An Earthenware Model of Benkei

TAISHO PERIOD (EARLY 20TH CENTURY)

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An Earthenware Model of Benkei
Taisho Period (Early 20th Century)
Lifting the bell of Mii Temple, painted in polychrome enamels and gilt over a clear crackled glaze, with robes patterned with chrysanthemums on a stylized wave and diaper ground, the underrobes designed with smaller chrysanthemums and scrolling vines, the details highlighted in gilt
6in. (16.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Yabe Yoshiaki, ed., Satsuma no kinrande zuroku (Catalogue of gilded enameled Satsuma) (Fukuoka: Ohmuta Gahden Hoteru Bijutsukan, 1993), pl. 34.

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