Plate

China

About 1800-1810

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Squat form with small mouth grey body with white inlay of cranes and stylized clouds
Buddha Priests recto Sanjinko Nikko verso Attributed to Kusakabe Kimbei hand colored albumen prints
Actors Onkichi as Tsurukiyo and Saizaburō as Senmatsu Utagawa Kuniyoshi ink and color on paper
Qilin is a mythological animal in the Chinese culture it has some auspicious meaning One of its iconographic features is that there is only one horn on it head This piece does bear one horn while other parts of the image are more typical of a bull rather than a Quilin