Lot Essay
A similar example with a green enamelled body were sold in these
Rooms, lot 199, 14 November 1989. Further examples but differently
enamelled both in the Idemitsu Museum, are illustrated in Nihon no
Toji, 1971, vol. 6, Kakiemon and Nabeshima, nos. 64 and 65.
Other examples are illustrated.in Imaizumi, Polychrome Fine Ceramics in Japan, Ko-Imari and Kakiemon, p. 129, pl. 56, Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japanese Ceramics Exhibition, Catalogue, 1988, p. 31, pl. 8. Further examples are in the British Museum, and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Jenyns loan no. 33.
Rooms, lot 199, 14 November 1989. Further examples but differently
enamelled both in the Idemitsu Museum, are illustrated in Nihon no
Toji, 1971, vol. 6, Kakiemon and Nabeshima, nos. 64 and 65.
Other examples are illustrated.in Imaizumi, Polychrome Fine Ceramics in Japan, Ko-Imari and Kakiemon, p. 129, pl. 56, Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japanese Ceramics Exhibition, Catalogue, 1988, p. 31, pl. 8. Further examples are in the British Museum, and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Jenyns loan no. 33.