ARITA WARE, IMARI IN THE KAKIEMON STYLE, EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY), WITH LATER EUROPEAN GILT-BRONZE MOUNTS (19TH CENTURY)

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A Pair of Porcelain Faceted Bottles
Arita Ware, Imari in the Kakiemon style, Edo period (late 17th century), with later European gilt-bronze mounts (19th century)
The six-sided bottles with slender necks designed in polychrome enamels and gilt over a colorless glaze with birds in flowering plum and peonies, the neck painted with scrolling vines and formal stiff leaves, the foot with key-fret band; gilt-bronze mounts decorated with leafy bands and the stoppers designed with a continuation of the design on the necks of the bottles
11¼in. (28.6cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

For an identical bottle with ormolu mounts in the collection of the Groninger Museum, see Christian J. A. Jorg, Fine and Curious, Japanese Export Porcelain in Dutch Collections (Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2003), pl. 59.
For another bottle from the Reitlinger Collection now in the Ashmolean Museum, see Oliver Impey, Japanese Export Porcelain, Catalogue of the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2002), cat. 305.

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