An Earthenware Incense Burner (Koro)

MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), GILT MARK DAI NIPPON SATSUMA YAKI BAIKA GA, BLUE ENAMEL SHIMAZU CREST

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An Earthenware Incense Burner (Koro)
Meiji Period (Late 19th Century), Gilt Mark Dai Nippon Satsuma Yaki Baika Ga, Blue Enamel Shimazu Crest
Painted in polychrome enamels and gilt over a clear crackled glaze with eight panels of flowers and mythical beasts bordered by chrysanthemum scroll, the flat shoulder with a phoenix in each corner and with a band of keyfrets encircling the rim, fitted with a metal cover cast in low relief with chrysanthemums and precious emblems and an openwork lotiform top surmounted with a lotus-bud knop; with inscription Bunka ni ...
11.5/8in. (30cm.) high

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED: Yabe Yoshiaki, ed., Satsuma no kinrande zuroku (Catalogue of gilded enameled Satsuma) (Fukuoka: Ohmuta Gahden Hoteru Bijutsukan, 1993), pl. 16.
Sold in these Rooms, 20 April, 1989, lot 383.

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