Lot 344 D α

A very large Ao-Oribe tokkuri. Mino area. Edo period

Auction 1101 - overview Cologne
08.12.2017, 14:00 - Japanese Art
Estimate: 8.000 € - 10.000 €

A very large Ao-Oribe tokkuri. Mino area. Edo period

A very large Ao-Oribe tokkuri of rounded square shape with a thin neck and a recessed base, covered all over with a beige-coloured crackled glaze, the neck glazed green and plant motifs in iron brown to the body. Mino area. Edo period. Wooden box.
Height 23 cm

Provenance

Collection Vollmer-Bergmann, Berlin. Acquired in the 1990s in Japan

Literature

Illustrated in: Gudrun Schmidt-Esters (Hrsg.), Momoyama-Keramik und ihr Einfluss auf die Gegenwart, Ausstellungskatalog, Stiftung Keramion, Frechen, 2011, p. 59, fig. 119
Compare Sekai tôji zenshû, vol. 5, p. 94f

Exhibitions

Momoyama-Keramik und ihr Einfluss auf die Gegenwart, Stiftung Keramion, Frechen, 2011, 22.5.-11.9.2011