MIURA KENYA (1825-1889)

Details

A set of ten dishes
Miura Kenya (1825-1889)
The rounded rectangular dishes, each decorated in cream and black and various coloured glazes with flowers and foliage including wisteria, peony, maple, plum blossom and pines
Each 18cm. wide (10)

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Lot Essay

Kenya 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 Kenya's use of lacquer in his overglaze enamel decoration.

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