Stoneware chaire tea caddy for order winter, by Matsui Kosen, Bizen ware, Japan

order Chaire tea caddy with bulbous body without stand ring and a very short, straight neck. Yellowish and brown natural ash glaze over dark brown clay.
Signed on bottom: Kosen.

Japan, Imbe/Bizen, ca. 1980s

H 2.5 x Diam 3 inches

Excellent condition. The chaire comes WITHOUT a cover.

Comes with its original wooden storage box inscribed on the cover: Bizen chaire Kosen and red artist seal Kosen. Bio slip included.

From a private collection of Japanese ceramics in NJ

Matsui Kosen (b. 1928) is from Imbe. He graduated from the former Kibi Commercial High School. He studied under his mother, who was a female potter at Korakuen. In 1966 he started a kiln in Imbe, Bizen and became an independent potter.