A RARE JAPANESE KO-KUTANI VASE EDO PERIOD, 17TH CENTURY The double-gourd vessel with a narrow waist and a tall slender neck, the eight-sided body decorated with medallions enclosing pine, bamboo and prunus branches on a band of karakusa scrolls; embellished with further formal designs, tortoiseshell and cash patterns, all rendered in thick enamels; the base left unglazed, 18.3cm. See Osaka Bijutsu Kurabu (Fine Arts Club), Cat. 22, June 1940, ‘A Private Collection’, lot 34, for a related Ko-Kutani vase decorated with karakusa scrolls and cash patterns.