12. M4907
£7,500
Description
Japanese porcelain celadon lavender glazed ovoid flower vase with rounded melon form body and tall thin gently flared neck on a short everted foot, covered overall on the base and interior in an even celadon lavender Ru-type glaze thinning at the rim and the rib, all on an unglazed brown biscuit foot rim.
7 5/8 inches, 19.3 cm high.
Kawase Shinobu, 1983.
Wood box, described as ‘celadon flower vase’, signed and with artist’s seal, Shinobu, on the interior of the cover.
Provenance & Additional Information
- Included in the 4th solo exhibition at Kandori, The New Otani Hotel, Tokyo, 1983.
- Purchased at Nihonbashi-kai, January 2014.
- The 2nd solo exhibition held at Kochukyo, Tokyo, titled Gyoku-I-Syou (Adoration for the Spirit of Jade), 1989, comprised of similar bottle vases, all covered in a celadon lavender crackled Ru-type glaze. Fourteen others are illustrated in the catalogue.
- A related bottle vase of more rounded form on a tall splayed foot was included in the 1st solo exhibition at Kochukyo, Tokyo, 1985, no. 21; another dated 1989 was included by the Musée Tomo, The Kanjitsu Kikuchi Memorial Tomo Museum of Art, Tokyo, in their retrospective exhibition of Beyond Tradition – Seeking His Serene Blue: Celadon Works by Kawase Shinobu, 2011, illustrated in the catalogue, no. 33, p. 21; and another crackled example also dated 1989, was included by the Musée Tomo, The Kanjitsu Kikuchi Memorial Tomo Museum of Art, Tokyo, in Fifty Years in Making Celadon, The Special Retrospective Exhibition of Kawase Shinobu, 2018, illustrated in the catalogue, no. 41, p. 51.
- This form is inspired by Sui and Tang (6th-10th century) glazed Chinese pottery vases. A white glazed example from the Sui dynasty was also included by the Musée Tomo, The Kanjitsu Kikuchi Memorial Tomo Museum of Art, Tokyo, in Fifty Years in Making Celadon, The Special Retrospective Exhibition of Kawase Shinobu, 2018, illustrated in the catalogue, no. 24, p. 33; a sancai, three-colour Tang dynasty example in the British Museum is illustrated by Masahiko Sato in Sekai Toji Zenshu, volume 11, Ceramic Art of the World, Sui and T’ang Dynasties, Fig. 124, p. 291.
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