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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;wanderer, post: 4402634, member: 16309&quot;]I have this set now. I never saw real satsuma items close up before. I do not know if this one is an authentic Awata but it is beautiful.</p><p><br /></p><p>Under magnification (10 – 60):</p><p><br /></p><p>It looks like it might be two layers of transparent glaze.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Transparent colors elements may be under first layer of cracked translucent glaze and the raised one are on the top. It is hard to tell – they are so small.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; The raised elements (red and white petals), when magnified, look like hardened foam (enamel???). White “foam” has sometimes added tiny metal disks (on sparrow neck etc). Please see images.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Translucent upper layer glaze has tiny bubbles close to the surface and in grooves and around razed elements.</p><p><br /></p><p>Glaze cracks run under raised red, white and gold elements and do not affect their surfaces.</p><p><br /></p><p>All signatures are hand painted. Please see all 4.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]372591[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]372592[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]372593[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]372594[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]372595[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]372596[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]372597[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]372598[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]372599[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]372600[/ATTACH]</p><p>It would be great if someone would be able to tell me more about this set.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you all very much.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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