A Pair of 'Butterflies and Wisteria' Small Dishes, Kinkozan Workshop, and a Fine Satsuma-Type Pottery Koro with Pierced Cover, Meiji Period
Meiji Period (1868-1912)
The dishes centered by a dense group of graduated butterflies against a gold-stippled ground, bordered by pendant wisteria sprays, underside with workshop marks in gold. The censer with a double-walled honeycomb-pierced cover; the base with elephant head handles and fret-carved shoulder, underside with indistinct maker's mark, all raised on three goblin mask feet.
Note:
For a closely related enameled koro, see the example in the Bauer Collection, Geneva, Switzerland, E103
Diameter of Dish: 4 7/8 in., 12.4 cm; Height of Censer: 4 in., 10 cm.
Property from the Estate of Henry V. and Carol K. Nickel
This lot is located in Philadelphia.
Property from the Estate of Henry V. and Carol K. Nickel.
The dishes: Commodore Antiques, Key West, Florida, August 15, 1988.
The koro: Normar Oriental Art, Inc, San Francisco, California, October 1, 1986.
