Object Description
A large Meiji period Satsuma earthenware floor vase, the skittle shaped body painted in pastel overglaze enamels and gilding with a continuous frieze of the Seven Gods of Good Fortune on an intricate basketweave ground. Japanese, circa 1875.
For similar examples of this palette and display vases with basketweave bodies see Audsley-Bowes, ‘Keramic Art of Japan’, Liverpool and London, 1875.