A Porcelain Jar and Cover

ARITA WARE, EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1670)

Details

A Porcelain Jar and Cover
Arita Ware, Edo Period (Circa 1670)
Painted in polychrome enamels over clear glaze with a panel of a blossoming garden, butterflies, two verandahs, a curtained pillar, and fence and trellis within clouds, the shoulder enamelled with bands of blue and yellow lappets, and the neck with floral latticework; the domed cover decorated en suite in reduced detail
8.5/8in. (21.9cm.) high without cover; 10.1/8in. (25.7cm.) high with cover

Provenance

Richard W. Weatherhead

Lot Essay

For similar jars see Ashmolean Museum and Sotheby Parke Bernet, eds., Eastern Ceramics and other works of art from the collection of Gerald Reitlinger, exh. cat. (London: Philip Wilson Publishers, Ltd., 1981), no. 158; Mark Hinton and Oliver Impey, Flowers of Fire: Kakiemon Porcelain from the English Country House, exh. cat. (London: Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd., 1989), pl. 36 (coll. Arniston House, Scotland); Hayashiya Seizo, Kakiemon/Nabeshima, vol. 6 of Nihon no toji (Japanese ceramics) (Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1972), pl. 49; Nagatake Takeshi, Yabe Yoshiaki and Minamoto Hiromichi, eds., Kakiemon no sekai ten: genryu kara gendai made (Exhibition of the world of Kakiemon: from its origins to the present), exh. cat. (Tokyo: Asahi Shimbunsha, 1983), pl. 25.

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