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A Small Japanese Oil Pitcher with Karako Showa browse these categories for related items... All Items: Vintage Arts:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese:Stoneware: Pre 1940: item # 850766 Please refer to our stock # COLL 8067 when inquiring.
Ichiban Japanese & Oriental Antiques Post Office Box 395 Marion, CT 06444-0395 203.272.7392 Guest Book $225.00 |
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This is a charming little Japanese oil pitcher or possibly a kendi with a transfer decoration of several karako at play chasing butterflies. The karako are in underglaze cobalt blue and the pitcher itself is potted in a tan glaze with small brown spots all over and a brown rim at the top on both the inside and the outside of the piece. The pitcher measures 4 diameter by 4 ½ high it is 1 Ύ diameter at the top. We date the piece to the 1930s, Showa period. It is in excellent condition. The term karako refers generically to small Chinese children as they are portrayed in Japanese art. These children, depicted without reference to a specific sex but usually appearing to be boys, have bare heads except for two small tufts of hair. The "karako" pictures of Chinese children at play on the white porcelain of Mikawachi ware have made it famous as traditional form of craft work unique to Sasebo that has been passed down through the ages to the present day for 400 years. |
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