弥 光悦 (1558 - 1637), an important calligrapher (one of the 'Three Calligraphers of the Kan'ei Period') found pottery late in his life when Tokugawa Ieyasu gave him a piece of land in Takaga-mine in northern Kyoto. There, he built his own pottery kiln and developed his skills in close contact with the Raku family, thus coming up with his very own interpretation of Raku ceramics.

Provenance

Private collection, Düsseldorf