AN ARITA TRUMPET VASE EDO PERIOD, LATE 17TH CENTURY |

the tall vase with everted neck decorated in a Kakiemon style palette of green, yellow, blue and black enamels, with a figurative scene depicting the Chinese tale of the Tang poet Li Bo, who made the eunuch Gao Lischi remove his boot in the Imperial presence

Keppel Collection, Elden Hall, Suffolk

There is a repair to the rim, with a piece approx. 8 cm. long, broken out and repaired. There is an area of restoration from the rim going into the top of the vase. There is a star crack to the base, and an area of glaze crazing around the everted foot.
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For a similar example see Nagatake Takeshi, Kakiemon Toji taikei, (Tokyo, 1977), vol. 20, p. 121, no. 59