A globular tripod koro with pierced domed cover and flowerhead knop finial and pierced upright handles painted and gilt to one side with a rectangular panel of a lady and child standing on a bridge over a stream, looking at the ducks swimming below, a further figure carrying a bundle of sticks and a hut beside trees in the distance, the reverse with ladies and children at play in a garden with flowering tree peony, on a dark green ground reserved with scattered gold flowerheads, the handles with T-pattern and feet gilt with cell-pattern -- 5¾in. high, signed Matsumoto Hozan

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A globular tripod koro with pierced domed cover and flowerhead knop finial and pierced upright handles painted and gilt to one side with a rectangular panel of a lady and child standing on a bridge over a stream, looking at the ducks swimming below, a further figure carrying a bundle of sticks and a hut beside trees in the distance, the reverse with ladies and children at play in a garden with flowering tree peony, on a dark green ground reserved with scattered gold flowerheads, the handles with T-pattern and feet gilt with cell-pattern -- 5¾in. high, signed Matsumoto Hozan
See Colour Plate 8 and detail of signature

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