Porcelain vase from Arita by Fujii Katsūn.

Large porcelain vase with an elongated ovoid body and a slightly flared long neck. White background. The染錦 (somenishiki) decoration covers the entire surface in a continuous network of scrolls (karakusa-mon) with blue leaves in underglaze, enhanced with polychrome orange and pink enamels for the flowers and green touches for the stems. Hand-painted decoration. Signed under the foot. Delivered with its signed tomobako and cloth. Dimensions Height: 46.5 cm — Diameter: 15.5 cm Fujii Katsūn 藤井勝雲 (1938–) Ceramicist born in Arita (Saga Prefecture). Trained under his elder brother Fujii Kuniyuki, a master of the craft tradition (伝統工芸士) at the Seiun-gama kiln. Established his own Katsūn-gama kiln in Arita in 1983. A reference figure in the染錦 (somenishiki) technique — a combination of underglaze blue decoration and overglaze polychrome enamels — in the Arita porcelain tradition. Selected numerous times for the West Japan Ceramic Art Exhibition and the Saga Prefecture Art Exhibition. Winner of the Saga Ceramic Artists Association award (1989).