EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1700)

Details

A small Arita blue and white circular tureen, cover and stand
Edo Period (Circa 1700)
Painted with a continuous scene of Chinese ladies standing near a fence in a bamboo-, banana and chrysanthemum garden, the tureen set with two horizontal openwork demi-flowerhead handle, the cover surmounted by a bud-finial, the stand with a raised central ring, cracks and chips
The stand 21.1 cm. diam. (2)

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Lot Essay

The present lot is made after a Chinese example. A pair of similar Chinese tureens, covers and stands from the Kangxi Period (1662-1722) were sold in our Amsterdam Rooms, on 8 December 1998, lot 52. For another Chinese example, see C.J.A.Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1997, p.263, pl.303.

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