Charcoal burner with flowering plants, birds and an inscription, Charcoal burner (hiire) of stoneware, painted in underglaze blue. The lower half of the bowl has a ribbed wall, divided into a band of elongated compartments with characters. Above that a band with three birds on a rock or a branch and medallions and cartouches with landscapes, people or napkins. The inner edge with a broad band with the 'three friends of winter' (bamboo, pine, prunus), with a bird on the prunus branch. The bottom is unglazed. Marked on the bottom with a six-character mark in a double circle and a depressed four-character mark. Kyoyaki., anonymous, Japan, c. 1800 - c. 1849, Edo-period (1600-1868), stoneware, glaze, cobalt (mineral), vitrification, h 8.5 cm d 10.6 cm d 6.5
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Charcoal burner, flowering plants, birds, inscription, hiire, stoneware, painted, underglaze blue, lower half, bowl, ribbed wall, divided, band, elongated compartments, characters, three birds, rock, branch, medallions, cartouches, landscapes, people, napkins, inner edge, broad band, three friends, winter, bamboo, pine, prunus, bird, prunus branch, bottom, unglazed, Marked, six-character mark, double circle, depressed four-character mark, Kyoyaki, Japan, c, 1800, 1849, Edo-period, 1600-1868, glaze, cobalt, mineral, vitrification
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