A LARGE JAPANESE VASE

A LARGE JAPANESE VASE
MEIJI OR LATER, 20TH CENTURY

The bulbous body with a tall straight neck, decorated with large sprays of white and orange chrysanthemum on a blue graduated ground, with a lustrous green glaze dripping from the rim and a band of key fret in gilt to the foot, a six-character signature reading Shinto Kaisha seizo (for the Kobe Porcelain Company) and with two further impressed marks, 39.3cm.