A JAPANESE WHITE-GLAZED FUNERARY URN MODELLED AS A SHIP in three sections, the well with a low railing above a band of mon and with dragon's head prow, a rectangular coffer at the midsection with recessed panels the cover with elegantly sloping roofs above two pierced dragon and phoenix panels and two laticed windows above a drape tied with tasselled sashes, all under a pale blue hinged glaze (chips, losses to railing), 19th Century

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A JAPANESE WHITE-GLAZED FUNERARY URN MODELLED AS A SHIP in three sections, the well with a low railing above a band of mon and with dragon's head prow, a rectangular coffer at the midsection with recessed panels the cover with elegantly sloping roofs above two pierced dragon and phoenix panels and two laticed windows above a drape tied with tasselled sashes, all under a pale blue hinged glaze (chips, losses to railing), 19th Century
40 cm. long

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