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Plate

S 4 | Japan | circa 1890

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Artwork Details

Title: Plate

Date: circa 1890

Location: Japan

Materials: earthenware, enamel and gilt

Dimensions: diameter 37.2 cm

Accession Number: S 4

Other Notes:

A large earthenware plate, enamelled and gilt with numerous karako boys and an enormous caparisoned white elephant; some of the children crowded into a howdah, others seated on its back, while others balance on its tusks and further boys play around its feet. The border of millefleurs within a key-fret rim.

Bibliography:

O. Impey, M. Fairley (eds.), Meiji No Takara: Treasures Of Imperial Japan: Ceramics Vol II, London 1995, cat. 4.
J. Earle, Splendors of Imperial Japan: Arts of the Meiji period from the Khalili Collection, London 2002, cat. 165, p. 251.

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