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A Set of Five Stoneware Dishes for the Tea Ceremony (Mukozuke)
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A Set of Five Stoneware Dishes for the Tea Ceremony (Mukozuke)

EDO PERIOD (18TH-19TH CENTURY)

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A Set of Five Stoneware Dishes for the Tea Ceremony (Mukozuke)
Edo Period (18th-19th Century)
Constructed as double-square dishes in the shape of overlapping square poem cards (kasane shikishi) in the style of Ogata Kenzan with a poem in one square opposite a landscape, a pavillion, a waterfall, a willow tree, flowering camellia, or a flowering plum branch on the other in iron-oxide under a transparent, crackled glaze, each inscribed Kenzan Sei sho and with red seal
7in. (17.8cm.) (5)

Specialist note

This set of dishes may be associated with Kenzan's grandson, Ihachi, who worked in Kenzan style during the period 1720-50. For a comparable example in the Peabody-Essex Museum, Salem, see Richard Wilson, Ogata Kenzan: Persona and production in Japanese Ceramics (New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1991), no. 339 (p. 245) and a discussion of Ihachi style on pp. 164-65.