Vase cover
Category
Ceramics
Date
1690
Materials
Porcelain
Place of origin
Japan
Order this imageCollection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 929282.1.2
Summary
Cover. One of a pair of Japanese Kakiemon porcelain hexagonal vases with shallow domed covers, circa 1690, painted with alternate panels of poppy and peacocks perched on peony branches. The shoulders and covers each with three panels of birds in flight amongst scrolling foliage on iron-red bands, the necks with iron-red key-pattern.