The size of white Ceramic bowl: 8 7/8” x 3 1/8” High
This amazingly fine Bowl is recreation of Song Dynasty, Ding ware's white ceramics
by Japanese master ceramist Suwa Sozan 1st who was Teishitsu Gigeiin, Imperial.
Household Artist. Waves and small fishes are in intricately and detail carved design.
As you can see from our closed up photos with lighting showing thru.
It is very thinly made with the wall size of about 2-3 mm thick. About same as Ding's bowl.
The top rim are made of tin around. The reason tin rim around on edge of bowl is at
Song Dynasty’ Ding kiln, this kind bowl was made final stage the inside down.
In order to protect unglazed rim tin rim was fit into the edge.
It came with Tomobako as well as Tomonuno as photographed. Tomobako cover with
Japanese writing word, “Tori no Ko” (it translated as Chick of Bird” and seal of
Teishitsu Gigeiin.We checked into this words Tori no Ko, we found out the following.
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Meaning, chick; baby bird (esp. a baby chicken). Also found the following,
eggshell-colored traditional Japanese paper made primarily of Diplomorpha
sikokiana fibres (high-quality, glossy)- It is eggshell colored.
We have attached a couple of photographs show how delicately
created this wonderful eggshell like porcelain bowl by Suwa Sozan 1st.
Amazingly the bowl with Yokoku, carved designs of fish and waves.
The bowl has seal of Sozan on the bottom of bowl. Also on the tomonuno.
The condition of bowl is excellent, no chip, no crack and no hairline.
Dating of bowl from 1917-1922 after he was appointed as Teishitsu Gigeiin.
This fine bowl as made during his 5years as Teishitsu Gigeiin. Very Rare.
Please visit additional photo at #1501947
Suwa Sozan Ist (1851-1922)
was born to the family of a retainer of the Daimyo of Kaga in Kanazawa, Kiei 4th, 1851. His
first name was Yoshitake or Eisaburo. He was first trained in a kiln of Kutani ware in
Ishikawa Prefecture. Although he went to Tokyo in 1875 trying to establish a business
in porcelain painting, he decided to return home and worked for a Kutani ware company.
He then taught at the Ishikawa Prefectural Technical High School and contributed in
developing kilns. In 1900, he was invited to help the Kinkozan kiln in Kyoto and founded
his own kiln in Gojozaka in Kyoto in 1907 and started to work as an independent artist.
He produced so called Sozan-seiji celadon and went to Korea to research old kilns,
contributing to the revival of celadon kilns. He was appointed as Teishitsu Gigei-in, Imperial Court Artist in 1917.
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