Kutani’ware ceramic vase
Price: € 280,00
A lovely Kutani’ware 九谷焼 Aoki Mokubei-style ceramic vase. The upper part with an intricate enamel design of many different scenes depicting small male figures on a red fond, like: some rolling out a long hand roll, and three sitting on the back of a large flying koi with a dragon shaped head.
Its round almost gourd-shaped body with three shaped indentations. The top with a gilded rim.
The bottom sealed “Kutani Mokubei” 九谷木米. A reference to the famous Japanese painter Aoki Mokubei (1767-1833).
Approx. size:
Height 26 cm, Diameter 21.5 cm.
Including wooden tomobako.
Late Meiji-period ( approx.1900).
In a very good condition.
