MAKUZU KOZAN I: AN IRON-RED GLAZED STUDIO PORCELAIN GARLIC-HEAD VASE WITH DRAGONS

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MAKUZU KOZAN I: AN IRON-RED GLAZED STUDIO PORCELAIN GARLIC-HEAD VASE WITH DRAGONS By Makuzu Kozan I (1842-1916), signed Makuzu yo Kozan sei Japan, late 19th to early 20th century, Meiji period (1868-1912) The vase raised on a splayed foot rising to a long waisted neck with a bulbous garlic mouth, covered in lustrous iron-red suffused with crackles and incised in delicate lines with two sinuous dragons. The base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue reading MAKUZU yo KOZAN SEI [Makuzu kiln, made by Kozan]. HEIGHT 24.7 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. Auction comparison: Compare a near identical iron-red ‘dragon’ garlic-mouth bottle vase by Makuzu Kozan (1869-1912), dated Meiji period, 25.5 cm tall, at Roseberys, Chinese, Japanese & South Eastern Asian Art - Day Two, 8 November 2023, London, lot 1089 (sold for GBP 3,936 or approx. EUR 4,900 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing).

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