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A plate with textile vendors displaying their cloth. Lawrence points out the god Ebisu, god of honest dealing, on an altar behind the vendor’s display.
Description summarised from Louis Lawrence, Satsuma: The Romance of Japan (2011), pl. 106, pp. 151. Measurements and marks are as published and have not been checked against the object.
Anonymous private collection, as stated in the source: Lawrence (2011, p. 259) says all Satsuma pieces in the book are from anonymous private collections in the USA and Europe (exceptions nos. 4, 29, 65 and 141, none of which is this piece).
Louis Lawrence, Satsuma: The Romance of Japan (2011), pl. 106, p. 151.