A JAPANESE BRUSH WASHER

A JAPANESE BRUSH WASHER
EDO/MEIJI, 19TH CENTURY

13cm. (2)

WITHOUT RESERVE

Formerly in the Erik Hancock Collection, by repute.

Modelled with birds in flight before a stylised mountain, with dark brown and blue glazes lightly covering the crackled glaze; raised on three short feet, a paper collection label reading 'Ex Collectis Erik Hancock' and another label ' Mikawa c.1840'; together with a wood stand.

Cf. R Davids & D Jellinek, Provenance, p.217, for more information on Erik Hancock.