Chun Vase Marks

Picked up this beautiful chun vase. Don't recognize the marks. Do any of you?

 

Chun? Like in Jun glaze?
I would think something more recent. A strange piece with that red body. Is that the color of the clay or has some kind of finish applied?

 

Yep. I have seen it spelled both ways (a quirk of transliteration I guess).

The base doesn't feel like a glaze, but I found a blog that talks about using a copper red base glaze on the chun style pottery he makes.

http://opopots.blogspot.ca/2009/01/pottery-glazes-shino-and-chun-what-are.html


The mark seems to be a variation on the "Ban-ni" mark.

 

This is Sumidagawa ware. It's marked 香二, which is read Kouji or Kyouji, though sometimes just spelled Koji in English.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/331191968596

 

Thanks so much!

 

khl889, the mark is reading "Koko", for the potter Ishiguro Koko. There is quite a bit confusion about this mark...

 

That's interesting.

I was trying to figure out how that second character, which looks like 二 （the number two) gets pronounced ko, and just came across a site that explains it's not really 二 but an ancient character meaning the first character is repeated. So it's actually 香香.

In modern Chinese, 々 is generally used to repeat a character, so the mark could also be expressed as 香々.

http://modernjapanesepotterymarks.blogspot.com/2016/07/sumida-yaki-aka-sumida-gawa-ware.html