MAKUZU KOZAN I: A FINE STUDIO PORCELAIN BOWL

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MAKUZU KOZAN I: A FINE STUDIO PORCELAIN BOWL By Makuzu Kozan I (1842-1916), signed Makuzu Kozan sei Japan, late 19th to early 20th century, Meiji period (1868-1912) The bowl with incurved sides and lipped upper rim, painted to the exterior in a rich gosu blue, featuring four pairs of cream-glazed fish centered by the symbols ‘fuku’ and ‘ju’ as well as scattered Buddhist emblems and auspicious symbols highlighted in vivid enamels, gilt, and iron-red. The well is decorated with a sinuous four-clawed dragon within a roundel framed by three sprays of peony on a crackled cream ground. The base signed MAKUZU KOZAN sei [made by Makuzu Kozan] in a rectangular reserve. DIAMETER 25.3 cm Makuzu Kozan I (1842-1916), also known as Miyagawa Kozan, was a potter who moved his ceramics studio from his hometown of Kyoto to the port city of Yokohama in 1870. His early works copying styles and forms derived from earlier Japanese and Chinese ceramics soon found favor with Western buyers and his business quickly expanded. Kozan’s work was also much admired within Japan and achieved special notoriety after the Meiji Emperor touched one of his vases at the First National Industrial Exhibition in 1877.

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