Phoenix Vase

Artist

Makuzu Kozan (Japanese, 1842 – 1916)

Date

circa 1870-1880

Medium

Glazed earthenware, enamel

Dimensions

Work : 7 7/8 x 8 x 3 3/8 in. (20 x 20.32 x 8.57 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Jeffery and Juli Adelman, selected from the Ghosn Family Art Collection and Worldbridge Art, Inc

Object Number

2013.6.2

Label

In 1870, Makuzu Kozan moved his ceramics studio from his hometown of Kyoto to the port city of Yokohama. His early works copying styles and forms derived from earlier Japanese and Chinese ceramics soon found favor with Western buyers and his business quickly expanded. Kozan’s work was also much admired within Japan and achieved special notoriety after the Meiji emperor touched one of his vases at the First National Industrial Exhibition in 1877.