Vase with three egrets

Japanese Collection

Accession Nr.: 53.340.1
Type: vase; ceramics
Artist/Maker:
Date of production:
19. század vége
Meiji era
Place of production:
Signed: Signed: Nishiura zō /西浦造 (reading of last character is uncertain)
Materials/Techniques: porcelain, underglaze polychrome painting
Dimensions: height: 7.8 cm
diameter (mouth): 2.4 cm
diameter (base): 2.9 cm
Literature, analogies:

Impley, Oliver R. et al eds., 『ナセル・D・ハリリコレクション: 海を渡った日本の美術』/ The Nasser D. Khalili Collection. Decorative Arts of Meiji Japan. Vol. 5/1 (Porcelain), Kyoto, 同朋舎出版, 1995, n. 93.

Jahn, Gisela, Meiji Ceramics: Japanese Export Porcelain: Japanese Export Porcelain 1868-1912. Stuttgart, Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2003, 224.

Pollard, Clare, Master Potter of Meiji Japan: Makuzu Kōzan (1842-1916) and His Workshop. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002, 74.

横山美術館 [Yokoyama Museum] ed., 『やきものの心に挑んだ瀬戸・美濃の美』[The beauty of Seto and Mino that challenged the spirit of pottery], Nagoya, 横山美術館, 2021, 32, marks 80, 92, 97–99.