Octagonal beaker vase with a shishi and hoo-bird in a landscape; Octagonal porcelain vase with a trumpet-shaped mouth; painted in underglaze blue. On the wall a shishi (lion dog) on a rock in a landscape surrounded by the 'three friends of winter' (bamboo; prunus; pine) and a peony plant; a hoo bird flies above the shishi. The decoration is ended by a band of clouds with ruyi motifs. The outer border with floral scrolls interrupted by two lobed cartouches: one with a hay bird above a pearl on three ruyi wool motifs; the other with a floral scroll. The foot with two bands with a decorative pattern. On the inner edge eight compartments with floral scrolls. Slightly crackled glaze. Blue White.; anonymous; Japan; c. 1700; Edo-period (1600-1868); porcelain (material); glaze; cobalt (mineral); vitrification; h 41.1 cm d 21.2 cm d 11 cm