Japanese Tea Bowl
A5
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A hand thrown irregular bowl measuring 16. 3 cm & 16 across, 7.3 cm & 6.9 high. The box has hakogaki and two seals. I contacted Harry Afu Watson to get a translation, but he wrote: "I cannot read grass writing, or even semi-grass writing. Sorry." If he can't, what chance have I? Thanks to Robert Mormile we have a translation. CHOSEN UTSUSHI (Copy of Korean work) CHAWAN (Teabowl) on the top, and TOKANJIGAMA (name of the studio) SACHIMORI SHO (artist name). This came out of a collection of Japanese pottery that I had acquired some fifteen or twenty years ago, that had been complied in the mid-twentieth century. Robert Mormile wrote "--- there are many artists in the Hagi region (Yamaguchi Prefecture) that made utsushi of Korean works. The Choshu clan were their patrons. Even today this is a major area of pottery production." n
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