Bowl with a Pine Branch
This bowl was made by Japanese potter Miyagawa Hanzan c. 1925 in the style of Nin’ami Dōhachi (1783 - 1855). It is decorated with a beautiful pine branch that wraps around the inside and outside of the object 🌲 Miyagawa Hanzan, who also made the wonderful shrimp vase we shared earlier this week, was the adopted son of Miyagawa Kōzan, artist to the Japanese Imperial household and was one of the most pre-eminent potters of the Meiji period. He came from a long line of potters in Kyoto, and began studying fine art at a very young age. When Kōzan died in 1916, Hanzan took the name Kōzan II, and began to work with stoneware as well as porcelain. Sadly, the factory they ran together in Yokohama was destroyed in World War II. Japan, 1925. Earthenware, thrown with hand-modelled, cut, and pierced decoration. See it in gallery 36.
