Japanese Works of Art - 1st July 2020
Lot 231
A JAPANESE TEA CUP AND SAUCER BY KINKOZAN MEIJI PERIOD
Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £380
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Description
A JAPANESE TEA CUP AND SAUCER BY KINKOZAN
MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY
Both delicately painted with a design of purple and white wisteria flowers, the wells with a flutter of butterflies, the inner rim of the cup with a band of scrolling clouds, with details highlighted in gilt, the saucer signed Kinkozan in a rectangular cartouche and the cup with an impressed mark for Kinkozan zo, 12.2cm max. (2)
Provenance: an English private collection, Gloucestershire.