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Subject:Re: help with vase signature
Posted By: Bill H Wed, Dec 07, 2022
I.Nagy previously identified this Japanese mark as Kozan (古山) and late Meiji in November 2021. See the below Link URL as well as a picture of the marked bottom of that vase. I find it interesting that yours appears to be only the second vase with this mark with the 古山 characters that I came up from my Forum archive search. However, I did find another example of it on the following eBay listing:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/141623281324?
I wonder if this "Kozan" was a later generation successor of the famous Miyagawa Kozan (宮川香山 - 1842–1916) of Ota, identified in the 1888 book of Japanese porcelain marks by James Lord Bowes as a suburban Yokohama factory established in 1860 by a Tokyo merchant named Suzuki Yasubeye, who brought Kozan from Kyoto to manage it. This factory had afterward made a majority share of Japanese imitation Satsuma.
Perhaps I.Nagy or other forum experts can add to this aspect of the mark.
Best regards,
Bill H.
URL Title :Kozan
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