Kenzan: wine cup with straw stem design, enamelled ware.

Kenzan: wine cup with straw stem design, enamelled ware.
Kenzan: wine cup with straw stem design, enamelled ware.
Kenzan: wine cup with straw stem design, enamelled ware.

Height 6.3 cm, mouth diameter 4.4 cm, bottom diameter 3.9 cm
 This is a boar-shaped vessel with a straw pattern in color, as seen in kozenzuke (old type of blue and white ceramics), and was probably originally made in numbers of ten or twenty. The body is decorated with a straw pattern in green and yellow, the interior is covered with green glaze, and the bottom is painted in iron rust with the inscription “Qianzan”.

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