Vase with two elephanthead-shaped handles and double phoenix and chrysanthemum mothfs

Japanese Collection

Accession Nr.: 53.333.1
Type: ceramics
Date of production:
Second half of 19th century
Edo (Tokugawa) period or Meiji era
Place of production:
Signed: Signed on base: Satsuma yaki, Futaba / 薩摩焼二葉 (Futaba, Satsuma pottery) with Shimazu crest (cross in circle)
Materials/Techniques: earthenware, crackle glaze, overglaze polychrome painting, gilt
Dimensions: height: 15.2 cm; diameter (mouth): 4.7 cm; diameter (base): 5 cm
It was probably made as a pair of vases, with HFM_59.54.1 being the other half of the pair.

Signature: Satsuma database (2024), 100.

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