Two studio porcelain vases- Meiji-Showa Periods, signed Makuzu Kozan and Kozan

The first a bulb form vase decorated with lotus blossoms worked in resist in combination with a green wash beneath a colorless glaze, the recessed base inscribed Makuzu Kozan sei in underglaze blue; the second a miniature stick-neck vase decorated with two auspicious carp in reddish purple and blue underglaze on the mottled lemon yellow ground, marked Kozan in underglaze blue to the recessed base. 4 7/8 and 3 3/8in (12.3 and 6cm) high - Sold for $1,100 plus Premium and tax

Provenance: Perry Foundation

The first, published: Kathleen Emerson-Dell, Bridging East and West. Japanese Ceramics from the Kozan Studio. Selections from the Perry Foundation (Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1994), no. 17.

The first exhibited at the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, December 3, 1994 - April 9, 1995 and Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, May 3 - July 2, 1995.

Clare Pollard notes that the mark on the first "is almost identical to one in the Freer Gallery that was purchased in Yokohama between 1900 and 1903." Clare Pollard, Master Potter of Meiji Japan, Makuzu Kozan (1842-1916) and His Workshop (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), p. 129, cf. Figure B.26.

Bonhams. Fine Asian Works of Art, 18 Dec 2007. 220 San Bruno Avenue, San Francisco, California