FIVE SETO AND MINO WARE TEA CADDIES (CHAIRE)

EDO AND MEIJI PERIODS (18TH TO LATE 19TH CENTURIES)

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FIVE SETO AND MINO WARE TEA CADDIES (CHAIRE)
edo and meiji periods (18th to late 19th centuries)
Of various forms and glazes, three with ivory lids and two with wood lids, one of ovoid form and ribbed in the upper body covered by a brown glaze with black patches signed Shun'itsu [Kato Sakusuke Kageyoshi] (5)

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Shun'itsu worked in the Seto village of Akazu in Owari province (Aichi prefecture) in the Meiji period. From the seventeenth century until 1870 there were three Akzau kilns headed by members of the Kato family who were appointed by the Owari Tokugawa house to the hereditary position of "official" (goyo) potter. Shun'itsu's brother used the same seal.