Flamed in Japan

Katō Shunka 加藤春花 (d. 1884)
Height: 8.4 cm
Lip: 2.2 cm (the inner neck a continuous curve)
Stopper: amethyst; gilt-silver collar

Provenance:
International Auction Gallery, Anaheim, California, 18 February 2013, lot 317

 

Turquoise-blue and variegated copper red glaze (flambé), and white glaze on porcelain; with a flat foot and convex foot rim; the lip white, the main body covered with flambé glaze over a lower band of copper-red, the inside of the neck also with a flambé glaze partially running onto the inside, the foot unglazed and impressed with a seal of the potter, Shunka 春花

Alexander Whittaker