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A Japanese Arita kakiemon-style oviform jar and cover
Lot 879

A Japanese Arita kakiemon-style oviform jar and cover

1660-80

Fermé16 December 2010

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A Japanese Arita kakiemon-style oviform jar and cover
1660-80
The rounded sides painted in iron-red, turquoise, underglaze-blue and yellow enamels with birds among dense flower-sprays, below an iron-red cell-pattern band at the shoulder, the cover painted en suite, with chrysanthemum-head finial, crack to cover, small rim chip, crackled glaze
17.5 cm. high

Note du spécialiste

The design with the two birds placed amongst dense foliage is reminiscent of Chinese decoration. A similar example with later Dutch silver cover is illustrated in C.J.A. Jörg, Fine & Curious- Japanese Export Porcelain in Dutch Collections, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 61, ill. 45.