Title: Vase
Date: late 1890s
Location: Japan
Materials: porcelain, painted in underglaze red, blue, blue-grey, and green on a yellow ground
Dimensions: height 47 cm
Accession Number: P 89
Other Notes:
A porcelain vase, the ovoid body boldly decorated with numerous stems of peonies blowing in the wind, the flowers painted in underglaze copper red and in blue-grey, the leaves, some partially eaten, painted in underglaze blue, the stems painted in green and copper red, all on a yellow ground.
The range of underglaze colours applied to this vase demonstrates the ever-increasing technical sophistication of Makuzu wares in the years between the Chicago (1893) and the Paris (1900) expositions.
Bibliography:
O. Impey, M. Fairley (eds.), Meiji No Takara: Treasures Of Imperial Japan: Ceramics Vol I, London 1995, cat. 25.
J. Earle, Splendors of Imperial Japan: Arts of the Meiji period from the Khalili Collection, London 2002, cat. 193, p. 279.
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