#hizen ware

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For #SaveTheElephantDay on #TwoForTuesday 🐘🐘:

Pair of porcelain elephants

Hizen, Japan, 1655-70

Made in Kakiemon Kiln for European export market

Porcelain with overglaze polychrome enamel (Hizen Ware), H 35cm ea.

British Museum 1980,0325.1-2

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Ceramic Incense Box in the Shape of a Plum Blossom, Japan, ca. 1850

Met Museum New York

Provenance: ? - Edward C. Moore American collection 1891

H. 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm); W. 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm); D. 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm)