Details
A tapering baluster vase
with short everted neck, painted and gilt with a panel depicting Kannon seated on the banks of a river playing a musical instrument, a docile dragon coiled around her, the reverse with a peacock and peahen before a cockerel, hen and chicks in gardens of flowers attached to canes and wisteria trees, all on a dark blue ground reserved with scrolling flowers and foliage -- 12in. (30.5cm.) high, signed, (section of neck broken and restuck.)
See Colour Plate 11, Front Cover for detail and detail of signature.
with short everted neck, painted and gilt with a panel depicting Kannon seated on the banks of a river playing a musical instrument, a docile dragon coiled around her, the reverse with a peacock and peahen before a cockerel, hen and chicks in gardens of flowers attached to canes and wisteria trees, all on a dark blue ground reserved with scrolling flowers and foliage -- 12in. (30.5cm.) high, signed, (section of neck broken and restuck.)
See Colour Plate 11, Front Cover for detail and detail of signature.