Two Porcelain Tea Pots

ARITA WARE, KAKIEMON STYLE, EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY)

Details

Two Porcelain Tea Pots
Arita Ware, Kakiemon Style, Edo Period (Late 17th Century)
Each hexagonal, set on a shaped hexagonal foot and with matching hexagonal mouth, and decorated in polychrome enamels over clear glaze with six flower panels below a red cloud collar, the spout moulded in six facets and painted with foliage, and the curved handle painted with scrolling stems in blue, each cover also hexagonal surmounted by a chrysanthemum-bud knop and painted with six petal-shaped panels of florets
3.3/8in. (8.3cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Richard W. Weatherhead

Lot Essay

For a matching pot in the Umezawa Kinenkan, Tokyo, see Hayashiya Seizo, Kakiemon/Nabeshima, vol. 6 of Nihon no toji (Japanese ceramics) (Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1972), pl. 70; ibid, Kakiemon, vol. 9 of Nihon no toji (Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1974), pl. 70. For an example with Dutch gilt mounts in the collection of the British Museum see Soame Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1965), no. 59A; and Daiei hakubutsukan no Nihon jiki/Japanese Porcelain from the British Museum, exh. cat. (Arita: Arita Porcelain Park, 1994), pl. 33. See also lot 89.

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