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Japanese Meiji Blue and White Ceramic Benki

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1900   item# 805132 (stock# 18-46)

Japanese Meiji Blue and White Ceramic Benki
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(203) 208-0771


$890 

Salvaged from a Japanese ryokan (inn), this late Meiji blue and white ceramic benki moves easily to a second life as a handsome plant holder or fountain. Western expatriates in the Far East, particularly in Japan, have a long history of adapting utilitarian items with appealing Asian design to inventive new uses, and this is one of the most unusual items to be adapted. This benki, with its cobalt blue patterns, is recognizable as Japanese at first glance but its original use as a urinal is not a ...click for details


Ceramic Sake Cask, Meiji

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1900   item# 152863 (stock# 07-53)

Ceramic Sake Cask, Meiji
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(203) 208-0771


$390 

In Meiji Era Japan, fine sake sometimes was transported from producers to shops in ceramic casks. The name of the sake and name and address of the liquor shop (saketen) were written in underglaze cobalt Kanji on the containers. The front of this 19th century cask shows it held Seiryu Sake, which had a turquoise logo of a path between two wooded hills. The other side of the cask proclaims the name of the shop, Murata Saketen, and its address in Saga Profecture on the south island of Kyushu. The s ...click for details


Meiji Blue and White Sake Flask

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1910   item# 151461 (stock# 07-51)

Meiji Blue and White Sake Flask
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$395 

The underglaze cobalt blue Kanji on this Meiji Era (1868-1911) sake flask was applied with a free spirit appropriate for the intended use of the container. One of three Kanji messages identify the bottle as coming from "Mikaya Sake Shop, 214 Genrou Cho." This type of container generally was taken back to the sake shop for refills. Utilitarian ceramics for domestic use often were made by the the same kilns that produced purely decorative wares for export. This bottle comes from the Imar ...click for details

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