A square Shino serving dish. Mino area, Owari province. Probably Momoyama period - image-1
A square Shino serving dish. Mino area, Owari province. Probably Momoyama period - image-2
A square Shino serving dish. Mino area, Owari province. Probably Momoyama period - image-3
A square Shino serving dish. Mino area, Owari province. Probably Momoyama period - image-1A square Shino serving dish. Mino area, Owari province. Probably Momoyama period - image-2A square Shino serving dish. Mino area, Owari province. Probably Momoyama period - image-3

Lot 284 Dα

A square Shino serving dish. Mino area, Owari province. Probably Momoyama period

Auction 1235 - overview Cologne
08.12.2023, 11:30 - India/Southeast Asia, Tibet/Nepal, China, Korea and Japan
Estimate: 1.800 € - 2.400 €
Result: 2.142 € (incl. premium)
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A square Shino serving dish. Mino area, Owari province. Probably Momoyama period

With heavily weakened corners and vertical rim, the body completely covered with a whitish glaze forming blotches and which runs irregularly and forms drops along the rim, painted in iron-grey with grasses surrounded by a band with various patterns, on the outside with a continuous tendrils.

Wooden box, inscribed on the lid: Ko Shino hachi, inside the lid inscribed with a longer text stating that he believes the bowl probably originates from the Momoyama period and was made at the old Mino Ogaya kiln, dated Shōwa 54 (1979) in the summer and signed: Tosuian and sealed To.
Height 4 cm; 25 x 24.6 cm

Arakawa Toyozō 荒川豊蔵 (1894-1985) is of the most important Japanese potters of the 20th century, and also became known for his research on Shino pottery. In 1930, he discovered a Momoyama-era Shino kiln near Ogaya in Gifu Prefecture and was able to prove that Shino ware was made in Mino and not in Seto. In 1933, he moved to Ogaya and began producing Shino ware there.

Provenance

Private collection, Düsseldorf, according to the previous owner from the collection of Arakawa Toyozō (1894-1985).