### **A Kakiemon porcelain vase with ormolu mounts**


**Vase: late 17th century, Japan, mounts: signed Escalier de Cristal Paris, 19th century, France**

**Height: 26cm, 10.3 inches**

The square shaped tapering vase would originally have had two flaring sides linked by a handle creating a bucket form, the handles are now missing and the vase mounted in ormolu as a pot pourrie, the square cover also of Kakiemon porcelain mounted in ormolu. The vase is painted in the Kakiemon pallet of yellow, blue, green and red enamels over the white glazed porcelain. The design is sparse in the Japanese taste, depicting a figure with two large pots beside a rocky outcrop on which various plants grow.

**Similar Examples**

'Porcelain for Palaces', British Museum 1990, figure 96 a bucket in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford.