Large plate with a caparisoned white elephant and karako

Large plate with a caparisoned white elephant and karako
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A large plate with a caparisoned white elephant overrun by karako boys, within a millefleurs and key-fret border; an early showpiece design of about 1890.

Curatorial notes

Attribution to Yabu Meizan per the collection's Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons record (uploaded with Khalili Foundation permission); the maker is not named in the collection page text as fetched.

Literature

Impey and Fairley (eds.), 1995, cat. 4; J. Earle, Splendors of Imperial Japan, 2002, cat. 165, p. 251.

Louis Lawrence, Satsuma: The Romance of Japan (2011), p. 188 nn. 65 and 67 (cited for comparison with pls. 115–116).

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