Lot description
Seikozan
A large Satsuma charger
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th century
Decorated with a detailed design of groups of people visiting a temple and its precincts on New Year’s day, the area before the temple and shrine gates with vendor’s stalls selling emblems of good fortune and the trees on the grounds decorated with more of the same, the line of visitors stretching off into the distance, the rim finished with a key-fret band and the underside decorated with stylized foliate scroll, all painted in colored enamels and gilt over a clear, crackled glaze, signed on the underside Seikozan
14 3/8in (36.5cm) diameterFootnotes
Exhibited:
Columbia, Columbia Museum of Art, “Meiji Magic, Imperial Porcelain from Japan from the Collection of Alex and Barbara Kasten”, 3 January- 18 May, 2014
Quoted from the lot page, © Bonhams. Bonhams, Fine Japanese and Korean art, 2017-03-15, lot 6250 ↗
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