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I have a pair of these cracke glaze vases.They are 10inches tall and I think they are Japanese.I think the front image is that of Guanyin/Kannon,the goddess of mercy.I think the figure on the rear is Gosho Ningyo. A lot of thinking but no clue on the signature.
Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance

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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