Antique Japanese Kutani Coffee Pot Bijin Figures Paradise Bird Butterfly Bamboo Handle Meiji Makie and official rank

and official rank

with match box and two ash trays

the revered Six Dynasties landscape poet

Total Length = 77"  Width = 21"

This is an antique Japanese Chobadansu or merchant chest

Antique Japanese Kutani Coffee Pot Bijin Figures Paradise Bird Butterfly Bamboo Handle Meiji Makie and official rankJapanese Kutani Coffee Pot Bijin Figures Paradise Bird Butterfly Bamboo Handle Meiji Japan, Meiji period, c. 18681912 Approx. 9 in. H (23 cm); Weight: A large and finely decorated Kutani () coffee pot or hot water jug in the Western export form, the pear shaped body rising to a long angled spout and fitted with a well seated domed lid with striped iron red and gold finial. The bamboo node handle (take gata, ) is modeled with characteristic joint