A RARE JAPANESE MAKUZU KOZAN VASE

A RARE JAPANESE VASE BY MIYAGAWA (MAKUZU) KŌZAN (1842-1916)
MEIJI ERA, 20TH CENTURY

The pear-shaped body raised on a flared foot, with scrolling handles applied to the shoulder; decorated in an unusual chocolate-brown pudding-stone glaze, the footrim with a stamped Kōzan mark, 17.5cm.

See the British Museum, access. no.1981,0601.1 for a related vase by Kōzan with a similar glaze originally purchased from Sydney L Moss Ltd. Also, see the Carnegie Museum, access. no.2021.12.1.A-.B for another example.

WITHOUT RESERVE