Kenjo (presented) Ninsei - Earthenware storage jar, with an ovoid body and four small loop handles

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An earthenware storage jar, with an ovoid body and four small loop handles painted with birds in flight above irises, water plantain and lilies in stylised turbulent waves, the body bearing two large mon of the Tachibana clan.

The base incised kenjo (presented) Ninsei

Height 33cm

Meiji period, circa 1870

£3,600