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Edo period
D20.5cm×18cm H22cm
Chozo's unique glaze, called straw ash glaze, is also used in this work. In this work, the milky white and pale blue colors show a soft texture. The rim is watermarked in places with a tsubotsubo pattern. There is a makazu mark inside the base. There are scratches inside the base from the firing process. On the side of the long box, there is an inscription by Kosai Makuzu, 6th(the present head of the family) on the side of the box.
Chozo Makuzu (Chozo Miyagawa)
1796 - 1851
Chozo was the son of Chobei Miyagawa, the ninth generation of the Raku ware family, whose founder was Chokansai Miyagawa. As a young man, he worked as an assistant to Aoki Mokubei to hone his pottery skills, and then opened his own kiln in Makazu Kehara in Gion, changing his family name from Miyagawa to Makazu at the same time. While Kigome specialized in porcelain such as underglaze blue, red glaze, and celadon, and Chinese-style ceramics such as sansai, Chozo returned to the tradition of Kyoto pottery after Kigome's death and established a family by copying Nonomura Ninsei's color pottery.
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