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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Hirado (made)

Vase with trumpet shaped mouth decorated with a design of a coiling dragon.

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Categories	Access_to_Images 2003 Ceramics Porcelain Containers
Object type	Vase
Materials and techniques	Porcelain, with decoration in underglaze blue and low relief Porcelain Blue and White Relief
Brief description	Vase, porcelain with decoration in underglaze blue and low relief, Hirado kilns, Japan, 1860-1880
Physical description	Vase with trumpet shaped mouth decorated with a design of a coiling dragon.
Dimensions	Height: 37.2cm
Styles	Edo Meiji Blue and White (Asia)
Gallery label	Vase 1860–80 The elegant form of this vase, its delicate low-relief design of a dragon and the carefully painted decoration are typical of the products of the Hirado kilns. These were located in the village of Mikawachi, a few miles from the porcelain-manufacturing centre of Arita. The extremely high quality of Hirado wares was much admired by collectors in the West. Hirado kilns, Mikawachi Porcelain painted in underglaze blue Museum no. FE.19-1985 (04/11/2015) Vase With Trumpet-Shaped Mouth Porcelain with decoration in underglaze blue and low relief design of a coiling dragon Hirado kilns About 1860-1880(1986)
Subject depicted	Dragon
Bibliographic reference	Earle, Joe, ed. Japanese art and design London: V&A Publishing, 2009, Plate 177.
Collection	East Asia Collection
Accession number	FE.19-1985

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Record created	December 15, 1999
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O16153/vase-unknown/

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