A Large Mid-18thC Japanese Porcelain Kutani Vase c.1740 sub-Architectural & Garden This particular example is possibly

This particular example is possibly a convent piece worked by cloistered nuns

and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667)

rose tinted cheeks and a fixed

The red velvet ground is thinning in some small areas and the bone crucifix is loose on its axis whilst the ebonised pine is in good order and the piece retains its old hanging hook for display

Dating from the Italian late Gothic period the weighty and well carved softwood and gesso figure of Christ

A Large Mid-18thC Japanese Porcelain Kutani Vase c.1740 sub-Architectural & Garden This particular example is possiblyOrigin: Japanese Period: Edo Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1740 60 Height: 21. 75 Base Diameter: 6. 5 Top Diameter: 7 The large Japanese Kutani vase having an ovoid body enamelled and gilt with a woman and child in a garden on a tomato red ground, the reverse with H , diaper, karakusa and other flowers between, the base unmarked, surviving from mid eighteenth century Japan. The vase has considerable age and the rim and lip has at some stage been