| Description
| Japanese Koro. Satsuma. There are two scenes of Japanese life depicted, outlined in gold. The background is of a lustrous blue with fine gold, red, blue and yellow decoration. Each scene is surrounded by foliage decoration. Gold rim.
Made by Sobei Kinkozan in Kyoto, Japan. Sobei is best known for his "Faience" - a French term loosely applied to glazed earthenware
i.e. Satsuma export wares.
On base - White/Green Printed sticker :
S. KINKOZAN,
12440 (Handwritten in black ink)
KYOTO. JAPAN
Also on base - Oval white sticker, with serrated edge.
Handwritten in blue ink : 34
Previously Numbered - Item No. 501 and 83 : 5 : 60
Kinkozan Sobei who was active during the latter part of the 19th Century and early in the 20th Century was the sixth generation of the Kaiya family. According to Brinkley, the first potter (Kagiya Tokeumon) began work at Awata in 1693. On the other hand Kato Tokuro says that the first potter was called Genemon Kobashi (family Tagiya) and he established a kiln at Awataguchi 1644 - 47. Both agree though that the potter of the third generation Kagiya Mohei (Brinkley) or Kibei (Kato) was appointed to the Tokugawa Court and took the name of Kinkozan. The Kobayishi family called themselves Kinzoran from this time onward. The family continued until 8th generation.
Kyoto was the western capital, the city of the Emperor and his court for almost eleven hundred years from the 8th Century, when it was founded by Emperor Kammu and called Heian. Through civil wars when it was almost raised, through the splendour of the Momoyama period of the 16th Century, to the Meiji restoration 1868, it remained a city of culture and refinement. |
