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A Hirado Covered Bowl with Kiku Mum Cut-Outs – Meiji browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese:Porcelain: Pre 1920: item # 888749 Please refer to our stock # ICHI 2859 when inquiring.
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This is a lovely Hirado porcelain covered bowl with underglaze blue decorations of multiple flowers, leaves and vines. There are three large cut out reticulated designs of the sixteen petal Kiku mon. The knob in the center used to raise the lid is also a reticulated flower design. On the bottom of the inside of the bowl is yet another floral design executed in underglaze blue – this one is a spray of mums with two butterflies hovering overhead and below. The bowl measures 6 ½” diameter and is 1 ¾” deep. We date it to the mid to late Meiji period, circa 1880-1910. It is in excellent condition with one exception – a 1 ½” stable hairline on the rim. The Imperial Seal of Japan is a mon or crest used by members of the Japanese Imperial family. Under the Meiji Constitution, no one was permitted to use the Imperial Seal except the Emperor of Japan, who used a 16 petal chrysanthemum with sixteen tips of another row of petals showing behind the first row. So each member of the Imperial family used a slightly modified version of the seal. Shinto shrines either displayed the imperial seal or incorporated elements of the seal into their own emblems. Earlier in Japanese history, when Emperor Go-Daigo, who tried to break the power of the shogunate 1333, was exiled, he adopted the seventeen petal chrysanthemum to differentiate himself from his successor, Emperor Kōgon, who kept the imperial 16 petal mon. The symbol is a yellow or orange chrysanthemum with black or red outlines and background. A central disc is surrounded by a front set of 16 petals. A rear set of 16 petals are half staggered in relation to the front set and are visible at the edges of the flower. An example of the chrysanthemum being used is in the badge for the Order of the Chrysanthemum. Other members of the Imperial Family use a version with 14 single petals, while a form with 16 single petals is used for Diet members' pins, orders, passports, etc. The Imperial Seal is also used on the standards of the imperial family.
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