Live Auction 9555Asobi: Ingenious Creativity Japanese Works of Art from Antiquity to Contemporary And Ceramics from the Collection of Bernard Leach
A Fine Pair of Kakiemon Vases and Covers
Lot 54

A Fine Pair of Kakiemon Vases and Covers

EDO PERIOD (MID - LATE 17TH CENTURY)

Closed15 October 2013

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GBP 170,500

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A Fine Pair of Kakiemon Vases and Covers
Edo period (mid - late 17th century)
Each similarly decorated in the early enamelled palette of iron-red, blue, green, yellow and black enamels with chrysanthemums, the shoulder with a band of downward renben pattern [stylised lotus petals], the neck with a band of geometric pattern, the cover similarly decorated with a pointed finial
29cm. high (2)

Specialist note

For a similar example from the collection of Arniston House see Mark Hinton and Oliver Impey, Flowers of Fire: Kakiemon Porcelain from the English Country House, (London, 1989), p.58-59, no.37, sold Christies, London 22nd March 1990, lot 7.