Live Auction 5527Japanese Art and Design
A Kakiemon Teapot
Lot 114

A Kakiemon Teapot

EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY)

Closed10 November 2010

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GBP 4,375

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A Kakiemon Teapot
Edo Period (late 17th century)
The six-lobed teapot decorated in red, green and blue enamels with each lobe painted with chrysanthemum, poppy or lily, copper gilt mounts
8.8cm. high

Specialist note

For a similar gilt-metal mounted example in the British Museum see Oliver Impey, Japanese Export Porcelain: Catalogue of the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, (Amsterdam, 2002), p.87