Vase
Category
Ceramics
Date
1670 - 1730
Materials
Hard paste porcelain and lacquer
Measurements
650 x 295 mm
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Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 959595.1
Summary
One of a pair of trumpet-shaped Arita vases, decorated in under-glaze blue with chrysanthemums and foliage, each with various cartouches decorated in lacquer depicting dragon-headed mythical beasts among a pine forest, bamboo, rocks and water and small shaped panels with karashishi and stylised dragons. Part of an unusual four piece Arita garniture.
