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Vase

Artwork · Yabu Meizan · c. 1910 · vase · Khalili Collections

From the studio of Yabu Meizan (1853–1934), who raised Satsuma ware from a mass-produced export craft to something sublime: an autumnal branch descends gracefully over the double-gourd shape, its leaves picked out in gold and red, a swallow among them. 1 Mason 2005, p. 352, fig. 410. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.