Elegantly Proportioned, the generously rounded baluster body, tapering towards a splayed foot, the broad principal register painted with a large fruiting and flowering pomegranate tree, its branches supporting a pair of long-tailed birds, with butterflies and other insects hovering in the air above ornamental rockwork and other vegetation below, all above a border of lotus, arrowhead and aquatic plants emerging from turbulent wases encircling the foot, the shoulder with a collar of ruyi-shaped pendant lappets enclosing lotus reserved on a diaper ground, interspersed with strings of beads suspending jewels and precious objects, and a trefoil border below scattered floral sprays and the neck, the base unglazed, Japanese wood box. PROVENANCE: Hirano Kotoken, Tokyo. H32.3 cm