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899
KAWAI KANJIRO (1890-1966)
Two cobalt ground vases with raised slip decoration
Showa era (1926-1989), 20th century
The larger molded with a square-sectioned neck, a rectangular
sectioned body and stylized iris blossoms on the opposing faces
drawn in raised white slip with green and copper-red details, the
recessed base also glazed in cobalt; the smaller vase of rice bail
shape, with flowering branches similarly drawn in raised white slip
with red and green highlights on both sides, the unglazed foot pad
surrounding an ovoid glazed patch on the base
9 and 6 1/2in (23 and 16.5cm) high

$2,500 - 4,000
Provenance
Property from the Estate of Professor Donald Howard Shively (1921-
2005)

The taller vase was purchased directly from the artist at some time
before 1966.
The shorter vase was given to Professor Shively at some time in the
1970s by by Murano Tatsuo (fifth president of the Sanwa Bank), an
900 old and close family friend.
900
SHOJI HAMADA (1894-1978)
A tenmoku-glazed stoneware vase
Showa era (1926-1989), 20th century
Thickly potted with a concave lip to the canted neck and a
compressed ovoid body tapering inward to the canted foot, the
tenmoku glaze on the exterior walls enlivened in resist with four-petal
flower heads drawn in light brown and green splashes separated by
vertical bars of green slip, the mottled black glaze also applied on the
recessed base within the unglazed foot pad
11in (28cm) high

$4,000 - 6,000
Provenance
Property from the Estate of Professor Donald Howard Shively (1921-
2005)

899 Professor Shively’s father, Benjamin Franklin Shively, a missionary
and faculty member at Doshisha University from around 1910, knew
Hamada, Kawai Kanjiro (1890-1966) and other Japanese potters and
introduced his son to them, according to the family history. Professor
Shively apparently purchased this vase directly from Shoji Hamada at
some time before the potter’s death 1978.

901
A LARGE TANBA WARE STORAGE JAR
Momoyama (1573-1615) or Edo (1615-1868) period, early 17th
century
Of compressed and inverted pear form with a rolled rim to the
cylindrical neck, four lugs applied to the rounded shoulder beneath
a mottled brown glaze that stops unevenly at mid-section, unglazed
surfaces of the lower walls and flat base burnt a dark reddish brown
in the firing
17 3/8in (44.2cm) high

$5,000 - 7,000
Provenance
Property from the Estate of Professor Donald Howard Shively (1921-
2005), by repute, purchased in Kyoto

For Tanba jars of similar shape and large size, all described as tea
leaf storage jars, see Daniel Rhodes, Tamba Pottery: The Timeless
Art of a Japanese Village, Kodansha, Tokyo, 1970: no.31, (20.3in
901 high, as Momoyama); no.35, (14.5in, as early Edo) and no.48,
(21.5in, as early Edo).

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