TWO JAPANESE BLUE AND WHITE PIECES

TWO JAPANESE BLUE AND WHITE PIECES

MEIJI AND LATER, 19TH OR 20TH CENTURY

Both decorated in underglaze blue, the first a scalloped bowl painted to the well with a long-eared hare curling up amongst tall grasses, with a brown-edged rim and the underside left undecorated; together with a tokkuri embellished with flower sprays, 15cm and 22.5cm respectively. (2)

Provenance: from the collection of the late Gas Kimishima, wood-fire potter and specialist in the ancient kilns of Japan, purchased in Japan and thence by descent. Gas established his studio in England and built his own anagama kiln in Tring, Hertfordshire.