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KINKOZAN WORKSHOP (CIRCA 1900)
A fine and large Satsuma bowl
Meiji era (1868-1912), circa 1900
Painted in polychrome enamels and gilt on a clear crackled, or a
cobalt ground, decorated on the interior with a large snowflake-
shaped central panel of two lithe beauties enjoying tea while a small
boy entertains them with a fox mask, in the background, another
beauty plays with a small boy with a pull toy, a cartouche to the left
inscribed Tokugawa jidai bijin Utamaro ga (Tokugawa-era beauties
painted by Utamaro), the intrerior rim decorated with oval and inome-
shaped panels containing a variety of insects, flowers, and young
bamboo leaves against a ground of chrysanthemum scroll in gilt, the
rim with a keyfret band, the exterior decorated with three large oval
panels of swallows in traiing wisteria, a landscape with Mount Fuji
in the distance, and beauties admiring blossoms, all on a ground of
paulownia flowers and scrolling vines in gilt, signed on the underside
with an impressed signature Kinkozan tsukuru
12in (30.5cm) diameter
$7,000 - 9,000

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AN UNUSUAL PORCELAIN VASE
Meiji (1868-1912) or Taisho (1912-1926) era, late 19th/ early
20th century
Modeled as the mythical beings Ashinaga and Tenaga struggling to
hold togteher a pair of vases painted in polychrome enamels and gilt,
the vases decorated with birds and flowers and the figures’ robes
decorated with flowering vines

$1,000 - 1,500

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