Reference · Chazen Museum of Art Teapot, Seikōzan workshop, Kyoto, Chazen Museum of Art. CC0. Source ↗
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Biography
Short entry. Open, citable sources for this maker are limited, so we have published only what we can source. It will be extended as research continues.
Seikōzan was a Meiji-era workshop name in Satsuma-style decorated earthenware. English Wikipedia includes it in its list of prominent Satsuma makers of the Meiji and Taishō periods. The Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum has shown Seikōzan pieces in an exhibition of Kyoto Satsuma. The Chazen Museum of Art catalogues the teapot illustrated as Kyoto, Seikōzan workshop.13
Where the workshop worked is not settled: a dealer’s profile argues that it was more probably in Kobe than in Kyoto. No biographical dates for a person behind the name are recorded in the sources we have checked.2
Chronology 年譜
No dated events can be sourced yet.
At auction 落札作品
Our auction-records database holds 2 public results for this maker, at Bonhams, from 2010 to 2017. The highest is a small Satsuma bowl, Bonhams, Fine Japanese Art, 2010-11-11, lot 259, at £24,000 (about US$38,724 at the sale-date rate). These are public historical results, not valuations.
Bonhams catalogues a small bowl sold in 2010, signed with the seal Seikōzan, as painted with figures “from all sections of society enjoying the hanami season”: merchants, samurai and courtesans beneath cherry blossom, and a picnic at teahouses inside.1
A large charger signed Seikōzan, sold in New York in 2017, shows New Year visitors at a temple with stalls selling emblems of good fortune. The house records that it was exhibited at the Columbia Museum of Art in Meiji Magic: Imperial Porcelain from Japan from the Collection of Alex and Barbara Kasten (3 January – 18 May 2014).2
Facts in this section are as stated by the auction houses in their lot essays, footnoted below. Where they differ from other sources we say so.
Works sold at auction
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Notes to “At auction”
Record prices 最高落札
Public historical auction results from our auction-records database, including buyer’s premium. They are not a valuation of any work.
| Date | Object, as catalogued | House | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-11-11 | A small Satsuma bowl By | Bonhams, lot 259 | £24,000 ≈ US$38,724 |
| 2017-03-15 | A large Satsuma charger By | Bonhams, lot 6250 | US$35,000 |
Other cited auction results
Public auction results, cited to the auction house record, including buyer’s premium unless stated, in the original currency. They are historical facts, not a valuation of any work offered.
| Year | Object, as catalogued | Result | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Seikozan: Pair of small vases, genre panels, 9.8 cm. Bonhams NY 16 Mar 2016 | US$6,000 | Source ↗ |
Sources
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