A JAPANESE KYOTO WARE KORO

A JAPANESE KYOTO WARE KORO

MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY

The Kyo-yaki incense burner shaped as a chagama tetsubin, with small handles and decorated with thick blue and green enamels and gilt; painted with the Shochikubai, the Three Friends of Winter (pine, bamboo and prunus), the lid with apertures pierced as a five-petal prunus flower and with a bud-shaped knop, 9cm. (2)