Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts and Jewellery
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Oriental Works of Art, Jewellery, Silver and Furniture
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A massive Japanese blue and white vase, Meiji period, 1868-1912
the tapering ovoid body painted with a panel of a hawk on a gnarled pine tree branch before a rocky outcrop, the reverse with a hawk clutching a small bird in its right talon and supporting itself with its left talon on a gnarled branch, enclosed by large flowering chrysanthemums, the shoulder with scrolling sprays of flowerheads, the neck with a band of lappets, the lower section with a continuous panel of flowers, signed, 112cm high