An Awata-style Satsuma pottery box for the Islamic market Japan, late 19th Century (Meiji Period) of circular form with a slightly convex lid on a short foot, decorated in polychrome enamel and gilt with inscriptions in thuluth and floral, chevron and cloud motifs 9.6 cm. diam. Footnotes: Inscriptions: li khamsa utfi biha harr al-waba' al-hatima al-mustafa wa al-murtada wa abnahuma wa al-fatima, 'I have five [people] through whom I extinguish the heat of crushing [pestilence], Al-Mustafa, al-Murtada, their sons and Fatima'. For further discussion of Satsuma ware and its export, see Joe Earle, Splendors of Meiji: Treasures of Imperial Japan, Masterpieces from the Khalili Collection, St Petersburg 2002, pp. 116-139. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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