Large Late C19th Japanese Arita Porcelain Vase and Cover Decorated in the Imari Palette.

Large late C19th Japanese Arita porcelain vase and cover decorated in the Imari palette.

Meiji period (1868-1913) Japanese porcelain vase decorated in bright enamels in the Imari style. The body boldly decorated in the traditional manner with alternating panels and vignettes of parading ladies or bijins , in fenced landscapes with exotic bird and floral motifs. The domed lid or cover with similar coloured decoration with a knop finial .

Highly decorative Japanese vase of good large scale with vivid colours to add Oriental exoticism to an interior.

The underside of the vase marked with a hand-painted 6-character mark .

The interior of the cover rim with a minor historic chip . The interior of the vase foot-rim with a minor historic stress or firing crack .

H 24" (overall)

W 14"

D 14"

Japan c. 1870

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