Details
A pair of Imperial tapering oviform vases
with short everted necks and moulded mask handles, painted and gilt with shaped panels of peonies and bamboo issuing from rockwork and brushwood fences, all on dark blue grounds reserved with butterflies in flight amongst scrolling foliage, within borders of key-fret, scroll, chevron, honeycomb and stylised flowerhead designs -- 9½in. (24cm.) high, signed Satsuma, Ishi.....
See Colour Plate 5 and detail of signature. (2)
with short everted necks and moulded mask handles, painted and gilt with shaped panels of peonies and bamboo issuing from rockwork and brushwood fences, all on dark blue grounds reserved with butterflies in flight amongst scrolling foliage, within borders of key-fret, scroll, chevron, honeycomb and stylised flowerhead designs -- 9½in. (24cm.) high, signed Satsuma, Ishi.....
See Colour Plate 5 and detail of signature. (2)