Kinkozan Vase

Kobayashi Sobei vase (Kinkozan 1868-1927). Approximate date Maybe late Meiji period. In 1645 a pottery was founded by the Kobayashi family near Kyoto and a century latter he turned the oficial potter of the Tokugawa Shogun and was given the now famous name Kinkozan. The head of the fifth generation introduced the Satsuma style but Kobayashi Sobei took it to the highest level. Approximate date late Meiji. After he came back from the Paris Expo in 1900 he started with Art Nouveau motifs.