A Hon-Minato bowl. Sakai. Around 1880 - image-1
A Hon-Minato bowl. Sakai. Around 1880 - image-2
A Hon-Minato bowl. Sakai. Around 1880 - image-1A Hon-Minato bowl. Sakai. Around 1880 - image-2

Lot 364 Dα

A Hon-Minato bowl. Sakai. Around 1880

Auction 1226 - overview Cologne
21.06.2023, 10:30 - Asian Art
Estimate: 600 € - 800 €
Result: 378 € (incl. premium)

A Hon-Minato bowl. Sakai. Around 1880

Of longish shape with rounded sides and a semicircular handle with pierced threefoils, covered by a straw yellow and bottle green glaze. Impressed seal mark underneath the glaze: Senshû Sakai Hon-Minato yaki Kichieimon. Wooden box, inscribed to the lid: ...mono hachi (...bowl) ... Kichieimon and collection number in red ink to the underside 1949 in kanji, the second wooden box with the same collection number.
Height 13.8 cm; length 18.8 cm

Literature

Cf. the mark in: E. S. Morse, Catalogue of the Morse Collection of Japanese Pottery, reprint, Rutland, Vt./Tokyo 1979, p. 131