A Fine Tall-necked Vase, EDO-MEIJI PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

The Hirado Collection of Philip Cardeiro
PROPERTY OF THE C PHILIP CARDEIRO LIVING TRUST (Lots 52-72)

A Fine Tall-necked Vase
Edo-Meiji period (19th century)
Oviform with tall tapering neck, decorated in underglaze blue with sevenkarako [Chinese children] chasing butterflies in a floral landscape, an overhanging pine tree and peonies issuing from rocks to the reverse, all beneath a band of rinpo and a border with panels enclosing origami cranes against a diaper ground to the shoulder, the neck with bands of stylised plantain leaves
37.5cm. high

Literature
C. Philip Cardeiro, Hirado Ware - Japanese Hirado Porcelain 1640-1909, (1989, California), p.53, cat. no. 13. (the cover is illustrated above)

Exhibited
Japanese Hirado Porcelain 1640-1909, Art Asia Museum exhibition, 9 September – 10 November 1989

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This is a Chinese style Tang dynasty depiction of late spring, in which seven karako are playing with butterflies beneath a pine beside peonies, which is the most well-known design of Hirado ware. In Edo period, the Hirado ware with seven karako was traditionally presented to the Tokugawa shogun or the imperial court by the Hirado daimyo. The Hirado ware with five karako were for daimyo and those with three karako were for other samurai.
The lappet band depicted here is called rinpo, another typical design of Hirado, that is the repeated pattern of stylised Chinese character ‘ko’, the first letter of Koryo, the ancient Korean Kingdom, from which many potters had been brought to Hirado.