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Antique Japanese Mingei Seto Folk Andon Lantern Plate
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Pre 1800 item# 409392 (stock# 100156)
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A beautiful Japanese Seto Andon Zara or lantern plate dating to around 1700. Made at the Seto kilns in modern day Aichi prefecture, the plate has a free and easy picture style, combined with a skillful tecnique and glaze. Andon Zara (Plates for lanterns) are also called Abura Zara (oil plates) were placed on the base section of a lantern to prevent tatami mats from being stained by oil dripping from the light dish. These plates pent most of their life covered in oil and fell out of general use by the beginning of the 20th century with the introduction of gas lighting, It was Yanagi Soetsu, the founder of the folkcaraft movement, who recognized their value as craftworks and then these items became collectable. Very few survive in good condition because these plates were seen as ordinary everyday utilitarian wares and later discarded This is a beautiful example with the faint smell of oil emanating from the base. The painting is of stylized abstract sunrises and swirls, that are still fresh after almost 300 years. For further information on andon zara please see issue 42 of Daruma Magazine. Dimensions: 8 3/4" x 1".
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Antique japanese Mingei Seto Folk Ezara Plate, Edo
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Pre 1837 VR item# 385134 (stock# 100150)
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A superb Antique Japanese Seto Ware E-Zara plate / bowl from the Seto kilns and dating to the late Edo period (1800-1860. Unlike Aburazara (oil plates) and Ishizara (stoneware plates) an E-zara plate is a plate used for serving food with a 'E' (the Japanese word for picture, painted on it. Seto was one of the "Six Old Kilns", the six major ceramic traditions of medieval Japan.This plate is an excellent, characteristic example of Seto folk pottery. Like most plates of this period, the design is of a briskly painted landscape. This design, stylized and abbreviated was painted thousands of times but seldom lost its vigor. The specific subject is an idealized Chinese-style landscape in which a thatched kiosk is surrounded by trees on the shore of a lake. It is painted in iron-oxide brown-black slip on a cream-colored glaze over a buff stoneware body. The reverse features the fingerprints of the potter who dipped the plate in glaze! This type of pottery is to be found in every major collection of Japanese pottery. Dimensions; 8 1/2" x 1 1/2".
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Mingei Horse Eye Plate,Edo
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Pre 1900 item# 70986 (stock# 10003)
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Early to mid 19th century 13.5 x 2.5" horse eye plate umanome zara. Large sized plate of typical form, heavily potted and decorated with iron brown underglaze, with an underglazed foot rim. Excellent condition with no inner rim chips. Several outer rim chips and single kiln flaw and short hairline; standard for this type of well used pottery. Of the several types of 'eye' found on horse eye plates, this design is of the type where the eye fades as it travels away from the center (most plates have a solid color throughout). This design required a greater degree of skill than the typical single body color eye. These plates were widely used on the Tokkaido Highway between Kyoto and Tokyo in the late Edo and Meiji eras. Many examples of this type of stoneware appear in mingei museum collections. Horse eye plates are becoming increasingly rare to find in good condition.
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