Vase
Category
Ceramics
Date
1880 - 1910
Materials
Porcelain
Place of origin
Arita
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Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1296823
Summary
A pair of vases, porcelain, of ovoid shape with escalloped and flared rim, rabbit-form side-handles, painted in iron-red, black and gold with polychrome enamels; on one is a large panel with a woman under wisteria in the style of an 18th century woodblock print, and the other with a scene from the Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari) executed in the Tosa school style which specialized in courtly subjects, Arita, Japan, c. 1880-1910.