AN EARLY ENAMELLED VASE EDO PERIOD, LATE 17TH CENTURY |

oviform with high ring neck decorated in iron red, green, yellow, blue and black enamels in the Kakiemon style with a willow tree in a landscape

There is a small chip to the inside of the rim of approximately 7mm in length. There are some areas on the body where the glaze has slightly blown in the firing. There is an area of glaze crackle on one side of the body, but this could be improved with cleaning.
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For a similar vase, see Toguri Bujtsukan, Nihon toji meihin zuroku [Japanese Ceramics in the Toguri Collection] (Tokyo, 2006), no.255 p.177