13. M5187
£9,500
Description
Japanese porcelain celadon lavender glazed cylindrical flower vase, mizusashi or bitong, with five petalled rim, the wide cylindrical body above two ribs at the foot and beneath a gently flared rim with the glaze thinning, covered overall on the base and the interior in an even celadon lavender Ru-type glaze, the biscuit foot rim brown.
6 ¾ inches, 17.1 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 and the orange cloth.
Provenance & Additional Information
- Included in the 4th solo exhibition at Kandori, The New Otani Hotel, Tokyo, 1983; a similar slightly larger example described as a mizusashi, water container, is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 12.
- A related five-petal vase of similar form, described as a scholar’s desk object and therefore implying it could be a brushpot, bitong, was included in the 1st solo exhibition at Kochukyo, Tokyo, 1985, illustrated in the catalogue, no. 37; another with three petals dated 2009, gift from the Friends of the Institute, is in the Minneapolis Institute of Art, collection no. 2009.40A.B.
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