20. M5191
£8,500
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, the foot rim brown.
10 7/8 inches, 27.7 cm high.
Kawase Shinobu, 1989.
Wood box, described as ‘celadon flower vase’, signed and with artist’s seal, Shinobu, on the interior of the cover and the orange cloth, with the seal, gyoku-i-syou.
Provenance & Additional Information
- Included in the 2nd solo exhibition at Kochukyo, Tokyo, titled Gyoku-I-Syou (Adoration for the Spirit of Jade), 1989. This exhibition appeared to only comprise of similar bottle vases, all covered in a similar celadon lavender crackled Ru-type glaze. Fourteen others are illustrated in the catalogue.
- Purchased from Tauchi-Kohzen-do, Tokyo, October 2019.
- 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; 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 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 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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