A SMALL JAPANESE KYOTO WARE TEA CADDY MEIJI PERIOD

A SMALL JAPANESE KYOTO WARE TEA CADDY

MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH OR 20TH CENTURY

The gourd-shaped body decorated in thick yellow, green and black enamels with panels variously enclosing cranes, a samurai, buildings in a mountainous landscape and a fox dressed as a farmer on a dense ground of brocade patterns, with hoju-no-tama, the wish-fulfilling jewels, and roundels shaped as dragons, the lid with a loop handle and a band of key fret, 12cm. (2)

PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS TO BE OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE.