A massive Imari fishbowl
Meiji period
Decorated in underglaze blue, polychrome enamels and gilt with three large and numerous smaller figural roundels featuring various festivities, entertainers, children, mythical shojo and figures in a spring landscape, all reserved on a ground of gilt-accented cobalt blue blossoms amid scrolling tendrils stopping short of the waisted neck defined by a linked foliate-patterned band below a wide everted rim with further floral reserves on a blue ground
27 7/8in (65.6cm) high; 29 1/2in (75cm) diameter
