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I would like to know where this vase is from and as much about it as you can give.

This vase appears to be porcelain or ceramic. I can't tell. Each side is different. It appears to pretray a duck. Very detailed and ornate

Your vase or ewer bears a mark of "Tashiro Zo" (田代造 - Made by Tashiro). This was the Tashiro Porcelain Company (Tashiro Shoten) in Yokohama. which according to information developed via Google from a Japanese blog (unconfirmed but reasonable) and other sources was in business from the late Meiji period through the end of the occupation period in Japan in the mid-1950's.

Your piece, with its highly tactile Moriage slip-painted decoration, is stylistically similar to Japanese ceramics made for export from the late Victorian era (1880's-1890's) through the 1920's. Since almost all of these articles were marked "Nippon" from 1890 until around 1920, the style is synonymous with Nippon wares whether marked or not. See the link below for an unmarked example.

In case the "hot" link below doesn't work, I'm pasting the URL here so you can copy and paste it in your browser window if you wish:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gorgeous-Antique-Nippon-Moriage-Ewer-with-FLOWERS-ALL-OVERY-HEAVY-THICK-MORIAGE-/310654915229?


Best regards,

Bill H.

URL Title :JapaneseMoriageVase

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