An Earthenware Vase

MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), RED ENAMEL SHIMAZU CREST

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An Earthenware Vase
Meiji Period (Late 19th Century), Red Enamel Shimazu Crest
Painted in polychrome enamels and gilt over a clear crackled glaze with peonies and chrysanthemums on bamboo trellises, the Treasure Ship of the Seven Gods of Good Fortune, their various attributes and a pagoda, the foot and shoulder decorated with a formal band and a band of lappets containing confronted phoenixes, the lip with a gilt geometric band, partially legible gilt mark ...Satsuma yaki ...un...zo
7.3/8in. (18.7cm.) high

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Yabe Yoshiaki, ed., Satsuma no kinrande zuroku (Catalogue of gilded enameled Satsuma) (Fukuoka: Ohmuta Gahden Hoteru Bijutsukan, 1993), pl. 56.

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