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Chinese, Imari
"Kokiyomizu ware Pitcher with a hollyhock design"
Edo period（19th century）
D22cm H19.5cm
The entire piece is pierced with green and blue glaze and gilt with hollyhock and arabesque patterns. There is a chip at the joint of the lid. Some of the gilding has been removed from the hollyhock design. The glaze is peeling on the front of the lid.
When the firing of porcelain began in earnest at the end of the Edo period and was called "Kiyomizu-yaki," pottery fired in Kyoto before the mid-Edo period is said to have been called "KoKiyomizu". KoKiyomizu is also used as a generic term for Kyo-yaki colored pottery, which is different from porcelain, even in the latter part of the Edo period.
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