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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 9, 2017 | Bonhams | London | Fine Japanese Art | 277 | $****** - ****** | A tall pair of matching porcelain pear-shaped vases with applied ceramic crustaceans and fish By Makuzu Kozan |
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39 cm (15.35 in)
Each vase similarly decorated with a complementary design, the body of each vase with three wide bands, the middle section unglazed and decorated in relief with assorted fish and crustaceans caught in a net between two bands of different species of a cluster of shells applied in ceramic high relief accompanied with the corresponding culinary vegetable decorated in enamels enclosed within a circular panel, the first vase decorated with an ishidai (striped beakfish), an ika (squid), a kani (crab), a mebaru (Japanese rockfish), a kurodai (Japanese black bream) and two ayu (sweet fish), the shells and vegetables including a sazae (horned turban) with myoga (Japanese ginger) and a hotate (scallop) with horenso (spinach) on the upper section and an awabi (abalone) and green leaves and a hotate with radish on the bottom section; the second vase with an amadai (tile fish), a tai (seabream), a tora fugu (tiger blowfish), an ishigakidai (spotted knifejaw), a tako (octopus), a kani (crab) and an ebi (shrimp), the shells and vegetables including an asari (a Japanese littleneck) with a takenoko (bamboo shoot), a hotate (scallop) with a kabu (turnip) on the upper section and a hotate (scallop) with wasabi and an awabi (abalone) with leafy green shoots, each vase signed on a circular panel above the foot in underglaze blue Makuzu gama Kozan tsukuru, the neck and foot decorated in gilt, the former with phoenixes interwoven among karakusa ('Chinese grasses'), the latter with karakusa ('Chinese grasses'). (2).
