Lot Essay
For a bowl of the same type see Yabe Yoshiaki, ed., Imari, Nihon no bijutsu 6, no. 157 (Tokyo: Shibundo, 1979), no. 138; Asahi Shimbun, ed., Kakiemon (Fukuoka: Asahi Shimbun Nishibu Honsha, 1976), p. 61.
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ARITA WARE, KAKIEMON STYLE, EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY)
Details
An Octagonal Porcelain Bowl
Arita Ware, Kakiemon Style, Edo Period (Late 17th Century)
Decorated on the exterior in polychrome enamels over clear glaze with two panels of Chinese boys, one panel of two Chinese men, and one panel of a bird and plum which are repeated on the opposite facets and are framed by red-enamel lines, the interior decorated in matching enamels with a medallion of a Chinese boy in a landscape and with a band of florets below the rim, restoration to rim, rim glazed in iron-oxide
7in. (18cm.) diameter; 3in. (9.4cm.) high
Arita Ware, Kakiemon Style, Edo Period (Late 17th Century)
Decorated on the exterior in polychrome enamels over clear glaze with two panels of Chinese boys, one panel of two Chinese men, and one panel of a bird and plum which are repeated on the opposite facets and are framed by red-enamel lines, the interior decorated in matching enamels with a medallion of a Chinese boy in a landscape and with a band of florets below the rim, restoration to rim, rim glazed in iron-oxide
7in. (18cm.) diameter; 3in. (9.4cm.) high
Provenance
Richard W. Weatherhead