A Japanese Hichozan Shinpo Brush washer circa 1880

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LOT NUMBER 34

A Japanese Hichozan Shinpo Brush washer circa 1880

A Japanese brushwasher of squat cylindrical form with a short neck and a flat unglazed base, decorated in brightly coloured enamels with Samurai and banners. The style of painting and palette of colours resembles pieces made by the Tashiro factory in Japan, founded by Tashiro Monzaeman (1816-1900) in the late Edo period during the mid-1850s, and which were marked ‘Hichozan Shinpo’. This piece carries very feint traces of a red mark underneath which may have originally indicated the artist’s name, but even without this, the resemblance is very close and an attribution almost certain. The form suggests a brush washer, part of the scholar’s desk set.

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Size: 7.5 cm high, 8.5 cm wide
Weight: 90 grams
Date: 1880
Condition: Good condition generally but with a star shape crack to the neck (see image 6)
Estimate: £5 – 10

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