Large Imari crater vase, Japan, ARita, c. 1900, porcelain with cobalt blue underglaze and iron red overglaze painting as well as polychrome enamel application and gold paint, porcelain column resting on a bulbous drum base, projecting trumpet-shaped, geishas and servants collecting shells on the beach, bordered by typ. Chrysanthemum heads in vine work, diamond pattern and cartouches with dragon and phoenix, restoration of a crack, partially rubbed, enamel lesion, 93x49cm