Lot Essay
Eiraku Wazen lived from 1823 to 1896, suggesting that the second bowl dates from about 1892-3.
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MEIJI PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)
Details
One Kiyomizu tea-bowl and another in Annan style
Meiji Period (19th century)
The first with crackled pale beige glaze over a dark body with gold lacquer repair to the rim, the foot-ring with impressed mark Kiyomizu, signed underneath in red lacquer Don Taigyo, fitted box inscribed Kiyomizu-yaki chawan with a kao; the second decorated in underglaze blue on a pale crackled glaze, the centre with a man within a two-ring circle, the sides with the twelve characters for the animals of the Zodiac, the interior of the base unglazed with the impressed mark Eiraku, fitted box inscribed Shohakuan Masao oju mozo nanaju-o Wazen [a copy made at the special request of Shohakuan Masao by Wazen at the age of seventy] with a seal Kawahama shiryu [a branch of the Kawahama family]
5. 5/8in. (14.3cm.), 4. 5/8in. (11.7cm.) diam. respectively (2)
Meiji Period (19th century)
The first with crackled pale beige glaze over a dark body with gold lacquer repair to the rim, the foot-ring with impressed mark Kiyomizu, signed underneath in red lacquer Don Taigyo, fitted box inscribed Kiyomizu-yaki chawan with a kao; the second decorated in underglaze blue on a pale crackled glaze, the centre with a man within a two-ring circle, the sides with the twelve characters for the animals of the Zodiac, the interior of the base unglazed with the impressed mark Eiraku, fitted box inscribed Shohakuan Masao oju mozo nanaju-o Wazen [a copy made at the special request of Shohakuan Masao by Wazen at the age of seventy] with a seal Kawahama shiryu [a branch of the Kawahama family]
5. 5/8in. (14.3cm.), 4. 5/8in. (11.7cm.) diam. respectively (2)