MAKUZU KOZAN I: A STUDIO PORCELAIN ‘WUCAI DRAGONS’ VASE

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MAKUZU KOZAN I: A STUDIO PORCELAIN ‘WUCAI DRAGONS’ VASE By Makuzu Kozan I (1842-1916), signed Kozan sei Japan, late 19th to early 20th century, Meiji period (1868-1912) The globular body rising from slightly tapering foot to a waisted neck set with a copper lined rim, painted in underglaze blue, green, yellow, and turquoise enamels and iron red, with black details, featuring three intertwined four-clawed dragons emanating fire amid scrolling clouds. The foot framed by a band of scrolls and geometric border. Signed in a double-square cartouche KOZAN sei [made by Kozan]. HEIGHT 13.1 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. In later years, Kozan I experimented with Chinese glazes such as wucai, flambé, celadon, or sancai, to imitate Qing dynasty porcelains and further developed new glazes and glazing techniques to create modern interpretations.

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