An Oviform Earthenware Vase

MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)

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An Oviform Earthenware Vase
Meiji Period (Late 19th Century)
The shoulders and neck painted in polychrome enamels and gilt to resemble a brocade decorated with roundels containing stylized phoenixes on a ground of floral sprays gathered at the neck with a wide band of stylized waves and florets, the body below painted with hollyhock crests, leaves and phoenixes, and clouds, the foot painted with a band of floral lappets and the lip with a formal lappet band, all over a clear crackled glaze
10in. (26.6cm.) high

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Yabe Yoshiaki, ed., Satsuma no kinrande zuroku (Catalogue of gilded enameled Satsuma) (Fukuoka: Ohmuta Gahden Hoteru Bijutsukan, 1993), pl. 71.

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