Pair of fine Satsuma earthenware ovoid lamps. The body shows Japanese dignitaries in conversation in cartouches on a white background as well as decorative and geometrical motifs in red, gold, brown and green. Mounting in bronze with fine gold and decorated with openwork and chiseled motifs belonging to the Japanese style.
Work done circa 1880.
New and functional electrical system.
! The price indicated does not include the lampshade. Our workshop can however advise you with pleasure and realize it according to your choice of size and color (to ask) !
Satsuma earthenware appeared in the 16th century in Japan in the territory of Satsuma. This type of ceramics is characterized by a great diversity of objects fBoiss which evolves according to the times and the kilns used. There are two types of Satsuma: those with white background and those with black background. Those with black bottoms were more widely used for the tea ceremony or to preserve certain liquids, such as alcohol. Satsuma potters developed around 1800 the technique of polychrome enamels of orange-red color and quickly integrated gold highlights, which gave rise to the most famous production of Satsuma called "Gold Brocade" which was widely produced for export during the MEIJI period (1868-1912).
The decorative repertoire of these pieces is both inspired by the Kano school of painting in the representation of plants, animals and the human figure, while being added to quite abstract geometric patterns. The composition of the pieces is often very busy, leaving little free space and playing with the accumulation of polychrome enamels and golden highlights to bring a certain richness to the piece.
Japanese pieces were exhibited for the first time in the West at the World's Fair in 1867 and the success of Satsuma ceramics was no longer in doubt at the 1878 edition as they were omnipresent.
Satsuma ceramics are still produced today, in the respect of the tradition and quality that made Satsuma one of the major references of Japanese ceramics.