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A Kakiemon Teapot
EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY)
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A Kakiemon Teapot
Edo Period (late 17th century)
The six-lobed teapot decorated in red, green and blue enamels with each lobe painted with chrysanthemum, poppy or lily, copper gilt mounts
8.8cm. high
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.
Lot Essay
For a similar gilt-metal mounted example in the British Museum see Oliver Impey, Japanese Export Porcelain: Catalogue of the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, (Amsterdam, 2002), p.87