CIRCA 1730, MARKED WITH CROSSED SWORDS IN BLUE ENAMEL ON UNGLAZED BASES

Details

A pair of Meissen porcelain Kakiemon octagonal sake bottles
Circa 1730, marked with crossed swords in blue enamel on unglazed bases
Gilt and painted in blue, red, green and black, the globular body decorated with flowering plants: Ominaeshi (autumn grass) and chrysanthemums, the elongated necks enhanced with flowers hanging from loops inside panels framed by double gilt lines ending in a trefoil, on later ormolu stands (one bottle with a crack and restored)
22.5 cm. high (2)

Provenance

E. Gutmann, Berlin.
F.B.E. Gutmann, Heemstede.
With J.W. Böhler, Munich, 1942.
With K. Haberstock, Berlin, 1942.
The Instituut Collectie Nederland (earlier the Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit, no. NK3153-A-B, on loan to the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1957).
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1960 until restituted to Gutmann's heirs in 2002.

Literature

M. Shono, Japanisches Aritaporzellan im sogenannten 'Kakiemonstil' als Vorbild für die Meissener Porzellanmanufaktur, Munich, 1973, pl. 106-107.
A.L. den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Zwolle, 2000, p. 226, no. 143 and illustrated.

Exhibited

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

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Lot Essay

In shape and decoration the bottles are copies of a Japanese Kakiemon original, see the Japanese examples in the Rijksmuseum, inventory number RBK-1968-258 and H. Nishida, Nippon toji zenshu (A Pageant of Japanese Ceramics), volume 24, Kakiemon, Tokyo, 1977, pl. 44.
In Japan they were used for storing sake. Examples made in Meissen include those in the KGM, Berlin (see S. Bursche, Meissen, Steinzeug und Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, Kataloge des Kunstgewerbemuseums Berlin, Band IX, Berlin, 1980, no. 209, illustrated, with Johanneummarke no. 140).

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