A GROUP OF CERAMICS

THE FIRST SIGNED DAI NIPPON KUSUBE ZO, THE SECOND SIGNED WATANO SEI, THE FOURTH AND FIFTH WITH FUKU MARK, THE SIXTH SIGNED TAKIFUJI, OR TAKITO ZO, THE SEVENTH SIGNED JUGYOKU SEI, THE LAST WITH THE ORCHID MARK OF THE KORANSHA COMPANY

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A GROUP OF CERAMICS
THE FIRST SIGNED DAI NIPPON KUSUBE ZO, THE SECOND SIGNED WATANO SEI, THE FOURTH AND FIFTH WITH FUKU MARK, THE SIXTH SIGNED TAKIFUJI, OR TAKITO ZO, THE SEVENTH SIGNED JUGYOKU SEI, THE LAST WITH THE ORCHID MARK OF THE KORANSHA COMPANY
The foliate-rimmed bowl with two applied handles decorated in typical colours and gilt with a long-tailed bird among peony; a Kaga ware hand-warmer in iron-red, pink enamels and gilt with birds among flowers; an Imari koro; two moulded chrysanthemum-shaped bowls, Fuku mark; an enamelled dish decorated with a butterfly; a pair of Imari vases decorated in iron-red and gilt on underglaze blue with pavilions; an octagonal plaque with a Chinese landscape, framed; a Kyoto ware plaque, framed and a vase in various coloured enamels and gilt on underglaze blue with birds
25cm. diam., 14cm. high, 14cm. long, 24cm., 23cm. long, 27cm., 31cm., 34cm. 24cm. high (8)

Lot Essay

For the sixth, Takito Manjiro founded an export house in Seto in 1873, and set up an office in Tokyo in the following year. In 1881 he moved to Yokohama for direct export of Seto wares. Around that time he employed ten painters of Kutani style in Nagoya, and styled their work 'Nagoya Kinrande'. By 1883 there were over a hundred painters at work in his factory, and his success was such that other potters in Nagoya copied his produce. When the numbers reached around a thousand he founded the Nagoya Enamellers Guild.

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