• Late 19^th century
• Japanese
• Height: 15 in.
• Stoneware with polychrome enamel and bisque

Pair of stoneware with polychrome enamel and bisque vases in the Satsuma style.  These elaborately surfaced but simply shaped vases have a landscape design of a rockery raised above the cream-colored ground.  A hawk chasing three birds swooshes across the pounding sea on each. Geometric neck and foot border bands contain the dramatic scene.

Accession number: 1998.270
Photo credit:  Win Wolloff