A bowl showing a festival procession with a model of Mount Fuji carried on a float, with butterflies inside. A banner in the procession bears the inscription ‘Dai Meizan’.
Bowl with a festival procession and a Mount Fuji float
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Curatorial notes
An almost identical bowl was shown at the Japan–British Exhibition of 1910.
Literature
Impey and Fairley 1995, cat. 83; Earle 2002, cat. 103.