A TALL JAPANESE FUKAGAWA VASE

A TALL JAPANESE FUKAGAWA VASE
MEIJI ERA, 19TH/20TH CENTURY

Decorated with a pair of tachibina (paper dolls for the Hinamatsuri or Girls' Day festival), with a band of kikkō-hanabishi pattern below and karakusa above; moulded in low relief and decorated in underglaze blue, gold lacquer and iron-red enamels, with a long mark underneath reading as Dai Nihon, Hizen (no) kuni, Arita, Fukagawa XX sei, 33.5cm.

WITHOUT RESERVE