An Earthenware Bottle Vase
An Earthenware Bottle Vase

MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), GILT SEAL YABU MEIZAN

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An Earthenware Bottle Vase
Meiji period (late 19th century), gilt seal Yabu Meizan
The ovoid body with a slender neck and "garlic-bud" mouth painted in polychrome enamels and gilt over a clear, crackled glaze and designed with alternating oval-shaped panels of seasonal landscapes and birds and flowers below a frieze of figures engaged in various activities, the neck designed with spiral bands of sparrows and wisteria, the shoulder painted with a profusion of chrysanthemums, the foot and mouth with geometric bands
6in. (15.3cm.) high

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