MIURA KEN'YA (1825-1889)

Details

A Set of Five Dishes
Miura Ken'ya (1825-1889)
Of rounded square form, the pale buff pottery bodies covered in black and cream glazes and each decorated with different plant motifs in a variety of colours, each marked within the footring Ken'ya
6 x 6in. (15.4 x 15.4cm.) (5)

Exhibited

Tokyu Department Store, Japanese Ceramic Society, Thirty-Third Yakimono Kyoshitsu, September 1964

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Lot Essay

Ken'ya started making pottery at the Chomeji-in in Mukojima in Tokyo in 1875 after a varied career as a shipbuilder for the shogunate, a brick-maker (the first to do so in Japan, in 1869) and a creator of clay dolls. His work owes much to Kenzan and to Ritsuo, who influenced Ken'ya's use of lacquer in his overglaze enamel decoration.

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