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Although slip (semi-liquid clay) is commonly used on ceramics for decorative purposes, it is rarely employed with such a high degree of skill and sophistication as on this vase. The vases were part of a group of over 200 ceramics bought on behalf of the V&A by the Japanese Exposition commissioners with funds provided by Philip Cunliffe-Owen, an ardent Japanophile who was director of the V&A from 1874 to 1893. 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