TWO EARLY ENAMELLED KAKIEMON STYLE VASES

EDO PERIOD (THIRD QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY)

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TWO EARLY ENAMELLED KAKIEMON STYLE VASES
Edo Period (Third Quarter of the 17th Century)
The first decorated in iron-red, green, blue, yellow and black enamels, depicting boats in a continuous landscape with willows and other trees, the shoulder with two coloured bands and another of scrolling patterns, the straight neck with a band of lappets; the second of oviform shape decorated in iron-red, yellow, green, blue and black enamels between underglaze blue circumferential lines with long tailed birds perched and hovering amongst dense sprays of peony and chrysanthemums, the shoulder with a band of hanabishi, the neck with a geometric design, the slightly splayed foot beneath a band of lappets, the first with two small cracks and chip to rim
5½in. (14cm.) and 5¼in. (13cm.) high respectively (2)

拍品專文

Similar vases of various sizes to the first are illustrated in Nihon Toji Taikei, vol. 20, Kakiemon, pl. 8, Imaizumi Motosuke Shoki Arita to Ko-Kutani, pl. 85, Hayashina Seiyo Nihon no Toji, vol. 9, no. 42, Nihon Toji Zenshu, vol. 24, Kakiemon, no. 10 and Ashmolean Museum, Eastern Ceramics and other Works of Art from the Collection of Gerald Reitlinger, no. 159.

The design with the two birds placed amongst dense foliage is reminiscent of Chinese decoration. Similar examples with covers are illustrated in Nihon Toji Taikei, vol. 20, Kakiemon pl. 16, and in Japanese Ceramics in the Toguri Collection, (Toguri Museum of Art, 1988), pl. 254, which is in the Toguri Museum, in Eastern Ceramics and other Works of Art from the Collection of Gerald Reitlinger, (Ashmolean Museum, 1981), no. 214, and in Nihon no Toji, vol. 9, pl. 81. Another with a replacement cover and a European silver-gilt handle was exhibited in Porcelain for Palaces, no. 80.