Japanese Agano Kawara 上野香春焼 Ceramic Ring Shape Sake Ewer Choshi Kappa Yokai
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Type: Ring-shaped Sake Ewer (Choshi)
Material: Ceramic Pottery
Age: Early 20th C. (1900s)
Origin/Maker: Agano Kawara ware (上野香春焼, also called Denkō ware), Kawara town, Japan. 香 (Kawara (香春)) maker's mark on base
Size: 4 3/8" diameter (11.1125 cm), 4" tall (10.16 cm)
Weight: 12.1 oz (344 g)
Provenance:
Present: Ryan Snooks collection of Japanese & Asian Decorative Art
Previous: Private Collection
Collected: Seller from Hiroshima, Japan, 13 APR 2019
Condition: Item is used in good condition commensurate with age, see photos. No cracks or chips. Some light surface wear.
Subject: Ring shaped (donut shaped) antique Japanese Agano Kawara green, blue, and brown glazed sake ewer (Choshi), with sculpted opening in shape of a Kappa head (water spirit Yokai, with a turtle shell and a bowl shaped depression in the top of their head which holds life-sustaining water (coincidentally located in the same place where sake would be poured into this choshi at - while the spout might be referencing another part of the Kappa's anatomy).
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Japanese Agano Kawara 上野香春焼 Ceramic Ring Shape Sake Ewer Choshi Kappa Yokai
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Type: Ring-shaped Sake Ewer (Choshi)
Material: Ceramic Pottery
Age: Early 20th C. (1900s)
Origin/Maker: Agano Kawara ware (上野香春焼, also called Denkō ware), Kawara town, Japan. 香 (Kawara (香春)) maker's mark on base
Size: 4 3/8" diameter (11.1125 cm), 4" tall (10.16 cm)
Weight: 12.1 oz (344 g)
Provenance:
Present: Ryan Snooks collection of Japanese & Asian Decorative Art
Previous: Private Collection
Collected: Seller from Hiroshima, Japan, 13 APR 2019
Condition: Item is used in good condition commensurate with age, see photos. No cracks or chips. Some light surface wear.
Subject: Ring shaped (donut shaped) antique Japanese Agano Kawara green, blue, and brown glazed sake ewer (Choshi), with sculpted opening in shape of a Kappa head (water spirit Yokai, with a turtle shell and a bowl shaped depression in the top of their head which holds life-sustaining water (coincidentally located in the same place where sake would be poured into this choshi at - while the spout might be referencing another part of the Kappa's anatomy).
Location:
Japanese Agano Kawara 上野香春焼 Ceramic Ring Shape Sake Ewer Choshi Kappa Yokai
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