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I have recently bought these two ewers which I find quite appealing. I believe they are Japanese and I know they don�t have any value but would like to know more about them if possible. They have a common fuku mark which I don�t believe is any help in dating.
I have found a useful site on Kutani porcelain which shows a vase which seems to use exactly the same enamel colour palette and techniques which is dated to the Taisho-Showa period and some ewers of the same form dating to the Meiji-Taisho period, so I am very tentatively guessing a date of c1930s for mine. I don�t think they are brand new because there were old newspaper cuttings in one (no dates unfortunately), and because there is a repair which has some old yellow glue residue, so must have been there for quite a while.
Having got this far, I have only been able to find the one image of an item with similar decoration, although the ewer form seems relatively common; I would be interested to know if this form and style of decoration was also used after WW2 and is this quite distinctive style & palette known to be typical of any particular region or maker?
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