Lot Essay
For another bottle decorated with figures see Soame Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1965), no. 39C.
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ARITA WARE, EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
Details
A Porcelain Bottle and a Pair of Porcelain Dishes
Arita Ware, Edo Period (18th Century)
Bulbous, with an an attenuated neck and rolled lip, decorated in polychrome enamels, red and black predominant, with a seated man and beauty and a standing man separated by a large red crest; the dishes circular with sunken wells and painted in black, red and green enamels and gilt with a courtesan serving a man sake, each rim painted with a pinkish-gold wash, each base with three spur marks
9.7/8in. (25cm.) high; 8.5/8in. (22cm.) diameters (2)
Arita Ware, Edo Period (18th Century)
Bulbous, with an an attenuated neck and rolled lip, decorated in polychrome enamels, red and black predominant, with a seated man and beauty and a standing man separated by a large red crest; the dishes circular with sunken wells and painted in black, red and green enamels and gilt with a courtesan serving a man sake, each rim painted with a pinkish-gold wash, each base with three spur marks
9.7/8in. (25cm.) high; 8.5/8in. (22cm.) diameters (2)
Provenance
Richard W. Weatherhead