Lot description
A porcelain trumpet vase
By Makuzu Kozan, Meiji Period
The body of exaggerated flared form decorated with tall leafy stems of irises in underglaze-blue, the leaves painted in contrasting tones of blue on a yellow-enamel ground, signed Makuzu Kozan sei.
43.1cm (17in) high.Footnotes
染付菖蒲図トランペット形花瓶 真葛香山作 明治時代
Compare with a vase of similar type, quality and size in the Nasser D. Khalili Collection, illustrated by Oliver Impey and Malcolm Fairely (ed.,) Meiji no Takara, Treasures of Imperial Japan Ceramics, part I Porcelain, no.50.
Provenance: an English private collection.
Quoted from the lot page, © Bonhams. Bonhams, Fine Japanese Art, 2011-11-10, lot 336 ↗
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