Chaire in Katatsuki form

Description:

Japan, Satsuma, around 1800
H. 6,3 cm
Stoneware. Fine, light-coloured body, covered with honey-coloured, so-called Ameyu glaze and dark brown iron glaze applied to the shoulder. Boxwood lid. Shifuku (cloth pouch) and kiri wooden box, inscribed on the lid by the tea master Sen Takusai Sasa (1744-1808, 8th lemoto of the Omote-senke school).
North German private collection, acquired at Kunsthandel Klefisch, Auction 98, 13 October 2012, lot 542 (invoice available) - Small glued chips at the rim