A Porcelain Apothecary's Bottle

ARITA WARE, EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)

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A Porcelain Apothecary's Bottle
Arita Ware, Edo Period (18th Century)
Painted in enamels of red, green, yellow, aubergine and black over clear glaze with a bird perched on a branch of pomegranates and with a bird on a peony stem on the opposite side, also painted with a band of lappets and scrolling foliage at the shoulder and with four peonies around the neck
8in. (21cm.) high

Provenance

Richard W. Weatherhead

Lot Essay

For a matching bottle in the British Museum see Soame Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1965), no. 30B.

Two matching bottles were sold Christie's, London, 16 June, 1997, lot 406.

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