Antique Japanese Sumida Gawa Pottery Vase Figure Boy Red Orange Black Flambe Glaze Meiji 4.5"H Netsuke A beautiful example of Japanese

A beautiful example of Japanese workmanship and aesthetic

and sandy earth entirely appropriate to the military aviation subject

Minor wear to foot ring

and the visual ideology of the Japanese Empire

It is decorated with the the Turtle & Crane with Shochikubai motif (Pine

Antique Japanese Sumida Gawa Pottery Vase Figure Boy Red Orange Black Flambe Glaze Meiji 4.5"H Netsuke A beautiful example of JapaneseJapanese Sumida Gawa Pottery Vase Applied Figure Boy Red Orange Black Flambe Glaze Meiji 4. 5 Inches A characteristic and well executed example of Japanese Sumida Gawa () export pottery, the ovoid vase worked in the tradition's signature combination of vivid orange red lava textured ground and deep black tenmoku style flambe glaze flowing dramatically over the upper shoulder and neck. Applied in full three dimensional relief to the lower body is a