An Aka-Raku chawan. Kyoto. Late 19th/early 20th century

An Aka-Raku chawan. Kyoto. Late 19th/early 20th century Stamped Raku inside the foot ring Of round shape with cylindrical wall, set on a strong foot ring. Hard dark grey clay with a thin wine-red glaze to the outside and a porous black glaze to the rim and inside. Blue patterned cloth. Wooden box, inscribed on the lid: Raku-yaki chawan hitotsu mei Hōetsu (Ecstasy) Suikoen zō (property of the Suikoen) and a red seal; on the reverse of the lid, the first ten characters of the verse ‘Kannon myō chi riki’ from the Lotus Sutra, dated Shōwa hachi mizunoto-tori (1933), and signed the seventy-seven-year-old man with a signet, two characters and two seals. Height 8.2 cm; diameter 10.5 cm

Estimate:£1,668.58

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