A Large Porcelain Jar

ARITA WARE, EDO PERIOD (1660-80)

Details

A Large Porcelain Jar
Arita Ware, Edo Period (1660-80)
Painted in polychrome enamels over clear glaze with a wide frieze of two pheasants perched on a long branch of flowering peony, a large rock, another flowering peony and small clouds, the panel above the foot decorated with chrysanthemum florets and scrolling foliage, the shoulder with bellflower florets and foliage above a band of lappets, and the upright neck with pointed leaves, all separated by narrow bands of red enamel
10.3/8in. (26.4cm.)

Provenance

Richard W. Weatherhead
Richard de la Mare, sold Sotheby's, London, The Richard de la Mare Collection of Kakiemon and Nabeshima Porcelain, 2 June, 1976, lot 1

Exhibited

The Arts Council Gallery, London, "The Oriental Ceramic Society: Loan Exhibition of Japanese Porcelain," 1956.3.28--4.28
Royal Academy of Arts, London, "The Great Japan Exhibition: Art of the Edo Period 1600--1868," 1981.10.20--12.20; 1981.12.28--1982.2.21

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Catalogue of an exhibition of Japanese porcelain, intro. by Soame Jenyns (London: The Oriental Ceramic Society, 1956), cat. no. 188 (not illustrated).
Soame Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1965), no. 51A.
Imaizumi Motosuke, Genshoku Nihon no meito: Ko-Imari to Kakiemon (Important Japanese polychrome ceramics: Ko-Imari and Kakiemon) (Tokyo: Yuzankaku, 1970), no. 155.
Hayashiya Seizo, Kakiemon/Nabeshima, vol. 6 of Nihon no toji (Japanese ceramics) (Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1972), pl. 43.
_____, Kakiemon, vol. 9 of Nihon no toji (Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1974), pl. 43.
Nishida Hiroko, Kakiemon, vol. 24 of Nihon toji zenshu (Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1977), pl. 14 and detail p. 58.
William Watson, ed., The Great Japan Exhibition: Art of the Edo Period 1600--1868, exh. cat. (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1981), no. 212.

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