A Hagi chawan. Nagato province, today Yamaguchi prefecture. Edo period - image-1

Lot 84 Dα

A Hagi chawan. Nagato province, today Yamaguchi prefecture. Edo period

Auction 1157 - overview Cologne
27.06.2020, 11:00 - Asian Art
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.000 €
Result: 1.875 € (incl. premium)
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A Hagi chawan. Nagato province, today Yamaguchi prefecture. Edo period

The rounded shape with thin horizontal grooves inside and wider ones to lower part at the outside, the body covered by a shiny, crackled beige-coloured glaze with a pinkish tinge. Wooden box, with a kiwametsuke pasted to the inside of the lid reading Ko Hagi chawan …, signed Kohitsu and sealed Kinzan. On the box proper a paper label reading Sukehachi saku ko Hagi chawan (Old Hagi made by Sukehachi) with the collector’s number 158 in kanji. Brocade bag (shifuku).
Diameter 12.5 cm

Hagi in Nagato province was the seat of the Mori daimyô from 1600 to 1868, who opened the first Hagi kiln in the castle town of Matsumoto. In the first half of the 17th century Yamamura Sakunojô (also known as Mitsumasa, or Shôan) and his uncle Saka Kôraizaemon (also known as Rikei and Sukehachi) were in charge of this kiln which has active into the Meiji period.