A studio porcelain ash container - Showa Period, sealed Makuzu (Kozan)

Molded as a crane, its head one end of an oval formed by its extended wings, covered with a clear glaze pooling to pale blue, and with the head detailed in underglaze black with overglaze red enamel, the impressed mark Makuzu to the base; together with a wooden tomobako inscribed haiki (ash container), tancho tsuru (red-headed crane), signed Makuzu Kozan saku (made by Makuzu Kozan) with seal. 6 1/2in (16.5cm) wide - Sold for $600 plus Premium and tax

Provenance: Perry Foundation

Published: Kathleeen Emerson-Dell, Bridging East and West. Japanese Ceramics from the Kozan Studio. Selections from the Perry Foundation (Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1994), no. 26

Exhibited: at the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, December 3, 1994 - April 9, 1995 and Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, May 3 - July 2, 1995

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