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Sakaida Kakiemon XV

Sakaida Kakiemon XV

Porcelain

, Japan

The story

He inherited a milk-white porcelain and a red-orange enamel palette that once seduced Meissen, and paints as if Europe never stole the trick. Fifteenth-generation head of the Kakiemon kiln in Arita, keeper of the overglaze 'akae' enamel style prized in Europe since the 1600s.

Their craft

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Sakaida Kakiemon XV

Fifteenth-generation head of the Kakiemon kiln in Arita, keeper of the overglaze 'akae' enamel style prized in Europe since the 1600s.

Craft & Making

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