A vase and cover modelled as a three sectional pagoda on stepped waisted base and below a pagoda-shaped roof, the hexagonal body painted and gilt on each side with a portrait of the Rokkasen, the Six Sacred Poets, Ono no Komachi, Kisen Hoshi, Bunua no Yasumaro, Shojo Henjo, Arihara no Narihira, and Otomo no Kuronushi viewed through netting, the pedestal painted and heavily gilt with a coiled dragon among clouds, the stepped base with panels of T-pattern and birds above breaking waves, the roof with mon on a deep blue ground reserved with stylised scrolls (two small chips, gilt rubbed) -- 18in. high, signed Kabaien sei