Lot 900 | Chawan in Vietnamese style and chawan with leafy twig

CHAWAN IN VIETNAMESE STYLE AND CHAWAN WITH LEAFY TWIG.

Origin: Vietnam and Japan.
Date: 16th and 20th c.
Description: a) Annam chawan with tendril and lotos flower decoration. Vietnam, 16th c. Used in Japan as a tea bowl. Stoneware with whitish opaque glaze, painted underneath with cobalt blue and iron brown. Curved wall with swinging lip on high, conical foot ring, painted inside with iron engobe. H.7.6cm, Ø 13.7cm. Condition B. Glaze at the lip and foot brittle.
b) Tea bowl from dark brown Shigaraki stoneware with ishihaze inclusions, partial light ash glaze and manganese brown painting. Japan, 20th c. H.8.5cm, Ø 11.5cm. Inscripted on the lid of the box made of cedar wood (sugibako): Shigaraki yaki and Sign: Seiryû (or Kyotaka) with seal.
Condition A/B.

Provenance:
-Estate Andreas Holter.
-Formerly collection Ulrich Vollmer, acquired in Japan in the 1990s.