Vase with a bird on a flowering cherry branch

Vase with a bird on a flowering cherry branch
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A vase with a single bird perched on a flowering cherry branch against an open ground, in the sparer style of about 1910. Dated c. 1910; dimensions h 25 cm; d 9 cm. Seal mark ‘Yabu Meizan’ on the base. Catalogued as Meizan workshop, probably Yabu Meizan (enameller). Purchased with help from the Story Fund, 1993. The museum links the style to the 1910 Japan–British Exhibition. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, accession EA1993.12.

Curatorial notes

Seal mark 'Yabu Meizan' on the base. Catalogued as Meizan workshop, probably Yabu Meizan (enameller). Purchased with help from the Story Fund, 1993. The museum links the style to the 1910 Japan–British Exhibition.

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