Vase

Location: Japan

Materials: porcelain

Dimensions: height 42.5 cm

Accession Number: P 13

Other Notes:

A porcelain trumpet-vase, the body of exaggerated flared form decorated with two banana-trees with large overlapping leaves in underglaze blue. This striking vase is markedly similar to one exhibited by Kozan in the Paris Exposition of 1900.

Bibliography:

O. Impey, M. Fairley (eds.), Meiji No Takara: Treasures Of Imperial Japan: Ceramics Vol I, London 1995, cat. 50.
J. Earle, Splendors of Imperial Japan: Arts of the Meiji period from the Khalili Collection, London 2002, cat. 171, pp. 256–7.