TWO SQUARE EARTHENWARE DISHES WITH PINE-TREE DESIGNSKenzan Ware (Edo period, 18th century), first dish signed Kenzan sei sho and sealed Kenzan and Sei sho; second signed, dated and inscribed on the base Fuyo Yoshu Kenzan Toin Shokosai Shinsei zo uji Hoei kanoto-u haru (Made in the spring of 1711 by the hermit potter of Kyoto, Kenzan Shokosai Shinsei) (Ogata Kenzan; 1663-1743)Each square dish with white-slip ground and painting in underglaze iron oxide; the first painted with a grove of pines beneath a poem, which reads: "To be fond of pines is to have the hardness of an iron mind. Therefore, I tend them in front of my winding fence;" the second painted with a moss-covered pine tree; the paintings on each dish framed by a single line on the inner surface; the exterior of the second dish has simple latticework with oblong floral reserves in underglaze iron and the interior sides have stylized floral sprays in line bordersFirst 8 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄2 x 1 in. (21.6 x 21.6 x 2.9 cm.); second 8 3⁄4 x 8 3⁄4 x 1 in. (22.2 x 22.2 x 2.9 cm.)With wood boxes both signed and authenticated by the 15th Grand Tea Master of the Urasenke tea school, Hounsai Genshitsu (b. 1923), and with kao (cursive monogram)