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

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 shops 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.