A Porcelain Bottle

ARITA WARE, EDO PERIOD (1660-80)

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A Porcelain Bottle
Arita Ware, Edo Period (1660-80)
Of 'tea-whisk' form, decorated in polychrome enamels over clear glaze with a continuous landscape, including two figures and fishing nets along the shore of an inlet, a waterfall, pagoda, and thatched and tiled-roof buildings, the shoulder enamelled with a floral collar and the neck with latticework and zig-zag lines
9in. (23.4cm.) high

Provenance

Richard W. Weatherhead

Lot Essay

For a bottle of similar form also painted with a landscape frieze see John Ayers et al., Porcelain for Palaces: The Fashion for Japan in Europe 1650--1750, exh. cat. (London: Oriental Ceramic Society and British Museum, 1990), pl. 76.

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