A HUGE Japanese pottery vase made more than 100 years ago is going up for sale at a Dorset auction next month.
The vase, which measures three and a half feet high, is so large it had to be constructed in two sections when made in Japan more than a century ago.
It will be one of many lots in the Charterhouse specialist auction of Asian Art in Sherborne on Friday April 8.
Charterhouse founder Richard Bromell said: “Huge almost does not do this vase justice. Designed and made as a floor vase rather than one to put on the mantelpiece, it is certainly a statement piece for the collector.”
Decorated in underglaze blue with flowers and birds, it comes to the auction house from a deceased estate in Devon. The owner was a serial collector of Chinese and Japanese ceramics and spent a substantial five figure sum collecting ceramics over the years.
Visit charterhouse-auction.com for more information.
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