A large Imari beaker vase painted and gilt to the exterior with cranes in fenced gardens of peonies, chrysanthemums and fruiting pomegranate branches within borders of lappets decorated with further peonies and kiku heads, the inner rim decorated with similar lappet panels interspersed with trailing flowers -- 25in. (63.5cm) high, circa 1700, (rim crack and small body crack).