Comic Shinto Dancers (Kagura no Doke)

Mori Yoshitoshi

1960, Showa period (1926-1989)

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Blue-Glazed Pear-Shaped (Yuhuchun) Bottle with Flared Silver Repaired Mouth, Vietnam, glazed stoneware with cobalt blue oxide underglaze and silver
Tall vase with a splayed foot that swells to a broad shoulder that is topped with a long flaring neck and an open mouth. Piece is decorated in underglaze blue and red with prunus branches in full bloom with pale red flowers. The pattern within the freely painted blue is called Ice Crackle due to it resemblance to cracked ice. Interior is simple white glaze. Foot is glazed with no marks.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/61946: "林鐘 Chime (Qing) for Linzhong (8th note in the 12-note scale) dated 1716, China. The manufacture of sonorous stones for decoration or music from carved or cut jade may be traced to the end of the late Eastern Zhou period (ca. 771–221 B.C.) and followed in a tradition of L-shaped stone chimes known from about 1700 B.C. The great importance of sonorous substances such as wood and stone among the percussion instruments of East Asia stems from the religious belief that, through this vibrating matter, nature itself speaks to the human ear. Highly polished slabs were decorated with tiger, lion, or dragon motifs."
Beaker with incised and combed scrolling decoration, brown wash in base.