RON BROWNSON ESTATE AUCTION 1 Tuesday, 4 November 2025 / 10:00 am start
A Japanese Shigaraki stoneware tea leaf jar (chatsubo),
Realised: $260 plus premium
Lot Details
Late Edo period. A jar of orange brown coloured clay. Elongated ovoid shape with a thick, squared, everted ring mouth. Four lug handles set opposite on the shoulder, two missing. The whole, excluding the resting surface dipped in a textured matt brown glaze. Loss of two lug handles; loss of chips to rim. 35.4 x 32.2 cm. See: William Willetts, Ceramic art of SouthEast Asia (Singapore Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, 1971), pp. 7071, nos. 283 - 284 (for design and shape, respectively).
