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PROVINCE OF AWAJI 125
glaze and decoration in bright colors may be regarded as second Mimpei. These
bowls have high basal rings with single notch, dull glaze, and well executed designs,
usually of flowers. The form of bowl most highly esteemed, and the rarest, has for
its decoration a red prawn.

1442. Bowl. D. 4J in. Fine fawn clay, yellowish-white glaze. Over-decoration of prawn
in bright red, green eyes, back touched with gold. Mimpei (imp.). 1865
1443. Bowl. D. \\ in. Clay and glaze similar to last. Cranes and pine
in green, dark brown, and red touched with purple and gold. Mimpei (imp.).
1442 1443
1444. X445- Bowls. Mimpei (imp.). ' ^
1446. Set of five tea-cups. Each one decorated with different flowers in bright colors.
1447, 1448. Bowls. Mimpei (imp.). 1865
1449- Water-jar, with twisted handles. H. 6J in. Elaborate drawing of
flowers in bright colors. Mimpei (imp.). 1865
1447 1449
1450- Water-holder, for ink-stone, m form of tea-pot. D. 2f in. Hard
white porcelain clay, bright yellow glaze. Dragon, flames, etc., incised. Mimpei (imp.).
1865
SAMPEI (Case 13)
Sampei established an oven of his own, and his work, so far as known, is a hard
ringing pottery with bright yellow, rarely green, glaze. He also made similar pottery
with bright yellow, blue, and purple glazes. The mark Sampei is rarely seen. Within
recent years the western market has been flooded with bright yellow and green dishes
known as Awaji. These are unsigned, and are probably a product of Sampei's oven.
I45I. FooD-BOWL. D. in. Fine cream-white clay, rich dark yellow glaze crackled,
6-^ff
Nippon Awaji Sampei (imp.). 1880
1452- Box, drum-shaped. D. 3^ in. Fine cream-white clay, cover and bottom ^ i^
light fawn glaze. Body showing fine wood graining in red and orange.
Nippon Awaji Sampei (imp.). 1885 ~^t^
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AWAJI IN GENERAL (Case 13)
The following pieces consisting of incense-burner, brush-holder, wine-bottles, lamp-
rest, etc., are identified as Awaji. Some of them may be by the original Mimpei, but
they are unsigned and nothing is known about them.
1453- Incense-burner, supported on three short legs. H. 2\ in. White porcelain clay,
light yellow glaze with irregular areas of green glaze on separate portions of surface. Inter-
spaces in green glaze in the form of chrysanthemum leaves, gilded and outlined in red. 1840
This may be the work of the first Mimpei.
^454~^459- Various pieces of Awaji. 1840-1880