Location: Japan
Materials: earthenware, painted and gilded; wood stand
Dimensions: diameter 15.3 cm
Accession Number: S 160
Other Notes:
An earthenware bowl, the exterior painted with a profusion of orange, white, purple, yellow and pink peonies above a border of flower-heads and foliate scrolls, the interior with trailing purple and white wisteria.
Bibliography:
O. Impey, M. Fairley (eds.), Meiji No Takara: Treasures Of Imperial Japan: Ceramics Vol II, London 1995, cat. 66.
J. Earle, Splendors of Imperial Japan: Arts of the Meiji period from the Khalili Collection, London 2002, cat. 93, p. 150.