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Nabeshima Plate with Polychrome Decoration
Edo Period (1690-1740)
Dia: 20.5cm
A porcelain plate with slightly flared mouth-rim sitting on a straight raised foot. The interior is decorated with a polychrome depiction of two jars in a basket with branches of camellias and narcissus in underglaze blue with overglaze enameled red, yellow and green. The rim is decorated with a band of interlocking ruyi clouds. The back is decorated with coins tied with tassels and the raised foot-rim with a comb-tooth decoration. With a fitted wooden box.
Provenance: From a private Japanese collection
Nabeshima Plate with Polychrome Decoration
Edo Period (1690-1740)
Dia: 20.5cm
A porcelain plate with slightly flared mouth-rim sitting on a straight raised foot. The interior is decorated with a polychrome depiction of two jars in a basket with branches of camellias and narcissus in underglaze blue with overglaze enameled red, yellow and green. The rim is decorated with a band of interlocking ruyi clouds. The back is decorated with coins tied with tassels and the raised foot-rim with a comb-tooth decoration. With a fitted wooden box.
Provenance: From a private Japanese collection
Large Koryo Celadon Inlaid Tile
Koryo Dynasty (12th century)
W. 31.7cm x H. 22.8cm
A thin stoneware rectangular tile with a floral and bird decoration inlaid with white slip and iron oxide black details. The piece has a long crack, from top to bottom, with an old lacquer repair. In a wood and glass viewing case.
Provenance: From a private Japanese collection
Large Koryo Celadon Inlaid Tile
Koryo Dynasty (12th century)
W. 31.7cm x H. 22.8cm
A thin stoneware rectangular tile with a floral and bird decoration inlaid with white slip and iron oxide black details. The piece has a long crack, from top to bottom, with an old lacquer repair. In a wood and glass viewing case.
Provenance: From a private Japanese collection
Oribe Kutsugata Tea Bowl “Yama no Ha”
Late Momoyama-Early Edo Period (early 17th century)
Dia. 14 cm
A Kutsugata (shoe-shaped) stoneware teabowl covered with a rich, unctuous black glaze. The flattened front of the bowl is reserved in a finely crackled white slip with a clumping of seven circles encasing a geometric hourglass formed of two triangles joined at their points. (This design is based on chikiri; winding the warp on a loom). The glaze stops well short of the foot, a flattened donut shape, slightly off center on the broadly conical bottom. The unglazed bottom reveals of brown stoneware clay body. The bottom of the bowl has been inscribed in dark red by the 13th generation Omotesenke tea master Mujin Sousa “Sokuchusai” (1901-1979), who has also inscribed the box, “Yama no Ha” (Mountain’s Edge)
Provenance: Mujin Sousa “Sokuchusai” (1901-1979)
Private Japanese Collection
Oribe Kutsugata Tea Bowl “Yama no Ha”
Late Momoyama-Early Edo Period (early 17th century)
Dia. 14 cm
A Kutsugata (shoe-shaped) stoneware teabowl covered with a rich, unctuous black glaze. The flattened front of the bowl is reserved in a finely crackled white slip with a clumping of seven circles encasing a geometric hourglass formed of two triangles joined at their points. (This design is based on chikiri; winding the warp on a loom). The glaze stops well short of the foot, a flattened donut shape, slightly off center on the broadly conical bottom. The unglazed bottom reveals of brown stoneware clay body. The bottom of the bowl has been inscribed in dark red by the 13th generation Omotesenke tea master Mujin Sousa “Sokuchusai” (1901-1979), who has also inscribed the box, “Yama no Ha” (Mountain’s Edge)
Provenance: Mujin Sousa “Sokuchusai” (1901-1979)
Private Japanese Collection
Japanese and Korean Ceramics
Opens September 15, 2022
By appointment
The Japanese section spotlights excellent and rare examples of several important kiln-types, starting with an unusually large Jomon ritual food container dating to 3500-2500 BC, noted for the modern-looking plasticity of its modeling and monumental presence. A 6th century AD Sueki jar with streaming ash glaze and combed design, directly rooted in Korean Silla ware traditions, forges the connection between Japan and Korea, which was intertwined for centuries.
Medieval stonewares from Bizen, Tokoname and Mino kilns illustrate their continued use in the Japanese tea ceremony. Most notably, a black Oribe Kutsugata-form tea bowl, formerly owned and inscribed by an Omotosenke school grand master, is decorated with a repeated chikiri pattern and dates from the early 17th century.
Japanese porcelains are represented by important works of two different types. A Nabeshima type plate with an oft-published pattern of baskets and flowers is an extremely fine example of this rare type of overglaze enameled wares, originally produced by the feudal Lord Nabeshima who called on the highest level technology and craftsmen for porcelain tributes for the Shogun in Edo. There is also a large Aode Kokutani-type charger depicting vividly depicted scholar-in-landscape cartouche and military fans amongst foliage, as well as a smaller Aode Kokutani square plate with a rare and charming depiction of a tiger.
A group of Korean Koryo Dynasty celadons is highlighted with a large rectangular tile with inlaid decoration of birds and foliage, one of only three such pieces known in the United States.
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