AN EARTHENWARE BOTTLE VASE

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AN EARTHENWARE BOTTLE VASE
MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED DAI NIHON SHOZAN ZO

Of bulbous form with tall cylindrical and flared neck, painted in gilt and colored enamels with a wide frieze of a festival parade before a backdrop of the city, Fuji and a wide bay, a ladder pole rising from one of the festival floats painted up one side of the neck against a cream crackle glazed ground dotted with gilt- 12 1/2 in. (31.4 cm.) high