A large early 18th Century Japanese Arita Sleeve vase. Painted in green, yellow and turquoise enamels, iron red and gilt and underglaze blue. Decorated with branches of pomegranate, peach, banana plant and peony amongst foliage.‍ Literature: an identical example, of different shape but same decoration on: Soame Jenyns in "Japanese Porcelain", 1965, p.54 & p.147, Ill. 29a