A Pair of Porcelain Bowls and A Porcelain Footed Dish

ARITA WARE, KAKIEMON STYLE, EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1700)

Details

A Pair of Porcelain Bowls and A Porcelain Footed Dish
Arita Ware, Kakiemon Style, Edo Period (Circa 1700)
The bowls moulded in ten petal lobes and in low relief with blossoms and scrolling foliage on opposite interior walls and in the well, also decorated in polychrome enamels over transparent glaze with a bird on a fence, plum and a chrysanthemum spray, the exterior lobes undecorated, one spur mark on each base; the dish petal-form set on three feet modelled as the heads of Chinese lions and painted in polychrome enamels over clear glaze with a bird, bamboo, plum and rocks, extensively restored, one spur mark on base
6in. (15.9cm.); 8.7/8in. (22.3cm.) diameters (3)

Provenance

Richard W. Weatherhead
Gerald Reitlinger [pair of bowls]
Victor Rienaecker [pair of bowls]

Exhibited

The Arts Council Gallery, London, "The Oriental Ceramic Society: Loan Exhibition of Japanese Porcelain," 1956.3.28--4.28 [one of the pair of bowls]

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Catalogue of an exhibition of Japanese porcelain, intro. by Soame Jenyns (London: The Oriental Ceramic Society, 1956), no. 143 (not illustrated) [one of the pair of bowls].

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