Mulan and Magnolia

Kikuchi Keigetsu

Taisho period (1912-1926)

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Tall vase of coarse brown stoneware, of irregular square shape, the body with curved ridges and covered with a thick opaque white glaze that is thin in places allowing the clay to show through, the glaze crackled, with a small square opening at the top.
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