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A Bttger red stoneware sake ewer
Lot 155

A Bttger red stoneware sake ewer

CIRCA 1710, BLACK INK JAPANESE PALACE INVENTORY NO. 232 R.

Closed18 May 1999

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A Bttger red stoneware sake ewer
Circa 1710, black ink Japanese Palace inventory no. 232 R.
After a Chinese Yixing original, the tall cylindrical neck moulded with dragons among cloud scrolls above a band of down-turned stiff leaf ornament at the shoulder, the globular body moulded with prunus, camellia and stylised orchid and with a short spout formed as a dragon's head incised with scales, above a band of moulded ruyi lappets at the footrim (minute crack to upper rim)
6 in. (17 cm.) high

Ole Olsens Collection

Specialist note

A black laquer example with polished edges from the Nyffeler collection was sold in these Rooms on 9 June 1986, lot 196.

Cf. Willi Goder et. al., Johann Friedrich Bttger (Leipzig 1982), pl. 112 for two similar examples in light and dark-brown stoneware and a Chinese Yixing original in the State Porcelain Collection, Dresden. See also the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden exhibition catalogue, Meissen Frhzeit und Gegenwart (1982), pl. 1/3.