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PROPERTY FROM A CALIFORNIA COLLECTOR 3199
3200
3197
A SMALL POTTERY CHUKO (SPOUTED VESSEL) 3201
Final Jomon period (1100-400 BCE)
The black-burnished low-fire vessel of compressed ovoid form with FINE JAPANESE WORKS OF ART | 105
high ornate projections on the cupped rim and center band framing
the short spout and bracketed by carved and cord-pressed abstract
decoration on the shoulder and underside
With a wood storage box
4in (10cm) high
$3,000 - 4,000

Vessels of this type have been excavated in Hirosaki City in
Aomori Prefecture.

For an example of nearly identical design, see Serizawa Chosuke,
Toji taikei (Complete Series of Ceramics), vol. 1, Jomon, Tokyo,
1990, no. 22.

3198
A SUE-WARE STONEWARE FLASK
Nara/Heian period (7th/8th century)
Of flattened ovoid shape with a rounded base and incised to either
side with concentric circles, one side with additional bands of
cross-hatching, the tall neck carved with a “stiff-leaf” band below a
wide flaring rim, a natural ash green glaze on the mouth, neck and
shoulders of the gray clay body
9 1/8in (23.1cm) high
$2,000 - 3,000

3199
AN E-GARATSU CHAWAN (TEA BOWL)
Edo period (17th century)
Set on a short foot ring and designed with deliberately
compressed, irregular curved sides and finished with an
overhanging lip to one side of the everted rim with a slightly rolled
edge, painted to one side with simple, stylized grasses in iron oxide
covered with a finely crackled brownish-gray glaze of feldspar and
ash, the rim with a small gold lacquer repair
With a brocade bag and wood storage box
5 3/8in (13.7cm) wide
$1,500 - 2,000

3200
A KOREAN IRABO CHAWAN (TEA BOWL)
17th century
The coarse red clay body of conical shape with narrow ring bands
incised on the exterior, the side walls thinning to a slightly flared rim
and raised on a thick foot ring, applied with a clear glaze suffused with
dark patches from the kiln firing, the cracks with lacquer repairs
With a brocade bag and two wooden storage boxes
6in (15.2cm) diameter
$1,000 - 1,500

3201
A KOREAN MISHIMA-STYLE CHAWAN (TEA BOWL)
16th/17th century
Of tsutsu, or cylindrical, type with a flared rim of irregular contour and
tapering sharply to a short foot ring, covered in a fine crackle glaze
of tan and greenish-ivory hue and decorated on the exterior with
an incised abstract pattern filled with white slip, the unglazed base
centered by an incised spiral, the rim with lacquer repairs
With a wood storage box
4in (10.2cm) diameter
$1,000 - 1,500