A JAPANESE ELEPHANT-SHAPED KORO (INCENSE BURNER AND COVER)

A JAPANESE ELEPHANT-SHAPED KORO (INCENSE BURNER AND COVER)

EDO OR MEIJI, 19TH CENTURY

The recumbent pachyderm with its head slightly turned to the right, the surface with a bluish-white glaze and the eye with an iron-brown dot, the lid pierced with four circular apertures, the base with gauze marks, in a tomobako wood box, 18cm. (3)

Provenance: an Irish private collection, Dublin.

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