   Kaga ware: vase Large Vase of old Polychromatic Kaga ware, elaborately decorated with conventional designs, and medallions containing figures and flowers. The lower portion is divided into two zones, one of which has a pattern, in red, blue, and green, of a severe Classic style, and the other a zigzag border of a Gothic treatment; above these, the main body of the vase is grounded with red, relieved with masses of interrupted diaper and gold scrollwork. On this ground are placed four overlapping medallions, two containing figures, flowers, etc., and two filled in with conventional clouds and fish-scale diaper. At the starting line of the neck are eight cusped compartments filled with different diaper patterns; and the neck and bell are tastefully enriched with bittern flowers, leaves, and gold scrollwork, and with one of the pendant fringe borders, in the treatment of which the Japanese ceramists are so successful. Height: 1 foot 8 inches. Lithograph, by Jetot, published 1875.
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