The Kura - Japanese Art Treasures

Robert Mangold has been working with Japanese antiques since 1995 with an emphasis on ceramics, Paintings, Armour and Buddhist furniture.

Set five Edo period Shino Mukozuke Cups


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A set of five Edo period Shino Mukozuke cups, two with gold repairs, enclosed in an age darkened custom wood box. Each cup is decorated with a spray of sasa bamboo in iron on the deeply crackled and colored filled feldspathic glaze. Gold repairs to two of the bowls are of superb quality, using genuine gold. Each is roughly 3 x 3 x 3-1/2 inches (8 x 8 x 9 cm). Inside the box lid is written Kurose-Ke (Property of Kurose family) written over an older inscription. It could be that these belonged to an entirely different person, or that the name was changed sometime after the death of the initial owner in the family to a general statement of family ownership, as the character Ke (family), much darker, obscures one character below. Planed off but still visible is _Katsu-Zo, Zo meaning “in the collection of” and the previous character Katsu is a common character in given names. Personally I believe the inscription originally read Kurose __katsu Zo.