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Japanese Kutani Porcelain Figure of a Boy, Meiji browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese:Porcelain: Pre 1920: item # 776792 Please refer to our stock # 2-834 when inquiring.
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This delightful Kutani enameled porcelain figure of a small boy dressed in fancy brocades was beautifully modeled and hand painted in a bold and bright color palette that is more typical of Imari wares. Meiji period (1868-1912). The boy, probably representing an actor or a dancer, stands with feet apart and his left arm raised above his head. His richly brocaded kimono is vividly painted in iron red, blue, green, turquoise, yellow and aubergine overglaze enamels with gilt highlights. There are also white overglaze enamel touches on flowers and on the dragonflies which decorate the back of the costume. A yellow and gold ball of some sort hangs from his waist sash. A tight scarf-like headdress with overglaze decoration covers his head. His chubby white face bears a wonderful expression reminiscent of a gosho ningyo doll, complete with tiny modeled teeth showing within his smile. The unglazed base is signed in iron red enamel with a two-character Kutani mark, and there is a firing hole in its center.
Kutani (which means nine valleys) is a small village in Kaga Province on the northwest coast of the main island of Japan with a long history of porcelain production. They produced models of animals and other figures in addition to other standard porcelain wares. CONDITION is excellent. DIMENSIONS: 5” (12.7 cm) high, 5” (12.7 cm), 3 ¼” (8.3 cm) deep. |
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