Lot Essay
A similar bottle of gourd shape was sold in our London Rooms, 5 March 1986, lot 618.
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19TH CENTURY
Details
A rare Japanese large Imari bottle vase
19TH CENTURY
The globular body decorated in iron-red, yellow, blue, black and green enamels and gilt, with a rectangular panel containing a group of Dutchmen in conversation, their attention focused on a central figure in a long cape, their faces looking forlorn, the reverse with a four-masted ship contained in a border of stylised ho-o bird wings, the bird with its wing feathers outstretched above the masts, the panels divided by peony and chrysanthemum flower-heads amongst scrolling foliage, the tall cylindrical neck with further stylised flowers and terminating in a lipped everted rim
45 cm. high
19TH CENTURY
The globular body decorated in iron-red, yellow, blue, black and green enamels and gilt, with a rectangular panel containing a group of Dutchmen in conversation, their attention focused on a central figure in a long cape, their faces looking forlorn, the reverse with a four-masted ship contained in a border of stylised ho-o bird wings, the bird with its wing feathers outstretched above the masts, the panels divided by peony and chrysanthemum flower-heads amongst scrolling foliage, the tall cylindrical neck with further stylised flowers and terminating in a lipped everted rim
45 cm. high
Provenance
With Mr. W.E. Bouwman, Amsterdam, 1986.
Special notice
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