An Earthenware Jar and Cover

MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), GILT MARK SATSUMA HODODA, GILT SHIMAZU CREST

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An Earthenware Jar and Cover
Meiji Period (Late 19th Century), Gilt Mark Satsuma Hododa, Gilt Shimazu Crest
Painted in polychrome enamels and gilt over a clear crackled glaze with Chinese immortals in a bamboo grove, the rim and foot decorated with bands of geometric patterns, the cover with similar bands below four gilt Shimazu crests on a formal ground and with a gilded finial moulded as a flower bud
14.1/8in. (35.9cm.)

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Yabe Yoshiaki, ed., Satsuma no kinrande zuroku (Catalogue of gilded enameled Satsuma) (Fukuoka: Omuta Gahden Hoteru Bijutsukan, 1993), pl. 12.

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