End of the Edo period – Early Meiji period
It is one of the Owari ware of the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, and was fired by Seto potter Kato Katsusuke Harunaga in Okehazama, Chita-gun, during the brief period between Kaei (1848-54) and the beginning of the Meiji era (it is believed that the kiln was closed in 1871).
The kiln fired mainly tea utensils and sake cups as well as daily life goods.
