Lot 378
378
A RARE KAKIEMON OVIFORM EWER of Islamic form, with strap handle, long curved spout and tall slender neck, decorated in iron-red, green, aubergine, yellow and black enamels and moulded in low relief with shaped panels of flowering peony separated by large chrysanthemum heads and scrolling foliage below slender panels of tied ribbons and beaded hanging pendants, a narrow band of zig-zag designs above the spreading foot (some restoration, replacement cover), late 17th/early 18th century

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A RARE KAKIEMON OVIFORM EWER of Islamic form, with strap handle, long curved spout and tall slender neck, decorated in iron-red, green, aubergine, yellow and black enamels and moulded in low relief with shaped panels of flowering peony separated by large chrysanthemum heads and scrolling foliage below slender panels of tied ribbons and beaded hanging pendants, a narrow band of zig-zag designs above the spreading foot (some restoration, replacement cover), late 17th/early 18th century
30 cm. high

Lot Essay

Cf. Imaizumi, Polychrome Fine Ceramics in Japan, Ko-Imari and Kakiemon, p. 129, pl. 56
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cabridge, Jenyns Loan NO. 33
Nihon no Toji, 1974, vol. 9, p. 73, pl. 65; for another without a cover, pl 64
Suntory Musuem of Art, Tokyo, Japanese Ceramics Exhibition Catalogue, 1988, p. 31, pl. 48
Toguri Museum of Art, Tokyo:
a) 1987, Opening Exhibition Catalogue, p. 64, pl. 54
b) 1988, Kakeimon Exhibition Catalogue, p. 43, pl 68
Itabashi Ward Museum, Tokyo, Edo Zenki no Iroe Jihin Ten, 1981, Exhibition of Early Edo Period Coloured Ceramics

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