Gallery Price: £12,500
A Japanese patinated bronze Mimikuchi Flying Handle Vase. The circular top issuing scrolled flying handles, the quartered pear shaped-body with spirals, on a flared base.
Mimikuchi form vases derive from archaic Chinese pottery vessels with similar but less forceful handles and spirals. Similar vases with flying handles are illustrated by Joe Earle in Flower Bronzes of Japan, 1995, pls. 38, 39,40, 41, 42.
The earliest known references date to the 16th century, where they are depicted in a flower arranging publication by Senkō II, the famous master of Ikebana flower arranging.
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Mimikuchi form vases derive from archaic Chinese pottery vessels with similar but less forceful handles and spirals. Similar vases with flying handles are illustrated by Joe Earle in Flower Bronzes of Japan, 1995, pls. 38, 39,40, 41, 42.
The earliest known references date to the 16th century, where they are depicted in a flower arranging publication by Senkō II, the famous master of Ikebana flower arranging.
