|
|
HOME |
|
ANTIQUE Japanese CERAMIC VASE, OCTOPUS, w/box browse these categories for related items... All Items: Archives:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese: Pre 1940: item # 112626 Please refer to our stock # TCR666 when inquiring.
The Kura 16-1 ShimoWakakusa-Cho Murasakino Kita-ku Kyoto 603-8234 tel.81-75-432-6980 Guest Book Sold, Thank you |
|
||||||||||
| An unusual Taisho period (1912-1925) ceramic vase covered in mottled, Hagi-style colors of beige, gray and pink crackle glaze, and decorated with protruding barnacles and shells, an unsuspecting octopus working its way over the rim. The humorous image calls to mind the poem by Basho likening the plight of the moon, seeking a permanent home in the night sky, to that of the octopus seeking a home in the dark jar. As the sun quickly displaces the moon, so too the octopus finds its mistake when the jar is pulled up from his watery garden. The vase is signed K. S. followed by a gourd shaped stamp obscured by glaze. It measures 6-3/4 inches (17cm) to the top of the creature, 5 inches (13cm) in diameter and comes enclosed in an old wooden box. One leg curling inside the jar has been broken; otherwise it is in excellent condition. | |||||||||||
|
