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TWO JAPANESE BOWLS FOR THE TEA CEREMONY, CHAWAN
EDO PERIOD OR LATER, 17 CENTURY OR LATER
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One with a tall U-shaped body decorated with gold lacquer seemingly dripping over the black glaze, the shapes evoking mountain tops and clouds, the glaze
stopping short of the foot and with an incised mark for Ninsei, a paper collection label reading “Nonomura Seisuke Ninsei 1650”, the other in raku style with pink
mottling over a brown ground, with old kintsugi gold lacquer restoration, 9.6cm and 7.8cm respectively. (2)
£1,000-2,000
Provenance: an English private collection, London and Shetland.
See the Seikado Bunko Art Museum, Iro-e Yoshino Yama zu Chatsubo (Important Cultural Property), for a large tea storage container by Ninsei with a similar pattern of
gold clouds over a deep black ground, representing the night sky over Mount Yoshino.

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A JAPANESE ORIBE-STYLE DISH
MEIJI PERIOD, 19 CENTURY
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The quatrelobed body decorated with splashes of thick blue and green
enamels, the well with a large stylised crayfish and an amoeba-like
organism, the short rim with brown abstract patterns and the underside
left unglazed, 19.8cm.
£300-500
Provenance: an English private collection, London and Shetland.

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