A Japanese antique Hizen Imari porcelain pedestal bowl orpote and is called a chadōgu written 茶道具 in Japanese, also a haissen for the tea ceremony, It is used for rinsing the tea c in the tea ceremony. It was made during the Hizen period as marked on the inside the bowl with the red and gold Hizen mark. Hizen is the broad term for Japanese ceramics and porcelains produced in the Hizen domain on the island of Kyushu of present-day Nagasaki and Saga Prefectures, which is where Imari is produced, during the Tokugawa Period of 1603-1868. This is an extremely finely decorated example of a pedestal bowl from the Hizen period probably from the late 1700's to mid-1800's, It is handmade and handformed in nice form, a tall kodai or foot and a hexagonal shaped bowl and rim called rokkakubachi. The rim and much of the bowl is painted in deep blue overglaze enamels highlighted in gold, including the wide stylised flowers around the side connected with the beautiful octopus pattern or tako-karakusa in between the flowers. Tako Karakusa motif so popular for hundreds of years on Arita porcelain has its origins in Chinese Chizou stoneware exported to Japan in the Yuan and early Ming period. The flowers disappeared from the hana-karakusa, and in the 19th-century the vines were simplified, creating a great shift to the mijin-karakusa. I am not sure of this flower design but the entire design around the side of the bowl is highly stylized and quite intense and beautiful. The inside of the bowl is delicately painted in small flowers and leaves in rose and green with gold. It is a very beautiful piece in excellent condition with no cracks chips or repairs. One of the most beautifulpote I have seen, made by a very talented artist of the Edo period. SIZE: Diameter 5.9 inches or 15 cm, Height 4.7 inches or 12 cm, Weight 690 grams or 1 1/2 lbs prepacked Please see the pictures and ask any questions. We are non-house smokers and do not smoke around our wares and our very careful with them to have clean hands and in the . We have noticed smells from items received recently, again please let us know if you have any questions. This one has no smells, this is from a well- known and honest, quality antiques dealer's piece. Please visit our store of over 700 Japanese items, porcelain, pottery, ceramics,netsuke, statues or okimono, metalware, lacquerware and more! Edo-Period Japanese Porcelain, Excerpts the Met Museum Porcelains called Imari or Arita previously belonged to the Hizen area during the Edo period. The Japanese porcelain industry was actually pioneered by Korean potters living in Japan. Many of them came to Japan during two invasions of Korea led by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the 1590s. An appreciation of Korean ceramics had recently developed in Japan, and many of the feudal lords who apanied Hideyoshi brought back Korean potters to build up the ceramic industry in their territories. The Nabeshima lord took Korean potters back t