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A large earthenware vase intricately painted with an extensive mountain view of the Shogun's procession leaving the Yomeimon gate of the Toshogu shrine at Nikko, the reverse painted with ducks on the banks of a stream among wildflowers, beneath trailing purple and white wisteria. The deep blue body gilt and painted with mythological creatures on a ground of stylised clouds, the neck and foot with geometric borders. An accompanying letter from Mr Kobayashi, dated 1908, advises Mr Robinson of the dispatch of the vase, stating: 'Having had a desire to send you something which you may keep merely as a commemoration of the bond of our eternal friendship, I have had rather difficulty in selection, because there in Japan is nothing superior to match with those excellent articles produced in England, except only few of such as China-ware or silk-goods.
The Khalili Collections
London
Title
Vase
Date
1908
Medium
earthenware, painted & gilded
Accession number
748
Work type
Ceramic
Signature/marks description
Kinkozan
