A Globular Porcelain Jar
A Globular Porcelain Jar

ARITA WARE, EDO PERIOD (1660-70)

Details
A Globular Porcelain Jar
Arita Ware, Edo Period (1660-70)
Painted in polychrome enamels over clear glaze with a frieze of birds and flowers below latticework and fretwork, and with a band of stiff leaves above the circular foot
4.5/8in. (11.7cm.) high
Provenance
Richard W. Weatherhead
Richard de la Mare, sold Sotheby's, London, The Richard de la Mare Collection of Kakiemon and Nabeshima Porcelain, 2 June, 1976, lot 3

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Victor Rienaecker, "The Richard de la Mare Collection of Japanese Ceramic Wares, Part 1," Apollo (November 1946), fig. IV.
Hayashiya Seizo, Kakiemon/Nabeshima, vol. 6 of Nihon no toji (Japanese ceramics) (Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1972), pl. 81.
_____, Kakiemon, vol. 9 of Nihon no toji (Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1974), pl. 81.

For a similar jar in the Ashmolean Museum fitted with contemporary Dutch gilt-silver mounts see John Ayers et al., Porcelain for Palaces: The Fashion for Japan in Europe 1650--1750, exh. cat. (London: Oriental Ceramic Society and British Museum, 1990), pl. 80.

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