A globular bottle vase with tall flaring neck and pierced dragon handles, the body painted and heavily gilt with a continuous band of Immortals beside furniture, bamboo and a dragon, each holding an attribute, one with a dragon emerging from a koro, the neck decorated with a roundel of stylised scrolling flowers on a cell-pattern ground decorated with key-fret, wave-pattern, cell-pattern and geometric motifs -- 12¼in. high, signed Kinryuen Kagetsu Sanjin,

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A globular bottle vase with tall flaring neck and pierced dragon handles, the body painted and heavily gilt with a continuous band of Immortals beside furniture, bamboo and a dragon, each holding an attribute, one with a dragon emerging from a koro, the neck decorated with a roundel of stylised scrolling flowers on a cell-pattern ground decorated with key-fret, wave-pattern, cell-pattern and geometric motifs -- 12¼in. high, signed Kinryuen Kagetsu Sanjin,
See Colour Plate 10 and detail of signature

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