Lot description
superbly painted on the interior in rich cobalt-blue tones with three bunches of grapes borne from a gnarled vine issuing broad furled leaves detailed with veining and delicately coiling tendrils, the cavetto subtly lobed in twelve panels and depicting floral sprigs alternating with leafy lingzhi sprigs, the barbed rim encircled by band of a blackberry-lily scroll, the reverse with similar floral sprays within the bracket-lobed panels, the base unglazed, Japanese wood box, accompanied by a note dated 1977 from Kochukyo Co., Ltd 45.2 cm
