Details
An oviform vase
of slender tapering form with short everted neck, painted and gilt with oval panels of figures at leisure in interiors and boys at play, on a ground of trailing wisteria above numerous pavilions in a rocky tree strewn landscape, the shoulder with overlapping geometric panels -- 4¾in. (12cm.) high, signed Hiramatsu Ganzan, (minor gilt and enamel rubbing).
See Colour Plate 4 and detail of signature.
of slender tapering form with short everted neck, painted and gilt with oval panels of figures at leisure in interiors and boys at play, on a ground of trailing wisteria above numerous pavilions in a rocky tree strewn landscape, the shoulder with overlapping geometric panels -- 4¾in. (12cm.) high, signed Hiramatsu Ganzan, (minor gilt and enamel rubbing).
See Colour Plate 4 and detail of signature.