Antique Japanese Imari Blue White Porcelain Butsugu Tokkuri Altar Vase Pine 19thC 5"H Usubata 1952 (printing from original prewar

1952 (printing from original prewar blocks)

The form is horizontally oriented

and neck are covered overall in the hanazume (花詰

he continued to produce art until his death in 1960

the grain visible beneath the patina

Antique Japanese Imari Blue White Porcelain Butsugu Tokkuri Altar Vase Pine 19thC 5"H Usubata 1952 (printing from original prewarJapanese Imari blue and white porcelain tokkuri form altar offering vessel (butsugu), pine landscape with meander border and scale pattern neck, 19th century Japan, Arita; 19th century, Edo to early Meiji period A slender tokkuri form bottle vase in Imari sometsuke () blue and white porcelain, most likely produced as butsugu () a Buddhist altar implement for use on a household butsudan () ancestral memorial altar. The form, scale, and decoration are