A PAIR OF RECTANGULAR KAKIEMON VASES

EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY)

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A PAIR OF RECTANGULAR KAKIEMON VASES
Edo Period (Late 17th Century)
Each decorated in iron-red, green, blue, yellow, brown and black enamels and gilt, each side alternately depicting a pair of red-capped cranes among branches of pine, flowers and foliage, birds perched in the branches of a blossoming plum tree, crested birds among bamboo and further birds among flowers, the rounded shoulder with birds among lotus flowers, the slightly flared neck with a band of hanabishi, both with restored neck rims
Each 11in. (28cm.) high (2)

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Similar vases without covers are illustrated in Friedrich Reichel Altjapanisches Porzellan aus Arita in der Dresdener Porzellansammlung, no. 80, Soame Jenyns Japanese Porcelain, pl. 56b, and another in Kakiemon no Sekai, Genryu kara Gendai made, no. 41. A similar pair of vases with covers and ormolu mounts from the Prince de Condé collection in the Musée du Louvres is illustrated in Porcelain for Palaces, The Fashion for Japan in Europe (1650-1750), (British Museum, 6 July-4 November 1990), no. 149, which mentions two other pairs in the State Rooms at Windsor Castle and in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Buckingham Palace. A pair from Hampton Court is illustrated in M. Hinton, O. Impey, Kakiemon, Flowers of Fire, no. 19. which mentions that these vases, of a shape derived from Dutch glass, share with the vases of the form known as "Hampton Court vases" the use of a brown enamel unknown elsewhere in Kakiemon style enamels.

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