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Bow Vase
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Print Details
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Request Details
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Dates
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Circa 1750
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Medium
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Porcelain
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Origin
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England
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Description
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A rare and early tall Bow baluster-shaped vase painted with a kakiemon decoration in a typical orange and green palette with gilded highlights, the flying ho-ho bird, a banded hedge from which grows a flowering prunus. Around the collar are two small vignettes enclosing small grisaille oriental scenes of a boatman, a house, and a tree. Two more flying birds are painted around the neck with Kakiemon flowers.
Marked with an incised I mark.
21cm High
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Condition
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A piece of rim remodelled and a chip to the foot restored
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Literature
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For a large baluster vase with similar vignettes, see Anton Gabszewicz, Bow Porcelain: The Collection formed by Geoffrey Freeman, cover, and p. 27, no 9.
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