A Small Earthenware Incense Burner (Koro)

TAISHO PERIOD (EARLY 20TH CENTURY), BLUE ENAMEL SHIMAZU CREST

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A Small Earthenware Incense Burner (Koro)
Taisho Period (Early 20th Century), Blue Enamel Shimazu Crest
Painted in polychrome enamels and gilt over a clear crackled glaze with a pair of Chinese lions and their young, one of the adults holding a spray of peony in its mouth, the shoulder enameled with numerous scroll-shaped floral reserves, a blue enamel Shimazu crest on each of the feet, the metal cover pierced in the shape of Daikoku's mallet
4in. (10.7cm.) high

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Yabe Yoshiaki, ed., Satsuma no kinrande zuroku (Catalogue of gilded enameled Satsuma) (Fukuoka: Ohmuta Gahden Hoteru Bijutsukan, 1993), pl. 70.

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