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

Two Large Elegant Hirado Vases
Meiji period (late 19th century)
A vase of globular form with broad flaring neck and mythical beast handles, decorated in underglaze blue with continuous design of three cranes in a grove of small pines and billowing clouds to the lower body, the neck with a crane in flight and scrolling clouds on each side and further clouds above the handles, all below the overlapping lappet bands with stylised cloud design, a key fret border to the rim
Another vase in globular form with a flattened mouth, two moulded dragons wrapped around the neck, the lower body decorated in underglaze blue with a continuous design of a dragon emerging from tempestuous waves, the upper body with stylised clouds, the foot with a band of stylised wave design
31cm. high (vase with mythical beast handles), 24.8cm. high (vase with dragons)

Literature
C. Philip Cardeiro, Hirado Ware - Japanese Hirado Porcelain 1640-1909, (1989, California), p.58, cat. no. 20. (vase with dragons) (the cover is illustrated above)

Exhibited
Japanese Hirado Porcelain 1640-1909, Art Asia Museum exhibition, 9 September – 10 November 1989 (vase with dragons)

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