Tokoname / Nanga
Set of 5 yunomi, small teacups - Ranka, aorchid flowersSigned: Sekisô sha, Sekisô sanjin, Sekisô keijin?
Seals: Shigenobu zô
Technique: grey wheel turned raku with a blue tetsu-e, underglaze painting Ø 4 x 4 (each)
Date: 1919
Box: signed by Shigenobu
Condition: very good
Box inscription: 小形 。抹茶碗 丸山堂重信造 「印」重信
Kokei (small size) .. machawan, Maruyamadô Shigenobu zô [seal:] Shigenobu
Sekisô, also known as Sekiyô was a Nanga painter from Handa Owari Province (Nowadays Aichi prefecture). He was the son and pupil of Yamamoto Baisô (1846-1921). Baisô, a pupil of Nukina Kaioku (1778-1863), was considered to be one of the three Nanga masters together with Kodama Katei (1841-1913) and Yoshitsugu Haizan (1846-1915).
Sekisô ‘decorated’ a lotInuyamayaki, often cooperation with the famous Owari potter Matsumoto Shigenobu (1864-1950).
Reference:
Araki p. 483
The famous ceramist Matsumoto Shigenobu was born in Tokoname, the son of the ceramist Matsumoto Shigetoshi, originally a descendent from a military family.
From 1885 he produced red Tokoname stoneware (Shudei ware) with which he had great success in Japan and the United States. Shigenobu was also a skilled engraver of Tokoname-ware. In the Taisho period he concentrated on producing tea bowls.
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