Lot Essay
For this celebrated poetess, painter and potter, see also Lots 294 and 295.
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OTAGAKI RENGETSU (1791-1875)
Details
A Sake Cup and A Shoki Imari Bottle
Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875)
The sake cup roughly potted with simple footring and everted sides, the grey body covered in a whitish glaze and inscribed with a poem in underglaze iron, signed Rengetsu, with signed fitted box; the bottle with oviform body supported on a short footring and narrow neck, the porcellanous stoneware covered in an off-white glaze with a simple underglaze-blue design of seed-pods, mid-17th Century
1 1/8in. (2.9cm.) and 6 9/16in. (16.7cm.) high (2)
Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875)
The sake cup roughly potted with simple footring and everted sides, the grey body covered in a whitish glaze and inscribed with a poem in underglaze iron, signed Rengetsu, with signed fitted box; the bottle with oviform body supported on a short footring and narrow neck, the porcellanous stoneware covered in an off-white glaze with a simple underglaze-blue design of seed-pods, mid-17th Century
1 1/8in. (2.9cm.) and 6 9/16in. (16.7cm.) high (2)
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