Important Edo Chawan by Samurai Hirasawa Kuro

Exceptional and very important Edo period chawan by legendary master potter Hirasawa Kuro (1772-1840), a famous Samurai and potter who produced tea ceremony ware for the Tokugawa clan in Nagoya. His work is rare and mostly exhibited in Japanese museums.

The bowl comes with the original silk shifuku and its antique fitted lacquered box.  It does present a couple of aesthetic repairs and a very fine hairline running from the mouth rim, but that is not unusual for that kind of fragile pottery.

Hirasawa Kuro has never made a better chawan than this. It would be a highlight in each collection of Japanese Chawan.

Size: 10,5 cm height x 9,5 cm in diameter.