MOMOYAMA/EARLY EDO PERIOD (LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY)

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A SHIGARAKI KAKEHANAIKE [HANGING FLOWER VASE]
Momoyama/Early Edo Period (Late 16th/Early 17th Century)
Of Uzukumaru form, irregularly shaped with bulbous body and strongly everted mouth, partly covered with a green and brownish-green ash glaze and partly unglazed revealing a reddish-brown body, the neck fitted with a later metal hook and ring, slightly extended firing crack in body
4¾in. (12.1cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Wood double storage box

For a Momoyama-period Shigaraki piece exhibiting similar glaze effects, see Mitsuoka Tadanari, Shigaraki, Iga (Toji taikei [A compendium of ceramics], vol. 8; Tokyo, Heibonsha, 1976), cat. no. 4.

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