A Porcelain Pear-Form Bottle

ARITA WARE, EDO PERIOD (1660-70)

Details

A Porcelain Pear-Form Bottle
Arita Ware, Edo Period (1660-70)
Decorated in green, blue and red enamels within black-enamel outlines over clear glaze with flowering peonies and a large Chinese-style rock with exaggerated hollows
11in. (28.6cm.) 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 5

Exhibited

The Arts Council Gallery, London, "The Oriental Ceramic Society: Loan Exhibition of Japanese Porcelain," 1956.3.28--4.28

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Catalogue of an exhibition of Japanese porcelain, intro. by Soame Jenyns (London: The Oriental Ceramic Society, 1956), no. 190.
Soame Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1965), no. 51B.
Hayashiya Seizo, Kakiemon/Nabeshima, vol. 6 of Nihon no toji (Japanese ceramics) (Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1972), pl. 40.
_____, Kakiemon, vol. 9 of Nihon no toji (Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1974), pl. 40.
Nishida Hiroko, Kakiemon, vol. 24 of Nihon toji zenshu (Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1977), detail p. 58.

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