An Earthenware Incense Burner (Koro)

MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), BLACK ENAMEL MARK AND INSCRIPTION, BLACK ENAMEL SHIMAZU CREST

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An Earthenware Incense Burner (Koro)
Meiji Period (Late 19th Century), Black Enamel Mark and Inscription, Black Enamel Shimazu Crest
Painted in polychrome enamels and gilt over a clear crackled glaze with a frieze of the "Hundred Antiques" within brocade borders, the handles modelled as dragons and the cover pierced with three Shimazu crests below a finial with chrysanthemum decoration
12in. (31.2cm.) high

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED: Yabe Yoshiaki, ed., Satsuma no kinrande zuroku (Catalogue of gilded enameled Satsuma) (Fukuoka: Ohmuta Gahden Hoteru Bijutsukan, 1993), pl. 27.

The inscription Kono Satsuma yaki ni ha Nihon zenkoku no toki o fuchaku shitaru mono ni shite sono giko seimitsu naru jitsu ni waga kuni muni no bijutsuhin nari can be translated as "Ceramics from all over Japan are finely illustrated on this Satsuma vase and as such this is a very unique piece of Japanese art."

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