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Daimaru Hoppo

Fantastic Porcelain Gu Vase ー大丸 北峰 "金黄釉蝉紋刻花瓶"

Fantastic Porcelain Gu Vase ー大丸 北峰 "金黄釉蝉紋刻花瓶"

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A dragon encircles the center of this porcelain vase by Daimaru Hokuho (Hoppoo) enclosed in the original signed wooden box.  The vase is a perfect example of the Sinophile aesthetic that permeated Japanese art in the early 20th century.  The typical Gu form rises a lobe about which the dragon has been engraved in red. It is 26.5 cm (10-1/28 inches) tall and is in excellent condition.

Daimaru Hokuho (also called Hoppo, 1879-1959 ) would have been rated in the top 10 porcelain artist of Kyoto, along with Suwa Sozan, Ito Suiko, Ito Tozan, Miyanaga Tozan, Takahashi Dohachi, Seifu Yohei, Kiyomizu Rokubei, Miura Chikusen and Kiyomizu Zoroku, all artists active from the Meiji through the early Showa eras. He is best remembered for his Chinese forms and Sencha thin tea ware. Born in Ishikawa in 1879, he was initially trained in ceramic painting by Seishichi Okura at the Kutani Ceramic Company of the Kutani tradition before moving to Kyoto in 1899 to study porcelain throwing and decoration there. In 1906, he was invited to teach at the Hunan Ceramics Department in Hunan Province, China, and devoted himself to research on Chinese ceramics, returning to Japan where he took up residence again in Kyoto in 1909 and began making ceramics, mainly tea utensils and sencha utensils. He exhibited many works at exhibitions, receiving numerous accolades, and his works were purchased by the Imperial Household Agency. Daimaru Hokuho II (Tatsuo, b. 1926) studied under both his father as well as both Kiyomizu Rokubei V and VI. He exhibited frequently with the Nitten National Exhibition, where he would serve as a judge.


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