A LARGE LATER-ENAMELED BALUSTER JAR AND COVER PROBABLY JAPANESE, 19TH CENTURY

the stoneware body of tapered form, surmounted by a high domed cover with tall bud-form finial, later enameled and gilt, possibly in Japan, with scenes from the Tale of Genji with variously-shaped cartouches reserved on a vertically ribbed ground in alternating malachite and cobalt-blue, the cover similarly decorated (2)

Good condition. Small glaze flake to underside edge of foot.
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