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Polychrome sculpture in Sumida-gawa stoneware, also called Sumida-yaki, representing an old man surrounded by five monkeys in front of a basket containing two nuts. Glazed clothes and basket.

Seal underneath of Kinoshita (木下).

Sumida-yaki ceramics takes its name from the Sumida River (Sumida gawa), near which it was created by Inoue Ryosai I (1828-1899) in 1875. He and the wealthy merchant Shimada Sobei built a kiln in the Hashiba district of Asakusa, in present-day Tokyo. The production of the Inoue family spans three generations: Inoue Ryosai I (1828-?), Inoue Ryosai II (around 1860-?) and Inoue Ryosai III (1880-1971). Alongside them, two other ceramists are also famous: Ishiguro Koko and Hara Yashiyama.
The ceramics are characterized by stoneware of rather heavy aspect, a very shiny glaze and most of the time, applied decorations in relief. It is decorated using the taka-uki-bori ("high relief carving") technique which consists of gluing shapes onto the porcelain. The glaze is then poured over the top, which gives the ceramics great vitality and freedom.
It was mainly exported to the West from the end of the 19th century to the 1920s from the port of Yokohama; and was mainly distributed in the United States through the A. A. Vantine's & Co. store, located on 5th Avenue in New-York and specialized in oriental and Far Eastern objects.

Made by Kitanoshita
Japan – Meiji era (1868-1912) or Taisho era (1912-1926), early 20th
Height: 3.74 in. (9.5 cm) – width: 4.45 in. (11.3 cm) – depth: 4.13 in. (10.5 cm)