Antique Japanese Satsuma Kinkozan Porcelain Silver Overlay Miniature Teapot

Description

This is a nice antique Japanese Satsuma Kinkozan porcelain silver overlay miniature teapot with a metal handle. It is decorated with various figures and flower / floral silver
overlay. In pretty nice shape as the pics show with no nicks or chips having a couple spots of minor wear like the glaze seen in pic 9 and a loss of decoration along the edge of the lid seen in pic 12 and it comes exactly as shown. It measures 4 1/2" x 4 1/4" x 2 1/8" without the handle and is 4 1/2" tall including the handle. It is 1 3/4" to the spout.
The
Kinkozan
family have been associated with pottery since 1645. They went on to become the largest producer of Satsuma ware, from the end of the 19th century until 1927 after which the factory closed. By the 1850s Kobayashi Sobei (1824-84),
Kinkozan Sobei
(artist name
Kinkozan IV
), started to export his products together with the Kyoto manufacturer
Taizan VIII
. The market was in particular America. Their main production period was approximately between 1875-1927 under the leadership of
Kinkozan V
(1868-1927). Regarding styles, in her book
Treasury of Satsuma
, Sandra Andacht quotes a 19th century visitor to the Kinkozan factory, saying that the same glazed pots were decorated in
two styles
, the one being called Kyoto or Awata ware, and the other Satsuma.
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