A Pair of Decagonal Saucers

ARITA WARE, KAKIEMON TYPE, EDO PERIOD (1700-20)

Details

A Pair of Decagonal Saucers
Arita Ware, Kakiemon Type, Edo Period (1700-20)
Each decorated in red, blue, green and black enamels and gilt with a court lady listening to the song of two nightingales, one perched on its cage on a verandah, each barbed rim glazed in iron-oxide and the undersides undecorated
4in. (12.1cm.) diameters (2)

Provenance

Richard W. Weatherhead

Lot Essay

For a cup and matching saucer in the Burghley House collection 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. 127. For versions made by the Bow and Chelsea factories see the same catalogue, pls. 327, 328.

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