Antique Japanese Imari Blue White Porcelain Butsugu Tokkuri Altar Vase Pine 19thC 5"H Usubata and neck are covered overall

and neck are covered overall in the hanazume (花詰

Some minor loss or chipping to molding at one corner (visible in photos)

the grain visible beneath the patina

The form is horizontally oriented

modeled with open mouth and curling mane

Antique Japanese Imari Blue White Porcelain Butsugu Tokkuri Altar Vase Pine 19thC 5"H Usubata and neck are covered overallJapanese Imari blue and white porcelain tokkuri form altar offering vessel (butsugu), pine landscape with meander border and scale pattern neck, 19th century Japan, Arita; 19th century, Edo to early Meiji period A slender tokkuri form bottle vase in Imari sometsuke () blue and white porcelain, most likely produced as butsugu () a Buddhist altar implement for use on a household butsudan () ancestral memorial altar. The form, scale, and decoration are