EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Details

A pair of verte-Imari bottle vases
Early 18th Century
The pear shaped body moulded to each side with a kidney-shaped recessed panel modelled in high relief with chickens, the reverse with a budding rose, surrounded by sprays of flowering plants
23.6 cm. high

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Lot Essay

A similar bottle vase is in the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam and illustrated in C.J.A. Jörg, Fine and Curious, Japanese Export Porcelain in Dutch Collections, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 98, nr. 96. The author explains that porcelain with recessed panels such as in the bottles above, were only produced in Japan and during a very short period as it was time consuming and expensive.

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