Bowl with birds and butterflies among peonies

Under expert review: details on this record are provisional.

Bowl with birds and butterflies among peonies (Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park)
Image: © Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park (滋賀県立陶芸の森) · Museum website image, not openly licensed; used at owner's direction · Source

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A bowl painted with birds and butterflies among peonies, from the Tetsuro Tanabe Collection.

Curatorial notes

Japanese title 色絵花鳥文碗. Mark recorded as a seal reading only 「明山」 (Meizan). Plain 'Meizan' is elsewhere attributed to Yabu Tsuneo after 1926, so the mark needs expert review.

©2026 Yabu Meizan.