A Shôdai ware bowl. Kyûshû. 17th century - image-1

Lot 809 Dα

A Shôdai ware bowl. Kyûshû. 17th century

Auction 1053 - overview Cologne
05.06.2015, 10:30 - Japanese Art - Woodcut Prints, Paintings, Decorative Arts
Estimate: 800 € - 1.000 €
Result: 8.060 € (incl. premium)

A Shôdai ware bowl. Kyûshû. 17th century

A Shôdai ware bowl of elliptical section, the heavily potted shard with a light brown glaze displaying a cross filled with a stylized flower and roundels surrounded by rays in engraving and white engobe. Kyûshû. 17th century. Wooden box.
Height 8.9 cm; width 15 cm

Literature

Compare similar bowl in the Kobe City Museum of Namban Art, ill. in: Shin'ichi Tani and Tadashi Sugase, Nanban Art, 1973, no. 31 and in: The Silk Road on the Sea, Kobe 1982, no. 328; and a similar bowl in the Collection Kitamura Yoshiro, ill. in: Y. Okamoto, The Namban Art of Japan, New York/Tokyo 1972, p. 151