AN IMARI VASE EDO PERIOD, LATE 17TH - EARLY 18TH CENTURY |

the tall vase of rare form with high neck and everted rim, and two applied dragon handles, decorated in green, iron-red and black enamels and gilt, with lobed panels of landscapes and peonies, the shoulder with fish among waterplants

There is slight wear to the gold and small chips to the dragon handles alongside the scales.
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Similar vases are in the collection of Augustus the Strong, Dresden. For further information on the collection see Friedrich Reichel, Early Japanese Porcelain, Arita Porcelain in the Dresden Collection (Leipzig, 1980), pp.119-123