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Satsuma Dish, Signed Kinkozan browse these categories for related items... Directory: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese:Earthenware:Pre 1900: item # 181578 Please refer to our stock # 2B-644 when inquiring.
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| This lovely Kyoto Satsuma earthenware dish with its creamy crackled body has been molded in the form of a lotus leaf and decorated in soft transparent overglaze enamels and gilt. It is signed “Kinkozan zo” in gold enamel on the reverse lip rim and dates to the mid-to late 19th century. The furled edge of the plate and the molded leaf veins simulate a living lotus leaf, and the reverse has a very realistically molded stem in high relief. Both front and back have bold floral decorations in soft shades of crimson, green, yellow, purple, blue, black transparent enamels and gold. The floral motifs are accentuated with gilt cloud formations. Satsuma is the well known long-admired form of Japanese ceramics in which faience (pottery) is covered with a glaze that produces a beautiful network of minute crackles and is itself ornamented with polychrome enamels and gilt decoration. Satsuma was created by individuals whose great technical skills were combined with gracefulness of form and a careful mixture of compounded hues. Early motifs were simple, elegant and graceful interpretations of nature executed in soft enamels and outlined in either black or gold. Kyoto Satsuma has a creamy ground which is much admired for its softness in appearance, and it is generally covered with a kaleidoscope of colors and cloudy masses of gold. One of the most important lines of Kyoto school Satsuma potters was that of the Kagiya family, now known as Kinkozan. Condition is excellent, with only one tiny chip on the back rim. Dimensions: 8 3/8” diameter, 1 ¼” high. | |||||||||||
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