Ninsei: gourd-shaped incense caddy with fan design, enamelled ware

Ninsei: gourd-shaped incense caddy with fan design, enamelled ware
Ninsei: gourd-shaped incense caddy with fan design, enamelled ware
Ninsei: gourd-shaped incense caddy with fan design, enamelled ware

Height 8.0 cm, body diameter 6.2 cm, bottom diameter 2.8 cm
 Unlike the Shozui type, this piece is gentle and graceful. The body is covered with a white glaze from the lid to the body, on which a fan and vine-flower pattern is painted in an elegant manner. The bottom of the bowl has a shallowly carved clay bottom in the style of a go-zoko, and the left side of the bottom is stamped with Insei’s gourd-shaped seal. The lid of the inner box is marked “Insei Gourd Incense Box,” and the lid of that box has a high top, which is known as a so called sohwa box.

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