LATE 17TH CENTURY

细节

A PAIR OF KAKIEMON DOUBLE GOURD VASES
Late 17th Century
Each with flaring neck, decorated in turquoise, cerulean blue, yellow, ochre and iron red enamels, the lower body with a pair of birds on a rock by tree peonies, the upper body with a festoon of flowerheads and foliage, a band of key-fret patterns around the waist, (both damaged and restored)
39.5cm. high (2)

来源

Wrotham Park, Barnet, Hertfordshire (Seat of the Earls of Strafford) and may have previously come from the collection of the 3rd Lord Raby (created Earl of Strafford in 1711) at Wentworth Castle, Yorkshire

出版

展览

London, The British Museum, Porcelain for Palaces, The Fashion for Japan in Europe 1650-1750, 1990, no. 136, p. 159, for one

拍品专文

These high-waisted gourd-shaped vases, usually known in England as "double" gourd-shaped, clearly derive their form from early Chinese types, including those of the Jiajing period (1522-66), with their short straight necks and wide waists, via the sophisticated version of the Transitional period, circa 1640, from which the Kakiemon shape is copied almost exactly. A Kakiemon vase of this style is in the V & A Museum, London, is decorated with a Chinese sage seated under a pine-tree (illustrated, Nippon Toji Zenshu, pl. 27). Further examples are in the Umezawa Kinenkan Museum, Tokyo (illustrated Sekai Toji Zenshu no. 8, pl. 31 and Nippon Toji Zenshu no. 24, pl. 26) and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, this example, from the Reitlinger Collection, is illustrated in Soame Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain, pl. 56A. The V & A and Kinen-kan Museum examples were recently exhibited in Fukuoka City Museum and illustrated in The Western Influence on Japanese Art Exhibition pls. 45 and 46