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40 MARKS AND SEALS ON POTTERY.
articles made in Kioto at a time when it is highly
improbable that the stringent laws forbidding their use
would have been disregarded. An example of this is seen
upon a perfume box in the Bowes Collection it was made
;
by Nonomura Ninsei, a distinguished potter, who settled at
Kioto in 1650 a.d., and originated the manufacture of
artistic pottery. The kikti and kiri crests are rendered in
white and gold upon the black enamel ground of the cover
of the box, as shown in the drawing given below the
;
variation in the number of petals in the kiku crest and the
substitution of five and - three leaves in the sprays of the
kiri, for the correct number of seven and five, may indicate
that the example was made for a member of the imperial
family and not for the Mikado himself.
THE KIKU AND KIRI CRESTS.
From a perfume vox made hy Nonomiira Ninsei.
The decoration of a small box, in the form of a
famaguri shell, in the same collection, affords another
example of this treatment upon one side both crests
;
appear, whilst the kiku alone is given on the reverse.
